“Hear what?” Ivan asked, blinking in an exaggerated show of disingenuity.
“Your theories,” Mama said. “And what you plan to do about them.”
“Perhaps ‘theory’ is too strong a word,” the big man replied. “But, I do have one or two vague ideas bouncing around inside my head.”
“‘Vague’, he says,” Mama said. “Well, let’s hear them.”
“Recently, we have made demands of the One-Eyed King,” Ivan said. “In my experience, he is not one to take such things lightly.”
“We’ve negotiated with him,” Mama said.
“We have placed limits upon him,” Ivan said. “This is a man who styles himself a king. He may outwardly agree to our terms, only to strike at us from the shadows when our back is turned. We should at the very least investigate the possibility that he may be involved. Remember, we were attacked in the darkness. That is his element.”
“Good idea,” Mama said. “And what’s the other ‘vague idea’, as if I couldn’t guess?”
“The lawyer.”
Mama said nothing.
“Well?” Ivan said.
“We’ve had this conversation before,” Mama said.
“And we’re having it again!” Ivan said, a glimpse of a fiery core flickering out through his icy facade.
Mama sat up a little bit straighter on her bench.
“Well,” she said. “I can’t remember the last time somebody did that.”
“I apologize,” Ivan said. “But I feel you are a… I feel it is foolish to ignore the situation.”
“What situation is that, exactly?” Mama asked. “We helped a man when he was down. It didn’t work out.”
“It is that last part which concerns me,” Ivan said. “When somebody loses something of great value, the first thing they look for is a way to get it back. The second thing they look for is a person to blame.”
“Blood is thicker than water, Ivan,” Mama said.
“And tribe is thicker than blood,” Ivan finished. “Will you at least permit me to investigate him, if only to eliminate him?”
“As a suspect?”
“Of course.”
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Whoo, cut it close, but a promise is a promise. I had to write this out on my Treo and count the words by hand.
“And tribe is thicker than blood,” Ivan finished. “Will you at least permit me to investigate him, if only to eliminate him?”
“As a suspect?”
“Of course.”
HAHA, love that wording. Hooray Tribe. I’m passing the word around as much as I can. Heres hoping we can get it popular enough to make it worth updating regularly. Thanks AE.
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That’s not what you meant, is it?
Oh yes.
“As a suspect?”
“Of course.”
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I’m doing my part, I shared Tribe on Facebook, the least obnoxious thing I could do short of spamming everyone I know in IM with it, not having a blog anyone reads.
While Star Harbor Nights is my new favorite and Tales of MU has been relegated to a close second, I really really really want to see how Tribe plays out. Also, that last exchange between Ivan and Mama made it all worthwhile.
Tribe has some of the best lines…
Hell, I’ve harassed pretty much everyone I have regular electronic contact with.
Got three or four reasonably regular checkers, too. Not bad.
Still trying, but not bad.
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