Mr Disclaimer type thingy: I own nothing. Well, that technically isn't true. But yeah, on with the story.


Cow Kill

Rade awoke. She was in a warm, soft bed with fluffy pillows. No, that can't be right. She was never in a warm bed with fluffy pillows, it was always the cold hard ground and a mattress stuffed with straw. She sat up and looked around: The room was well furnished, her pack was lying at the foot of her bed, Zugathra was purring in her sleep at the end of her bed and Edwin was fast asleep on a chair in the corner, breathing gently, with his mage book on his lap. It seemed he had been watching over her. She crept out of bed and poked him in the chest.

"Eddie" she whispered "Hey, Eddie!" Edwin's eyes opened blearily. He focuse on Rade and blinked a few times to remove the sleep from his eyes.

"What?" He barked "Can't you see I was trying to get some work done?" Rade raised one eyebrow.

"Eddie, you were snoring." She laughed. Edwin snapped his spell book shut.

"I do not snore!" he said angrily "And you should be more thankful! (People just don't appreciate me enough. Bah!)" Rade looked puzzeled.

"Thankful for what?" Edwin swept one arm around him.

"Letting you sleep in my room! My bed! I had to sleep on the chair! (Not that I got much sleep, with all her sleep talking. I wonder who that Irenicus is anyway)" He scratched the sde of his nose, drawing Rade's attention to his nose ring. She stared at it in disgust.

"Eddie! What is that!?" She half laughed. Edwin looked around.

"What's what?"

"The nose ring!"

"What about it?"

"It's hideous!" Rade laughed as Edwin glared at her defensively.

"Did I ask your opinion? (Not that she could tell style if it smacked her round the face)" Rade grinned and looped one finger into the nose ring.

"Gotcha!"

"Ow ow ow! Get off! What are you going to do, rip my nose out!?" Rade released him.

"We should get going, now scram!" Edwin frowned at her.

"Scram? This is my room; I should not have to..."

"I want to get dressed!"

"Oh, I see.... I'll just be downstairs then..." And with that Edwin hurried out of the room, slamming the door behind him. It was a matter of momets before she herd a thump noise and Edwin's voice snarling at Haer' Dalis:

"Simian! Get out of my way!"

"Rude primeling! You where the one who walked carelessly into me!"

"Primeling?!"

"You are a prime, are you not?"

"Well, yes, but my powers rival that of the Gods! (Unlike this pathetic Bard)"

"Oh realy? Dost thou wish to prove this?"

"Sure thing!" Rade herd chanting then to her surprise and horror, the sound of several angry cows. She pulled on her leggings and ran into the hallway where Haer' Dalis was being attacked by many large red bovine and Edwin was muttering about casting the wrong spell. She took a deep breath.

"EEEEEDWIIIN!!!" she yelled, making Edwin turn and look at his feet.

"I, uh, can explain..."

"You stole my scroll of Cow Kill and cast it in an enclosed space!?!"

"Well, yes, that's about it. But just give me a minute and I'll have it all cleaned up..."

"Aid! Aid! Please, this hell cow is about to..."

KABOOM!

"...Explode." Rade wiped cow guts from her face and sighed.

"I am going to have a bath" she staded, dareing anyone to challenger her "And I wan't this cleaned up by the time I get back." She stomped back into Edwin's room. Haer' Dalis fixed Edwin with a stony glare.

"'Twas thine own fault."

"Do shut up."


Ok, short chapter but next one will be longer. And I wanted to somehow invole Cow Kill.