O-Oi, everyone... listen to the your kids, they ain't the ones in the wrong!

How could I have...?

Aligoté sat down on the edge of the empty fountain in the main plaza, having spent the last hour walking around the walled-in city. He had finally come to the conclusion that Sacy was not among the smattering of people present here. This perplexed him, because he'd been positive that ( Read more... )

Aligoté hadn't exactly been putting off this meeting, he'd simply been more busy with his own family. Own family... the thought warmed him as no words could describe. Having Maria and Merlot with him, meeting Khrista for the first time (and having it go reasonably well) he had been living the last week in a happy daze, a dream from which he didn't ( Read more... )

Aligoté was having a hard time believing that his whole family was here. His family, one that had been a direct result of Econtra when there'd been a time that he didn't anything positive could come from that place. But now all of them -- Maria, Khrista, Merlot and himself -- would finally be able to sit and talk to each other. The prospect was so ( Read more... )

[lands in the plaza, ouch. didn't need THAT tailbone anyway...takes about 3.5 seconds to register his surroundings]

OI! NO WAY! THIS WASN'T FUNNY A DECADE AGO, IT SURE AS HELL AIN'T FUNNY NOW!

[have a slightly backdated Aligoté, from about 10 years post-Econtra]