Uncharacteristic [12 Trandary 4262]
No, this isn't at all how I usually do things...
Ysgwyd:"Well, that didn't work."
Me:"Ilottat could not perform?"
Ysgwyd:"He did pretty well with a hired fake Zi Ri sitting on his face. I'm inconcievable though."
Me:"You're what?"
Delframber:"Not pregnant."
Me:"Oh, right. You didn't concieve."
Ysgwyd:"So we're going to have to try again."
Me:"OK..."
Ysgwyd:"So we're going to need another spell. So I have that chance to stop being so agravidical."
Me:"So what?"
Delframber:"So not pregnant."
Me:"That's not a real word!"
Ysgwyd:"My grasp on reality is not so strong! Never underestimate the wildness of an Orren who is trying to stop being so fitzy-gritzy!"
Me:[with an air of inevitability]"So what?"
Delframber:"So not pregnant."
Me:"I have never heard that word before."
Delframber:"I don't think anyone has. But there's only one thing it could mean."
Me:"Right-o. Another spell. There will be a price."
Ysgwyd:"Anything! Short of my first-born. That would sort of defeat the point of my current reproductive frenzy!"
Me:"What?"
Delframber:"She said, getting pregnant."
Me:"I thought so. Wasn't she supposed to mean 'not pregnant' though?"
Ysgwyd:"I forgot, OK?"
Delframber:"Pregnancy, my dear, Does Things to the mind."
Ysgwyd:"Working on it!"
Me:"Anyways, I have lost my latest traff Orren. I want a replacement!"
Ysgwyd:"Huh?"
Me:(explains)
Ysgwyd:"Awwww, poor Sythyry. That pink-tipped bitch!"
Me:"Black-handed, actually."
Ysgwyd:"Huh?"
Me:(explains)
Ysgwyd:"Right. Anyways, give me that spell, please, and I'll be on my way."
Me:"Hey! I said there'd be a price this time."
Ysgwyd:"A what?"
Delframber:"Pregnant, dear. Pregnant."
Me and Ysgwyd:"Wrong!"
Delframber:"Sorry. Bad habit."
Ysgwyd:"What price."
Me:"A traff Orren."
Ysgwyd:"How long?"
Me:"About six feet or so from toes to top of head."
Ysgwyd:"That's not what I meant!"
Me:"Um ... I'm not too fussy about which gender the Orren is, so there mightn't even be that length measurement."
Ysgwyd:"That's not what I meant either! Are we talking about a squirmy hour in an afternoon, or getting married, or what?"
Me:"Um ... "
Ysgwyd:"Ah, what the heck." She started to strip. "Can Delframber watch?"
Me:"I meant, um, could you introduce me to some traff Orrens?"
Ysgwyd:"Not in Vheshrame these days. I haven't lived here recently, and don't know who's doing what to who at all. So d'you want the hour or not?"
Do you think I did?
Would you have taken the hour, under the circumstances?
Was it really a really, really bad idea?