Question The Banshee's Tale

On her desk was a little plastic coin bank that was fashioned in the shape of Lucy van Pelt's Psychiatric Help Stand and the little sign read 'the doctor was in'.

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“Oh, that went well...”

[OH! Brave references! Wait... So in Whateley, Brave is based off of Laneth's story, instead of the other way around!]

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“Kemosabe? Way to not play into the stereotypes, Chief.”

“Hush, you!” Kayda snapped with only slight annoyance. “Or I'll stick you out front with a handful of cigars.”

Hard Sell arched an eyebrow in a fair imitation of The Rock. “How?” he demanded, his tone dripping innuendo.

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Mind blown, Tansy had thought at the time.

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Prue, honey, new you, new problems!

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“Adam, your testicles are reporting they're over heating a bit. Boxers, not briefs, brother.”

In a somewhat dreamy tone of voice, Adam replied, “Ok, Kody.”

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The monk softly chanted to himself several times until he was certain he had committed the missive to memory. Looking up, he declared, “I shall deliver so, my lady. What token shall I take to the Duke?”

Laneth smiled coyly, leaned forward and kissed the monk full on the mouth.

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“Be at ease, man, I'll not send ye out till the morning. This missive will take thought.” He scratched his head and frowned. “What token did she send with ye?”

The monk grimaced, then stood, bowed again, then seized the Duke and kissed him. His shout of startled anger turned into peels of laughter and he couldn't restrain himself from dancing a jig.

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“Then I will accept your offer, with two conditions: first that not only is he not given any discount on that tuition, but he is be charged the absolute maximum, including any and all possible fees and charges that might in any way be applicable to Tansy's schooling.

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“During the tour you were so kind as to give me, I met a, um, large ... teacher ... in your engineering department. I think cars were his speciality ...? ”

Mrs. Carson and Tansy jerked in surprise. “Mr. Donner?” Tansy demanded.

“Melvin Donner?” Mrs. Carson corrected. “What about him?

“Is he seeing anyone?”

“I don't believe Melvin is romantically involved, why?” Mrs. Carson asked with a gimlet eye.

“My second condition is I want his phone number,” Marrisa replied with a smile.

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October 1st, 2007
Melville Cottage, Room 803, Whateley Academy

Wyatt opened the door to his room to find a minilla envelope had been shoved under his door. Frowning, he sniffed and found the scent of both his fiancee and his mistress (he noted to himself he needed a better term for Tansy) on the mailer strong enough that she must have been holding it not more than a few minutes ago. He looked back out in the hall, but of course it had been empty when he'd walked here from the elevator.

Closing the door he picked it up and saw Tansy's penmanship on the side that had been face down. Intrigued he read...

Wyatt:

I told you I could do better...

xoxo Your future wives

Frowning and curious, he unthreaded the mailer and raised the flap. Inside was a single eight and a half by eleven inch, glossy color photograph. In it were Elaine and Tansy laying next to each other and locked in a passionate kiss. Elaine in a reddish orange fur coat and Tansy in a grayish white one.

Neither wore anything else.

Wyatt grunted as his jeans became uncomfortably tight and he began thinking about how he would have this photograph framed so he could put it where he would see it every day.

“Bullshit,” [Tansy Walcutt] retorted. “Every problem has a solution.”

[How very 'Goodkinds don't complain, they fix things'...]

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Galan sighed and drank himself. Into his tankard, he admitted, “Drest, mac Talorgan, has offered up a bride price for her by the hand of Brother Calvert as his herald.”

Aine's frown deepened. “Should I be insulted?”

“He sent a silver comb and broach, both master works, three garnets the size of my thumb and two gold marks.” That seemed to please Aine and she smiled and sat back, unconsciously spreading her knees.

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I was man enough to deflower you

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“I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?” the young man snarled. “You were saying something about selling myself short? Oh, you were finished? Well, do I fucking ''need'' to retort, pretty boy?” he shouted. “Who wants to wake up to this? Huh? Tell me that, Mr Big Fucking Man on Campus!”

