Wedding

[Vixen]

Zipporah glared murderously down at the little girl. Zip. Or. Ah. It wasn't a difficult name to pronounce, and even a child had to be considered an idiot to screw it up.

And, to top it all off, Deborah seemed to have stolen all of the respect Isaac had previously had on reserve for her. She had had the boy preacher in the palm of her hand, Deborah starts crying, and then Zipporah loses all of the power she had almost possessed at being either the new Malachai, or, if Isaac's earlier gaze had been as lecherous as she thought it was, his wife.

Isaac was trying to flee. Zipporah also excused herself, but as she turned to leave, she tapped a finger against the little girl's shoulder. Her voice lowered to a hoarse whisper as she leaned down to speak to the little thief. "If you keep bastardizing my name, little Debbie, I might rip your tongue out." Then she lifted her skirt's hem and made her leave.

[ellie]

Deborah's eye's light up with glee as Issac touched HER shoulder. It was the first physical contact they made. Today was a good day even if this whole thing happened because of her foolish mistake. But how would she know that Jacob's bell wouldn't summon a dragon? A big kid said it would! They know stuff. But who cares? Issac touched her! SQUEE!

But her thoughts were interrupted as Zipporah tapped her on the shoulder. As she turned her head towards the older girl the threat came in hard and fast crushing any of the happiness she had only moments before. She was about to ask what bass turds had to do with the big girls name. But the threat of cutting out her tongue prevented her. Instead she covered her mouth and whimpered. She didn't know how she was calling on fish to poop on Zipporah's name. But apparently she was! Talking to her might call the fishies to make number too. Better not risk it.

[Dot Dot Dot]

Ruth released a sigh. "Oh, that's a relief!" she cried. "I didn't want to get eaten by a dragon." She shivered at the very idea. And then shivered more at the very idea that dragons existed, whether or not they could be summoned by bells. Did they? No one had really answered her question. But the older children were leaving. Zipporah was gone, and Isaac probably wanted to go take the nap she recommended earlier so he would be in a less of a sacrificial mood. So she turned and posed her question to both Jacob (who was a big kid, but he couldn't really be trusted what with his dragon-bell and all) and Deborah. "Do dragons exist?"

[Sly Cooper]

"Well--" Jacob started. "Their are these giant lizards on an island somewhere far from here that are called Komodo Dragons. However, they don't fly, they don't breathe fire, and they don't come to the sound of bells." he stopped, rubbed his chin, "Or at least I don't think they do-- We never learned about that-- But they certainly don't harm or eat little children. They eat furry little critters." His eyes widened, realizing that he probably shouldn't have said any of that, for it would upset the children more. None of the other older children were around, and if one of the two went running off to Isaac, Isaac would probably get really mad. Which meant he would take it out on him. Which meant, well it meant lots of things. He just wanted them to stop with their childish crying and worrying and whatnot, Jacob wasn't good with children, and he often times found them to be rather annoying. He got a little nervous, "We learned about them in class once-- before the purge-- " He bent down to be more eye level with both of the girls, and gave a huge friendly smile, hoping maybe they're let the subject go. "Does that answer your question, Ruth?"

[ellie]

Deborah wasn't sure if dragons existed or not herself. So when she heard Jacob say they did her eyes grew large with fear. Small furry critters? Some of the big kids called the little kids small and critters and sometimes they could be furry! DRAGONS WERE TOTALLY GOING TO EAT THEM! And she was a little kid. She looked at Ruth horrified. "We're going to gets eaten then...If we leave Gatlins we're going to get eatens by dragons! We're small and stuff!"

[Sly Cooper]

Jacob put his palm to his forehead. Of course that didn't go over well. "No. No. No. they live on an island far from Gatlin. And you and Ruth, neither of you resemble little furry critters!" He put both of his hands in front of him trying to motion Deborah to calm herself. This is exactly why Jacob didn't like to be around small children for very long. "No dragon is going to eat you."

