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"Why sure, Wilbur, there's all kinds of treasure in those dark woods.... That, and packs of huge, monstrously-intelligent, man-eating wolves of course." Wilbur, who looked excited at first, quickly goes pale at the thought. He looks as though he might faint.
"Say, he's right you know. There's supposed to be all sorts of gold and silver in those hills, maybe fairy treasure as well." says Chick, butting in as well. Kesten casts dark glance at the former brigand.
"We'll get Jacobi to help." says Chick.
"'You'd be rich.' Well that's rich. I don't know why I hang out with you. You can't even answer a simple question. Listen, If you were 120 and this girl you were about to marry were 20, you would be six times as old as her. Six times! Now maybe you wait a little while because she's so young. Say you wait five years. Now you're 125 and she's 25. That makes you only five times as old as her, see?" "She's catching up." says Wilbur in surprise. "Right. So say you wait a little longer, say 75 years" "75 years! I didn't have a lot of time left at 120." says Wilbur. Then he blushes, becomes coy, and says "I mean I at least want to live long enough for the honeymoon. A little longer, 75 years, he says." "Will you just shut up, and let me finish the question. You wait 75 years." Chick says angrily. "That's a lot of cold showers." interjects Wilbur. "Never mind that." Chick continues. "Now you're 200 and she's 100. Now you're only twice as old as her. Here's the question: How long do you have to wait for you and the girl to be the same age? Take your time. Think hard. It's a simple question." Wilbur's face slackens as the question sets in. After a long pause he says "The whole thing is ridiculous. If I keep waiting for the girl she's just going to pass me up. She'll end up older than I am. Then she'll have to wait for me." "Why would she have to wait for you?" rejoins Chick. "I was nice enough to wait for her." says Wilbur a bit testily. "Oh, stop." says Chick.
"Whoah, Alia's like 120 and Zokon's only about 20." says Chick a bit shocked. "Wilbur, you know what would happen if you were 120 and you married a girl of about 20?"
"Wilbur! Wilbur! Get a hold of yourself man! Don't mind him he's just scared. When we were with Kressle's crew in the Narlmarches there was just the one crazy witch--Faeria, but you know her. But there was mention of a new more powerful wizard who had become one of the Stag Lord's favorites. A strange elf who just showed up out of the wilds one day. They say he doesn't get along with anyone and even scared Dovan. There was some sort of power struggle between them and another new big guy that all the bandits seemed to really like. Now what was his name? Um, lemme think.... Akiros! That was it! Anyhow, I guess that this Akiros guy the number two spot, and the elf didn't really seem to care. We never met the guy, Wilbur and me, but all the talk was that he was some serious bad news." |
