"The pipes are old and touchy, Raistlin," she offered softly, the smile more evident in her words than expression. Stretching her face right now would hurt after all, and the pipes were less reason to smile than that deep buried concern. "Old enough that the water was half iron by the feel." Rust was a terrible thing in her belief, yes.
"And no, she is about proper meat catching, or supposedly so, and Kernan near her. I thought to tap the pipes to see if I might hear water and even so soft a touch set the pipes shaking. Glad I am you learned to bypass the fire alarms some time ago." Out of necessity, but he'd found the answer in books he had rather than the pile she'd been working through!
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Date: 2015-02-24 09:03 am (UTC)"And no, she is about proper meat catching, or supposedly so, and Kernan near her. I thought to tap the pipes to see if I might hear water and even so soft a touch set the pipes shaking. Glad I am you learned to bypass the fire alarms some time ago." Out of necessity, but he'd found the answer in books he had rather than the pile she'd been working through!