She did it again! I know you have been sitting on pins and needles for this new installment (wait, that would be SOOO painful, in addition to incredibly stupid!), but here it is at last! that little bit of wackiness brought to you by Teleri Tequila....and Lihan Taifun.
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PROLOGUE
PROLOGUE
*{muttering}* "Yes, Chapter 3 is named 'Prologue'. Deal with it! I'm the Narrator, not the Editor."
This is how it happened:
You know Nienna and her brother Irmo work as counselors at Ainu of Mercy Hospital. Mostly inpatient stuff, but every now and then they get sent out on some special assignment.
This happened while they were down at that classy resort, “Alqualondë”, looking after the old dude who ran the place. He must be, like, 6000 years old, and he had had some kind of attack, and gone all mental, and the hospital had sent her and Irmo down to look after him.
"Alqualondë” – seriously, that is the name of the place. They really write that on the envelopes of all the letters: “Alqualondë, 50827”. It's the old Native name of the place, y'know, she explained to the gnome. Means “swan haven”. They even have that painted in big white letters on a blue sign when you come into town:
“Welcome to Alqualondë
The Swan Haven”
Anyway, Nienna had been down in Alqualondë, and then she had to run back to Valimar to talk to the big guy, Manwë. While she was in town, she had been walking a couple of blocks to a restaurant she knew, and had run across her cousin Aulë in the park, and they got to talking. Aulë really understood what she had to put up with in her job. And people had been dumping garbage on him, too. So they talked some more.
They had come home from the park in the middle of the afternoon, hungry and thirsty. So they had a couple of beers. Aulë dragged some stale corn chips out of the back of his cupboard, and something claiming to be cheese dip, and made nachos. They had a little tequila afterwards, and a little chocolate ice cream. And it was apparent Nienna wasn't going to make it home, not even walking. Aulë had been so sweet, tucking her in to his own bed -- just her, not both of them, very gentlemanly. But she had woken up before midnight with jackhammers pounding inside her head.
Aulë had recommended another beer for "hair of the dog". And then … things just happened. Sure, he was a "cousin", but she couldn't remember exactly HOW they were related. Maybe his wife, Yavanna, was related to Estë, Irmo's wife. So really, there was no problem. Unless you counted Aulë's wife, and she might be a problem. But only if she found out.
This happened while they were down at that classy resort, “Alqualondë”, looking after the old dude who ran the place. He must be, like, 6000 years old, and he had had some kind of attack, and gone all mental, and the hospital had sent her and Irmo down to look after him.
"Alqualondë” – seriously, that is the name of the place. They really write that on the envelopes of all the letters: “Alqualondë, 50827”. It's the old Native name of the place, y'know, she explained to the gnome. Means “swan haven”. They even have that painted in big white letters on a blue sign when you come into town:
“Welcome to Alqualondë
The Swan Haven”
Anyway, Nienna had been down in Alqualondë, and then she had to run back to Valimar to talk to the big guy, Manwë. While she was in town, she had been walking a couple of blocks to a restaurant she knew, and had run across her cousin Aulë in the park, and they got to talking. Aulë really understood what she had to put up with in her job. And people had been dumping garbage on him, too. So they talked some more.
They had come home from the park in the middle of the afternoon, hungry and thirsty. So they had a couple of beers. Aulë dragged some stale corn chips out of the back of his cupboard, and something claiming to be cheese dip, and made nachos. They had a little tequila afterwards, and a little chocolate ice cream. And it was apparent Nienna wasn't going to make it home, not even walking. Aulë had been so sweet, tucking her in to his own bed -- just her, not both of them, very gentlemanly. But she had woken up before midnight with jackhammers pounding inside her head.
Aulë had recommended another beer for "hair of the dog". And then … things just happened. Sure, he was a "cousin", but she couldn't remember exactly HOW they were related. Maybe his wife, Yavanna, was related to Estë, Irmo's wife. So really, there was no problem. Unless you counted Aulë's wife, and she might be a problem. But only if she found out.
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