{"id":211,"date":"2009-11-27T19:56:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/?p=211"},"modified":"2009-11-27T19:56:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T19:56:37","slug":"chapter-85-wiynd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 85: Wiynd."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Wiynd sat at the bar eating her crisps<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Look lady, if you aren&#8217;t going to drink anything could you at least move over, that massive yo-yo of yours is taking up space a paying customer could have.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">hey, I am paying! See this?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wiynd waved her packet of crisps in front of the barman and half of the bag&#8217;s contents flew out over the bar and the barman.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Are you going to clean that up lady?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the barman was not amused.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Hey you clean it up, and get me more crisps, you should treat beautiful ladies like me better, if I decide I like this place men will come from miles around to buy me drinks, then you will be rich!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Beautiful?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The barman let loose \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You&#8217;re as big as ten cows!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Hey, are you trying to say something? I&#8217;m the perfect weight!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">What are you talking about, you already broke one of my stools and you&#8217;re making my floor creak!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">How dare you say something like that, I&#8217;ll have you know I spend my life making sure I have a graceful style, you clearly just cant appreciate it!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Zephyr who was sat further down the bar was getting a headache. He had had the one beer and was waiting for the second before he revealed to this Wiynd girl he was going to kill her. But she was hogging all the service.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Graceful? You must weigh the same as a hundred elephan-\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Shut up!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Zephyr had had enough. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Barman, give me a beer, or I&#8217;ll kill both of you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Zephyr had a gun pointed at both.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Geez, what a scary guy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wiynd said out loud.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The barman gave Zephyr a fresh bottle and he put his gun down before drinking it down as fast as gravity would allow. He then wiped his mouth, picked up his gun again and pointed it at Wiynd.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">HEY! I thought you said you wouldn&#8217;t kill us if you got your beer!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Zephyr smiled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I said I wouldn&#8217;t kill &#8216;both&#8217; of you, I&#8217;m afraid you tubby, are on my death list.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He pulled down his shirt sleeve and revealed his bracelet.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Wiynd saw how many beads were lit up on it. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Holy SHI-\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Zephyr fired his gun and it was all Wiynd could do to pull her yo-yo to her and block the blast, but it still sent her flying back and crashing out the wall of the inn into the cold Norren night outside.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As zephyr got up and walked towards the huge hole in the wall the barman started to ask \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hey, I know she&#8217;s annoying, but who&#8217;s going to pay for th-\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the barman didn&#8217;t finish his sentence, a bullet from zephyr&#8217;s gun separated most of the barman&#8217;s brain and his mouth quite effectively.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">By the way,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d zephyr said to the barman&#8217;s falling corpse, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I&#8217;m a liar, I will kill you both.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at that he stepped out into the snow after Wiynd.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The snow fell lightly around zephyr as he stepped away from the inn, looking for where Wiynd had got to, when he heard her loudly proclaim. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ladies and Gentlemen, young and old, welcome to the first ever show starring the great, the magnificent, Wiynd!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at that bright floodlights turned on all around zephyr revealing Wiynd stood before him atop her huge yo-yo. She must have set up the lights when he was dealing with the barman.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">you&#8217;re a weird one.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">well it&#8217;s true there isn&#8217;t really an audience, but I like the spectacle you know? Plus its good practice for fights when there are spectators, I&#8217;ll be the greatest entertainer ever!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">you know I am going to kill you right?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">You&#8217;re going to try, but as you might have heard,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wiynd jumped off her yo-yo and picked it up over her shoulder. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I spent a long time working on my style, when I beat you I&#8217;ll tell stories of how I slayed the most scary gunman in the snow, people will buy me more benapple sweetcake than I can eat.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Even if it were possible to beat me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Zephyr pulled out his new shotgun, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153its impossible for there to be a limit to how much food you could eat fatty.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Lucida Sans,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Hey!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wiynd launched her yo-yo at Zephyr and he readied himself for the real battle.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wiynd sat at the bar eating her crisps \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Look lady, if you aren&#8217;t going to drink anything could you at least move over, that massive yo-yo of yours is taking up space a paying customer could have.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hey, I am paying! See this?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wiynd waved her packet of crisps in front of the barman and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/writings\/fair\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}