dtc. The Tavern. Of friends and food.

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Honeyfuggle: *finally stumbles back into the tavern, free of his massive xp debt. He's going to take a break now.*

Sludge: *is a pair of little eyes peeking out from underneath Deepdancer's empty chair in the corner by the fireplace*

Honeyfuggle: *sees the eyes as he sits at his usual table* Hello, Sludge.

Sludge: *hidey!*

Honeyfuggle: *blinks, then lays his head on the table. He's still a bit dizzy*

barmaid: *comes over at Anna's command* Can I get you something?

Honeyfuggle: Got any stew left? And does Anna deal with Platinum dragons? I've found a few young'uns...

barmaid: We have stew, and Anna's never met a dragon yet she couldn't cook.

Honeyfuggle: *smiles, and nods as he gets up and heads for the door. Blitzwing is waiting, carrying the three smaller dragonlings--not hatchlings, but not adults--in his mouths*

barmaid: *follows*

Honeyfuggle: *is trying to get one in. Little guy is stronger then he looks*

Thunderspark siblings: *coming in. All going o.O at the shiny silvery dragonlings*

Randomly: *gonna help now!*

Barmaid: *helping too. She's got muscles under that dress*

Anna: *coming out* You'll need to skin them and sell the skins, claws, and wings yourself. *grinning at all that meat*

Honeyfuggle: Just need to get some food in me before I try that.

Blitzwing: *looks at his rider like he's a nutcase. He knows what he did, going right back out after dying. Repeatively*

Randomly: *going on about the shiny*

Stoic: ...if you need help, we aren't doing anything yet.

Chagrin: *frown at his brother. Still unsure about the little rich guy*

Anna: *nodding* Have someone watch them and come eat. You want boiled bacon and cabbage, or stew? *doesn't think to offer the rich guy the free roast*

Honeyfuggle: *looks at the siblings* Blitzwing standing guard won't scare off anyone, will he? And boiled baacon and cabbage..enough for all of us.

Chagrin: o.O

Anna: He's someone, isn't he? *turning back to go get the food* Trencher, or on plates?

sound of hoofbeats: *way too fast and coming closer*

Honeyfuggle: Trencher. I could eat a couple plates myself.

Anna: *chuckles. She likes this rich guy*

shout from the direction of the hoofbeats: Watch out! He's got the bit in his teeth!

poorly trained nag: *has the bit in his teeth, and he's running for home! His rider's trying hard to rein him in, but she just hasn't got the upper body strength yet*

Chagrin: Slag! *will protect siblings!*

Blitzwing: *guard dragonlings*

Honeyfuggle: *will stay out of the way*

Cavalier: *fighting grimly, her young face set under flowing golden hair that's escaped its bonds after her overlarge helmet fell off*

nag: *won't listen! Runs past, heading for the stable yard!*

Cavalier: *still fighting, and finally manages to turn the beast's head so that it nearly runs into the wall instead of going into the stable*

nag: *will buck! Right back out onto the road!*

Chagrin: ...someone needs to teach the horse some manners...

Cavalier: *riding the bucking beast easily, though her face is pale with pain as it fights for its head*

barmaid: I think she's trying.... *wide-eyed*

Chagrin: *goes over to help*

nag: *too busy tossing its head and trying to throw it up and hit the girl to notice him. Is prevented from the hitting by a check rein attached to its breast band*

Cavalier: Watch out. *still battling for mastery*

Chagrin: *knows how to handle a horse. Well, mostly. Grabs for the rein*

nag: *is caught! Tries to pull away, snorting*

Chagrin: Whoa, whoa...

Cavalier: *deep breath, and then nods to the Deathknight and pulls on both reins so that the bit is where it's supposed to be in the horse's mouth* Please let him go now.

Chagrin: *does so*

Cavalier: *then proceeds to ride the nag up and down the road several times before taking it over to a tree, dismounting, and tying it up. Then leaves it to stand there with all its gear on till she's ready to take it off so that the beast learns who's in charge* *turns away once it's tied, and now her hands are shaking and her jaw is clenching as she tries not to cry*

Anna: *calling that the food's ready*

Honeyfuggle: *calls to the Cavalier* Come join us?

