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Family Matters


Date:  November 2, 1996
Place:  Benden Weyr's Living Cavern
Game:  PernMUSH
Copyright Info:  The World of Pern is copyright(c) to Anne McCaffrey 
l967. The Dragonriders of Pern(r) is a registered copyright.

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Kassi's Note:  Another log that I post more out of nostalgia than 
anything. :)  This is basically an extended Living Caverns chat, first
about family, later about card games, and finally about Water, with a
few other topics thrown in for good measure.  What traumatizes me most
is that Lanryi and Rylan were apparently only four at the time of this
log!  Four!  And now Lanryi's a grown Wingsecond with a daughter of 
her own!  Gahhhh.  Oh, and one other thing:  the Rivalla episode 
described by Kassi really did happen. ;)

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The Log:

You walk past the lintel and into the wide living cavern.

Kassima sighs faintly as she steps into the well-lit interior of the Living
Cavern, hands tucked in her pockets. Without stopping to pick up anything
more than a meatroll, she plunks herself down in a chair at the Thunderbolt
table and pulls a folded piece of hide out of her pocket. The greenrider
then proceeds to munch the roll while reading the hide, occasionally
laughing aloud at something she's read.

Kenai walks in from the bowl.

J'lor comes in from the bowl.

J'lor slides into the room.

J'lor waves congenially and sits in a comfy spot.

Kenai wanders back in and heads into the kitchen , from which splashing
sounds can be heard, then she wanders back into the living cavern.

Kassima looks up from her reading and waves to Kenai with her meatroll,
swallowing her mouthful before calling a cheery greeting of, "Heyla,
Kenai... heyla t'you too, J'lor," she adds as the brownrider slides in.

Kenai flops onto a bench and grins at Kassi, eyeing J'lor half-warily.

J'lor examines the grains in the table for hidden patterns.

Perhaps out of sheer boredom, V'dan pauses on his way to the klah pitcher
to inquire of Kassima what she's reading. "Hmmm?" is her intelligent reply.
"Oh... just the latest note from home. Da sent it via Kaliawynne's
fire-lizard Debagel a week ago, so I was expecting it to arrive t'day."
Ohing at this more-than-he-ever-really-wanted-to-know reply, V'dan picks up
his mug of klah and wanders over to sit wherever he usually does.

Kenai peers at J'lor and quirks an eyebrow.

Benden Weyr> Kenai blinks. Debagel??? :)

Benden Weyr> Kassima says, "Yeah, yeah, so I was looking for an NPC FL name
and couldn't think of how to spell Scorcezee (y'know, the last name of that
Martin guy?)."

Kenai looks over Kassi, deciding she doesn't really want to know waht J'lor
is doing. "From home? What's up?"

Benden Weyr> J'lor says, "Scorcese?"

Benden Weyr> Kassima says, "Is that it? I was sure there was a z
somewhere... glad I didn't try to spell it, then. :)"

Benden Weyr> J'lor laughs.

Benden Weyr> Kassima ohwells. An FL named Debagel is better than one named
Scorcese anyway. I'll make him be really fat and round and have a likeness
for cream cheese or something.

Benden Weyr> Kenai snickers.

Benden Weyr> J'lor agrees re: cool name.

Kassima chuckles. "The usual," is her cryptic reply. "Cousin Kaliawynne
managed to shock Mum again, Uncle Myaron's back is out, Aunt Simerva got a
case of food poisoning... personally, I think 'tis from all that Tillek
swill she drinks. Feh. Just the standard anecdotes."

Kenai blinks. "Food poisoning," she remarks faintly. "And I thought my
family was bad..."

Kassima grins. "Well, it says here that she got it after she let m'Mum cook
her some dinner, which would explain it. But I still think the Tillek is
even *worse* than Mum's cooking. Hmmm, what else...." She scans the note.
"Sythriva's gone and bought herself a runner, according to this. I don't
know what she'll do with it, though I *do* know where she got the
marks--all my commissions, nay doubt. Huh! And Keysanna's getting
married... imagine that. I can't wait to see the wedding cake she'll
design." Kassi snickers. "That ought to be *truly* amusing."

Kenai blinks, then nods. "Ah. And is Keysanna your... sister?"

J'lor smiles.

Kassima shakes her head. "I've nay any sibs; Keysanna's my aunt, one of
m'father's sisters. She's a Journeywoman Baker. Her specialty is sculptured
cakes."

Kenai's eyes go big. "Sculptured cakes?"

Kassima nods, grinning. "Aye! Keysanna makes these cakes that are in the
*shape* of things... she made the bronze dragon cake for F'hlan's Turnday
celebration, in fact. I still don't know where she came up with *bronze*
icing. She refuses to tell me. She's made 'em in the shapes of all *sorts*
of things. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if she tries to make a cake
sculpture of herself and her husband-to-be."

Kenai makes a face. "That sounds a little... over the top."

Kassima rolls her eyes. "A *little*," she states, "is putting it mildly.
She's a complete nutcase. But then, she's m'Da's sister, so that doesn't
surprise me in the least."

Kenai chuckles. "Sounds like my cousin Telion..."

J'lor boggles momentarily.

J'lor walks down the short tunnel and out into the bowl.

Kenai peers after J'lor.

Benden Weyr> J'lor thought his pants were fearsome 'til he heard Kassi's
'family chat'

Benden Weyr> Kenai laughs! You've never heard mine. *evil grin*

Benden Weyr> Tinya grins. Way to go, Kassi, you've caused J'lor to Fear!

Benden Weyr> J'lor cowers.

Benden Weyr> Kassima whees! My life's ambition, accomplished!! ;)

Kassima grins. "What's he like?"

Benden Weyr> J'lor isn't down yet, just recuperating!

Kenai chuckles. "He's pretty awful... 15 going on 40."

Kassima laughs! "Oh, nay... that's nay like Keysanna, that's like m'younger
cousin Kessatarina. She's only got nine Turns, but she absolutely adores
grumbling about *everything.* The weather, the crops, the other folk of the
hold.... Just like an old woman."

Kenai chuckles. "But Telion keep trying to hand out advice, and he always
couches it in obscure poetry or stories or riddles, and then gets mad when
no one understands."

Kassima ahs. "A bit like m'Da, then," she says with a chuckle. "M'Da's
absolute favorite thing is dispensing proverbs at the drop of a hat. Like,
oh... his saying for 'You should finish what you're working on before
starting something else' is 'You should always sweep the shedding of
felines off the rug before you put it out for company to step on.'"

