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Show Meanwhile, Rollanda regained her voice. "Thrice bedamned bird!" she said to Dr'Anya. "Glad I am that thy servant could rid BauerWorlde of his villainous presence!" She then addressed everyone in general. "Appeared he in our village one day ten TwelveMonths ago," she explained, "took one look at me, and bit me fair on the calf! Then he stuck to me like a very leech, as though I be some long-lost friend." She looked down at the spot again. "The creature was mad, and that truly " Erica, her eyes glazed over, turned to Dr'Anya. "Couldst thou tell me what passes here?" But Dr'Anya could but nod her head at the good woman, for the Doctor of Needlesmith Hold was drinking a beaker of water. And the beaker was being held up to her firmly by the solicitous android, Nell. "Ah!" said Janni. "Good Nell!" Then she continued in a shaking voice, "Thou seest, water is all to the good, my Mother, and naught at all to the bad." "Indeed it i s , " said Phrapp. "And mayhap the good Nell could spare me a bit, as well." He swallowed drily and sat down carefully in a nearby chair. "And I, as well," said Dr'Igor, disgusted. Erica, who had been sensing for some minutes an aborted scheme on the behalf of her partner, looked at Dr'Igor. "Mayhap she must needs dash the contents of the pitcher entire," she said with asperity, "upon thy scheming head!" "And mayhap," growled Dr'Igor, looking murderously at the ragged and dusty Hoqqam, "she could break the pitcher itself over the head of this Provincial villain!" "Touch not the little pig," growled Rollanda, "thou spawn of the 365 |