Cavalier: *startles and looks at him with big brown eyes, her confusion clear at getting the invitation from someone from another Kingdom*

Honeyfuggle: *grins* They'll be enough. Trust me.

Cavalier: I... I can't leave my horse. Someone may take him.

Honeyfuggle: *pats Blitzwing* Blitzie here will make sure no one touches him. Right, Blitzie?

Blitzwing: *two heads nod. One head sticks is tongue out at him*

Cavalier: *hesitating still* You're sure? I'm a Steel Kingdom Cavalier.

Honeyfuggle: I'm sure

Cavalier: *frowning with indecision. But then she thinks of her outcast status and her thin shoulders go back with pride under the battered second hand plate armor* Thank you.

Honeyfuggle: *grins* *then rolls his eyes as Randomly gnaws on his head for a few seconds before heading in*

Chagrin: *muttering about that*

Stoic: *looking rather amused*

Cavalier: *blinking with surprise at what the woman just did*

Chagrin, Stoic and Honeyfuggle: Randomly's weird. *then blink at each other*

Cavalier: 0.o *she's very cute when she does that*

Those three: *heading inside now*

Blitzwing: *stand guard*

Cavalier: *remembers herself, and, urged by her stomach, hurries inside, giving the three-headed wyvern a polite nod in passing*

Anna: *over by Honeyfuggle's table* Do you want forks? And real plates, or is the bread alright?

Honeyfuggle: Bread's fine. *looks over to the Cavalier* You prefer a plate or fork, though?

Cavalier: *hesitates* I have always eaten with silverware... but I suppose it would be better if I learn the customs that go with my new situation.

Honeyfuggle: As you wish.

Cavalier: *hesitates again, those large brown eyes studying the benches as she wonders where he wants her to sit*

Chagrin: *has a space open next to him*

Randomly: *sitting by Honeyfuggle*

Anna: *getting dried bread, and grabbing a little pickled cabbage for a condiment besides the cup of tangy sauce that gets served with all the bacon and cabbage*

Chagrin: I'm not going to bite...that's Randomly's trick.

Stoic: *rolls his eyes* He means you can sit by him.

Cavalier: Oh. Thank you. *starts to do so, and then remembers her armor, and that her helmet fell off outside. Dismay, confusion, chagrin... and out she runs, her long hair streaming behind her*

Anna: *shakes head as she sets the cabbage pickles on the table* N00bs.

Chagrin: *shakes his head as well, though he's still rather new here himself. He can at least drink. Just..not much*

Cavalier: *back, her armor now in her arms and her helmet dangling from one hand as she goes to Anna and asks her please to put the battered items in a safe place and says she'll pay her*

Anna: *rolls eyes and tells the Cavalier she's got room and doesn't need to be paid for that, but the kid needs to get a strong box. Takes the armor into the back room where the bank boxes are*

Cavalier: *coming back now in her padded under tunic and leggings, feet bare on the rushes* Forgive me.

Honeyfuggle: It's quite alright.

Chagrin: *offering the seat again*

Cavalier: Thank you. *slides into place on the bench, her movements showing that she's been trained in deportment. Once she's seated she watches to see how the others will go about eating*

Others: *using their hands to take from the large serving tray and using the bread as plates*

Cavalier: *waits till they've all gotten portions before reaching into the trencher herself. As she does so her outgrown sleeve draws back and reveals a beautifully jeweled cuff bracelet on her wrist*

Randomly: Oooo, you've got a shiny!

Cavalier: *slight startle, but then nods* Yes. It has my name on it.

Honeyfuggle: Hmm, a strange custom, but at least it lessens the chance it may be stolen.

Cavalier: *small, wry smile* It's not to keep it from getting stolen, sir. *cheeks pink with embarrassment* It's so I don't forget my name.

Honeyfuggle: Oh.

Randomly: *gonna looook now* I'm Randomly!