Kassima amends, "Though he seems to be more resigned to nay anyone
understanding than anything else."

Kenai chuckles. "Well, maybe Telion will come to accept it by the time he's
your father's age... if the rest of us let him live that long!"

Kassima grins. "Mayhaps!" She looks back down at her letter, and hmmms.
"Seems that aside from shocking the feathers out of Mum, 'Wynne's also gone
and Impressed another fire-lizard... a gold, apparently. Da says she's
named her Loxe." She shakes her head. "I'll never understand where
Kaliawynne gets her fire-lizards names from. Debagel and Loxe? Strange."

Benden Weyr> Kenai LOL at Kassi!

Benden Weyr> F'nar snugs Dabagel.

Benden Weyr> Kassima giggles at F'nar and snugs an Ursa. :)

Benden Weyr> Kassima couldn't resist! I mean, lox is orange, right? So an
orange-gold queen named Loxe, to go with blue Debagel. Makes perfect sense
to me.

Benden Weyr> Kenai giggles hysterically.

Benden Weyr> Kassima hmmms thoughtfully. Debagel should probably be a nice
golden brown instead of blue, though....

Benden Weyr> Kenai snorts in laughter.

Kassima runs her finger down the lines of the letter, squinting a bit to
make out the scribbled writings. "Nay much else that interesting in here...
oh. Heh, seems Aunt Kaynni got an interesting gift from her husband,
Aleiwan--he commissioned Sythriva to make a pair of--get this--bejewelled
*glow holders* made of silver, and according to Da, they were the ugliest
and gaudiest things you ever saw. Nay precisely what m'aunt was expecting
for her Turnday. She seems to have clonked him over the head with one of
'em in teasing, but the thing was so hefty what with being metal that she
accidentally knocked him out cold."

Kenai blinks in surprise. "Oh dear. Is he alright? And whatever
possesed..." she trail off and shakes her head, grinning.

Kassima grins. "He's fine! Woke up with a lump on the head, but naught more
than that. I can't say *what* possessed him. I suspect he asked Simerva for
advice. She's the one who likes Tillek--well, her awful taste extends to
gifts, too; her presents to folk are positively horrendous."

Kenai shudders a little. "If it runs to things like that..."

Kassima nods, wrinkling her nose. "It does. Believe me on that score;
what's worse is, whenever she visits, she wants to *see* those gifts in
use. So you can't just sell them or hide them away forever."

Kenai shakes her head. "That's awful... luckily, no one in my family is
/that/ bad..."

Kassima chuckles. "Well. My family is like a basket of nuts... and all of
them are cracked."

Kenai chucklrs. "I like that one..."

Kassima grins. "Mayhaps I've acquired a bit of m'sire's way with words, I
don't know. So how go things with you these days? I've surely bored you
with tales of m'kin long enough."

Kenai chuckles. "No, I think your family sounds endlessly fascinating." She
chuckles. "Never a dull moment! THings are pretty well with me.. can hardly
wait till I can get back in the garden again. It was a long winter..."

Kassima laughs. "Dull moments are rare enough, but they're there. 'Tis
after I left and came to the Weyr that I've never had a dull moment. And
one might be nice, just once, just one time... but ah, well; at least I'm
almost never bored. Aye, the winter's time was long... too long, in some
ways, but in others, nay long enough."

Kenai nods slowly. "True enough... no Falls in the winter, not here anyway."

Kassima nods. "But on the other hand, 'tis nay comfortable being cold all
the time either. I can't say I'm totally sorry to see it end, for all the
good it does us."

Kenai grins. "And I miss working outside... there's only so much mending
you can do before you start seeing double."

Kassima laughs! "Oh, I'd imagine so. Well, I'm just glad 'twill be *warm*
again, with nay snow--I'm tired of having the stuff dumped on my head every
day. Now I'll just have to deal with being splashed with water and trying
to keep Lysseth from covering herself with water lilies."

Kenai chuckles. "Now there's a sight to see.."

Benden Weyr> K'tyn eeeks! I have been labelled a 'despoiler of innocence!'
Aie! :):)

Benden Weyr> Kethran grins. @name me=Innocence?

Benden Weyr> Ursa says, "How would you have described yourself, eh? :)"

Benden Weyr> Kenai hrms.

Benden Weyr> Kethran notes that his innocence got despoiled a long time
ago!; )

Benden Weyr> F'nar giggles.

Benden Weyr> K'tyn sighs at Kassi, Guess you were right, I am secretly
evil. heh.

Benden Weyr> Kassima muwahahahahahas! I'm always right when it comes to
evil, Kiat! ;)

Benden Weyr> C'vadan says, "No doubt about it. Kassi is the Evilthermometer
:)"

Kassima nods ruefully. "And one I've seen far too often, believe me. I
still recall the time we went to Bitra, and she was so covered with them
that I couldn't shake them all off and a bunch fell while we were flying. I
can't help but wonder what the people below thought...."

Benden Weyr> K'tyn is quietly, subtly evil, though. :) No Darth Vader here. ;)

Benden Weyr> C'vadan is Girl Scout Cookies Evil. You don't realize it until
it is too late :)

Benden Weyr> K'tyn ooohs, I like that, Cav.

Benden Weyr> F'nar wonders how he's Evil.

Benden Weyr> Ursa doesn't have an evil bone in her body. *big old grin* :)

Kenai chuckles. "That is an amazing thing to picture.."

Benden Weyr> Thera grins. Till it rings your doorbell Cav? :)

Benden Weyr> Kassima also wonders how she is Evil. I never really thought
about it before... I mean, I just assumed I was simple, plain Evil.

Benden Weyr> Kenai is !evil. O:)

Kassima grins. "'Tis so strange what holds her attention sometimes. She
adores the lilies, but doesn't give a bent talon about most other flowers."

Kenai chuckles. "Maybe it's because she can wear those ones? And get them
on her herself, in the water?"

Kassima grins. "I think 'tis just because they float. She likes to snort at
them and watch them go across the water; 'tis really rather amusing, to
watch her. She's positively fascinated, like a child with a new toy."

Kenai grins. "SHe sounds like a very ... unique dragon. My sister's is
pretty normal , compared to that!"