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The molten face shrugged and looked away. “I...the chemistry teacher makes me take my hand off so the...stuff...can be analyzed in class. She's seen that. I say my whole body does it, but I think you're the only person that's seen this much, other... Other than my folks, and they... I...I shower at night, so...” Adam began to sob and heedless of his clothing, Wyatt reached out and took the boy into a hug. The simple, human gesture was one of the first Adam had ever known since he had manifested and he wept for twenty minutes.

[Awww! Adam's getting some niceness his way!]

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leading the other boy past the nurses' station only remarking as he passed one of the preoccupied Nurses, “Be so kind as to pull Adam Lamberts file and bring it to exam three.”

The Nurse was far too used to obeying requests in that tone of voice.

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Signing in with Mrs. Horton she got the gimlet eye, but gave her a 'scouts honor' salute in return, then took the packages upstairs. She knocked and was startled by the look of Elaine's face when she opened the door, it was pale and drawn. “Lanie, are you alright?” she asked, concerned.

The redhead forced a smile and stepped aside to let Tansy in. The fan in her bathroom was running, but the smell of sickness was still in the air. “Ah ate something that disagreed with me, or something,” she said, closing the door and picking up the can of ginger ale to take another sip. “Ah'll be alright in a bit. You look lovely! Just come from church?”

[Lanie's Pregnant, perhaps? ]

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palpable resistance of the strongest non-psychic mind she had ever encountered.

[You sure she's not a Psi, Tansy?]

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The 80s bad girl leaned against the doors and blew a massive bubble from the gum she was chewing. “I'm Rebellion,”

[A lot more self-recognizable mental parts... Interesting. I guess its a part of Tansy's interface specifics? Or Psis vs. Magic? See when she Dived with Kayda.]

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From the darkness strode Maternal Rage. “Coward!” she shouted. “Look at what you have done! What you allowed! Our Daughter is a grown woman and the twisted masterpiece of a man you ''knew'' you should not have married!”

“Mommy said it was a good match,” Fear muttered. “That I would grow to love him like she did daddy...”

“Not strictly speaking,” he replied. “The nerves weren't damaged, his MGC is missing the neurons to have built the link in the first place. This kind of unexpected mutation of the MGC is one of many reasons why I argued so vehemently against it...”

“What?” shouted Tenant in disbelief. “Are you saying Atlantis created the MGC?”

“Among other things,” the Kodiak replied. “We were desperate, but obviously not infallible.” The Kodiak made a series of sweeping gestures and a molecular model appeared and floated in the air. “Is your chemistry department able to synthesize this? There is no magic component, simply a selective hormone uptake inhibitor.”

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The heavy, luxurious curtain rose to reveal a motion picture screen and a slide of a power point presentation appeared on it. “As you may know the legitimate existence of magic was first legally recognized by the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne in his Codice Iuris, establishing laws governing the use of magic, consequences for the misuses of magic and a set of proscribed and court sanctioned magical applications. What had been a patchwork of common law and folk practice became one of the first sciences. These laws, with some addition or subtle alteration have been handed down through the Western Occult Tradition to us here in the United States. I bring this up because as scholars it is our instictive first reaction to be skeptical of fantastic claims, so to dissuade you of such notions and to save our question and answer time for the most productive it can be, I present to you my Sorcerors License, as issued by the Department of Paranormal Affairs...Oh, I didn't realize it expires next year! Note to myself!”

Interesting choice for a song to start a story with, curious what it means about what will happen now. Jennifer Stevens Playhouse, Whateley Academy. Very nice outfit Mrs. Carson is wearing. Whoa, magic legally recognized that far back and laws for it, interesting. Sorcerers License issued by the Department of Paranormal Affairs, that is a big piece of information we didn't know about before.

Cool picture of Laneth, love the outfit and gear. Murdered at the age of 27, ouch, thought she was in her early 30s at least when she was killed. These scholars need to listen and not aggravate Laneth, suggesting she can't read and write, ugh. All that learning and education, sounds like she was better educated by her eras standard than college students now. Calling her a little slip of a girl, a figure like hers at 5'11" and called a little slip of a girl, whoever said that is nuts. Yelling all those questions at the same time, like a bunch of children who can't be patient. Interesting pieces of history about things from her time in the Whateley Universe.