Cavalier: *quick check to the kanji marked on the cuff* My name is Heartstone.... *hesitates when she sees the family name and how it's been scratched out* ...Wandering.

Randomly: Ooo, you wander alot, then?

Chagrin: I'm Chagrin, and he's Stoic. Thunderspark.

Heartstone: *nods to the brothers politely* You're going to have to remind me. I haven't been able to remember names since I hurt my head as a walking baby. *looks at Randomly, her jaw firming* I will be, now.

Randomly: Cool! ^.^

Honeyfuggle: I'm Honeyfuggle. *nope, no family name to speak of*

Heartstone: *a little surprised by Randomly's response, but she smiles. And then she nods to Honeyfuggle*

Randomly: *will now ramble about her latest adventures, if Heartstone will listen*

Stoic and Chagrin: *roll eyes. Yep, she's Randomly.*

Heartstone: *will listen, and also try and force herself to eat as she was trained as a noblewoman to eat even though her vision is swimming at the scent of the food*

Everyone else: *eating as well, and Randomly does have enough manners to not talk with her mouth full*

Kriti: *wanders in, rips a big chunk off the roast, and goes to pick up baby sister and sit with her in Deepdancer's chair*

Heartstone: *kind of wonders what the cheeping is, but Randomly is talking to her, so she pays attention to that*

Honeyfuggle: *just chuckles at that*

Heartstone: *finds the large pieces of meat and cabbage strange, but manages to still eat daintily as she bites them and eats. Her eyes are wide as she soaks up what Randomly is saying, and she wonders if she too will be fighting some of these foes soon.*

Randomly: *talking about the village of Lizardfolk she came across, and how, unlike Sludge over there, they are not cute.*

Heartstone: Sludge? *tilts head*

Randomly: The lizardgirl, over there. See! She's cute!

Heartstone: *looks, then leans back to see around Chagrin. Expression goes to pure surprise when she sees the little green creature being cuddled in the small teen's lap*

Kriti: *gives her a Look*

Heartstone: *stops looking and sits up straight*

Randomly: *looks over and waves at Kriti*

Honeyfuggle: She hatched not too long ago.

Kriti: *bit of a smile and waves back, but then curls up around Sludge and thinks about going to sleep as she waits for Mama and Papa and Thrrpt to come home*

Heartstone: *blinking and trying to understand* Is she a pet?

Honeyfuggle: No, she's a baby.

Randomly: Oh, Oh! Gotta tell Ironhide I found some newly hatched lizardbabies. They didn't talk, they just tried to eat me! AHAHAHA!

Heartstone: *eyes wide as she tries to figure out how to reply to Randomly and also to wrench her mind away from the things that she's always been taught about beings who aren't human*

Stoic: I suppose it's because they weren't carried around by a non-lizardfolk as eggs.

Chagrin: *snorts at that*

Heartstone: ...What did you do... errrr. *trying hard to remember Randomly's name*

Randomly: I scrambled and ran ^.^;

Heartstone: So you didn't get hurt?

Randomly: One bit me really hard, other then that, no.

Heartstone: Oh, that's good.

Randomly: Yah ^^ Bad enough dying fighting the big guys! Ehehe!

Heartstone: *eyes go totally round* Dying?

Randomly: Yep.

Stoic: *mutters at that*

Heartstone: I... don't understand.

Honeyfuggle: Death has a..revolving door with Adventurers. You just...owe him some of your life experience after that...

Heartstone: *rapid blinking, and then shivers a bit* Oh.

Honeyfuggle: Yah. *shivers a bit too*

Heartstone: *looks at him, and then at Randomly and her brothers* What... what is it like?

Honeyfuggle: ...embarrassing.

Stoic: Very.

Chagrin: *agree*

Randomly: *thinks it's fun to get to meet Death for a moment. Thinks she should invite him for a drink sometime*

Heartstone: *looks at the Dread Minstrel with total shock*

Randomly: *grins!*

Heartstone: *glances to Chagrin to see what he thinks of what his sister just said*

Honeyfuggle: ...if you're lucky, you'll be able to find your old corpse and get the loot you dropped.

