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Summoneyy likes the new folk well enough, provided someone eventually gives them the older sort of bodies to wear. She has even begun selecting shades for them: less blue, more purple, perhaps skin like a night elf’s on a blood elf. There are worse ways to spend an evening than improving imaginary complexions.
Meho arrived with the grim news that the old-fashioned guise was nearly omitted altogether, until certain loud witnesses saw the work in progress and objected. So the compromise was stitched on late, with familiar paint draped over unfamiliar bones. Summoneyy was pleased they listened. Meho was pleased to know precisely when they had panicked. Both seemed satisfied, which is rare enough to record.
Summoneyy devised a remarkably tidy fork for the high elves: blue-eyed loyalty on one road, green-eyed treachery on the other. Blaedy found it interesting, then diagnosed elf fatigue, which is what happens when a people are too lovely to stop multiplying.
Arrowyy immediately imagined some merchant charging admission for pointed ears. Meho, who would apparently pay the toll if it kept nine of every ten passersby from being pretty elves, supplied a crab loudly praising coin and an old miser doing the same with his eyebrows. This was considered evidence.
Then Meho unrolled a long moving curiosity involving a blocky little hero in a nightmare kingdom, calling it the day’s share of clever and alarming artifices. Arrowyy said it deserved a lick. There are hours when I envy a man the confidence to say such things and none at all when I picture the result.
Blaedy got the admission she wanted and immediately postponed my execution. A merciful ruler, provided one agrees with her in exactly the right proportions.
Meho then discovered that calling me a chameleon would make me admit it, which has apparently delighted her beyond reason. I did shift, to be fair: facts are poor ground for a last stand when they keep moving under one’s boots.
Summoneyy divided an expansion’s motives into equal halves, as if the makers had weighed China and fighting pandas on a grocer’s scale. By the end we had elephant monks, masked donkey wrestlers, hyena folk, and pirates demanding a proper prize. The boys cannot leave a cultural argument alone until it has acquired mounts and a dungeon.
Summoneyy began by accusing the makers of pandering, which is the sort of accusation that arrives wearing a joke and leaves expecting receipts. Fair enough. I had receipts, then immediately misplaced them beneath a barrel.
Meho took one empty keg and attempted to roll it backward through fate until the great prison beneath reality never opened. I helped, briefly, by fastening Chen to a road he has never walked. Meho made me admit it before the lie gained legs.
Then came the improved proposal: an exceptionally sturdy keg over Sylvanas’s head. This is nonsense, obviously, but it is solid nonsense. There is comfort in a plan that can be explained by pointing at a barrel and saying: there. That is where history stops.
