She firmed her lip and but on her normal carefree, all-knowing image. There was no way she was about to let these assorted humans know that she had been set off kilter by anything.
"Hiril na guinith?" a concerned voice asked.
She turned around with a narrowed, amused eye. Of course the paladin would have to ask if she were doing fine, and ask in her own language no less, attempting all the proper forms, emphasis on attempting.
"Please," she said. "Your phrasing is atrocious. I begin to think you were named Stray Hand on accident."
Ranma blushed and pulled back at the joke of his name. Perhaps his parents HAD chosen elven words at random to get that name. It was a very embarrassing name for a paladin to have.
"I thought you paladins spent more time studying than that," Akane of the Scarlet Fist said irritably. "Did you learn nothing but how to shine that metal of yours?" Nabiki smirked
"She's fine," Kasumi said, smirking, turning back to the problem of just what it was that Lord Ranma had thought he'd seen. She'd rolled her eyes.
"Did you not feel that wave?" Shampoo demanded. "By Kord! I felt strange and powerful magic descend upon us!"
"I felt...a little something," Akane admitted, frowning.
"As did I," Ranma confirmed. He looked to the elf.
"I felt...something," Nabiki said. "Whether it was as powerful as you humans seem to think..." she shrugged in her all-knowing manner. "In any case, it has passed and has no bearing on our current situation, so back to the matter at hand, what did you see?"
"Maybe her?" Kasumi asked, indicating the half-conscious half-elf lying in the woods a few yards from their party. "I think she fell from up there while you were all shaking your heads."
"Did anyone else just feel dizzy just now?" Ukyou asked dazedly.
"My, my," Nabiki said, noting the woman's slightly gray skin. "You don't find too many half-drow around."
"An elf," Ukyou said, coming to. "Great, you aren't them, but maybe I could have done better to get killed rather than deal with some calaquendi...jack..." Ukyou's eyes caught sight of the paladin in his shining armor and she started to grow dazed again. "...ass..."
Ranma turned nervous as Shampoo and Akane noticed the dazed look. Just what he needed, more women after his hand. Hopefully this one would respect the whole marriage first chastity thing, but he doubted it.
"Who are 'them?'" Nabiki asked. And Ungwe irritably explained who "they" were.
((AN: Ranma's name really does translate to "Stray/Wandering Hand" in Tolkien elvish.))
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(Posted Sat, 09 Nov 2002 23:24)
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