Chagrin: *trying hard not to facepalm, though he's used to his sister's insanity*

Heartstone: *eyes fly to Honeyfuggle, and now they're truly enormous* You're joking.

Honeyfuggle: I'm not

Heartstone: *goes pale*

Honeyfuggle: *faint amusement* If it ever happens...just grab the loot and go. Thinking about it just...hurts the mind.

Heartstone: *faintly* And I thought the bottled fart and the... the... dwarf jerky... were bad.

Randomly: Bottled fart? ...*SNERK!*

Heartstone: *looks a little ill, but is trying to make herself finish her food* *nods slightly*

Randomly: *laughing at that. Thinks it's funny*

Heartstone: *and then thinks of the dwarf jerky again... and falls backward right off the bench*

Honeyfuggle: ..Heartstone?

Chagrin: *goes to catch!*

Heartstone: *fainted but good*

barmaid: Need the n00b bucket full of cold water?

Honeyfuggle: Yes, please.

barmaid: *goes and gets*

Kriti: *is a small snigger from the corner*

barmaid: *back with the bucket* You need to put her down.

Chagrin: *does so*

barmaid: *dumps the icy water over the insensate girl*

Heartstone: *sits up with a stifled shriek, and then starts to cry*

Chagrin: *snort, but comforts*

Heartstone: *as soon as she's got her wits about her again the tears stop, though she's shaking with cold. Chagrin will be able to feel just how thin she is, too*

Chagrin: *frowns at that. It doesn't feel like the thin his brother is*

Honeyfuggle: You okay?

Heartstone: *nodding and wiping at her face, trying to keep her hands from shaking* Yes. I'm sorry. I'm alright.

Chagrin: You need to eat.

Heartstone: *blinks and looks up at him, confused for a moment by the comment*

Chagrin: You'll feel better if you do.

Heartstone: *understanding as she realizes that he's got a hand on her shoulder and has probably felt her lack of flesh. Blushes and looks down* Yes... I know. *moving to get up now, her soaked padding dripping onto the rushes*

Honeyfuggle: *concerned*

Heartstone: *looking down at her clothing with dismay* Oh, now what do I do? What a dummy!

Honeyfuggle: You have anything to change into while those dry?

Heartstone: *face flushes with shame* No, I don't.

Honeyfuggle: *looks in his backpack. He hadn't gotten to selling his items yet* Aha! *takes out a crate that's larger then the backpack* Clothes!

Heartstone: But I don't think I have enough gold. *dismay on top of shame*

Honeyfuggle: These are common things. Aren't worth much. Besides, you won't need all of them, right? *opening the crate*

Heartstone: I.... *drips*

Honeyfuggle: *looking Heartstone over, and takes out a few things that may fit her* I can still sell the rest. Easily.

Heartstone: *swallows her embarrassment and squares her shoulders as she watches the selection, then looks up at him, though she doesn't have to look to to far up* How much do you want?

Honeyfuggle: Couple gold should do.

Heartstone: *so surprised she blurts out a 'truly?'*

Honeyfuggle: Truely

Heartstone: *hesitantly takes the garments he took out of the crate and looks at them*

Clothes: *are nice, if common lookng. And some...odd looking. He did find them in the Planar Crossroads.*

Heartstone: *looks at all of them, and then chooses two simple long dresses. She was raised in boys' clothes for her father's honor. Since she no longer represents that honor she will no longer wear pants unless she's in armor* Two gold for each of these?

Honeyfuggle: No, for all of them.

Heartstone: *surprised, but reaches in to take out some under garments* And these?

Honeyfuggle: *nods* I'd probably get 300 gold for that crate, and the four others I've got in my backpack, together. So...yes.

Heartstone: *gets the gold and gives it to him, then notices an apron in the crate and reaches for it too*

Honeyfuggle: *lets her. He knows a few clothes missing won't matter much, he'd still get that 300 gold*

Heartstone: *inspects the heavy canvas garment, and then thanks him and turns and hurries into the bathing room to change*

barmaid: n00bs. Thrrpt. Do you want anymore drinks?

