As agreed, meme. I really need to mention something that isn't obligatory one of these months.

[zhilbar]

Go here and reload until you get five quotes that sum up your philosophy or outlook, then post them.

1) Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
-Arthur Ashe

2) When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
-St. Francis de Sales (Looking at YOU here, JHVH!)

3) To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
-Karl von Bonstetten

4) The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
-Rod Steiger

5) I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
-Og Mandino



...You know, sometimes I think I don't give humans enough credit.

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[kage-himoto.livejournal.com]

Kage chuckles and holds out the box for him. "I wouldn't dream of taunting you, Great Lizard. I only hope you like it."

[mistressnaoko.livejournal.com]

Naoko covered her mouth and laughed merrily. Goldilocks indeed! Now that would be something to call him in private.

"Well met, Kage-san," she watched as Zhilbar took the box. "What's in it?" her curiousity overcoming her.

[zhilbar.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, especially about embarrassing Significant-Other-activities, Zhil just hates to be right.

Still, there is The Box to consider! Naturally, He'll hold it up. He'll shake it. He'll peer at it from all angles, trying to deduce what is inside from all the available clues...

Then he'll just tear open the top and twitch visibly at what's inside. And that is!

[kage-himoto.livejournal.com]

That is a snazzy deep-purple suit and matching fedora, Sir! Sized to fit the human-ish-shaped Dragon-man that came to the Party.

Kage grins. "I saw it and immediately thought of you, and how it would set off the gold of your scales, O Great Lizard. And the hat, naturally, just had your name all over it."

[mistressnaoko.livejournal.com]

Naoko peeked over Zhilbar's shoulder as he opened, and her eyes went wide. She was torn between laughing and going, "Oh dear!" The material was exquisite, and the hat justifiably so, but the colour...

Considering what the colour purple meant to her beloved, she settled for a breathless and vague-sounding, "Oh my!"

[zhilbar.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yes, Zhil definitely has a THING about the colour. Still, Kage just looks so happy about his choice, and the cut is so very nice as well, how can He let the boy down?

Time to call in those old acting skills. "How- very charming!" He'll lift it up, making sure to admire it in the light. "Very rich colouration, and sized just right. How did you ever get My measurements, anyway? I doubt I imbibed enough to forget that..." He'll flash a grin Kagewards now, very convincingly.

"Thank you very much, Sah. 'Tis quite a praiseworthy suit indeed! But it does need something..." Looking at the fedora (and quite thoroughly repressing any sign of irrational destructive impulses), He turned it one way, then another... then pulled a pheasant feather out of thin air and tucked it into the brim. "Just the right touch!"

[kage-himoto.livejournal.com]

Kage shrugs. "I have a good eye. Cassie has never told me her size, either, and I buy chain-mail dresses for her. You can't cheat on sizing for those."

[mistressnaoko.livejournal.com]

"You have a very sharp eye indeed, Kage-san. Ah, they're here with refreshments. Would you care to join us?" Naoko moved out of the zero-g field to where a servant was holding up a tray.

She took a glass in each hand and proffered them to the boys.

[zhilbar.livejournal.com]

"Chainmail dresses..." He'll muse on that, eyes lingering on Naoko consideringly as He accepted a glass with a smile.

"Well, from what I've seen Cassie seems to thrive in them. So very conductive, after all... But I daresay I'll stick with fabrics. And maybe woven gems... HMM." Idea! An idea that will go down with a good sip- followed by looking at Naoko with pleased surprise. "The Swordsward '46, love? I didn't think we still had any! Excellent choice, if I may say."

Gesturing at another server bearing covered tray, He cocked His head Kageward. "Please, do go with an onion puff or two as well! They're nummy."

[kage-himoto.livejournal.com]

Kage will take the proffered glass with a smile and a bow. "Thank you, Lady Naoko."

"Silly lizard. I get Cassie the dresses because they're fireproof, unless I deliberately try to melt them. And for what I pay for them? Cassie would have to kill the twins or Hy to get me that pissed at her, and how likely is she to do that?"

Kage sips as he eyes the onion puffs. "Not to be rude, but what's in them? my system can be picky about some things." A wry grin. "Cassie and Hy don't know how lucky they are to be able to eat anything."

[mistressnaoko.livejournal.com]

Naoko took a pastry and sniffed, trying to remember what went in.

"Butter, some flour, red peppers, sour cream and some cheese, I think," Sukina was usually more well-versed in cooking than she was. "You would not happen to be lactose-intolerant, would you, Kage-san?"

[zhilbar.livejournal.com]

"I usually like to add a mineral filling, maybe a blend of some ground gemstones if I'm feeling particularly fancy, but that's a matter of limited appeal to others." He'll go ahead and make a dismissive little headwiggle. "The onions really get brought out by that faintest hint of bell pepper, though! There's just something about the alchemy of cooking that I always enjoyed."

Meanwhile, the guy over there with the Turkish delight is just standing patiently with uncovered tray; all in good time.

[kage-himoto.livejournal.com]

There is a polite bow to Naoko as he takes a pastry and eats. "No, Ma'am, but dairy and egg are really the only animal-based things I find it comfortable to eat. This is good though, thank you."

"And I probably couldn't feed from the minerals, Goldilocks, but they wouldn't harm me as they would others. Now wood, a nice cedar or hickory, would work well with onions." You are being Teased, Zhilbar.