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Show XXII "Mothers don't always know best." from The Memoirs of Dr'Anya Needlesmith Janni was lying on her stomach on a flat rock by a hot spring behind a Round Valley mine shaft when her mother finally found her. "I was expelled from the Grant-Sheblems' presences," she said, by way of conversation, "whilst they debate on strategy-" n it She unlaced her boots in the face of Janni's silence, then tested the hot spring water with one foot. "Indeed, the good Erica makes a fair general," Dr'Anya said, for she felt constrained to give credit where it was due. "And Pymlyn has grown a very genius with the epee." II II She splashed about with one foot, scattering drops on the rock. She'd felt she must ease things with Janni about her chosen partner and that was the main reason she'd searched the maiden out. "Pymlyn tends to show off a bit," she said, by way of conciliation. "He tends to talk a bit too much at times. He tends to be vacuous on certain subjects, aye. Seest I that tendency in him, now thou hast pointed it out to me." ".. . " "But at bottom, my child, he's kind and affectionate, never angers, and is excellent in the games." Dr'Anya had both feet in the steaming 201 |