Honeyfuggle: *grins as he puts the crate away* Yes, please.

barmaid: What would you like?

Honeyfuggle: *thinks about it for a moment*

Kriti: *is now asleep curled around baby sister*

Honeyfuggle: *thinks* How about a round of Royal Reserve? *takes out the gold and the couple of credits needed*

barmaid: *grins* For your table, or for the house?

Honeyfuggle: For the house.

bartender: *goes to get and deliver, making sure that Kriti's is tucked where everyone knows it's hers. Sets one by Heartstone's empty place too*

Honeyfuggle: *grins and hands over the gold and credits*

Chagrin and Stoic: *blink at the wine*

Randomly: Ohhh, wow! *sips the wine slowly, savoring it*

barmaid: *grins and goes back to the bar*

Chagrin and Stoic: *sip theirs as well, and are impressed*

Honeyfuggle: This is some good wine.

few moments pass: *no Heartstone*

Chagrin: It's...taking her awhile.

Randomly: o.O Perhaps I should check on her?

another moment: *passes with no Heartstone*

Randomly: *climbs over the table--careful of the food and glasses--and heads for the bathing area*

bathing room: *door is unlocked... and no Heartstone is inside, though there are a few puddles on the floor*

Randomly: o.O *looks at puddles. Follow puddles!*

Heartstone: *outside by Blitzwing, her hair tied back with a rag the way she's seen servants do it and the heavy apron on over one of her new dresses. Her padding is hanging on a tree nearby to dry, and she's talking to Blitzwing as she skins one of the platinum dragons with a battered but fine dagger*

Blitzwing: *watching her* ^^ ^^ ^^

Randomly: Heartstone! There you are!

Heartstone: *startles and looks up, then looks around before checking her cuff and nodding* I decided to help while I was waiting for the things to dry.

Randomly: But we weren't done eating yet. We were all gonna help. There's some wine waiting for you, then we can all skin dragons!

Heartstone: Er.... Oh. *looks up at Blitzwing*

Blitzwing: *nods*

Randomly: Come on! Honey bought some Royal Reserve, and it's yummy!

Heartstone: *eyes go wide* He bought Royal Reserve?

Randomly: Yepyep! C'mon! Drink first, skin later!

Blitzwing: *the head with the blue markings nudges her toward the Tavern*

Heartstone: *little squeak and a big-eyed look of surprise*

Blitzwing: ^^ ^^ ^^

Heartstone: Alright. *takes off her apron and hangs it beside her padding* Will you protect these too?

Blitzwing: Rrrr! *nod*

Heartstone: *smiles the first real smile she's done in months, then turns to walk to Randomly*

Randomly: *grins and takes Heartstone by the hand, and leads her back to the table*

Heartstone: *is a bit surprised by the hand taking, but she's learned that Randomly is very different from everyone she's known before. Looks shyly at Honeyfuggle and the brothers as she's lead to the table*

Randomly: She was getting an early start on the dragons! *goes back to her seat. Yes, back over the table*

Honeyfuggle: *chuckles* We'll all do that. Here, this one's yours. *nudges the glass of wine*

Heartstone: *as she sits* Thank you. *looks into the glass* This... in the Steel Kingdom even the higher families only get this on special days.

Honeyfuggle: Well, I don't buy it often, but it had been awhile since I'd had it, so...

Heartstone: *eyes are absolutely enormous once more as she sips and savors the rich flavor*

Randomly: *says something about cute!*

Stoic: *amused*

Chagrin: *looks. chuckles*

Heartstone: *blushes and looks at the siblings, not sure if she's amused or if her pride is wounded* I'm twenty one. That's too old to be cute.

Randomly: He's cute too! *snuggles Honeyfuggle*

Honeyfuggle: *blushes himself*

Heartstone: 0.o *isn't sure what to say about that. Glances at Chagrin as though asking if it's another Randomly thing*

Chagrin: *smirks, and nods. Yes, it's a Randomly thing*

Heartstone: *smiles again, and then finds herself standing slightly to look into the trencher. The good wine has made her hungry, and she finally believes that she's supposed to eat what she wants here* This food's strange, but it tastes good.

