[div style="border-top: 4px #cccccc solid; border-bottom: 4px #cccccc solid; border-left: 4px #1e6649 solid; border-right: 4px #1e6649 solid;"][div style="border-right: 4px #cccccc solid; border-left: 4px #cccccc solid; border-bottom: 4px #1e6649 solid; border-top: 4px #1e6649 solid;padding:8px; background-color:white;color:black;font-family:'courier new';"]Introductions had been achieved, which led to more questions, and of course it was that question, because there had been a resurrection, and they always went wrong. If Gail was worried, it didn't show - but then again, she was usually the worrier in the active sense and not the passive. The cause of worry, not the one who worries, as it were.
[font color="1e6649"]"I don't have the authority to make that decision,"[/font] was the answer that she gave. A technical truth: she could have pulled Strings, but there was really no need to do that right now. She had no doubt that they'd get into trouble with this at some point, but it wasn't time to unleash this one. A bit like a fine whiskeye, it was better left in the bottle to age a bit.
[font color="1e6649"]"So we'll be staying here for now. Of course, if I were you - which I am not, I am quite enough other people already - but if I were, I should go in order. You've done the who, but who and what both come before where - and when hardly matters, because it's never the same as it was a moment ago. Of course, neither is who, if you think about it long enough. How is a good one, once you've figured out the rest, and of course which. I'm rather fond of which, being occasionally myself."[/font]
It was entirely possible that Kanga would follow absolutely none of this, but that was part of the question, wasn't it? To see what she would understand, and to see what Nimsy would make of it as well, having been a little question mark at the end of a rather punctuated event.
[font color="1e6649"]"I suspect we'll draw up a contract at some point, so perhaps it would be good to think of what it is you want, and what it is you can offer. I don't suppose you know already?"[/font]
[font color="1e6649"]"I don't have the authority to make that decision,"[/font] was the answer that she gave. A technical truth: she could have pulled Strings, but there was really no need to do that right now. She had no doubt that they'd get into trouble with this at some point, but it wasn't time to unleash this one. A bit like a fine whiskeye, it was better left in the bottle to age a bit.
[font color="1e6649"]"So we'll be staying here for now. Of course, if I were you - which I am not, I am quite enough other people already - but if I were, I should go in order. You've done the who, but who and what both come before where - and when hardly matters, because it's never the same as it was a moment ago. Of course, neither is who, if you think about it long enough. How is a good one, once you've figured out the rest, and of course which. I'm rather fond of which, being occasionally myself."[/font]
It was entirely possible that Kanga would follow absolutely none of this, but that was part of the question, wasn't it? To see what she would understand, and to see what Nimsy would make of it as well, having been a little question mark at the end of a rather punctuated event.
[font color="1e6649"]"I suspect we'll draw up a contract at some point, so perhaps it would be good to think of what it is you want, and what it is you can offer. I don't suppose you know already?"[/font]