Dr. Betty Markheim, nice look to her and love the Charlie Brown piece, more psychiatrists need a bank like that on their desk. Ouch, Tansy gets to the point quick and sharp about why she should trust the good doctor. No one at the school can compel her to disclose anything Tansy tells her, with all the different powers at the school I wonder how. Ouch, Tansy's mom has the harder to treat form of Munchhausen Syndrome from the description. And not treatment, except experimental stuff, double ouch. And Tansy's Galahad Syndrome won't let her give up on her mother no matter what, epic quest indeed.

Galan, village chief of Morlock, asking Brother Calvert to repeat a message. A message from Drest, mac Talorgan, duke of Loch Linn Garan, asking for Laneth's hand in marriage, uh oh. Joan, Laneth's mother, ask what gift were offered. Expensive gifts, but Laneth is upset that a man more than double her 16 winters thinks she can be bought and sold with bobbles like a common tavern whore, there is that fiery temper. Having to come and try to win her hand in person, Laneth even yelling at her father that she won't do it and he can't make her.

And a lecture by Joan to Galan about coddling Laneth and letting her mix and mingle with the Sisters of the Bean Sith. Galan still thinks he can convince Laneth, oh boy. Mucking the horse's stall and muttering angrily to herself, I would turn around right now. Ouch, slapping her for a sharp sting, things were different back then. Getting her to make amends with her mother and Brother Calvert, she did almost bite off the head of the messenger.

Laneth as a queen, I agree with her, too fiery a spirit to do that. Aine, the most senior of the Bean Sith, is who gave Laneth her ideas of romance and what a man should do to win her heart. Given those choices, I can see why she chose to take the Oaths and become a full Sister of the Blade.

Tansy wanting a revealed truth spell from Kayda, thinking Dr. Markheim and everyone else is yanking her around when she just wishes to help her mother. Go into her mind and fix her, I think that is a bad idea, not even sure Louis could do it without risk to himself and Tansy's mom. Make her mom see she isn't sick, like Kayda did with showing Tansy she was sabotaging herself, oh boy. This could get messy fast. Ugh, Dr. Markheim saying her vision quest was just all images in her mind, deals with mutants and such yet doesn't believe Tansy when she says she talked to Eagle.

Kidding around like that using the Lone Ranger, even I know what Tonto means. *groans* Kayda should know never to give an opening to Hard Sell, he takes and runs with it worse than some of us on the forums with such a straight line.

Mrs. Horton approves of Tansy and Lanie's relationship, whoa. Even suspect of Tansy and Lanie sharing Wyatt and approves of that too, Mrs. Horton is full of surprises. Mrs. Horton wishing to be with Mrs. Savage, those kind of fantasies, if the other students knew... A family together with Lanie and Wyatt, both of them mothers, Tansy has interesting fantasies as well. Nice look for Prudence, Adam shy again after seeing her like that, that boy needs to be hit upside the head with a clue bat. Adam Lambert and Prue wants to do all those things with him, girl has it bad. Voice of experience for Prue, nice to have Tansy helping her get Adam.

That longhouse is like a fortress.

"Come in, Galan," she greeted in her full voice. My door and knees always open for you!"

Dang, Aine is like that and Laneth has been hanging around with her, no wonder her mother worries. *facepalms* There is bravery and just dang stubborn foolishness. Tempting Joan's ire is the latter. Asking her to turn away Laneth when she shows up to face the trials and swear the oaths, too far old man.

Oh boy, this is getting intense, she would have been Laneth's mother and Galan's wife if not for Galan's father bought Joan. Ouch, to be together they would have had to run off, clanless and pennyless. Painful subject for Aine, even almost driving Galan away if she hadn't guided him back to the bench to sit. Wishing his daughter to have a safe life not filled with battle and perhaps to become queen one day, understandable but if Laneth finds out oh boy. And duty and tradition tie her hands, so she won't turn Laneth away.

