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494 - Did I Mention, I Miss You?

This kind of court dinner I not only could bear, but was actually enjoying.  Kallijas had Laisa and her parents again, and his boy, I had invited Sera Liren and casually asked if she minded bringing her daughter to 'fill out the table'.
Ky was just down the table on the other side of her mother, which was very different from having father between the two of us.  And I didn't have a whole tail of

493 - A General Inquiry

Selinae 27th 50 Y.P.E.Marble Palace, Arko
Dear Chevenga,
I hope your fight against the Summoner is going well.  Hayel, I pray for you every day, Ten hear me.  I've been following in the Pages what the scribblers are ferreting out.  I do not doubt that there is ten tens of tens more than they are reporting, or allowed to see.
Ilesias is well, though complaining bitterly about the amount of

492 -The Thug of Time

I am surrounded by the sodden bodies of my erstwhile compatriots.  My men, my young stags, roaring and bellowing me on to my wedding… Did you notice, oh young companions, and older scholars who should know better… that I have watered the wine in my cup?  I am not so drunk as I appear, perhaps from the wafting fumes of breath from no longer attentive companions, overcome with the best of Mikas'

Well.....

No second Monday post.  I'm unfortunately still one behind.  I'll see what I can do...  mea culpa.

491 - It's not about me?

I skated over and come to rest beside the elder Ienas, surveying the mess on his patio with a sanguine eye.  "I shall have to stop coming to your establishment, Ienas.  I seem to be a harbinger of destruction for you."
He cast a look at me.  "Beggin' the exalted's pardon and thank the Blessed and Most High Ten fer that, but this ain' about the exalted.  Yeh jus' happened to be here when the

Apologies

My apologies for not posting today.  I simply must take the boys to the cottage which has no internet... so I shall either sneak out to town during the weekend, or post twice on Monday!

Ciao!

490 - Patre'll Take Care of Me

"You mark my words!  I'm a fessas I am!  The Patre will have me an' my buddies out o' here affore we can get transferred tah Marble Palace lock-up!  How was we to know that there'd be a stinkin' Mahid there!  It was just a party fer the old fart's gettin' married!
'Course we had ta show the lot of uppity shop-keepers, 'n food-making café's an' wine bars that they couldn't tell los Familias NO!

489 - Excerpts and Crib Notes

…excerpt from doctoral paper number one:
I contend that societies go through closing and opening cycles, not unlike a lock, where an entire society goes through progressive changes either tending to the repressive – thus, closing – or the progressive, becoming more open in its cultural attitudes.
Not only in the laws, where there are increasing numbers of laws and rules, but also an increase in

488 - Cast in Glass and Boxed

The door of the reading room opened and I ducked behind the stack of books in front of me, not wanting to be seen by whoever it was coming in.  If they didn't notice me or what I was studying in a moment they'd be up to their noses in their own research and not paying attention to anyone else. 
There were hundreds of books on wedding etiquette.  Hayel there were hundreds of books for every

Victoria Day

I should have reminded everyone... today is Victoria Day in Canada and I shall not be posting.  It's part of the 2/4 weekend {a pun on the twenty and four beers in a large case} when Canada switches over to summer.
If you have any ideas you'd like to see Minis write for Intharas... please pass them along... the editor is becoming politely testy...