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[gil_whimple]

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[asar_suti]

"Oh - a faun!" Asar-Suti says, joining Gil somewhere near the Caribbean inlet, smoothly turning from penguin-shape into his usual human one.

"The squids are well!"

[gil_whimple]

"Oh a penguin," Gil began, then did an exaggerated double-take. "No I am mistaken it's a small purplish Dark God of Awesome Power. I'm glad to hear that."

[asar_suti]

Asar-Suti laughs at that. "Yes, small purplish Dark Gods are good news, and so are healthy squid," he says. "What would Milliways be without its squids? To say nothing of chocolate sauce."

He kisses Gil's cheek, and adds, "Why would anybody mass-produce triangular arrowheads?"

[gil_whimple]

"Mmmm calamari," Gil sighed, planning menus. "No idea. I'm going to make garlic bread - masses of it.

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy is outside, small curly-haired baby in his arms.

He waves at Gil.

[gil_whimple]

Gil waves back and trots across. "Gimme," he says, hlding out his hands for the baby.

He has long got over his terror of dropping them. He just handles them as though they were a souffle.

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy does so, with a grin. Anita is ten weeks or so old now, so she can hold her head a bit.

"I forget, have you two met?"

[gil_whimple]

"No, but she's cuddly." Gil says, taking her as though she is the most precious and delicate thing in the world. He looks at her approvingly. "Lovely! Yours?"

[whitest_witch]

"A faun," says the very very tall, very very pale woman.

"I suspect you must be Gil Whimple, as Asar-Suti has spoken of you."

The witch offers him a smile, even though the sight of a faun causes slight pain - but this is not Narnia.

"I am Jadis."

[gil_whimple]

"Suti has spoken of you, your ladyship," Gil says and tucks one fetlock behind the other and bobs a little bow. "Yes, I'm Gil. Honoured to meet you."

[whitest_witch]

Well, proper manners will go a long way to easing things, will they not?

"Likewise," she says with a frosty smile. "It was all good things I heard."

[gil_whimple]

Gil snickers. "It must've been a day I didn't tease him." There's something about the enormously tall lady that makes him uneasy - he's got a crick in the neck for a start - so he falls back on his usual babbling. "Yes, Suti has a lot of friends. I 'spose people of Enormous and Arcane Power flock together a bit like birds."