Just Looking

[From before]
 
Well by Glittergold’s goodness…Look at all these books! I could just live here. Let's see let's see…
’Sailing Songs from Trade Crews’ If the quartermaster won’t give the tot/ Throw him off the boat and drink all you’ve got/ We’ll drink all we want and never flee/ Because we’re here for life at the sea… I mean I like songs and all but no…
’Yzal’* Oh very nice binding. Is that real gold cord? util sylvuneir rilnar un sha… What in the world, That’s Elvish or something… Interesting. Nope.
’Why the Simarta Lute is the best’ OH! Is this whole section about music? Maybe her library is organized? Lets see….
’Music and Song’, ‘Stories and Fiction’ ew what a waste of time, these are nice…lets see… ‘Faith & Religion’ well she has a lot of them…maybe if there was a summary book. Maybe if that Clyffe guys made one of his notebooks…wow she really does have volumes in all sorts of languages though…I wonder if she reads them all… ooof! - that is a very life like book end...Oh I think it was alive and just petrified…oh my…ok…I should hurry, she will be back, don’t want to waste her time, lets see lets see lets see…Oh these looks interesting ‘Academic and Political’ academic titles huh? Lets see, how do I ...
’First Grammatical Treatise’
‘The Blue Plague’
‘Economics in the Barter Age’
‘The Life of Taus Ralz’
‘An End To All Kings’
‘Wild Magic: A Study’* oh wow now that is interesting…Plain looking…What's he trying to…oh you want to control wild magic? You fool! Don’t you know how the weave works? What a waste of time…
‘Cookbooks & Food’ Oh now we are talking! Something useful finally!
‘Cooking with Berries’
‘Frugal Famine Food’
‘Food to Cook in the Forge’
‘Krufton blyth Conar’ Oh it’s Dwarven. Nope. They need that last one translated.
Lets see…she has them sub grouped by language…ok…wow lots of Dwarven and Elven cook books…That makes sense I guess. I wish someone would make a book on cooking for different races. I mean goodness it took a while to figure out cooking for Tieflings. I’m not even sure where to start if I had to cook for her…
‘Food Taster’s Guide To Spotting Poison’ yikes
‘Butcher’ oh that looks like a possibility. Blood stains. Alright well they knew what they were doing…Lets see what else we have though…OH MY HERE WE GO!
‘Reference Guides’
‘Elves: Marital Customs’ huh
‘How to Create a Sewer System’ oh that would be interesting
‘Maur’s Price Guide’
‘The Farmer’s Almanac’
‘Birds and Watching’
‘Dreams and Their Meanings’ Please like that would be categorical even. Need to write a study on that.
‘Criminals’ What th…OH MY that is cold to the touch. Let’s just push that back in and leave it.
‘Decoding Theives’ Cant’
‘Clouds and Their Rain’ Well this is interesting. I wonder if they figured out the transduction nature of liquids? Let's see… When the gray grows darker, the cloud brings with it great rain, the type that can ruin crops and flood the landscape. The is the time to seek shelt... Well that is useless. OH look ‘Instruction manuals’! Oh I better put this one ba
“Eethyl.” Her voice hits like a wave, nearly knocking me over. I look over with wide eyes to see she is back in the room and not just at the arched pearl doorway but already in the center near the seating, lounging on a chaise with her flowing garments slowly waving in the water.
“Yes Padishah, I was just loooooo” I lose my words as I feel my body pulled as through a riptide and suddenly I’m seated in front of her on the floor flat on my behind. My stomach turns once with the sudden pull of magic my body wasn’t expecting. Oh, being sick in front of her would be a bad idea I think. Hold that in.
“Now gnome we can come to an understanding. However, if you waste my time with excess prattle as before” and she makes a small gesture as if to flick a bug off her and I feel the water in my lungs suddenly cease to provide breath and a moment of panic sets in. I nod frantically, then shake my head no as my eyes grow, and nod frantically again, knowing that I wouldn’t be able to give a response if I wanted to. She seems to take her time before curling her finger back in and the relief of being able to breath in the water around us suddenly returns.
“I’m going to place you on a ship…”
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I look at the cover of the volume in my hands again as I find myself on the floor of the flacon. The cover looked far more interesting with inlaid glass in the shape of clouds than I knew the contents reflected. “Well blast. Not the volume I would have chosen first” I take a deep breath rising to my feet and look out through the glass. There is a ship loading, black hull dipping in the waves that roll in toward a poorly made dock. “Well, I guess we cook with what we have” I shrug my shoulders and look around. “Now how do I get out of here?”