Kassima grins. "Every dragon's unique, methinks. Lysseth's just a stubborn
lump with a one-track mind who's fully overprotective of me, but she's got
a few quirks. Like the flowers. I don't know why, but surrounded by water,
snow, or lilies, she actually loosens up until she's almost bearable
company." All this is said in a cheerfully jesting tone, and the loud
*snort* this elicits from the direction of the Bowl isn't without its own
tinge of amusement.

Kenai laughs. "What'd she say?"

Kassima chuckles. "Oh, just the usual--that the same could be said of me.
Silly lump, she is."

Kenai chuckles and looks a little bit wistful, for about a half a second,
then grins. "Poor Kassi."

Ryialla walks in from the bowl.

Ryialla waves. "Heyla, everyone.."

Kenai waves.

Kassima grins wryly. "Poor me, indeed, to have to put up with her--but
Faranth knows I wouldn't trade putting up with her for aught in the world.
Just as 'tis with my pesky fire-lizards, 'cept more-so... Ryi, heyla!" She
waves to the greenrider cheerfully. "How fares it with you?"

Ryialla grins. "Pretty good. Not much to complain about. How're y'doin'?"

Kassima grins. "Nay bad, actually. I've another bottomless pit to take care
of." She holds up her left forearm, upon which is perched a small sleeping
green hatchling. "And I got to see Bree today, too, so all's pretty much
well."

Kenai peers. "Another green?"

Ryialla peers at the green. "She's a beauty. Hit 50 yet?"

Ryialla says "And how'd Bree doing, anyways..?""

Kassima nods, smiling. "Another green. Nay quite, Ryi--I've four more to go
yet. Bree's good! She said she rode Mareth today--that's her
runner--without falling off."

Ryialla says "Better then I could do at this point. I'm -way- too used to
dealing with a creature MUCH larger than I, as opposed to only a little bit."

Kenai chuckles softly. "Make a big difference..."

Kassima nods ruefully. "I've forgotten most of what I once knew of
runner-riding m'self, I'm afraid. Though that wasn't much to begin with."

Kenai grins and offers, "Don't fall of?"

Kassima laughs! "Well, a wee bit more than that! But there's nay any
comparison between riding a runner and riding a dragon, for true. I wonder
who's teaching Bree to ride? I'm sure K'nan and Aph wouldn't allow her to
try it without someone supervising."

Kenai chuckles. "I know, really, I do. Both my parents are herders."

Ryialla says "I'm sure of that. She learning here?"

Kassima ohs! and looks sheepish. "A'course you would, then." Tucking her
note away, she pulls a deck of dragonpoker cards from the same pocket and
shuffles them idly, before setting up a game of solitair. "She is, I
believe--her runner's here, in the stables, so she doesn't have to go
elsewhere to ride."

Ryialla grins. "Lotsa people to teach her, then."

Kassima grins and nods, placing down a card. "Aye! Tria or one of her
assistants is probably teaching, in fact; I think K'nan once said something
to that effect, though I'm nay sure." Kassi abruptly frowns, looking over
her cards, and sighs. "Shard it all. I've never yet won at this game, and I
start to think I'm nay ever going to."

Kenai looks over at the cards and chuckles.

Ryialla shakes her head. "Dragonpoker's much more fun with a group.
Solitare just doesn't cut it."

Kassima chuckles. "Aye, but I'm nay any good at *that*, either. Though
V'dan's worse; he's bad enough that even *I* can teach him some things
about the game." Behind her, V'dan turns around in his chair to inelegantly
pthbt at the other greenrider, eliciting only a laugh from Kassi. "Y'know
'tis truth, lad!"

Kenai grins. "Ever played idiot solitaire? Now there's a game impossible to
win!"

Kassima hmmms? "Idiot solitaire?" she asks, with interest.

Kenai grins. "May I?"

Kassima collects the cards she'd put on the table and stacks them back into
a deck, which she passes to Kenai. "Be m'guest."

Ryialla says "This I've got to see."

Kenai grins and shuffles the cards seven times, bridging them expertly. She
holds the deck in her left hand face down, and turns up four cards from the
bottom of the deck, placing them face up on the top of it.

Kenai fans the four cards a little, just enough to see their suits and
values, but still be on top of the deck in her hand. She grins, "The best
thing about this game is you don't need a table for playing on."

Kassima leans over to watch closely, then blinks. "But how, without a
table...?"

Kenai grins. "Like this. Ok... see, I have the deck face down in my left
hand? I never have to set it down, although you do need a place to put your
discards. Pocket or something. You need to look at the suits and values of
the outer pair of cards of these four that are turned up." She looks up to
see if Kasi and Ryi understand.

Kassima hrms. "Outer pair?" she inquires.

Kenai nods, pointing. "The bottom card of the four and the top card."

Kassima ahs and nods. "Okay. So you need to know which cards those are. I
take it you're going to get to the 'why' part later on," she adds with a grin.

Kenai chuckles. "Yup- if the two cards are the same suit, then you discard
the inner pair, the cards between them. If they're the same value, then you
get to discard all four. If they don't match in any way..." she pauses and
looks up to check again.

Benden Weyr> Kenai digs out a deck to make sure what she's explaining makes
sense. :)

Kassima is watching carefully and listening without a word, obviously
absorbed in the demonstration.

Benden Weyr> Kassima says, "It does, believe it or not. :)"

Benden Weyr> Kenai grins. good! :)

Kassima adds, after a moment, "I presume you don't use the Harper cards in
this game, as you don't in the usual solitaire?"

Kenai nods and continues. "If the outer pair doesn't match at all, then you
draw another card from the bottom and put it face up on top of the first
four," she demonstrates, and nods. "No- there is a variation where you can,
but I don't play that way." She then continues, "And the new card on top
becomes part of an outer pair with the second card from the bottom of the
original four."

Kassima seems to grasp this, though she does ask, "But what do you do with
the bottom card of the original four? Naught?"

Kenai nods. "You leave it there... see, the object of the game is to
discard the whole deck by matching like this. Eventually, if you're lucky,
you'll create an outer pair by drawing up cards from the bottom that will
just click in, and you can discard all the way to the bottom, looking at
each new, or old, outer pair as you go."

Kassima grins wryly. "Sounds about as impossible as the original solitaire,
though I imagine if there's nay any limit on how many times you can draw
from the bottom you could win eventually...."

Kenai shakes her head. "Once you've gotten them all turned face up...
that's it, game over." she grins. "I've won this three times in my life."

Ryialla grimaces. "3? Oh, forget it, I'm not even going to try."

Kenai grins. "It's good way to pass the time though... I did it on foaling
watch in the stables."

