therookery | Riddles on the Road

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Riddles on the Road

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Pel Ashara
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Just riddles.
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Orlais and everywhere else
NOTES: Will update with any warnings.

[Pel is restless, and possibly a little bored. Sometimes, you have to walk away from work for a few minutes and do something else. But Pel doesn't like to shut off her brain. So she speaks into the stone, voice mild and thoughtful.]

Anyone up for an exchange of riddles?

I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?

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Sit but never stand, [she says quietly, latching onto the most unusual thing. The last sentence makes her think of some form of shelter. What blocks the sun and rain and sits?]

A hat?

Yes! I'm a hat.

[He sounds delighted at first, but... she guessed that rather quickly. He doesn't know whether that's good or bad.]

Was that all right?

That's a good one. Sit but never stand made it tricky. But it was interesting and I had to really think.

My turn: I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry.

But... birds aren't always in the sky to begin with.

So long as they're not underground, I'd say everybody is in the sky at least partly. But fair enough. Say the bird is flying. This is the part that's not in the sky.