Blood 35

Chapter 35
We rejoin Richard, who is attempting to break into Wizard's Keep.
Ahem. Richard is attempting to break into Wizard's Keep, accompanied by the Aryan Boys and the Dominatrices. It's warm and pleasant inside, despite being cold outside. Richard is nervous, but refuses to let his minions see him, a wizard, showing fear around Wizard's Keep. We learn that said minions are fearless in the face of physical threat, but extremely anxious around unknown magic.
We also learn that Richard has taken to wearing his cloak of invisibility more and more, and that he has to resist the urge to become invisible. It apparently feels good, and he mentally compares it to the magic of the Sword of the Homicidal Hobo. This can only be a good thing.
Richard & Co. walk down a gravel path, and an unknown Something pursues them briefly, burrowing under the gravel like a graboid from Tremors. After it leaves, there's a bit I think is meant to be funny, where we learn that Cara had a special unguent mixed for Richard's “rash,” i.e., the spot on his neck that's always itching. It has kray-zee ingredients, like “pig's ulcer, a swallow's heart, and […] my moon blood.” So Richard unknowingly slathered menstrual blood on his neck; hilarious.
We learn that Richard is breaking into the Keep because he fears lest the Order should do so first, and he hopes to find something to help him use his own magic. Why he imagines the manaphobic Order can get into a building protected by centuries of wizardly guards and traps, I have no idea. In any case, Richard & Co. find themselves in a room with a large table which holds nearly a dozen books. All the books are identical except for the language they're written in. One of the books is titled Fuer Ulbrecken ost Brennika Dieser, and proves to be a copy of The Adventures of Bonnie Day written in High D'Haran. Conveniently, Berdine can read High D'Haran.
Pressing on, Richard walks through a force field which his minions cannot get through. He drags Berdine through by main force – apparently magic in Dickland operates on the same principles as a Loony Tunes cartoon – but decides to leave Cara and Raina and the Aryan Boys behind.
Drinks: None.
<Previous Chapter  -  Next Chapter>
Category:Spork
Category:Goodkind spork
Category:Blood of the Fold