Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.
Who knows what evil lurks in the noses of men? The Shadow's nose knows.
Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of ... (completely making something up in order to finish the bit) ... No-Nose? The Shadow's nose knows No-Nose.
No prompt for the last couple weeks, and no motivation either! But, I finally got some inspiration, so have a short little snippet of my dumbass daughter and her dumbass friends being hypocrites and illiterate smols.
Huutsuu stood on the seat of her father’s throne while waving her scepter (a stick Andrew had found that they adorned with ribbons and a hand mirror).
“No-nose, you have been found guilty of stealing our deserts-,”
“Uh, I think it’s desserts…”
“Desserts!” Huutsuu corrected. “Anyway, stealing is bad, so now you’re going to puppy jail.” Huutsuu crossed her arms and looked to Andrew and Miles, who stood on either side of No-nose, who in turn sat on the ground, looking around happily and licking powdered sugar off her snout.
“Take the prisoner away!”
Andrew hefted the puppy into his arms and scratched behind her ears. Miles marched in front of them and began to lead the way out of the throne room. Then, he paused and turned back to Huutsuu.
“Uh, where’re we s’posed to take her?”
Huutsuu rubbed the back of her head, thinking. They weren’t supposed to leave the residence without an adult, and they couldn’t get into the cells below the castle even if they could sneak down there.
Andrew piped up, “We can build a pen in one of our rooms.” The other two children looked at each other and shrugged. That would probably work.
The group hurried out of the throne room and out into the hallway. Andrew and Miles had been given rooms near Huutsuu’s for when they joined Alex or their parents on visits to Naduah and Onacona’s kingdom, so the three all went to the same area and stopped. After a few moments of deliberating, they decided Huutsuu’s room would be the best place, as there was more room (only one bed), and No-nose stayed there anyway.
Inside Huutsuu’s room, Andrew sat No-nose down. He, Miles, and Huutsuu began clearing a space by the bed to build their makeshift prison. A toy chest was pushed a few feet away from the bed and against the wall, a blanket was thrown over the space between to make a roof, pillows and blankets were placed inside as a bed. At first, they used various sticks and toy swords as a barred door, but No-nose kept knocking those down, so they pushed another box from the boys’ room in and used that instead.
Miles stood up and admired their work. “Excellent job, everyone,” he praised as Huutsuu placed No-nose inside the makeshift cell. “It looks so good that I might go commit crimes just to stay in it!”
Of course, that was the moment Colonneh walked in, with Alex behind him.
“What are you guys doing?”
Huutsuu smiled up at the older boys and said, “We built a jail for No-nose!”
“And I’m gonna become a criminal so I can stay in it!” Miles exclaimed.
Alex and Colonneh gave each other a look. Alex said, “Uh-huh. And what kind of criminal will you be, exactly?”
“An assazzasin! Asassizin? You know, that!”
“Oh, shit. Don’t you wanna start with something a little more… not murder?”
Miles blinked at Colonneh, then launched a hairbrush directly at his face. Huutsuu and Andrew giggled as Colonneh recovered and looked both shocked and insulted. Alex frowned at Miles.
“You’ve assasparated!”
“Miles, I don’t think that’s the right word.”
“Sure, it is. Assazins are people who attack asses. Like Colonneh!”
Both Andrew and Huutsuu broke out into laughter again, and even Alex chuckled a little. Colonneh made an indignant sound and started to say something but was stopped by Alex.
“Ok, I think No-nose has served enough time. Why don’t you three let her out, and then we can go find Miles a dictionary… and maybe some ice for you, love.” Colonneh rubbed at the bruise beginning to form on his forehead and scowled at Miles. Alex put a hand on each shoulder and shuffled his fiancé out of the room. “C’mon, you three,” he called back. Huutsuu let No-nose out of her captivity, then she, Andrew, and Miles bounded out of the room to follow their brothers.
Now slightly less irritated, Colonneh asked, “Why’d you have your dog locked up anyway?”
“She was guilty of desert-,”
“Dessert!”
“Dessert crimes.”
Alex and Colonneh both stopped to look at each other, then back at the children.
“A hypocritical queen, I see.”
“Indeed. And her advisors, too.”
The children just peered up, nonplussed, while Alex and Colonneh seemed to find something very amusing in whatever they just said. Personally, none of the little ones could see what hippos had to do with them or crimes against sweets.
