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[degenere]

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Val de Foncé
RECIPIENT: Riftwatch
NOTES: unrelated to anything

A question of great importance: who is the most interesting person in Riftwatch?

I am composing a list, which I very easily could make alone. But that is not amusing. So, the winner of the list will of course receive a prize. An extra point will be awarded to a Rifter, quite obviously. Points deducted for, hm, [totally at random here,] let us say.... Wardens. I have nothing against them. Once I admired them! Then I had my sixth birthday, and I grew bored with them.

All suggestions will be considered.

Comments

belatedly throws another horse boy on the pile

[fripon]

Atrocious is a good word for it. My first thought was 'abomination' but it would be a shame for the other horses if the stables were burned in a panic.

saddle club when

[positioning]

It would be. Do we know that it needs to be in a stable?

[fripon]

Do the dead need?

[positioning]

The girl [ sorry jenny lou ] seems to think so. Averesch has volunteered to discuss it with the beast.

[esquive]

I've discussed this with the Speaker. He is under the impression it needs to stretch its legs, which it apparently cannot do in the Gallows were it to be shipped over.

[positioning]

Maybe Averesch can ask if he needs to stretch his legs after he asks whether or not he would like to remain in a horse.

[fripon]

And will this Averesch ask the horse if he wants his corpse to remain possessed?

[esquive]

Does Averesch speak horse, or does that matter less once a thing is dead?

[positioning]

Gentlemen, let's not sell Enchanter Averesch short. Perhaps he is fluent in both the language of the dead and the language of a horse.

[windyvoice]

Y'all gonna be rude about it, you're not allowed to come to the Spirit Horse Chat.

[esquive]

[They're coming to the Spirit Horse Chat you can't stop them.]

[windyvoice]

[ ur talkin a lot of shit for someone with two feet just the right size for hoof stompin. ]

[positioning]

But we must come. There must be witnesses.

[windyvoice]

You can send an impartial representative.

[positioning]

What if we observe from ten feet away and our representative stands beside you and boorish Enchanter Averesch?

[windyvoice]

Fifteen feet.

[fripon]

But he asks a good question. Does the spirit of a horse speak horse or spirit? Or both?

[esquive]

Both seems a shade generous. [Horses.... are dumb.] We'll have to hope either that it speaks spirit or else rely on Averesch's fluency.

[fripon]

Can Averesch contact the horse's spirit as well? Is it blasphemous to suggest horses have spirits? I seem to recall a Sister slapping my wrist for that as a boy.

[degenere]

Of course horses have spirits. I know that you have met a horse, Hugo, and looked a horse in its eye. So this you know to be true.

[esquive]

Just so.

I imagine a horse's spirit must be not dissimilar to the ones the Enchanter keeps for company. Happily then, he should have no trouble.

[wythersake]

Are you asking if the Enchanter can gnash his teeth and bray?

[ hi kostos ]

[positioning]

Well [ yes ] I assume there is no other way to carry on a conversation with a horse.

Are you here to tell me if he can?

[wythersake]

I have seen him kick and bite.

[positioning]

That is good. I imagine those skills will be crucial for making the beast feel at home.