Tansy with Wyatt.

"Because we both love the little whine you make when you realize we aren't done with you," she purred, her finger drawing little designs in the perspiration on his chest.

I don't there is a man alive with the stamina to keep up with both Lanie and Tansy at the same time.

Getting Wyatt to talk to Greasy about Prue Tavori aka Chemtrail, and Wyatt brings up the theory that Greasy has a thing for Peeper. Tansy in nothing but a mink coat and smile, now there would be a sight to see. Hope things go well with Greasy.

Wyatt gets ticked at Peeper for saying he didn't make the poster of Lanie in the shower. Ah, fund raiser spring term final project for Venus, Inc. and Lanie in dressed like Mario, red overalls and all from the description. Greasy so nervous to go with Wyatt, poor kid, hanging around Peeper hasn't been good for his rep. Bwahahaha, asking Adam that way, Wyatt can be blunt when he wants to hurry things up.

Awww, poor guy thinks he doesn't have anything to offer Prue or anyone else. Tears his covering and he starts leaking his namesake, asking who would want to wake up to that. Prue knows about the stuff Greasy generates, from the chemistry teacher making him take off the cover from his hand, yet still has the hots for him. Atlantis magic help with Greasy's problem, hope it can, that would help the poor boy a lot.

Boy, they take their ceremonies and rituals for oaths serious, all of the order of Bean Sith there. Cutting her clothes off and her father responding that way, more and more I'm impressed with the things they go through. Tied to a crucifix and iron brands with magic woven into them as part of the trials, that oath, whoa. 2nd and larger brand and another oath, yet Aine still thinks she can get Laneth to say mercy, only to get a savage headbutt from Laneth, epic. Scourges, yikes. That is one of the most intense rituals and oaths to join an order I've ever seen.

Essence to swallow, a probe spell and stabilizing agent and mild sedative all in one, Kodiak goes all out for his patients. Male Dr. Tenant upset at Kodiak practicing medicine in Doyle, oh brother. The probe part of that spell is very impressive, all those details that quickly. *eyes bug out* If that level of non-invasive analysis of a patient could be duplicated by technology, say a gadgeteer, it would cause a leap of light-years in medical technology.

Adam is missing the interface linkage between the power his Meta Gene Complex has manifested, and the needed connections between his pores, his nervous system, and his brain to control it. So the pores are defaulted 'on' and just keep generating his mucus."

Atlantis created the Meta Gene Complex! A treatment that will stop him from producing the mucus, won't affect his gadgeteering talent, may be some side effects but he will have to take it for the rest of his life. Shoot, I agree with Adam, I wouldn't care if a solution was found.

Clothes for herself and something for Lanie as well since they are the same size, red for her, blue for Lanie. Wonder what she got. Sleep over with Lanie, doubt Mrs. Nelson would allow it, especially if she talked to Mrs. Horton about them.

Tansy going to sermons by Reverend Englund, why torture yourself like that, even if he is more subdued now. Excited that she practically skips to Poe, anyone seeing that would try to get photos for evidence it happened later. Lanie sick, says she ate something that disagreed with her, I'm thinking since she valued Mrs. Carson's life so much that she defied orders and broke the Sorcerer's contract, it insured she would have new life to take care of it and it's morning sickness. Just a guess.

Something from Stephans of Beverly Hills, now that is expensive. And Stephan actually wants to custom design something for Lanie and a photo of her in what he handpicked for her for the website, dang. Red Fox Fur coat, fur on both sides, long enough to fall to Lanie's knee and a hood to encompass her head. Close to Tansy's birthday, wonder what they are going to do on the actual day. And blue fox fur coat like Lanie's Red Fox Fur coat, nice. Don't like real fur most of the time, but for some reason I like them with the coats, so conflicted. Take the photo in the Venus Inc. clubhouse, Tansy, what potentially naughty idea do you have.

Male Dr. Tenant, Kodiak and Mrs. Carson there for when Adam tries the drug for the first time. And how to impress the staff of Doyle in one easy step, that probe spell. Good, anyone else with the patients issue can be treated with the drug, but nothing else. No hair and greyish colored skin due to the grease staining his skin, but he can see his real face again. So glad something good happened for Greasy.