Kassima glacks. "And I'd imagine you've played it several times, to do
that! Shells, I've nay even won normal solitaire... though I think the fact
that something usually happens to the cards a'fore I can finish mayhaps has
something to do with that."

Kenai notes, reminding again, "Especially since you don't need a table,
it's great."

Kenai chuckles. "Something happends to the cards?"

Kassima nods, sighing. "Aye... sometimes the swarm gets hold of them,
sometimes I get startled and drop m'hand, sometimes someone runs into the
table and sends them flying, sometimes people move 'em around while I'm
away getting a cup of citron or something...."

Kenai grins. "People move them around? That's mean!"

Kassima laughs. "So 'tis! Usually just folk bored enough to get into
mischief, I think, or those I've played pranks on in the past mayhaps....
Well, anyway, 'tis nay a big deal, just bothersome."

Kenai chuckles. "Well... it would be annoying."

"'Tis, a bit," Kassi allows. "But 'tis an annoyance I can live with. I
don't play the game that often anyway; sometimes I prefer to stack card
weyrs, or if'n there are enough bored folk with time on their hands, we
play the standard dragonpoker."

Ryialla sips her klah.

Kenai nods. "Cardweyrs.. I haven't done that in a long time..."

Kassima chuckles ruefully. "Nor have I, nay since the time I actually
finished one--a small one--and then someone ran into m'table and sent it
flying."

Kenai chuckles. "I made one once that was fairly good... I threatened
everyone aorund me with certain death if they so much as breathed. Then I
sneezed..."

Ryialla giggles.

Kassima giggles, too. "Oh, poor Kenai! I abhor having that happen, but it
always seems to... sharding things are so delicate. Now, glass weyrs are a
bit more sturdy, if'n you pack lots of sand."

Kenai quirks an eyebrow. "Glass weyrs?"

Ryialla says "Er?"

Kassima nods. "See, once, down at Boll, Aph and I built one of those for
our fire-lizards to play with. We were drinking enough that we had plenty
of drained glasses, so we'd tip 'em upside down and stack them on top of
each other, packing sand around the bottom ones to keep 'em sturdy. Was
kind of cute to see the fire-lizards trying to help out with it."

Kenai oooohhhhs.... "Neat!"

Kassima grins. "'Twas! 'Twas fun, too... though it likely seemed more so
because we were rather drunk. Had to be, to empty enough glasses to use."

Kenai chuckles. "Sounds like something to do as a group... the building
might go better."

Kassima smiles. "Well, Aph and I both worked on it, though the others did
empty glasses for us. Then everyone swung the vine and swam... 'twas great
fun, in truth."

Kenai grins. "It sounds like fun... I haven't been back to Boll since...
well, in long time."

Kassima sighs. "Nor have I, 'cept alone with Lys... nay since the party
there. But 'tis a good place to go with friends just to be sociable, in a
casual fashion; I've many fond memories of Boll." She glances at Ryialla
and grins. "Including the whole Rivalla incident... remember that, Ryi?"

Kenai peers. "Rivalla?"

Kassima snickers. "Aye, Rivalla. An interesting tale, if confusing...."

Kenai grins. "What isn't? Confusing that is."

Kassima grins. "Very little in life, but this is particularly confusing.
'Twas at Boll, as I said a'fore--and me, Ryi, R'val, and K'nan were all
there. And drunk, I might add. Anyway, it so happens that R'val threw up on
K'nan that evening... nay that that has anything to do with the story, but
'tis a rather vivid memory. Never sit close to R'val when he's drunk, is
the moral of that particular bit of the tale. Anyway...."

Kenai eeeews.

Kassima grins at Kenai's expression, and resumes. "Anyway, as I said,
'twere drunk... and for some reason--don't ask me why, 'cause I haven't the
faintest--I thought R'val was a woman. So I told him that he should never
have changed his name from Rivalla. Ryi, in fact, started proclaiming him
to be her long-lost sister."

Kenai snickers.

Kassima drums her fingers as she continues, "I also thought that there was
a Gather going on, or something like that, for I distinctly remember asking
him why he wasn't in a gown instead of dusty riding leathers. I also recall
going over to K'nan and asking him if he wanted to dance with that lady
over there in the corner; when he refused, I asked Vidarth the same thing.
'Cept I thought Vidarth's name was Fritz or something. He just snorted at
me, so I went and got a spare dress from Lysseth's strap-pouch and put it
on 'Rivalla' while Ryi tied ribbons around his ankle--then we added more to
his hair once he passed out. All very amusing."

Kenai blinks and muses that over in her head a bit. "Ribbons."

Ryialla gets up to get a refill. "Anyone want anything? Since I'm up, that
is.."

Kassima wrinkles her nose. "I don't trust you, Ryi. Every time you get me
something, you later reveal that it had water in it."

Kenai peers at Kassi. "Hmmm... well, I wouldn't mind more klah... thanks,"
she grins.

Ryialla says "I do not! Not all the time, anyway.."

Kassima snorts, amused. "Nay? Name one time, then."

Ryialla gets Kenai a mug, and settles down with her own, pausing only to
pbbbt at Kassi.

Kenai chuckles, wrapping her hands around the mug. "Thanks!"

Kassima pthbbbts right back at Ryi, making a face. "Remember the time with
the cake? You lot teased me about the water and that cake for an hour after
that!" She shudders, remembering.

Ryialla says "And so?"

Kassima blinks. "And so? So, I don't want that to happen again, 'tis all.
Or the hallucinations thing. That was even worse, mayhaps."

Ryialla simply...grins.

Kenai peers into her klah. "Perhaps it's safe if it's been boiled."

Kassima watches Ryi grin, looking faintly uneasy. "What've you done now,
Ryi, that has you grinning so?"

Ryialla says "Listen, I've been drinking the water for nearly 5 turns after
the twins, and you don't see -me- with kid again, do you?"

Kassima considers this for awhile. "Um... nay?" she finally answers. "But
mayhaps folk are immune to the water after they've already been affected
once. That doesn't prove a thing."

Kenai looks uneasy for a brief moment.

Ryialla says "Kenai, you drink the klah here a lot, right?"

Kenai nods. "Lots of klah," she agrees. "But someone told me it was
alright, because the water had been boiled." She frowns, inspecting her
mug. "I hope they're right..."

Ryialla says "How long would you say you've been drinking Benden Klah?"

Kassima makes a face. "Water's water, and there's water in all klah but
M'kla's regardless of boiling."

