Application for Prince Kheldar (aka Silk), the Belgariad / Mallorean

[silkenspy]

((This Silk is post-Mallorean))

One big drafty castle is much the same as another big drafty castle, but Silk had visited Riva often enough that he was fairly sure that this room wasn't in the Citadel. For one thing, Garion didn't have any pens that stood upright with no hand to hold them and tapped themselves on the parchment, as if they were

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[dungbombsrule]

He cringed in embarrassment when Silk picked at his flawed 'Animals are People when...' logic. "All right, mutes count as people. Why don't we say that human mutes are always people, but animal mutes aren't?" He frowned. "But I guess if a dog talked but then got a throat-cold, we couldn't really take away his personhood, now could we?" Hermione might know the answer to this, but she thought that house-elves were people, so he wasn't sure how much he could trust her opinions on such matters.

Ron gave up on the subject altogether, having lost both interest and his bearings. He would leave such thinking to a lawyer, if that profession even existed in the Wizarding World.

He laughed at the image some bloke throwing a hissy fit by chewing on the floor. "He did what?. What did the bloody carpet do to him? And I don't get why chewing the carpet is more satisfying than hollering or throwing birds at people." He didn't understand the appeal of that one either, but he had been too busy fleeing Hermione at the time to ask. "Unless rage made him, well, hungry."

[silkenspy]

Right, so dinosaurs were animals. Now Silk got it. He thought of something else, and grinned.

"Ah, but whenyou define animals are mutes, are you talking about animals who don't speak human speech? Because I've known some very intelligent animals who could speak in their language, just not human language." Garion's wolf, for one.

He chuckled at Ron's amusement about Taur Urgas. "The carpet didn't do anything to him, which is probably why he chewed on it. He was completely insane - all the Murgo kings were, until the present one, and that's because he's not actually related to Taur Urgas. The insanity of their kings is one of the things that made the Murgos impossible to deal with."