Laneth asking how she can make amends to Brother Calvert, things go well. Excellently worded message to return to Drest, if he harms the messenger because he is displeased he is a fool. Dang! A kiss on the monk's mouth to take as a token back to Drest, even more bold now.

Dr. Markheim, on Tansy's side now and with proper supervision by Louis, Tansy can go into her mother's mind to help her see she has nothing to fear. October 1st for the first attempt, hope it goes well, for Tansy and her mother's sake.

Dr. Chris Summers saying how hard it is treat Munchhausen Syndrome, Tansy not listening as she is focused on helping her mom. Her mom is very bad shape, physically and mentally, Tansy having to see her in this state for the first time. The way she reacts to Tansy, it is like she doesn't realize how much time has passed. Dang, got me tearing up at seeing Tansy fighting to reach her mother, saying she is going to save her mommy.

Boy, her mother's mind is fighting back, even creating faceless defenders to drive Tansy out. That courtroom in her mother's mind, Tansy's father from 10 years ago the prosecutor and her mother the Defense attorney, covered in chains and gagged, this is worse than a nightmare. Her mom's Rebellion is in control due to the reflection of her father able to do anything with the judge being blinded. Great, Fear of Being Sick messed up Drive and nobody has seen Self-Respect in years, how powerful is this monster of the mind.

Whoa, blows away the representation of her father like that and going after Drive. Drive free and now to get Fear of Being Sick off the Throne of Self. Ouch, Guilt there and knows Tansy, even that she is 18 years old now. Trying to get through to her mother, to let her know she needs her mom back and her help. Maternal Rage shows up, ticked at the voice of her husband for what the real one did to Tansy and made her do.

Confronting Fear finally, all out of fear of getting sick and needing to be there for her little flower. All those fragments of her personality coming together to pull the medical devices from Fear, finally fearing her. Dang, got me crying again, seeing Tansy finally reunited with her mother and her mother's mind clear for the first time in 10 years.

The Monk delivers the message and Drest is a moron, thinking that wooing her first for men of 'lesser' stations. Ugh, he still thinks he has a chance to get Laneth as his bride, arrogant man. And the Monk actually kissed Drest as the token Laneth sent back to Drest, giving him more hope, *groans*

Marissa Dawson, done with Theodore Walcutt, good. Trust fund from her parents, getting to know Tansy and Tansy getting to meet her grandparents, excellent. Divorce settlement and alimony, hope she takes him for more than half, he deserves worse. Criminal lawyer for Whateley, ooo, seeing her get to hang around Tansy more at school and having a job and learning how much the world has changed in 10 years, take the job, please.

Marissa considered that for some time, finally she said, "My Ex pays my daughters tuition, yes?" Mrs. Carson nodded. "Then I will accept your offer with two conditions: first that you not only is he not given any discount on that tuition, but that he is be charged the absolute maximum, including any and all possible fees and charges that might in any way be applicable to Tansy's schooling."

I like her. Oooo, she is interested in Melvin Donner, second condition is she is given his phone number. Nice to see her bouncing back so quickly.

Manila envelope shoved under Wyatt's door, scent of Lanie and Tansy on it.

Frowning and curious, he unthreaded the mailer and raised the flap. Inside was a single eight and a half by eleven inch, glossy color photograph. In it were Elaine and Tansy laying next to each other and locked in a passionate kiss. Elaine in a reddish orange fur coat and Tansy in a grayish white one.

Neither wore anything else.

Bwahahaha, those two know how to get to Wyatt. A great story, Tansy finally frees her mother from a long nightmare in an epic showdown inside her mind, Greasy gets help for his problem from Kodiak, we get to see some impressive medical magic and find out Atlantis created the Meta Gene Complex. And that epilogue, poor Wyatt has his hands full. Can't wait to see more of Marissa and Tansy together, possibly find out more of what went into the creation of the MGC by Atlantis, and hoping to see soon the beginning of the downfall of Theodore Walcutt.