attention -- quest for the girl who loves olive trees.

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*somewhere in the interim between one thread and the next, ros has acquired a picnic basket full of sweet fruit sandwiches -- he's already unwrapping one, might as well while it's still fresh, and thinks while he chews* are we questing now, then?

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[sir_palomides]

"Certainly not. Questing requires searching, delving, or hunting for someone or something or some cause." He takes a sandwich for himself. "But we are ready to begin questing, undoubtedly."

[permanent_blur]

"well, that's good -- being ready to begin. you can't begin anything, i expect, unless you're ready to do it, and you can't do anything unless you begin." he pauses. "how does one begin ... ?"

[sir_palomides]

"Presumably, in this case, by searching for dark-haired women."

[permanent_blur]

"oh. well, we could do that."

[sir_palomides]

"Do you recall where she was when you saw her last?"

[permanent_blur]

embarassed, he admits, "i don't recall when it was where i saw her last. but i think the sun may've been shining -- that's a sort of when, isn't it? and a sort of where --"

[sir_palomides]

He considers this a moment, charting out all possible locations at which one might have noted that the sun was shining. "Inconclusive," he decides at last. "Are there any olive trees within the local environs?"

[permanent_blur]

"we could have a look ... !"

[sir_palomides]

"Then that will be our opening strategy." He makes no move to advance boldly until he has finished his sandwich.

[permanent_blur]

"it's a lucky thing, too -- the weather's nice today." and they are very good sandwiches -- ros's is sliced strawberries with honey and cream cheese.

[sir_palomides]

Palomides's probably has kiwi. :D "Indeed, although hardly the Mediterranean climate which one might expect in an area with olive trees."

[permanent_blur]

"it isn't it? well -- i suppose we'll have to hope for something unexpected, then. usually that happens even when you aren't looking for it."

[sir_palomides]

"Precisely when one isn't looking for it."

[permanent_blur]

optimistic, "let's go out to the gardens, then, and look for lilac bushes -- i'm sure we shan't expect olive trees there."

[sir_palomides]

"But if we look for lilac bushes with the intent not to expect to find olive trees ...?"

[permanent_blur]

"well, that's thinking rather too hard about it, isn't it?"