Honeyfuggle: Anna's a wonderful cook.

Heartstone: *selects a nice lean slice of meat and some of the colourful cabbage* Yes. What's this called again?

Honeyfuggle: Boiled Bacon and Cabbage

Heartstone: Boiled bacon and cabbage. *checks his plate and then adds the sauce to the meat and eats* I wish I still had my little paper knife. It would... eeek! *just got cabbage juice down her sleeve*

Chagrin: Not used to this type of food?

Heartstone: *looks for a napkin and then remembers there aren't any* *embarrassed* We usually cut it all into bite size pieces before we got it to the table.

Chagrin: Huh

Heartstone: *turns arm hand downward to see if the juice runs back out*

Honeyfuggle: *watches, while he eats some more*

Heartstone: *shakes hand, then sticks fingers down sleeve to wipe away as much juice as she can. Intent look on her face as she does so* I'm used to cutting up food, because part of what a page does is prepare their master's food. *looks down sleeve, but she's smiling* But I'll get the knack of this.

Honeyfuggle: Ah, yes.

Heartstone: *turns those big brown eyes toward him and smiles more, then returns to her meal and soon makes a good portion of meat and cabbage disappear. Still eats like a lady, and carefully makes sure that she eats only the same amount as Randomly does*

Randomly: *is hungry, but she's got her Honey. Besides, she can grab some roast later*

Heartstone: *looks up at Chagrin once her stomach is full and she's feeling a comfortable sleepy feeling, trying to remember her manners and be a good guest.* What do you do?

Chagrin: I'm a Death Knight.

Heartstone: *brows lift* A Knight?

Chagrin: Yes

Heartstone: So you ride and wear heavy armor?

Chagrin: Yes

Heartstone: *perking* Are you skilled with hand to hand on foot as well as in the saddle?

Chagrin: I'm still newly out, but I try

Heartstone: Would you train with me? *excitement and hope showing in those big eyes*

Chagrin: I'd love to. *grin*

Stoic: *faint smirk*

Heartstone: I'm glad. I just replaced my long pointy thing with a flail and I want to see if I still remember my training on how to use them. *yes, she's already forgotten what you call a lance*

Chagrin: *nods*

Heartstone: *pauses and her face goes blank for a moment as she suppresses a burp from the cabbage*

Chagrin: *slight smirk at that*

Heartstone: *blinks and looks into her wine glass, then drinks the last of it and smiles at Honeyfuggle* Thank you, sir.

Honeyfuggle: You are quite welcome

Heartstone: *face blank again as her eyes widen with surprise*

Honeyfuggle: Are you okay?

Heartstone: *nod* Yes, thank y.... *eyes very wide as a burp escapes* Pardon me!

Randomly: *laugh and clap!*

Honeyfuggle: You're pardoned. ^^

Heartstone: *hands to her cheeks to hide how red they are*

Honeyfuggle: Ah, I guess it's time to skn those dragons and get them ready for Anna.

Heartstone: Alright. *glad to change the subject!*

Honeyfuggle: *gets up, Randomly following him*

Heartstone: *automatically starts to gather the glasses, but gets shooed after her new friends by the barmaid*

Chagrin: *smirks, and heads outside with his siblings*

Heartstone: *takes a breath of the crisp afternoon air, and then hurries over to get her apron and put it back on. Her feet are still bare, but even though it's a bit chilly out she doesn't look uncomfortable* Oh... where did I leave my... stabby thing.

Blitzwing: *points with wingtip*

Heartstone: Thank you! *gets and returns to what she'd been doing, which was to skin the young dragon without making a slit down the stomach first*

Honeyfuggle: *going to skin one of the other two*

Stoic and Randomly: *get the third*

Chagrin: *not so sure about helping Honeyfuggle directly, goes over to Heartstone* Need help?