Kenai hmmms. "About... 3 Turns? Something like that."

Benden Weyr> Maarie clings to this theory of once affected, never again.

Kenai hrms. "Maybe wo and a half."

Benden Weyr> R'val peers at Maarie.

Benden Weyr> Kenai grins. might be right!

Benden Weyr> R'val says, "Heya, gang."

Benden Weyr> Kethran waves to R'val! ;) Heya! ;)

Benden Weyr> Kassima grins at Maarie. I still wouldn't drink it, were I
you; it's not a tried and proven theory... heyla, Rivalla!

Benden Weyr> R'val says, "Ok, what're we talkin' about? :)"

Ryialla says "I think you're safe."

Benden Weyr> Kenai waves to Rivalla and giggles, having just read that log.

R'val walks in from the bowl.

Kenai grins. "I spoe I am..."

R'val wanders into the cavern, waving, "Evening!"

Benden Weyr> Kethran giggles. Sure it isn't Randival? ;)

Benden Weyr> Kenai peers at her typing. Seems to have deteriorated.

R'val blinks blearily as he heads for the klah, "Err. MOrning."

Benden Weyr> Kenai heeeees.

Benden Weyr> R'val grabs Keth's lizard by the tail and smacks him with it ;)

Kassima just shudders. "Well, 'tis moot anyway. I'd nay drink the klah even
if 'twere perfectly safe... and there's nay use taking chances at any rate,
eh?" She returns R'val's wave, and adds, "I still believe the once
affected, ne'er again theory."

Ryialla snorts.

Kenai nods to R'val.

R'val sits down near the girls, with his klah mug, 'What's up?"

Benden Weyr> Kethran grins quietly, and ducks. Randival spots a prettygold,
and bamfs *between* to go flirt with her.

Benden Weyr> Kassima says, "No, Keth. Rivalla. R'val is secretly Ryi's
long-lost sister, you see...."

Benden Weyr> Kethran giggles. Oh, I see ;)

Ryialla says "if that was the case, R'val wouldn't have fathered any
children past Valeri..Heyla, R'val."

Benden Weyr> Kenai dissolves into hysterical laughter, and once again,
laughs until she cries.... that was so /funny/!!

R'val glances at Ryialla, "Hrm? What's that, Ryialla?"

Ryialla says "The water."

Benden Weyr> R'val grins. It was even funnier earlier before the log
started, when I barfed on K'nan ;)

R'val ohs, "That again?"

Benden Weyr> Kenai grins.

Benden Weyr> K'tyn ums, whatcha talking about? adn can I see?

Kassima shrugs and dismisses that thought with, "Mayhaps it affects
everyone, regardless. Mayhaps you've just developed a special immunity or
something, Ryi."

Benden Weyr> Kassima says, "A'course, Kiat. I'll send you the log, hold on.
:)"

Benden Weyr> K'tyn grins at Kassi, Please, Kass!

Ryialla sighs.

Kenai looks over at Ryi. "Well... I still won't drink plain water, even
still."

Kassima nods firmly after considering this for another moment. "Aye, Ryi...
you're just immune or something. 'Tany rate, I'm nay going to touch the
stuff. 'Tis *scary.* If'n the water doesn't get you, then the fake
hallucinations other people convince you that you're having will."

Ryialla says "Well, okay. So I had a little fun.. :)"

Ryialla grins, even.

R'val peers at Ryialla with a grin, "What's with you people and water? Feh."

Ryialla downs a hearty portion of klah. "I've no problem with water at all."

R'val nods to Ryi, "Me neither."

Kassima chuckles. "Fun for you, aye... fun for me to think of *now*. Though
I was terribly afraid at the time." She watches Ryi drink the klah and
tsks. "You're just asking for more kids, Ryi. One of these days...."

Ryialla laughs. "Nope. No more children."

R'val grins, "ONe of these days, F'hlan's bronze'll catch Pliarth again.
Boom, an other set o' twins."

Kenai gahs. "Twins?"

Ryialla says "Grandkids many, mant Turns from now."

Ryialla chuckles. "Yes, Kenai. Lanryi and Rylan are twins."

Kassima nods sagely. "If nay that, then something else. It could happen."
She adds, "Especially if'n y'don't stop drinking the water, Ryi!"

Benden Weyr> K'tyn is laggy. Woo! look at the WHO!

Benden Weyr> Kassima says, "K's rule!"

Kenai chuckles. "Oh..."

Benden Weyr> Maarie aies!

Benden Weyr> Ryialla hides.

Benden Weyr> K'tyn hees, K's on the BOT! We rule.:)

Benden Weyr> Kethran says, "We /are/ the bot! (fear!)"

Ryialla shakes her head. "Nope nope nope."

Benden Weyr> R'val says, "Aigh!"

Benden Weyr> Kassima beckons to Maarie and Ryi with her Staff of K-ness,
which is basically just a staff with a big silver K on it. "Come, Kaarie,
Kyialla... join us...."

Benden Weyr> Ryialla thinks this place should have multiple aliases like DF
does.

Benden Weyr> Maarie ickyicks! Kaarie! Ick!

Benden Weyr> Kassima says, "You're on DF, Ryi? :)"

Benden Weyr> Ryialla says, "Then I could be Kyialla with impunity. Or
something like that."

Benden Weyr> Ryialla nods.

Benden Weyr> Kassima played there for about a week before her Cannot Handle
Alts Syndrome kicked in. :)

Kassima nods. "Yep, yep, yep! Just you wait, Ryi, wait and watch--you'll see!"

Kenai chuckles.

Benden Weyr> Ryialla chuckles.

Ryialla says "What if I decided to become celibate, and mewed myself up
during flights? Hm?"

Deri walks here from the Inner Cavern.

R'val Hrms, "I doubt that'd work, Ryi."

Kenai blinks. "Could that work?"

Kassima hrms. "Well, that might work, I imagine. But only if you had a lot
of wine to get really drunk with during the aforementioned flights, and
even then, the riders would probably be looking for you...."

Deri looks around as she heads to the klah pitcher, nodding hello to everyone

Kenai nods to the woman and turns back to Kassi.

Ryialla says "I'd barricade myself in my weyr. And yes, with lots of
alcohol. I'll go raid Saer's stash."

Kassima ooohs. "Saer's stash? Where that *excellent* wine that Aph gave me
that K'nan gave her came from? Aye, then I believe that just might work
after all."

