You don't like to talk about your OTHER NAMES. The CREEPY, VAGUELY INSUFFERABLE CHILD giggles as it senses your NAME. You strictly FORBID the LOKI from revealing the name and cast your SPELL: RULES LAWYER to ensure compliance, or at least COMPETENT CHEATING.
Which reminds you: clearly, the ANGRY APPRENTICE has run an EXPERT CON. You find that to be rather ENDEARING.
"Did that... LOW KEY give you the dragon meat? And what are you going to do with it?"
You shake your head, and shrug. The last one is a good QUESTION, but one that can wait. The back and forth of PROBABLY HOSTILE questions continues for what feels like HOURS, with the CREEPY CHILD occasionally providing WIZARDLY answers on your behalf (in other words: NECESSARILY CONVOLUTED, TRUE, and ONLY AN ANSWER IN ANNOYING RETROSPECT.)
At one point, her eyes turn ORANGE again, and you immediately interrupt her IGNORANT RAMBLING by casting what looks like a FIREBALL, but is actually a slightly EMPOWERED PRESTOMAJESTO'd fireball at her.
She yells something ANGRILY FORIEGN, catches the fire, and returns it as FIRE, which you catch in your mouth and SWALLOW. It's almost spicy.
Your APPRENTICE tries to find words, mouth opening and closing like a WHISKERFISH. You CHUCKLE, and request the DEED. With shaky hands, she passes it over, and you sign with a FLOURISH.
***
Several weeks go by. Your APPRENTICE has come close to almost understanding the THEORY of the most basic PRESTOMAJESTO, and has also caused approximately 13 fires, only two of which were a result of COOKING.
In an effort to reduce the INADVERTENT MAGICAL ARSON, you send her on morning RUNS. Several CIVIL AND CRIMINAL TRIALS later, both of you are going on MORNING RUNS, together. (Which is to say, you go on MORNING WHEEZES and she tries to not MAKE FIRE while GENTLY JOGGING. You're both improving.)
Between the lessons in MAGIC and CREATIVE FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITYMAKING, you hardly have time to SLEEP. It does not help that your CREEPY CHILD tends to MANIFEST in front of you shortly before you awake to provide exactly what you need, either - usually water.
This morning, however, is DIFFERENT, as LOKI wakes you up with INFORMATION: your APPRENTICE'S PAROLEADIN is approaching, but in a CLANKY way that indicates some sort of armor as opposed to the usual SEMI FORMAL RELIGOUS NOT-UNIFORM. With the PAROLEADIN is a GENERIC-LOOKING GUARD and a PERSON WHO IS "TIED UP" with rope, carrying an impressive, uncomfortable amount of KNIVES.
They look GRIM.
**
What did you do with the dragon meat, anyway?
What are you going to do about the group of people?
What else did you do with your limited time?
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Topic: You are a "GREAT" and "MIGHTY" Financial Wizard: Act 1 (Read 3465 times)