Heartstone: *has lain her dagger aside and is tugging on the skin* Will you grab his front feet?

Chagrin: *does so*

Heartstone: *pull pull, nod and looks at Blitzwing* Hold him up for us? By his front feet.

Blitzwing: *uses one head to do so, then another to help Honeyfuggle do the same thing*

Heartstone: *asks Chagrin to pull down on the skin, and picks up the dagger and uses it to loosen sticky spots. In the end they have a perfect dragon skin... complete with the skin from the wings, feet, and head* Alright. Now for the inside parts.

Honeyfuggle: Nice job ^^

Chagrin: *nods in agreement*

Stoic and Randomly: *are a bit messier. Both are used to dead bodies and such, though*

Heartstone: *surprised look for Honeyfuggle and Chagrin* Thank you. Um, do we have somewhere for the ticky parts?

Honeyfuggle: I may have *checks his backpack*


Stoic: Ticky parts?
Randomly: Oh! I think she means hearts. Though they're kinda beaty beat parts. Beat-beat, beat-beat- beat-beat!

Stoic: *sorry he asked*

villagers: *collecting, hoping to buy some meat and even some intestines for sausage and such*

Heartstone: *holding up the heart from the dragon she's working on* It's good when you roast it.

Honeyfuggle: *has something to hold them in*

Heartstone: *sets the heart in there carefully, and then gives a quizzical look to the woman who wants to buy the rest of the dragon's non-medicinal insides* You'll have to ask that man with no hair. This is his meat.

village woman: *goes to Honeyfuggle*

Honeyfuggle: *thinks* Yah, I can sell them.

village woman: *happily sets about haggling*

Heartstone: *surprised sound as she's dumping said insides into the tub* I think that just moved!

Chagrin: Huh?

Heartstone: *tentative poke to the part of the intestines that she thought moved, her eyes narrowed warily* I think something moved.

Chagrin: *pokes it* it did!

Stoic: o.O..They don't normally do that.

Honeyfuggle: *stops the haggling for a bit* You mind if the intestine is cut or not?

village woman: *looks* That's the large intestine. I don't need that part. Just the small intestine and the stomach.

Heartstone: .... *poke poke poke*

Honeyfuggle: *nods*

Chagrin: *cuts it open, carefully*

Heartstone: *ready to go on the defensive should something pop out and attack!*

Honeyfuggle: *is too*

Small wyvern: *pokes its head out. Squeaks!*

Heartstone: *shriek!*

Wyvern: *hears shriek, head for shriek! Stumbling and flailing it's skinless wings*

Heartstone: *catches it by the base of the wings, her eyes wide. And then she's darting into the tavern and into Anna's kitchen, where she upends the woman's supply of soda on it and rubs it into its skin*

Randomly: Oh, how cute! Zombie Wyvern!

Stoic: That was no zombie, Randomly. *he'd know*

Heartstone: *hasn't even stopped to think that this is another maybe food animal. The beast is hurting, and she wants the hurting to stop. The small wyvern now looks something like a floured dumpling, and Anna is showing her language ability*

Chagrin: *goes to see what's happening*

Honeyfuggle: *will go back to haggling now*

village woman: 0.o *haggle*

Heartstone: *now washing the wyvern in the sink. Has totally tuned out Anna's cursing*

Chagrin: That wyvern's still alive?

Heartstone: It is. *gently rinsing it off and then looking at it*

Anna: *pause* Why shouldn't it be? And why the slag did it need my soda all over it and my floor?

Chagrin: It was in the large intestine of one of Honeyfuggle's dragons.

Wyvern: *focusing on the sound of the one that picked it up. Can't see. Wings are useless, and body scales have some damage. Does kinda look undeadish at a glance* *gonna snuzzle Heartstone now*

Heartstone: ...It's kissing me. *folding one of those poor wings that look like giant skeletal hands*

Chagrin: It knows you helped it.

Heartstone: It needs more help. But I don't know what to do.

Anna: *anger gone. Gently, as she holds out her hands* Here. Give it to me. I have some things I think will help.

