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Re: Winter Night (thetwo)
The stranger seemed surprised that Ashley addressed him so promptly, though his surprise would quickly fade into a roguish grin as he turned to face her instead of the Dean. The Dean, however, would scowl softly at being so ignored by Ashley, and that look did not fade in the slightest as she asked what she was being accused of. Jenn tensed beside her at the wind mage's brazeness, and as the Dean focused on her the teacher would shoot Ashley a warning look over the armored stranger's shoulder.
"Which transgressions, you ask?" he said coldly, "I am amazed that you would want them spoken aloud, though perhaps I ought not to be. Public drunkenness, disruptive behavior after curfew, disorderly conduct unbecoming of a member of this Academy.... Along with multiple counts of public nudity and.... Fornication. I have a tavern full of eyewitnesses, a family that you and your... Room mate... Disturbed, and a member of my own faculty to attest to the more serious ones, but I suppose you are entitled to speak in your own defense. Have you anything to say for yourselves?" the Dean asked in a tone that suggested that whatever Ashley said wouldn't particularly matter to him.
"Being a little rough, aren't you Allanon?" the armored stranger asked bemusedly, to which the Dean simply scowled. "To answer your question.... No. Simply put, you will be told what you need to know when it's important for you to know it. The Academy owes my Queen a favor, and I am here to collect it. Your... Services.... Are being requisitioned as part of that payment, but the nature of the task for which I require you necessitates a degree of secrecy. I can tell you that the terrain we will be traveling across necessitates one skilled in the manipulation of the wind, and as I don't feel like traveling all the way to the Amazon in order to catch a harpy when I can just bring another mage... Suffice to say that it will be dangerous, but that you being killed, left to die, or anything equally unpleasant is not a part of the plan."
Ashley: HP = 52, PP = 72, EP = 78, Status = Fine, TRIPLE PREGNANT (two twin girls by Jenn and a boy by random soldier number seven)
The stranger seemed surprised that Ashley addressed him so promptly, though his surprise would quickly fade into a roguish grin as he turned to face her instead of the Dean. The Dean, however, would scowl softly at being so ignored by Ashley, and that look did not fade in the slightest as she asked what she was being accused of. Jenn tensed beside her at the wind mage's brazeness, and as the Dean focused on her the teacher would shoot Ashley a warning look over the armored stranger's shoulder.
"Which transgressions, you ask?" he said coldly, "I am amazed that you would want them spoken aloud, though perhaps I ought not to be. Public drunkenness, disruptive behavior after curfew, disorderly conduct unbecoming of a member of this Academy.... Along with multiple counts of public nudity and.... Fornication. I have a tavern full of eyewitnesses, a family that you and your... Room mate... Disturbed, and a member of my own faculty to attest to the more serious ones, but I suppose you are entitled to speak in your own defense. Have you anything to say for yourselves?" the Dean asked in a tone that suggested that whatever Ashley said wouldn't particularly matter to him.
"Being a little rough, aren't you Allanon?" the armored stranger asked bemusedly, to which the Dean simply scowled. "To answer your question.... No. Simply put, you will be told what you need to know when it's important for you to know it. The Academy owes my Queen a favor, and I am here to collect it. Your... Services.... Are being requisitioned as part of that payment, but the nature of the task for which I require you necessitates a degree of secrecy. I can tell you that the terrain we will be traveling across necessitates one skilled in the manipulation of the wind, and as I don't feel like traveling all the way to the Amazon in order to catch a harpy when I can just bring another mage... Suffice to say that it will be dangerous, but that you being killed, left to die, or anything equally unpleasant is not a part of the plan."