05 | In which Howl recieves an invitation. [Dictated]

[strangewonders]

[There's a scuffling noise, as if someone's trying to keep hold of the journal while fiddling around with something else.]

My goodness. Someone needs to be told it's rather rude to nail their invitations to a person's door. I nearly thought the king had managed to track me all the way here.

[There's a pause an a bit of a laugh]

I'll have to work on my royalty-evasion, it seems. I don't suppose anyone knows something about our gracious host? Or whether this will end up being an elaborate trap?

[Howl's not usually the paranoid type, but you can never be too careful when it comes to kings.]

Comments

[lord_wizard]

Well, what would be wrong with that? There would be quite a few benefits to the position, I imagine.

[strangewonders]

I don't want the position. That's what's wrong with it.

[lord_wizard]

Most people would give anything for that kind of position.

[strangewonders]

They are welcome to it.

[lord_wizard]

What would you rather do, then?

[strangewonders]

Practice my trade quietly and uneventfully while making a great deal of money at it.

[lord_wizard]

Hm. Is there a way to do that, in your world?

[Cause, well, the only reason he was well off is because he was on the Curia and had a government stipend, but otherwise there seemed to be no good avenue for wizards to gain wealth, that he was aware of.]

[strangewonders]

Presuming I could convince the king he didn't want me, yes.

[lord_wizard]

Well, you've found a decent enough to hide from him in the meantime, I suppose.

[strangewonders]

That I have. I suppose I ought to thank the castle for that, as odd as it may seem.

[lord_wizard]

Not that odd. Not everyone is in a hurry to return home.

[strangewonders]

I'd be a little happier if I could check on a thing or two, but I'll have to be satisfied with no one trying to kill me or harangue me into jobs I don't want.

[lord_wizard]

Oh, all the things that could be solved by a letter home.

[strangewonders]

Sadly, I don't think the castle could be enticed to deliver inter-dimensional mail.

[lord_wizard]

You never know. Every once in awhile it does something that might be construed as 'nice'.

[strangewonders]

And the rest of the time it goes around tricking us all. I think I'll avoid asking it any favors.

[lord_wizard]

Oh, I agree with you there. One of many reasons to not ask it for too much.