Leesha is bored and / has the day off, so you get / multi-pup haiku!

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Humanoid gerbil
Reading Blake and drinking chai:
A moment of bliss.

* * *

Osaka is out
By the lake shore, skipping stones.
(She's not very good.)

* * *

Tourism brochures
Surround the Guardian as he
Munches on his chips.

* * *

Grumpy oracle
Frowning at his crystal ball--
Something's not right here.

Comments

[royal-guarantor.livejournal.com]

Roshaun snorts, too cynically for a boy his age.

"Good luck with that."

[grumpyseer.livejournal.com]

"I never said I got peace and quiet. Just that I asked for it."

[royal-guarantor.livejournal.com]

He nods quickly, mostly to himself.

"It's something my father taught me. They never stop watching. Always expecting things."

[grumpyseer.livejournal.com]

"Are you a mage, then?"

[royal-guarantor.livejournal.com]

"A wizard", he corrects. "And I will be. As soon as I take the Oath."

[grumpyseer.livejournal.com]

"What Oath would that be?"

[royal-guarantor.livejournal.com]

"The wizard's Oath", he says, tone saying 'isn't it obvious?' "I'll have no power unless I take it and obey it."

[grumpyseer.livejournal.com]

That earns him another skeptical look. "I've been studying magic since I was five years old, and I've never heard of any 'wizard's Oath'. "

[royal-guarantor.livejournal.com]

"You haven't heard of the manual, either", Roshaun retorts. "Or of the One, at my guess."

[grumpyseer.livejournal.com]

"The one what?"

[royal-guarantor.livejournal.com]

"The One Power", Roshaun says slowly and carefully, as if to a child.

[grumpyseer.livejournal.com]

"...what, like God? Do I look like a priest to you?"

[royal-guarantor.livejournal.com]

"No. And now I look more closely, you don't look much like a wizard, either. Call it what you will - it's real."