[Dot Dot Dot]

Ruth completely blanked out all the sanity Jacob was throwing at her. Instead all she heard was Deborah. "I don' wanna get eaten!" she cried, throwing up her hands into the air helplessly. She had been doing jumping jacks all day to avoid getting sacrificed, and certainly the last three years hadn't been easy either, and now she learned that none of that mattered because a dragon was going to eat her anyway? "That's not fair! I don't want dragons to exist --- wait." She paused. "Did you say, Deborah, that they only eat us if we leave Gatlin? I wasn't going to leave Gatlin anyway." It went into her not-getting-sacrificed way of life.

[Sly Cooper]

Instead of trying to get the truth out to either on of them, Jacob gave up and gave in. "That's right. No dragon is going to eat you because no one is leaving Gatlin. You're both plenty safe from the dragons." It wasn't a lie, it just wasn't the whole truth either. He was ready to rip his hair out, but why bother, both knew they weren't getting eaten because they weren't leaving Gatlin. Actually, Jacob had a thought. It's like one of those old fairly tales parents would tell their kids so they would stay out of trouble. He smiled, then repeated, "Nobody is getting eaten by dragons in Gatlin."

[ellie]

"So the dragons will just kill us? But they won't cause we're in Gatlin protected by He Who Walks Behind the Rows!" Deborah squealed. So what if they bothered to eat kids or not. They still killed them! Cause they were tiny and hairy and and nummy. Yeah.

"Ruth! We haveta warn Issac. He's small like us. The dragons will kill him too if he ever leaves Gatlin! He can't leave Gatlin! The dragons will get him and we'll never know He Who Walks Behind the Row's will cause he's too shy to talk to anyone but Issac!" Deborah waved her arms in the air for dramatic effect.

[Sly Cooper]

"No! Uh-- no--" Jacob waved his hands around frantically. "Isaac-- he-- he already knows I'm sure, because Isaac-- knows just about everything! And besides Isaac would never leave 'this happy place'." If another dragon incident lead back to Jacob, Isaac would be angry-- and if Isaac gets angry (or worse) then it would be the end of Jacob, and he was sure of it. I mean, another dragon incident in the same day-- the same hour! That's bound to make one such as Isaac grumpy!

[Dot Dot Dot]

"Um..." Ruth hesitated. "I guess that makes sense. Isaac is smart, and he has the Lord's favor. No dragon would mess with him!" But even as she spoke, she wasn't quite sure if she was trying to convince Deborah or herself. If Isaac got killed, she was pretty sure something bad would happen. She didn't know what, or if it would have to do with a dragon attack, a Malachai Attack, or a Civil War Attack to see who would replace Isaac as the seer, but she didn't really want to find out, either. "But maybe we should warn him. Just in case."

[Sly Cooper]

"Um-- if you want, you can go warn him. You are quite the little messenger Ruth." The unspoken words in Jacob's head were 'as I go running of in the other direction.' No way did Jacob want to have anything to do with warning Isaac about imaginary dragons. Isaac had already had a bad day and when people have bad day's and someone puts a straw on the camel's back-- well things don't go well, and Jacob didn't want to find out just how badly.

[ellie]

Deborah wasn't sure what to do. On one hand Issac should know stuff like that cause he's Issac. But on the other hand maybe He Who Walks Behind the Rows was using them to convey the message that Dragons are out to eat them if they leave Gatlin. And what if he was mad cause he already knew it? "Um...yeah...I dunno what we should do...He said something about sleepings so maybe we should wait till he gets up and tell him. Just in case he was planning on a trip to spread the word of the lord or something?"

[Sly Cooper]

"Yes, that's a terrific idea--" A giant grin spread across Jacob's face. When he said that would be a great idea, nap is what he really meant. Jacob was so tired and it's all because of that stinky kaniggit, John Peters. "Right-- I vote we tell him after nap, nappy nap nap." He let out a giant yawn. "Nap. People get really grumpy and don't listen if you wake them up from a nap."

OOC: Btw I drew Ellie for you. She's on the first page of the Drawing thread.

[Dot Dot Dot]

"I don't want Isaac grumpy," Ruth agreed, though for once she was having trouble managing to even be afraid. Not because of a sudden bout of courage, but because Jacob had complimented her messaging skills. She had been all over Gatlin today delivering messages in one form or another and she couldn't help but smile with delight that someone thought she was good at it.