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<blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 7199042" data-attributes="member: 6777052"><p><span style="color: #008080">......I suggest number...........</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: blue">......... eleven, <em>None of the above</em>.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Tippy communed with Isis briefly and, on her advice, cast a unique spell, never-before-nor-since-seen-in-print: <em>Summon None</em>. Except there was a small amount of aural confusion between them and what he actually cast was slightly different, although it had sounded right as he said it.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">A woman appeared, wearing a black and white habit and a black and white whimple. "I am the Nun of the Above," she declared. "Why have you summoned me, you naughty boy?"</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Tippy recognised an aura of holiness and had an uncomfortable flashback to when he was about six years old and had been terrified of a nun called Sister Hannibal, who was a Lector at his school. She had taught him to read and he hadn't enjoyed it. He had an awful feeling that this was the same nun.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">He told her about the under-dead towns-people. "We call them <em>The Thirty Silent Watchers</em>," he explained. "They just <em>read</em> and don't say anything. It's a bit creepy. We've tried communicating with them, but they don't answer. I've tried <em>turning</em> them but they just keep straight on."</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"And what is wrong with <em>silent reading</em>, boy?" responded the nun acerbically. It <em>was</em> the same nun. "Reading is the way of salvation. You must give them holy texts to read, to dispel the under-death that has gripped their souls."</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Tippy felt abashed as non-specific guilt washed over him. He had some religious tracts that he could hand out but not nearly enough. "Sergeant," he called, "Can you requisition, say, <strong>four gigantic baskets of holy books</strong>, that we can hand out to these townsfolk?"</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">"Sign here."</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">And Tippy did.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: blue">When Emmy had finished dumping the baskets of books into the hole behind the stone altar, she wondered what to do after the next coffee break. Then she had an idea ...</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BoldItalic, post: 7199042, member: 6777052"] [COLOR=#008080]......I suggest number...........[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]......... eleven, [I]None of the above[/I]. Tippy communed with Isis briefly and, on her advice, cast a unique spell, never-before-nor-since-seen-in-print: [I]Summon None[/I]. Except there was a small amount of aural confusion between them and what he actually cast was slightly different, although it had sounded right as he said it. A woman appeared, wearing a black and white habit and a black and white whimple. "I am the Nun of the Above," she declared. "Why have you summoned me, you naughty boy?" Tippy recognised an aura of holiness and had an uncomfortable flashback to when he was about six years old and had been terrified of a nun called Sister Hannibal, who was a Lector at his school. She had taught him to read and he hadn't enjoyed it. He had an awful feeling that this was the same nun. He told her about the under-dead towns-people. "We call them [I]The Thirty Silent Watchers[/I]," he explained. "They just [I]read[/I] and don't say anything. It's a bit creepy. We've tried communicating with them, but they don't answer. I've tried [I]turning[/I] them but they just keep straight on." "And what is wrong with [I]silent reading[/I], boy?" responded the nun acerbically. It [I]was[/I] the same nun. "Reading is the way of salvation. You must give them holy texts to read, to dispel the under-death that has gripped their souls." Tippy felt abashed as non-specific guilt washed over him. He had some religious tracts that he could hand out but not nearly enough. "Sergeant," he called, "Can you requisition, say, [B]four gigantic baskets of holy books[/B], that we can hand out to these townsfolk?" "Sign here." And Tippy did. When Emmy had finished dumping the baskets of books into the hole behind the stone altar, she wondered what to do after the next coffee break. Then she had an idea ...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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