Blood 37

Chapter 37
And now back to Brogan and Lunetta, who are traveling with five Misters, and Brogan is pondering why God would use messengers as ugly as lizardmen. We also learn that the Misters have a Bad Nun with them, which Brogan doesn't like because she's a witch and therefore evil. However, Lunetta is confident she could take her in a fight.
Back to Richard and Berdine, who are heading downstairs. They encounter a Mister – well, what seems to be a hologram of a Mister. Misters can project holograms of themselves? And somehow get into Wizard's Keep? I suppose that could be explained by their possession of Minus Magic, since Minus Magic seems to instantly negate any Plus Magic defenses, regardless of how either is employed (which makes no sense, but never mind that for now). But it turns out the Mister is really there, and just looked holographic because of its cloak.
The Mister asks whether Richard has come to “wake the sliph,” which question Richard doesn't answer. It also establishes that the name for the Mister's stupid blades-between-the-fingers weapon is “yabree.” “When the yabree sing, it will be the time of the queen.” Also, Richard is needed to help the queen, whom I assume is not Queen Elizabeth of Majendieland.
Richard and Berdine casually stroll on, reaching the bottom of the tower, where they find a doorway that has been exploded real good, apparently fairly recently. Inside the room is something resembling a large well, along with a skeleton and – conveniently enough – a journal, written in a dialect of High D'Haran over two thousand years old, and which Berdine is not familiar with. In an admittedly clever bit, Richard says they could use the High D'Haran copy of The Adventures of Bonnie Day to figure out some of the words (since Richard has the entire book committed to memory) and thus use it to translate the journal. Not sure that would be as easy as it seems, but it's not a terrible idea.
Richard and Berdine rejoin the other Dominatrices and the Aryan Boys, and Richard does indeed apologize for distrusting them earlier. They depart the Keep, encountering Cannibal Granny and Creepy Little Girl from earlier. Their names prove to be Valdora and Holly, respectively, because consistent naming systems are for losers and liberals. In a pointless bit, Richard takes six more honey cakes and declares that this squares their debt, and the chapter ends.
Drinks: None.
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