Ooooh, right.

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:26 pm

"Not the worst I've spent time with," he said, diplomatically.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:31 pm

"Considering some of the people you potentially met I'm going to take that as a yes."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:44 pm

"Ah, but that potential goes unrealized until probed deeply into. Like the cat, both interesting and not until you open the box."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:50 pm

"Except you already met those people and are just being obtuse."

by **Roland Sackville** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:43 pm

"Enigmatic, m'dear. Besides, is interesting not in the ear of the beholder?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:23 am

"Certainly. That's why everyone always thinks their own enigmas must be intriguing."

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 12:58 pm

"Well, I can see where this conversation is going," Roland said, standing up. "Thanks for showing me around some."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 1:05 pm

Nailah sighs. "Look, I'm sorry. You caught me at a bad time. Granted lately that's been all the time, but that comment was just as much aimed at myself. I'm hardly one to point fingers when it comes to being enigmatic."

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 1:23 pm

"It's an old habit," Roland admitted.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 3:42 pm

"I can only imagine. Alright, how about we start this over. Hello, I'm Nailah Weaver, for the time being still professor of linguistics and literature, recently returned from being marooned in a different universe for a year."

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 4:39 pm

"Roland Sackville, older than I look. Slightly," he smiled.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 4:54 pm

Alright. At least try to be less snarky. The guy is what, thousands of years old and you're here berating him about canes and carrier pigeons?

"Just how old are you if you don't mind the question...?"

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 4:59 pm

"As old as my tongue, and slightly older than my teeth.

...OK, it's actually hard to pin down, precisely."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:10 pm

"Lost track or interest in counting the years?"

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:19 pm

"Fairly easy to lose track. I was born in the month Skirophorion, in the reign of Eteocles and Polynices. We didn't really bother to keep track, then."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:24 pm

"That's..." she tries to do some mental gymnastics to translate that into dates that roughly make sense. "...that's a lot of time."

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:32 pm

"You see the issue."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:42 pm

"Yeah, that's... wow. Forget old poets, you were around to witness Greece, the Roman Empire. Holy shit..."

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:46 pm

"Well, not all of it. Moved around a bit.

So, yeah. Exact age is hard to come by, except by, say, carbon dating. And I'm still working my way through the periodic table."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:53 pm

"Oh yeah, no big deal, only a contemporary witness to some of it." she rolls her eyes though it's a bit more good natured than earlier.

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:57 pm

"Some of it more than others, of course. I've made my way around a bit."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:01 pm

"Oh come on, look at me, do I really need to spell it out for you what I'm wondering about here?"

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:04 pm

"That entirely depends on what part of the Sphinx myth you've latched yourself on to, I suppose," he grinned.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:08 pm

"Let's, despite evidence to the contrary, assume I haven't latched on to anything."

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:16 pm

"Alright. Well, I'm afraid I just missed the one in Thebes--I was born just post-famine and all that. But, at the same time, don't believe everything you hear."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:23 pm

"See now that is more than I knew for certain already. My only reliable source of information on this is a little... cabalistic in what she lets me know."

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:41 pm

"I see," he said, not seeing. "Well, that's what I'm here for."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:44 pm

"Sekhmet." she just says, hoping she doesn't have to elaborate on that. "She claims the sphinxes are or were her servants."

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:58 pm

"Ah. Well, there's a bunch of different kinds, you know. We're not talking Thebian Sphinxes here. They were bastards."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:02 pm

"All of them? And... what happened to them?"

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:12 pm

"Well, not ALL of them, I'm sure. I mean, gross generalizations and all that.

They were endangered, I guess. Not very 'pure' anymore. I left Greece for a long time between there, and when I came back, there wasn't anyone Sphinx-enough to call themselves that. Squeezed out, you might say," he said, chuckling at a long forgotten joke.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:19 pm

"σφίγγω. Hilarious." she deadpans. "So you think they were just... watered down and diluted then?"

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:29 pm

"It's certainly possible. Makes more sense than the 'plague o'er the lands' theory."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:34 pm

"What's that then?"

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:45 pm

"Oh, smitten by the gods, ran off to another dimension, etcetra, etcetra. Various theories."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:48 pm

"Fair enough. She did lament the fact that there have been none or very few for quite some time."

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:04 pm

"Well, she'd be talking about the Egyptian ones, right? That's much less "rawr, eat all your food.""

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:06 pm

"I don't know. Presumably? I honestly don't know if there's a distinct line though you make it sound like there might have been."

by **Roland Sackville** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:11 pm

"Likely more a cultural thing, aye. Like between Prussians and Angles."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:18 pm

"Well that's more than any book on mythology has yielded at any rate. Thanks."

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