After rehearsal . . .

[godinakilt]

Camulus was a turnip.

It was, in a way, his own fault. For an evil genius, sometimes Camulus was really dumb.

And then, very suddenly, he wasn't a turnip any more. Which made it rather awkward for the person carrying the turnip.

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[stildyne]

"Oof!" Stildyne grunted, as his hands were suddenly full of goa'uld (and, more problematically, his prettily bulky host.) He staggered to his knees, one leg out-thrust, managing not to drop Camulus, rather catch the broad shoulders in his arms and ease him down to sit on his knee.

"...better then," he said a bit breathlessly, looking up.

[godinakilt]

"What . . ." Camulus looked around, completely disoriented. He had been kissing the shrew and she had bit him - his hand moved up to his bleeding lip - and then everything had become sluggish and very far away, like being drugged. "Brachi?"

[stildyne]

"This is why I've told you time and again not to get Polgara riled," Stildyne said with a glare (oh, he'd saved a bit of glare for Camulus and make no mistake.) "Because she can turn you into a damned tuber and apparently she will if provoked."

[godinakilt]

"What is why?" Camulus checked himself over, and winced as the very large bruise in the small of his back made itself known. "What did she do to me? Why am I sitting on your knee?"

[stildyne]

"She turned you into a vegetable is what. A dark tuber. Purplish. And I was holding it in my hands when it turned back into you, and I thought I ought not just dump you on the ground. Though on hindsight perhaps I ought've."

[godinakilt]

". . . she turned me into a vegetable?"

[stildyne]

"Keep up with the rest of us, Camulus. A vegetable. And I told you she'd do it, too." He gave the creature in his arms a little shake.

[godinakilt]

"My apologies for not being able to follow the conversation while being inanimate," Camulus grumbled, trying to stand on slightly shaky legs. "I didn't think she would do it."

[stildyne]

"Well, she did. Gave Cohen a start. Minds me, I need to tell him you're all right." Stildyne dumped the other man unceremoniously on the ground to reach for his belt messenger.

[godinakilt]

Camulus scowled at the ignominious landing, finally gaining his feet. "Ugly striped sow."

[stildyne]

"Just as long as it's not to her face." Stildyne shot off a quick message and re-belted his little comm device. "IDIOT. Idiot twice. Don't scare me that way."

[godinakilt]

Camulus didn't mention that that had been the gist of their conversation. "The script said to kiss her, so I kissed her - ow! What the hell did she do to me?" He twisted, lifting his shirt to try and look.

[stildyne]

"Don't know. Let me see," Stildyne grumped. "...hell of a bruise, did she knee you?" His hand covered it.

[godinakilt]

"I don't know, I was a vegetable at the time," Camulus grumbled. "She's a menace to society."

[stildyne]

"You're just jealous," Stildyne pointed out, and gave him a hard kiss on the temple. "Ass."

[godinakilt]

"Jealous of what?" Camulus grumbled. "Are you angry with me?"