Deri blinks, pouring hewrself some klah, before sitting down.

R'val shakes his head, "Much as I hate to say it, I really don't think a
greenrider could avoid sex."

Deri chokes on her klah, as she hears the topic of conversation.

Ryialla harumphs, but admits to Kassi, "I'm still looking for it."

Kenai frowns a little at R'val.

R'val grins at Ryi, "Wasting time. You'll never find it."

Kassima gives R'val the Evil Eye, just on general purposes. "Drunk on
Saer's stash, we likely could. That bottle Aph gave me that K'nan gave
her...." She sighs, her expression one of reminiscent bliss. "That was the
best sharding wine I've ever tasted in m'life."

Ryialla says "I will persevere."

Kenai ponders. "Perhaps only..." she trails off and shakes her head.
"Nevermind," she comments, lifting her mug of the suspect klah.

Benden Weyr> R'val runs for his life as an entire room of women gives him
evil looks. This is too much like RL!

R'val glances at Kenai, "Perhaps?" He queries.

Kassima grins at Ryi. "If'n you find it, just name your price for even one
bottle and I'll try to meet it. But if you could find it and hid in your
weyr, then mayhaps you'd be able to drink the water and still stay safe
after all."

Benden Weyr> Kenai :P at R'val. Heh... you asked for it! That poor
newbie... :)

Benden Weyr> R'val says, "That's what they say RL, too. Sigh."

Ryialla hehs. "This is probably true."

Kenai shakes her head at R'val.

Kassima tilts her head and adds, "Mayhaps. Though if 'tis as powerful as
they say 'tis, mayhaps nay... I don't know. I think there's still a theory
that it could even get men to be expecting, but I don't buy that one; 'tis
just a bit too unbelievable, thankee."

Deri looks confused and shakes her head, not wanting to ask, despite her
curiosity.

Kenai ponders. "They make wine with water, you know."

Kassima wrinkles her nose. "Aye, but alcohol kills whatever's in the water,
I think. And Benden wine doesn't have any contaminents anyway. Tillek
swill, though... I wouldn't put it past *them.*"

Kenai grins. "Well... you may be right. My cousin is a gardener over at the
Hold, and she hasn't had any problems with the wine or water...

Deri walks towards the inner cavern.

Ryialla says "Aye, true.."

R'val just shakes his head at this entire line of conversation.

Kassima nods, with a 'There, you see?' expression. "Wine's perfectly safe!
Perfectly."

R'val grins, 'I'm safe either way."

Kenai nods thoughtfully.

Ryialla snorts. "R'val, you're probably the best candidate for for bearing
a child in all of Pern.

R'val blinks, "Me? Never."

Kenai blinks.

Ryialla says "If it was feasible for a man to bear a child.."

R'val grins, "Which it isn't, need I remind you."

Kassima laughs so hard she almost snorts citron out her nose.

Kenai ponders. "So what makes him a good candidate?"

A greenrider in the corner shakes his head at Ryialla. "And more's the
pity, I say."

Ryialla laughs. "Because he's R'val."

R'val snorts, "HE being the operative word, Ryi."

Kenai chuckles.

Kenai shakes her head and turns to Ryi. "Never work you know..."

Ryialla says "Whyever not?"

Kenai grins. "Because if men were the ones to bear children, they'd figure
out a way to fix the water."

Ryialla says "Hm. Hadn't thought of that."

Kassima grins, leaning back against her chair. "Aye, aye! Good thing,
too... if'n he were a she, the Weyr might be flooded with Rivalla-lets.
Faranth forfend *that* ever happening." She then bursts out laughing anew
at Kenai's words. "Oh! Too true, Kenai!"

Kenai laughs. "It's a good thing it takes so long to produce them... he
would only be able to manage about one a year."

Ryialla says "Unless he had twins. Which, I might add, he's fathereed..."

Kassima grimaces. "Gah! Or worse, triplets...."

R'val nods, "I have indeed. And very proud of 'em I am." He beams.

Kenai blink and peers at R'val, "hadn't thought of that..."

Ryialla says "Hey, R'val, triplets ever run in your family?"

Kenai shudders. "Well, at least he'd be the one that had to put up with it!"

Benden Weyr> Kenai plays a quick gam eof idiot solitaire and loses by 10
cards, Kassi and Ryi. :)

Kassima shudders, too. "Aye, but the kids would likely be plaguing the
whole Weyr! Ach. I don't even want to think about it; 'tis too frightening,
thankee, too frightening by far."

Kenai giggles. "Foster 'em out... I have a couple relatives that deserve a
little terror in their lives..."

Kassima blinks at Kenai. "Really? 'Cause Faranth knows, m'family back home
has enough kids that could use some fostering.... 'Cept you said a *little*
terror, didn't you? Never mind, then."

Benden Weyr> R'val icks at kenai :)

Benden Weyr> Kenai loses by 10 cards again. Why ick, R'val? You missed my
idiot solitaire lesson in the LC. :)

Ryialla says "I don't have any relatives to torture. Which is porbably a
good thing."

Kenai grins at Kassi. "Yeah.. only a little. They are family, after all."

Kassima tilts her head. "I think children count as relatives though, Ryi."

Ryialla says "They're only 4. They can't be foster parents."

Kenai nods. "But they're still family."

Ryialla says "Good point."

Kassima grins. "Nay, but someday.... I have relatives to torture, but
they've enough torturous children of their own for the most part that
adding more would be too cruel even for me."

Kenai chuckles. "So you'll torture someone else? That doesn't seem fair."

Kassima grins. "A'course! Better to torture strangers than family!"

Kenai laughs and shakes her head. "I feel sorry for the poor future foster
parents..."

Ryialla laughs.

Kassima chuckles and shakes her head, too. "Most of m'family doesn't like
to foster," she observes, "so the would-be foster parents of the world are
safe. A good thing, given how prolific all my kin seem to be; I've enough
young cousins to torture dozens of families all over Pern."

Kenai giggles. "Me too..."

R'val glances at Kassima, "I wonder if you'll proliferate, as is your
familial wont, Kassi?"

Kassima grins at Kenai. "Here's to torturous relatives!" she says, lifting
her warm citron in a toast. Then she snorts at R'val. "I don't drink the
water," is her simple answer. "And I've yet to have any problems concerning
proliferation, so I doubt it."

R'val grins archly at Kassima, "No, but you do have a green dragon. It
might happen someday, you know!" He winks at her impishly.

