Subject: Orken...
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Posted on: 2011-12-12 18:56:00 UTC

((Direct response to Neshomeh's last post, so same deal with timey-wimey stuff))

Orken breathed a sigh of relief. Smoke? He sniffed the air, and indeed smelled smoke. He frowned. Hrm. I hope someone isnt being unsafe with fire. This place has a tendancy to ignite. Not seeing any immediate flames, though, he continued. Im glad you like it. I noticed that you didnt bring a weapon on our last mission. As an Assassin, I cant imagine going into bad He stopped as he caught sight of the fire climbing the rafters. Really? Again? Isnt this getting kind of expected? He hugged the last two presents he was carrying close to his chest, in such a way that they shielded the books Ilraen had given him. The gifts Thomas had picked out for Maria and Cadmar would not be harmed by the eventual fire extinguishing water (probably) whereas the two paperbacks most certainly would.

Why in the name of kandrona must people keep setting this place on fire? Orken wondered allowed. He eyed the flames with apprehension, and calculated his chances of being able to get to the door. He estimated his chances were not good. Shortly after resigning himself to having to avoid catching fire in the lounge while stuck in the aforementioned burning room, he saw an agent he swore he had seen before (perhaps he had been around awhile?) wielding a punch bowl and screaming at the top of his lungs for others to get out of his way, as he threw punch at the instigator of the lounges nth fire. Some children were making headway on the rafter fire with their squirt guns as well. (He could not even hazard a guess as to the number of times it had happened. He had heard it had happened quite often even before his time, but no-one seemed to have exact numbers.) He hoped that there were others as innovative as the man with the bunch bowl and the children with the squirt guns, because there was a conspicuous lack of fire extinguishers. Orken silently cursed the laws of narrative comedy.

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