Yay, an update!
I've forgotten most of the Beka Cooper theasaurus, so sozzers if most of the language isn't right. XD
This morning Ersken bumped into me whilst I was walking to the Dancing Dove.
"Beka!" he cried, giving me a hug. "I've been kept up all night, worrying about that gixie you were talking about."
I patted him on the back. "You shouldn't worrit yourself about me, I can look after myself."
Ersken chuckled. "You've always been a damned hard mott, Beka. It's a wonder how anyone has the courage to even look you in those glinters, you're so scary."
I gave him a teasing shove and he raised his hands in mock defeat. He bent down to cuddle Achoo. "Hey there, girl. You alright?"
Achoo wheezed in excitement and licked him one the nose. He let her and gave her a stroke.
"Where's Pounce?" Ersken asked, standing up and furiously rubbing his nose.
"I dunno," I replied. "He said he had summink to do and just buggered off, the little git." I then mentally cursed, realising my foul language.
Ersken just laughed. "Your tongue ain't as pretty as your face, aye." I snorted a laugh, too. We arrived at the door to the Dancing Dove.
I opened the door, and, feeling a little hyped up from Ersken (he always managed to cheer me up) I gave a mock bow and said, "Ladies first." Ersken chuckled as he walk in, me just behind him. We were both grinning like loons when we entered what we all called our Breakfast Room.
"Someone looks cheerful," Aniki said. She looked as if she were in high spirits today, since there was a little smile gracing her lips. Rosto narrowed his eyes at me. I looked away.
"What have you got, Beka?" Kora asked. I pulled the cloth off of the basket I had been carrying.
"Sausages!" Ersken cried, beaming from ear to ear. He reached out to grab one and stuffed it in his mouth. Kora rolled her eyes.
"How you can live with him is beyond me, I would've done his silly little noll in ages ago," Aniki commented. Ersken gulped nervously. No one really knew if she was joking or not, but we still laughed anyway.
"So, Beka, heard anything else from 'Red'," Rosto raised his fingers to make quotation marks in the air.
It had been two days since I'd last seen head or tails of that gixie, but her name still made my blood run cold. I didn't know why I got so skitterish around her. Her presence somehow suffocated me, as if she held so much power that it thickened the very air around us, although I knew that couldn't be possible. Only Gods were capable of such feats.
I shook my head.
"Good, because if that little-" he something that sounded Scanran, "shows her face again..."
Kora laid a hand on Rosto's shoulder. "Now isn't the time," she said calmly. Rosto shook his head and bit into his finger nail.
"I'm worried. This cove name Roger told me his cousin had been killed by a red-headed gixie. He himself had barely gotten away with his life," he said. I looked him in the glinters, my own as wide as saucers.
Sorry for the shortness, my imagination's stuck. Dumb place to get writers block. XD
SFPFQ xx