Benden Weyr> Kassima wonders, absently, whether proliferation is even a
word. :)

Ryialla says "Kassi. Kids. Naw, doesn't fit."

Benden Weyr> R'val says, "Of course it is :)"

Benden Weyr> Kenai nods!

Benden Weyr> Kenai has mostly heard it in relation to nuclear weapons, but...

Kassima points at Ryi. "See? She knows! For once, someone confirms what
I've been saying all along. Thankee, Ryi."

Benden Weyr> R'val has mostly heard it in referance to bunnies.

Benden Weyr> Kassima says, "Kassi's relatives and nuclear weapons have a
lot in common. :P"

Ryialla says "Her firelizards will just develop the powers of speech and
five-fingered hands."

Kenai chuckles. "To torturing relatives.." she toasts with an unusual
glitter in her eye.

Kassima glacks. "Forty-six talking fire-lizards? Please, Ryi! 'Tis a
thought I *don't* want to consider!"

R'val raises his glass, "To torturing relatives. I should fly Vidarth low
over Lemos sometime this sevenday, and terrify my brothers' livestock.'

Benden Weyr> Kenai laughs! Critical mass of firelizards? Is that what happens?

Ryialla says "And when the water does get you, you'll give birth to more of
those same firelizards."

Kenai blinks. "Erk."

Ryialla chuckles evilly.

Kassima chuckles wryly. "If I were truly as heartless as everyone seems to
think, I would fly Lysseth over my parents' cothold someday... but I guess
I'm just not quite that cruel." She *snorts* at Ryi. "I don't drink the
water, remember?"

Ryialla says "Doesn't mean it won't get you."

Benden Weyr> Kassima fears that thought, Ryi. You have a truly twisted and
warped mind. (And I consider that a compliment, of course. ;)

R'val grins at Ryialla.

Kassima shakes her head. "Nay--and 'tany rate, speaking fire-lizards is as
likely as R'val giving birth. As frightening, too."

Benden Weyr> Ryialla says, "Thank you. Compliments from you are worth their
weight in gold. :)"

Miko, lounging on Ryi's shoulder, looks up and mrowlchirples.

Benden Weyr> Kassima snugsaRyicreature, just 'cause. :)

Ryialla says "Some have learned to speak like felines.."

R'val glances oddly at Miko.

Kenai looks over at the firelizard on Ryi's shoulder. "Self-preservation?"

Benden Weyr> Ryialla snugaright back. :)

Ryialla says "Insanity,more like."

Kassima shudders. "But nay like people. 'Tis nay going to happen. Nay ever,
nay nay nay... 'tis impossible, absolutely. I'm *nay* buying this one, Ryi.
M'fire-lizards aren't going to speak *or* have fingers, for which I thank
Faranth in all her golden glory."

Kenai giggles.

Ryialla says "I'll try again next time you've been drinking."

Ryialla grins.

R'val grins, "Good plan Ryi."

Kenai laughs. "That's cruel."

Ryialla says "Ayup."

Kassima laughs! "Ryi! You wouldn't! Shards, I might actually believe that,
if'n 'twere drunk... you're evil, Ryi. When people say I'm evil, 'tis
obvious they've nay been your victims yet."

Benden Weyr> Ryialla will BRB.

Ryialla grins, and goes to get some more klah. "Oh, it's empty. I'd better
go brew some."

Kassima shudders. "Ryi-brewed klah? Thank Faranth I don't drink the stuff."

R'val wanders out, waving.

R'val walks down the short tunnel and out into the bowl.

Kenai blinks and pulls her nose out of her mug as she sees movement from
the corner of her eye.

Kassima blinks at Kenai. "Why was your nose in your mug?"

Kenai blinks again. "Urm, must have dozed off."

Kenai rubs at her nose a little. "Good thing I'd already drunk most of it..."

Ryialla puts the fresh pot of klah down.

Kenai grins. "Oh good... Thanks Ryi!"

Kassima chuckles. "Indeed.... I didn't know you made klah, Ryi."

Ryialla grins. "Occassionally.

Kassima peers at the pot. "Can't say I ever have," she comments. "M'folks
don't like it any more than I do, so 'twas nay need."

Kenai blinks. "Didn't like it?"

Kassima shakes her head. "Don't, rather; they're still alive, and still
don't like it so far as I know. I don't like klah, they don't like klah, so
there wasn't much need to make klah."

Kenai shakes her head in mild disbelief. "Odd."

Ryialla pours herself a nice, large mug of it.

Kassima chuckles. "So are they, and I," she points out. "Anyway. So, Ryi,
are you as glad as everyone else seems to be that winter is over?"

Kenai waits until Ryi is done, then reaches over to refill her mug.

Deri walks here from the Inner Cavern.

Salless dusts off the mantlepiece over the night hearth.

Kenai looks up and waves to the woman. "Morning."

Deri smiles and pours a fresh mug of klah, returning to her spot by the hearth

Deri smiles, "Hello. I didn't want to interupt your all's conversation
earlier."

Kassima nods to Deri with a faint smile of greeting, still peering at Ryi's
klah pot. "How's the klah, Kenai?"

Kenai makes elaborate swishing noises. "A bit young- tannins you know.
Altogether a pleasing bouquet, though I believe that a few mor Turns in
careful storage might yeild an interesting..." she grins. "Just fine."

Deri blinks and eye's the klah she just poured, "Is this going to get me
drunk if I drink it?"

Kassima laughs. "Well, 'twas just wondering if there was something odd
about it. After all, Ryi brewed it." She grins at the other greenrider.

Kenai grins. "Conversation? Oh, you mean the twisted meanderings some
people like to think are conversation..."

Deri nods, "Uhm yeah, it sounded like something strange indeed."

Deri sips her klah carefully, tasing a tiny bit first

Kassima blinks at Kenai in mock-startlement. "Those were conversation? My
word. I thought conversation had to make *sense*. You mean I've been
conversing all m'life with people and didn't even know it?"

Kenai nods wisely, the corners of her eyes crinkled, but the rest of her
expression solemn. "Indeed. Many people converse without even realizing it."

Deri chuckles, "I'm Deri, by the way. Didn't I see you at that hatching, at
Ruatha, yesterday?" She asks Kassima.

Kenai grins. "Kenai."

Deri nods, "Nice to meet you Kenai. M' full name is Bladerina, but I use
Deri cause it's a big mouthful.

