Time For a Nap

Submitted by Mark A. on Wed, 7/17/2013 at 2:52pm

Rasiri slowly walks down the path into town, his nose almost pressed into a book and the dark circles around his eyes bigger than normal and he looks tired as if he hasn't slept in days.  He walks down the path not paying attention to anything happening as if he is ignoring the world. He makes his way to the foot of the steps then dissapears in a puff of black smoke and appears inside the Shady Corners in an identical puff of black smoke.  Then he makes his way to the bar and sits down and without looking up from his book he raises a hand and says, "Bartender? Can i get a bottle of wine please?" He freezes completely with his hand still in the air and his eyes close and when the bartender sets the bottle of wine down Rasiri is dead asleep... 

cheri walks up to the sleeping rasiri and pokes at him "hey...hey....HEY!" cheri stomps loudly shaking the chairs and tables in the tavern

Rasiri makes no movements of any kind as the little angori makes the tavern shake.

cheri looking confused glances at the book he fell asleep reading and tries to snatch it away quickly "this must've put some kind of curse apon him! it shouldnt exist!" 

Rasiri's hand, still in the air shoots out and grabs her wrist as it touches the book and squeezes very very hard.  Then a snore erupts from his mouth and his head hits the counter, still holding onto Cheri.

cheri jumps being startled and shouts then she tries to release her arm from rasiri by pulling away "the book is evil!! it killed rasiri and is trying to eat me! HALP!!!" she starts to smack rasiri with her little brother 

Syra walks into the tavern and rushes over to Cheri and tries to help. "Rasiri let her go your scaring her!" 

Nasher stirs from where he was sleeping under one of the tables, a spot he's found quite comfortable until recently when everyone decided to start screaming. He crawls out from his spot and sees his Ward with a deathgrip on the young angori, even in his sleep. "Get out of Nashers way," the goblin grunted angrily at the elf as he pushed her aside and climbed on the tavern beside the Urdeqs head. "This'll wake Ward up!" the goblin said with a giggle as he uncorked the fox that was oin his hip and dumped the foul smelling contents on the urdeqs head.

Rasiri's hand quickly lets go of Cheri's wrist but snatches the book out of her hand and in one swift movement brings the book around and slaps Nasher straight across the face with a good amount of force. Then he shakes himself off and pulls his hood up and lays the book down on the counter and puts his head down on the books and falls back asleep mumbling something about his book.

Nasher is staggered by the hit, falling off the bar onto his backside from the hit. "Did Ward ju- WARD!! THATS A BAD WARD!! BAD!!" the goblin shrieked as he righted himself back up. He walked behing the Urodeq where he was sitting and in one swift movement pulled the chair out from underneath his sleeping Ward. 

"you see that book must have possessed him! what power it must hold" cheri starts to think of a scheme to get the book "kill him! he is beyond saving by this point! the book must be destroyed!"

"Hey watch it gob!" Syra shouted. She gave Naster an evil glare then turned to face Cheri.

Right as the chair leaves Rasiri he dissapears in a puff of black smoke and appers an a chair not far away, still clutching his book.

cheri looks around after rasiri poofs and spots him pointing at him and shouts "EEEVIIIIL!"

Syra cocks her head to one side and her mouth drops open "What in the pit is going on here?! What's with the book?"

Nasher shoots the Urodeq a mean glare as he teleports to a different chair. Nasher stomps in place as he works out his fit. He then stops and a mischievious smile crosses his lips. He pulls a glob of nasty muck from his pocket, the smell of would churn all but the strongest of stomachs. "Ward no wanna wake up? Nasher'll will force Ward to wake up," he said as he began to laugh manically as he chucked his nasty mess at the Urodeq, splattering it all against his cloak.

"its something beyond evil! it has taken over rasiri and forced him to do its biding! it must be destroyed! give it to me and i will take care of it" cheri says resuring

"No. No do not give her the book" Syra say's with a panicked voice. "Let's not touch the book at all. Knowing Rasiri... Ha who am I kidding, Give me the book!" 

cheri bumps into syra "no i want it!"

Rasiri's head perks up as the foul smelling glob comes his way and he manages to dissapear right as the foul goop would have hit him.  He stands up a distance away and looks down seeing that it still caught his cloak. He growls at Nasher and looks at the two others... "You can't have it! plus you wouldn't want it anyway... it'd be boring for anyone other than me..." Rasiri says tiredly.

"HA!" Nasher shouted. "NASHER WINS!! Nasher save Ward from his unnaturally sleeps!  Nasher hero!" the goblin proclaims as he dances in his slight circle. 

cheri walks up to rasiri putting her finger on his lips "shush child, sleep and let me take your burden" she reashes for the book

"No little one... now go reanimate some dead squirrels or something..." Rasiri says as he pushes her tiny hand out of the way. Then he Glares at Nasher... "Unnatural?? I was sleeping for the first time in a week and you people can't just let it happen!?"

cheri looks slightly angery but then calms down "you poor thing, come with me you can sleep at my cot it is well hidden. no one will bother you" she takes rasiri's hand and starts to lead him

"Well, Nasher can't think of any other reason Ward would hit his King other than an unnatural sleeps. And Nashers saved you! Ward is forever in Nashers debt!" Nasher proclaimed quite loudly as to drown out any argument he might have.

Rasiri smiles at the five year old and tusseles her hair, "Thank you little one but i have my own place to sleep... i just overestimated my self." Rasiri's smiles turns to a deep frown at Nasher. "I don't even want to put out the effort... I'm too old for this..." Rasiri says under his breath.

Leofrick opens the door and shouts. "Get it together old timer! You should be able to deal with this no problem!" Leofrick exits back out through the door he entered through.

Syra just stands there with her mouth dropped open and her head cocked to one side. The only thought is "What just happened?!"

cheri stomps again out of fustration "no one here will accept kindness or take notice but if anyone does something at the smallest that they dont agree to they just beat them down" balling up her fists and shaking "you all say you are good but you are nothing but judging little bastards that wont leave even a 5 year old at peace, dont want my help? FINE! you wont recive it" 

Rasiri's eyes widen at the little tantrum Cheri is throwing. Then he smiles a bit tiredly. "Well how about this, i'll let you take me home. That way you can help me out and not let the icky monsters get me while i am tired. How bout it kiddo?" 

cheri crosses her arms "hmp, ok i can deal with that but i AM NOT  a kid" she glares slightly at rasiri with a smirck

"Of course." Rasiri says with a tired smile.