Ghys (and the others, since she's still waiting on their replies to her last few questions....) -- The Watchwher Caves

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Date Posted: 17:59:51 04/21/05 Thu
Author: Yima & Yimask
Subject: Ghys (and the others, since she's still waiting on their replies to her last few questions....)

((Please excuse the short-and-crappy post.... I had all of two hours of sleep last night, and it's catching up with me something nasty by now.))

"...Lower Caverns." Just as Yima finishes her sentence, Yimask emits a loud rumble, warning her of an approaching stranger. Then it modulates into a careful greeting chirp to Ghysk, neither friendly nor hostile but merely wary, for the time being, just as she'd been with Orisk. When it comes to strangers, Yimask takes her cues from Yima first unless her own instincts tell her that something is up. "Who's there?" Yima snaps, closing her eyes and slowly bringing what Yimask sees to the fore of her brain. A woman. A wher, small, probably a green - no, definitely a green, because it's too small for a gold and males don't get pregnant. Knowing who the strangers are doesn't make her relax entirely, but she does move her hand away from her beltknife, having reached automatically for the hilt upon Yimask's warning. "Ghys. And Ghysk, I assume? It would be difficult for it to be anything else. I'm Yima, handler of gold Yimask and the Master of this CraftHall." The woman's voice is firm and uncompromising. This isn't like the children or even Oriana, who automatically deferred to someone with more knowledge of watchwhers than they, and this will be the first real test of her authority. "I see your wher is pregnant?" It's phrased as a question, but it isn't, really, and that's obvious despite the rise on the last syllable.

Chirping, humming, gurgling, and some odd noises that can't really be defined emerge from Yimask's throat as she does the watchwher equivalent of a cautious introduction. She's in charge here, and Ghysk will listen to her. Yima is her person, and not to be touched. The other ones are Yima's, and by extension hers, and also not to be touched. Ghysk can use their clutching cave once Yima and Yimask - Yima and Yimask, no one else - find it, but Ghysk has to remember that it's the gold's cave first and foremost. All of this is backed up by a wordless mental presence, a few emotions and images projected but most of it a combination of Yimask asserting her superiority and Yimask testing the green's attitude. The watchwher queen is a bad-tempered beast, even worse than her human, and just as paranoid as the woman at her side (though her paranoia is entirely natural, and not supplemented by some slight mental imbalances as Yima's is).

"Wait a moment, though," Yima adds to Ghys. "I was asking the children a few questions, I still want to hear their answers." Though of course no one can tell if she's turned her head, the pitch conveys her shifted attention. "I'll repeat. Any questions? And Manethenre, can your firelizards carry a message for me?"

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Replies:

Blind to the Sun -- Ghys /Ghysk/, 13:49:14 04/23/05 Sat
- Am I late? -- Manethenre, 15:12:26 04/27/05 Wed
  - Very very very late. But you still need to post R'ven, so we're even. Or something. -- Telomm - Brown Wher, 12:40:52 05/05/05 Thu