[PyrosNine]

Somewhere out there in the great wide dimensionverse o'fun, PyrosNine sneeezed.

"Damn...I feel like someone else just stepped on the grave of one of my own jokes..."
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Meanwhile, Somewhere in the Alps...

"Helen, do you think that the memories we have shared together on this cold mountain, will remain with us forever to warm our hearts?"
"Oh Phillip..."
"And yet, I want more than memories, for they are only lavish pictures to be hung upon the gold embroidered walls of our minds, and to be leapt in during our dreams."
"Oh Phillip! More than Memories?"
"Yes. I want to be with you forever, so that I won't need such things to idly gaze upon in my olden days! FOREVER!"
"Oh Phillip! Forever?"
"Yes Helen. And the only thing that can bind young birds of love such as ourselves for all eternity is...marriage!"
"Oh Phillip!"
"Helen....Will you marry me?"
"Oh....PHILIP! There's someone watching us!"
"Wha?"
"I see a red light up there and I see the outline of someone's head!"

Asheth winced. She'd been spotted. As she remained in the ceiling space clinging to the AC system, her tape recorder's recording light must have been seen.... Perhaps she could just cover it up, and they'd keep going...

"What? I don't see anything!"
"Look right there Philip! You can see where it's lighting through the flesh of a hand!"
"Oh...Now I see it. HEY YOU! Get out of there!"

"Oh Phooey!"

Asheth slid away a ceiling panel and slowly eased her way out, hanging upside down with her ankles wrapped around the AC ventilation. Fortunately she was wearing a climate appropriate clothing for the area other than her normal persian garb, or else there would have been indecent exposure in this act.

"Oh...Forgive me Darlin's, I'm afraid I needed to use ya'll for some re-search, and had to go under them covers. Y'know!"

"What? You just come down from there and go! You've disturbed my ladyfriend!"

Asheth dropped down and landed gracefully on her hands, then went from a handstand to a roll to a stand, using every bit of those 3 years of Gymnastics World.

"OH Come on! I'm needin' some juicy romance talk so I can lasso me one of my own for sugar talkin'!" Asheth got down on both knees to beg.

"What? Get lost, you weirdo!"
"Actually, I happen to have this "Get hitched in less than 30 days" book you could probably use then."

The man who had been called Phillip held up a 'Complete and Total Idiot's guide' in the dim lighting of the nighttime ski resort. "I picked this up in the lobby and it's been working fine for me."

"True like honeyed oats and butter? Can I have it?"

"The lobby? Have you been reading from this book? Why would you need a thing like that, Phillip?"

"Umm...Umm..." Phillip flipped through the book quickly and got to the page entitled 'What to do when you've blown your cover and revealed this book's existence':

Originally Posted by 'What to do when you've blown your cover and revealed this book's existence

Step 1: Get rid of the book, you ditz!

Step 2: Stop reading, and DO IT NOW!

Step 3: Also, DUCK!

"Wha-" SLAP!

Phillip got a red handmark imprinted on him by Helen. She was indignant.

"I can't believe you Phillip! And to think I was this close to marrying you after you used some cheap dirty book!"

"I know! I do declare, that boy's dirtier than a two-timin rat that done fallen in the manure pile!"

"Well, Actually the book was a good $50 bucks at retail..though I think I might have overpaid a bit....but at least it was working!"

Originally Posted by CATI Guide

Step 4: Shut up you, you're not helping your case!

Step 5: Also, $50 is a fair and reasonable price, considering how much you actually pay to be here in the Alps. Can you believe a martini in any Swiss Alp's resort costs over $100!? It's highway robbery, believe you me!

"If this is the basis of all our love, then I know when to give it up! Goodbye Philip! I hope I never see you again!"

"You go girl!"

Helen stormed off, leaving Asheth and Phillip alone in the Resort hall as it overlooked the rest of the mountain and the quaint easily snow buried cottages.

Phillip sat down upon a nearby bench and sighed. "Well, darn! I rented this Alps resort for the honeymoon too! Now what am I going to do?"

Asheth playfully wrapped her hair around her finger and blushed. "Well, you are here with little ole me...I'm quite the available."

Phillip looked Asheth over, then decided to check the book on this one:

Originally Posted by In the Case of Asheth:

Step 1-10: RUN! RUN AND NEVER STOP! RUN LIKE A SNOWMAN OUTTA HELL!

Phillip bolted down the corridor just as the snow began to come down, laying a gentle white blanket upon the still sleeping resort, through which Asheth ran after Phillip in the pale light of the moon as it peaked through the clouds.

"Oh darlin, don't be that way! Come back!"

Originally Posted by The guide

Step 11: RUN FASTER!

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(back at Arhra's.)
Pyros was a bit miffed that this Dragonsbane person was now feeding the dragon lady dead corpses and had saddled her with bones, but at least she wasn't snapping at him anymore, and she seemed happy about it all.

But he did realize the fellow he crashed into was still hurting from their earlier encounter.

Pyros flew down to Ecurt and picked him off the ground.

"Oh, do forgive me, I'm afraid I forgot about you. This world's chaos doth make me absent minded. Are you alright?"

(Addition: Also, Ecurt, if you're ever going to be Esheth again, If you don't want to talk like Rogue with the Louisiana drawl like you did before, I found a link on Southern American English!)