Oh Where Oh Where

T'zuri hit me like a runaway wagon. But it was not a tackle .. it was more of an expiration. Not that I noticed at first .. hit with a female package which melted into my arms like warm butter .. I did the first thing that came naturally .. loosed the mane of hair tangled in my fingers.

Well on my way to making an ass of myself with understandable motivations .. I THEN realized she was weeping.

Oh

Tears .. not good ... sobbing .... even worse. The kiss buried somewhere below my jaw line ... I could be all right with .. wait ..

but this was not about throwing herself at my feet to be subject to whim and fancy.

huh

So this was where I was supposed to pull it together and ask her what was wrong.

sigh

I needed desperately something to do to take my brain off the package so I could concentrate on the reasons the package was in distress so I pulled her over to my steps and had her explain it to me while I threaded a quick braid through her hair .. the precision twists ordered my thoughts ... thank the Sky she did not draw attention to what I was doing or I probably would have pissed down one leg.

Somewhere in the recess of my thoughts I knew I needed to repair what I had undone and at the same time I was wrapping my conscious around a death. Whose death? Who died?

Snooker? Snooker got .. eaten? By Necessity?

Yo .. Necessity? You have a little Snooker on your fang .. right .... there.

Good Sky. I could not help the chuckle .. bastard that I am ... but not so much for the fate of the little critter more so relief that it was only a critter.

I told T'zuri to hang in there .. there was more than one of those little critters hanging around .. the kids even had one ... had seen them with one ... I did not tell her I hoped it was not in fact Snooker I had seen them with. She calmed down .. a little.

I told her I had found some of .. what I realized now ... was Snooker's treasures in my wagon. I told her she could go in there and look for Snooker. I told her it was fine .. I was obviously sitting out here on my steps for the Sky and Oren and Astar to witness. She was compromised in no way .. and the little beast would not come out for me. I hoped she would find him in there .. but there was no sign of him.

"They seek him here, they seek him there.
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in Heaven? - Or he in hell?
That damned illusive Pimpernel."
(from The Scarlet Pimpernel)