1)
“Quick, Larra! Pack up everything—sell what we can’t put in the wagon—and get gone! The dragons are coming!”
“So we can be out on the road with our oxen in a bulging wagon when they dive out of the sky?”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2018
2)
“Yes! Er—no. Um, well, WHAT, then?”
“Go to the midden and find the black blanket with the plague symbol on it that they draped over poor old Urtha’s hovel. Then stretch it out on our roof.”
“What?”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2018
3)
“Plague symbol side up, mind. And weigh its edges down with many stones, all around. And HURRY!”
“But what good will that do?”
“It’ll keep you out of my hair; I’m going to be frantic-busy.”
“Doing what?”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2018
4)
“Getting everything up out of the root cellar so there’s room for us in it, and a wall of sandbags. If anything will stop dragonfire…”
“But the priest says—”
“Eldred, HOW old are you?”
“Uh, threescore and six summers.”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2018
5)
“And how many dragons have you seen, close up?”
“None. Three, all far off in the sky.”
“And how old is the priest?”
“Ah, twoscore something…”
“So he became an expert on dragons WHEN, exactly?”
“Oh.”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2018
6)
“He wants us all out on the road in our wagons, yes?”
“Why, YES, he said—”
“That we should all get out there on the road, so we can be dragon supper, while he hides under his altar. There’s a vault down there, remember?”
“Oh.”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2018
7)
“The MIDDEN, Eldred. NOW.”
“But if the priest stops me—”
“Send him here to see me. I’ll make a dragon expert of him yet.”
“Unh? How?”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2018
8)
“I’ll hit him with this skillet. It works with knights and paladins, so likely priests, too.”
“But…”
“Recall you his sermon on the god smiting disloyal priests? I’ll wager he used a skillet once he ran out of lightning bolts.”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2018
9)
“But what if you’re wrong?”
“Then we’ll be dead here, in our home, not out on the road. And the priest will know whose ashes are ours, to pray over. See? I’ve thought of everything.”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2018
10)
“But…but…”
“Don’t worry. I’ll announce to all the survivors that I’m now a priestess, once the dragons have gone. That vault under the altar is FULL of treasure.”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2018