Wyvern: *cheepcheep!*

Heartstone: *gives the little thing to Anna* Is it a baby?

Anna: *clicking her tongue to it as she goes and opens one of her chests, then pulls out a big jar of honey ointment*

Chagrin: I think it may be

Anna: Here, the two of you tear these rags into strips about two inches wide.

Chagrin: *does so*

Heartstone: *has to watch to see how wide two inches is, but then does the same*

Anna: *slathering the little wyvern in the ointment, and then wrapping it till it looks like a mummy*

Chagrin: ...now it's a mummy wyvern.

Heartstone: What does that mean? *looks at it*

Chagrin: *tries to explain what a mummy is, though he's never really seen one*

Anna: *goes over to the small brazier she keeps in here for warmth and lays the wyvern on the floor next to it* There. Now you two are going to clean up that mess, right?

Heartstone: *looks around at the mess* Yes, ma'am.

Chagrin: Of course.

Anna: *hands them both brooms and cleaning rags, and then goes and sits by her chest to make more bandages for the wyvern*

Chagrin: *sweeps*

Heartstone: *starts with cleaning the sink. Finds herself giving Chagrin a happy grin that is accented by shining eyes*

Chagrin: *grins back.*

Heartstone: *soon all done with the sink and has helped Chagrin with the sweeping. Has a peek at the little wyvern to see what it's doing*

Wyvern: *snoozing*

Chagrin: We should help with the rest of the dragons. Though they're probably finished by now.

Honeyfuggle: *indeed finished, and has sold the parts not needed, as well as his backpack full of inventory*

Heartstone: Oh no. *worried as she heads out there. Feels bad for running away*

Chagrin: *shakes his head*

Honeyfuggle: Is the Wyvern okay?

Heartstone: It's sleeping. The lady wrapped it all up with stuff and bandages.

Randomly: Oh, poor thing! Hope it'll be okay.

Honeyfuggle: Want to help get the dragon meat into the Tavern?

Heartstone: Yes. *ready to lift and carry. Not afraid of getting bloody, especially since her apron's the kind with sleeves*

Siblings: *nooo qualms about bloody either*

Honeyfuggle: *has had worse on him than blood. Really.*

Heartstone: *showing just how strong she is with the load she takes in to the fireplace. Though she's grimacing just slightly as muscles that were pulled in fighting with the nag get tugged on again*

Anna: *looking over the meat* Let me buy those two. You can spit the other, though I'll need to baste it since it's been skinned.

Honeyfuggle: *nods, and goes to put the one on the spit*

Anna: *will go back and fuss over her patient before focusing on getting Honeyfuggle his gold and mixing up something to put on the roast*

Heartstone: *helping Honeyfuggle*

Honeyfuggle: *glad for the help*

Siblings: *have taken the other two to where-ever Anna needs them*

Heartstone: *knows what she's doing, and is glad to find something familiar in this strange new land*

Randomly: *going over and gnawing on Honeyfuggle now*

Honeyfuggle: *long suffering sigh*

Heartstone: *staggers a little as she stands* I better put the horse away.

Kriti: *peeks with one eye and snerks at Honeyfuggle*

Honeyfuggle: And I hear the Crossroads calling my name. Again. *Slight grin*

Randomly: Bring me something shiny! *she's joking of course*

Heartstone: *blinks at Honeyfuggle* You just got back, sir.

Honeyfuggle: I know. *smile*

Heartstone: *frowns a bit, but has learned the hard way not to question a superior. Which is how she's unconsciously started to view and respond to Honeyfuggle*

Honeyfuggle: *goes outside, and soon you can hear Blitzwing's call, and the beating of wings*

Chagrin: Better get your horse put away. I'll help...

Heartstone: *smiles at Chagrin* Alright. *absently wiping at the stains on her apron as she goes out, and is pleased to find that the canvas is oiled and will be easy to clean* Thank you.

Chagrin: *heads outside. Will introduce Heartstone to his stallion, of course, once they get her nag in the stable*

((co written with random_xtras))