Sorry? I did think about taking you somewhere else, but I didn't want to risk stepping into a siege from a lot of very tiny people who would kill and eat "giants". Or go to Toy Island and risk that Terrible Dogfish coming back again.
[Or dealing with a twenty foot cauldron of boiling soup, or a gargantuan spider-web in pitch darkness, or revisiting the first place she'd been murdered. There really are only unkind battlefields in Neverafter, it's by coincidence that this also awful place might be the most bearable spot for a little sparring. Kabby why don't you just invent a courtyard in her castle SHHT.
She half expects him to shift himself, but he doesn't. Actually, perhaps it's nicer this way? It feels more honest of him, to come and stay as he is. She hadn't intended to take on an older appearance, maybe the room's just reflecting back on her a little too much. As long as it doesn't start summoning surprise enemies?]
He's very good! I mean to uncover the truth, but also to use in combat. He's not mine though. [She looks a little sheepish.] We'll see if I even make it to five taps with a sword, but sure. Sounds good to me.
[Alpha week.
She takes a bow, then assumes proper form. Sword at the ready and determination in her eyes.]
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She laughs a little, shrugging apologetically.]
Sorry? I did think about taking you somewhere else, but I didn't want to risk stepping into a siege from a lot of very tiny people who would kill and eat "giants". Or go to Toy Island and risk that Terrible Dogfish coming back again.
[Or dealing with a twenty foot cauldron of boiling soup, or a gargantuan spider-web in pitch darkness, or revisiting the first place she'd been murdered. There really are only unkind battlefields in Neverafter, it's by coincidence that this also awful place might be the most bearable spot for a little sparring. Kabby why don't you just invent a courtyard in her castle SHHT.
She half expects him to shift himself, but he doesn't. Actually, perhaps it's nicer this way? It feels more honest of him, to come and stay as he is. She hadn't intended to take on an older appearance, maybe the room's just reflecting back on her a little too much. As long as it doesn't start summoning surprise enemies?]
He's very good! I mean to uncover the truth, but also to use in combat. He's not mine though. [She looks a little sheepish.] We'll see if I even make it to five taps with a sword, but sure. Sounds good to me.
[Alpha week.
She takes a bow, then assumes proper form. Sword at the ready and determination in her eyes.]
At your leisure.