Tea Gardner, Yugi Motou, Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor and Yami
In care of: Turtle Game Shop
Domino City
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Dear my Domino Friends,
Egypt is almost just as I remember. Beautiful, warm and sunny. Ryou says it's too hot and already he is sporting a lovely sunburn in a very flattering shade of pink. Bakura and I have no such problems. Enclosed with this letter are the charms I had made that, when combined with my boys and my own charms, will form a circle with these words inside: This circle of friends can not be broken. Like the silver the charms are forged with, our friendship has been forged and strengthened by fire.
Enough mushy crap. Back to my home away from home.
I enjoyed the many new sights I've beheld on this trip with Ryou's dad. He even let me have a priceless statue of Bast I plan to showcase in my loft. Another addition to my house will be the newly dubbed Conniption II. Like her previous incarnation, Nippy is a gray calico kitten with gray eyes. Don't tell Bakura I told you this, but I caught him buying her a scratching post at a bazaar. This seemingly nice action came as a result of the infamous King of Bandits discovering my pet using his pillow to sharpen her dainty little claws. The post has a better and less messy effect.
I have finally beheld Bakura's hiding place of all his ill-gotten goods. It's very lovely and no, I will not tell you where it's at. It survived without being disturbed this long and it will stay that way…with a few additions to the collection when I get done writing this letter. Don't give me that look Yami (and I know you are). I used to steal money out of fountains and robbing a tomb once again is not any different. If people were dumb enough to leave money or valuables lying around, it is my responsibility to be smart and take it.
You'll never believe what appeared in the mail the other day. My email that is. (Croquet hasn't sent me my snail mail yet. It should arrive within a day or so) I do enjoy my laptop and wireless DSL… Anyway, I got an invite to Kaiba Corp.'s annual costume ball. And it says I can bring any one I want. Yes! I am bringing you and I have already bought everyone's costumes. Joey will be the wolf man. (Yes I am fully aware of all the dog jokes Kaiba will crack. But be happy to know the day after the ball, Seto will discover someone has left a very feisty Conniption in his bedroom without her prized scratching post) Again Yami will be a mummy (I couldn't resist an encore of the events that occurred on Halloween. I had so much fun tying the great one up and wrapping him up in bandages) Yugi will be Frankenstein and Tea will be his bride. (Yes I finally gave into coordinating your costumes. You two will be so cute together!) I had a thought of Ryou dressed up as a S&M dominatrix but he quickly blushed a dark red and told me very calmly no. So Ryou will be a pirate. Eye patch, leather jerkin, knee high boots and tights (so I can admire my boy's assets) Did I just write that?! Ignore that last line. Bakura will be a genie. (I couldn't resist showing off my yami's physique. You won't believe this guy's abs, they're like steal!)
As for me, I will be going as the one person that will shock everyone. It shocked Bakura when I let him see me in costume. I will be going as…myself… as I was in Ancient Egypt. A nice sleeveless shift that shimmers between dark blue and violet. Take my hair down and brush it out then add a touch of eye shadow and liner at the corner of my eyes and Tada! Instant jaw dropping. Bakura disappeared afterwards and came back with a gold choker and armband to add to the stunning look I had.
It promises to be a fun night.
I would ask how everyone is but I trust that you're all fine with the threat of Marik safely locked away, Malik contently somewhere in the Pacific on his yacht with Rashid and Isis and Pegasus happily running his business and painting pictures again. My favorite of the paintings was one he painted of a mini me with Diabound floating over my shoulder in a protective pose. It's being shipped from Duelist Kingdom to my loft. It will hang at the head of my bed and I will sleep very contently. Call me crazy but I'm going to sleep a lot better knowing the coolest monster in the world is watching over me.
Speaking of sleeping, that's exactly what my boys are doing right now. Technically they're passed ou ton the bed from all the alcohol they drank. (Shh, don't tell them I switched their glasses around when they weren't looking so they would get drunk while I laughed my head off sipping water) I really got a kick when a very intoxicated Ryou began belting out Broadway hits along with an equally drunk Bakura. I'll never be able to keep a straight face anytime I hear Phantom of the Opera again. By all the gods, they were funny! To add to the drunken fun everyone had, during a extremely off key version of If everI would leave you from Camelot, some one (Bakura, Bakura!) kept ad libbing.
"If ever I would leave you it wouldn't be in summer. Seeing you in summer I never would go. Your face smeared with sunscreen. Your lips that do exclaim that your face won't be a luster that puts ivory to shame!"
There's more to the song but the crowd gathered couldn't stop laughing long enough for me to understand the rest. And not to leave my hikari out…
"I dreamed a dream in time gone by when hope was high and life worth living I dreamed that Tanith did die! And then she popped up and now she's a dead eye."
Seriously these boys need help with their Broadway songs. I dreamed a dream doesn't have anything to do with me and me being a crack aim with a frying pan. (The story on that is Ryou's father thought the four of us would have so much fun camping out on the desert next to the dig he's on. It was fun until a stupid lizard crawled into Ryou's sleeping bag. He had a fit and his screaming woke me up. Being the nice thinker I am, I grabbed the first thing available and cracked the lizard and Ryou with the frying pan. We haven't camped since)
Well I better close this letter. Bakura is rousing and he is sure to make me pay for that little trick I pulled. And it was worth it!!
Your friend in Egypt,
Tanith Rivencroft
