Welcome back everyone. Balor's pet tolac Andvari makes a return in this chapter. Enjoy and review.
Brigid
Do chores, get this, get that help with this help with that, this was how things were for Brigid. She had hoped that with this siege going on she'd be exempt from chores but there was little chance of that. It seemed as if everything all she had were chores now.
"Let her enjoy her childhood." Said Henti, Brigid's elder cousin to some others in protest about how many chores she was getting these days.
"We need every helping hand we can and with you being the way you are, you can't really help." Was Zuvowang's response. "Brigid shall stay out of the kitchen lets Eukratez fall on her or his singing cause he to go deaf and she shall stay with the arrow makers. Still I must ensure she is safe, thus she is to stay in the hall of our family after sunset."
Thus Brigid now found herself in the hall. She heard Eukratez singing from the kitchen. She had removed her veil and her skirt and was now holding one clumped together against one ear and the other, clumped together as well, against another ear. Eukratez's singing was only appealing to the deaf! Why did he continue to do so?
"Please stop singing, please stop singing, please stop singing…" Brigid just kept repeating that as she walked from one part of the hall to the next but ever avoiding the kitchen where that bloated singing Cook Eukratez was. She was so focused on her wandering and quietly begging for Eukratez to stop singing that she didn't even notice Balor's tolac pup Andvari walking down the stairs with her doll Epona in its mouth. She did eventually notice however, by the time the pup had exited the hall. The moment she had realized what had happened, Brigid turned and face the hall's entrance with wide eyes. "Andvari!" Removing her clumped together veil and skirt from her ears, Brigid paused for a bit when she realized Eukratez had stopped singing. "Hello, he's gone quiet." She muttered as she placed her veil on a table and put her skirt back on. "How long has this been going on for?" The moment she finished putting her skirt back on Eukratez started singing again! "Why does he never lose his voice?" she groaned as she ran out of the Hall of the Zuvowangidae and straight to the Hall of the Gardites. Finding Balor lying on a table looking at the painted ceiling, Brigid immediately walked over to him. "Where is Andvari?"
"How should I know?" asked Balor. "If he wants to go wandering then let him. Why are you looking for him?"
"He has taken Epona!"
"Who?"
"The doll Kit gave me!" exclaimed Brigid.
"Oh… You mean that thing of clay?" asked Balor. "I didn't realize you still had it."
"HER!" shouted Brigid angrily. "EPONA IS A HER NOT AN IT!"
"Okay, okay, I didn't realize you still had her. What do you want me to do?"
"Epona is my doll and Andvari is your tolac so you are going to help me look for him so I can get her back!" explained Brigid.
"But I just realized the painting in the ceiling is Gard at the Attack of Hatglebe Chase!" He pointed at once spot of the ceiling. "See! There is Gard killing the Labinnac Aeduynuz!"
"Balor, it is right there in the middle of the ceiling. Andvari could be anywhere in Wilusa, lets go!"
Balor jumped off the table and looked up at the ceiling. That really was in the middle of the ceiling. He then looked to Brigid. "Alright, lets go!"