Kassima nods to Deri. "I think so, aye; the one at the trader camp?" She
smiles. "I'm Kassima, or Kassi, whichever; I ride a green thing that has
occasionally been known to be useful. She likes to call herself Lysseth."

Kenai nods. "Pleased to meet you as well."

Deri nods, "That one, yes. It's nice to meet you Kassi

Ryialla sighs. "I'd better get back. Good night, guys."

Ryialla waves.

Ryialla walks down the short tunnel and out into the bowl.

Kenai waves after Ryialla.

Kassima waves after Ryi, and turns to look at the klah. "She never did say
what she's done to it, y'know."

Benden Weyr> Ryialla gives up for tonight. If I'm not net-bouncing, I'm
locking up the telnet porgram by typing too much text. Phoo. G'night. The
klah's normal. :)

Deri chuckles, "I'm glad I wasn't there the whole time, cause that woman
who got the queen, Kelli, she don't like me much." She shakes her head with
a smile

Benden Weyr> R'val hugga Ryi, g'night :)

Benden Weyr> Kenai grins. Night!

Benden Weyr> K'tyn waves!

Benden Weyr> Kassima darns! How disappointing. ;) Night, Ryi! *Snugs.* :)

Benden Weyr> Kethran snugs a Ryi.

Kenai looks over and shakes her head slightly. "Hrm. Don't think I know
her... not surprising really."

Kassima smiles faintly. "Well, nay anyone can be liked by everyone," she
says philosophically. "'Twas a good hatching. Two of m'friends Impressed."
She grins at Kenai. "You should've been there, for true--Bree and Kindre
both got browns, and there were quite a few sweet ones. My new green
reminds me a bit of F'hlan's fair."

Kenai chuckles. "Of F'hlan's fair? What about yours?"

Deri chuckles, "Well she's a jealous woman, so don't get near her
betrothed. She threatened to sic all the Bitran Firelizards on me if she
ever saw me at Bitra again. Ah, ezmara here is a sweet little thing, I'm
glad I showed up when I did."

Danuta walks in from the bowl.

Kenai looks up and grin, waving to the new arrival.

Danuta looks round, then recognises Kassima and smiles. "Heyla." She smiles
at the other people in the cavern.

Deri smiles and nods to the girl

Kassima laughs. "My fair's nay got so many sweet greens in it as his has!
Though Rhiannon is, and Kermithe can be... and now Kalysta." She wrinkles
her nose. "Ach, wouldn't get near someone's betrothed anyway. Aside from
the fact that 'tis nay fair, 'tis also nay like there aren't plenty of men
out there who aren't...." She waves to Danuta, smiling. "Heyla."

Danuta walks over and sits down next to Kassima. "How are you keeping? "

Deri grins and starts feeding her little green with wherry meat, "Well it
was all a mistake to begin with. She found us swimming in a hot spring, not
like we were doing anything wrong by that, and she comes in and throws a
fit. I didna even know he was betrothed."

Kassima hmmms? "Oh, things are well enough, thankee... a bit tired,
a'course, but it *is* late to be awake still." She grins, then nods
sympathetically to Deri. "Aye, I've known a few friends who've run afoul of
that. And if she could actually sic all the Bitran fire-lizards on
you--which I doubt--then 'twould be a threat indeed, since I know some of
those fire-lizards and wouldn't want to incur their wrath even with m'swarm
to protect me."

Deri nods, "Well considering the fact that she has 6or I guess with the
queen, seven of the little ones, she could still hurt me a bit."

Kenai grins. "Well, can't say as i've ever met any of the Bitran
firelizards..."

Deri smiles, "Besides that, I don't think the others there liked me too
much. Seems her betrothed is a Starry app. that is trying to be stationed
at Bitra, when he makes Journeyman."

Danuta chuckles. "I come from the Bitra area - can't say I've ever fallen
foul of the Hold fire lizards though. We don't have any on our cot."

Kassima chuckles. "Seven, eh? Aye, seven can do some damage, especially
with a queen backing them up. Just be glad she doesn't have so large a fair
as some." She grins at Kenai. "Well, I went to Bitra once or twice, mostly
as a Weyrling; used to know someone there who had a thing for one of my
Ruathan friends. 'Twas there that I Impressed Kyril, in fact, so he could
be said to be a Bitran fire-lizard in a way.... By the by, if you ever go
fishing in the Bitra River, know that 'tis full of shoes."

Kenai blinks. "Shoes."

Kassima nods vigorously. "Aye, shoes. Where they came from 'tis anyone's
guess, but 'tis full of shoes. I've a theory that 'tis where Aph dumps the
shoes she steals from people whilst they're bathing, though naturally she
denies it."

Kenai shakes her head, repeating 'shoes,' disbelievingly. "So do people
catch them, like fish?"

Danuta grins. "I know the stretch of river you mean. I've been shoe fishing
there more than once..."

Deri chuckles.

Kenai blinks. "Guess so!"

Kassima nods again. "Precisely! There's a stretch of river there, as Danuta
says, with racks of poles for fishing nearby; the problem is that you're
more likely to catch shoes than a fish." She smiles. "I recall one eve at
the Bitra Gather, about five Turns ago, mayhaps more... 'twas without any
fire-lizards then, and had but newly left m'home to go a-wandering. Met a
lass by the banks of that river by the name of Aphrael, and she watched
while me and some Ruathan lad named Shastar fished shoes out of that river.
'Twas the beginning of a beautiful friendship, to use the cliche."

Kenai chuckles.

Danuta laughs. "There's at least one pair of my shoes in there, because my
nuisance little brother threw my clothes in when I went swimming. I never
found them again."

Deri smiles, "Well Bitra has a set of new stables by that stretch of river,
and the fishing rack is still there."

Kassima muses aloud, "I should get Aph and K'nan to come with me fishing
down by that river; been too long since I've gone, and I wager they've nay
been either. I recall once we all went fishing there and brought the
results back to Benden to skin and clean. I accidentally hit Aph with a
fish head while she was asleep."

Kenai pushes her empty mug back reluctantly. "Well, it's morning, isn't
it... no rest for the wicked."

Kenai blinks at Kassi. "With a fish-head?" She shakes her head as she heads
out to the bowl , chuckling a little. "Fish head."

Kassima grins wryly. "That explains a lot of why I never seem to get any
sleep." She waves to Kenai and stands, yawning a bit herself. "Though I
should try, since I've a watch to stand before too long. Clear skies, all!"

You walk down the short tunnel and out into the bowl.