Me and my big mouth.

[val_corax]

Well, I was going to drop the ring off at Nicodemus' Houseboat in the morning, but I caught sight of him in the park before I even got that far and dropped in to say hello. Unsurprisingly, he noticed that I'd fried up my face a little. Explained that I'd been a bit of a twit and had picked up something without giving it a proper eyeball first. I had the ring wrapped up in a bit of cloth and a plastic baggie, as I had been carrying it around in my beak with the intent of dropping it off earlier. I gave the baggie to Nick saying that I had no use for it and that maybe he could think of something to do with it.  

Took me a second to clue in when he took the thing as if he was handling toxic waste. I explained that it was just a gold ring with some fake gems in it. He made the connection pretty quick between the gold and my fried face, as I'd sort of spelled it out to him without really meaning too. Oops. 



Talked to the Mage for a bit after that, filing him in on what I'd been able to discover about the Wyrm-dogs. Seems that the wolves had already filled him in on some of it. We also talked about the video he sent me, with the screaming bald kid in it. The whole incident had really amused him and it was so nice to see him laugh and smile like that. You have to laugh in this world, or it'll drive you mad. I suggested calling him up if I ever spotted the kid, so we could tease the hot-head, mostly by having me take a crap on his hot head. Then Nick opened up a bit and actually admitted to using a Jedi mind-trick on the hot-head to make him back off. I was right about him using those movies as a base for what he does!



I was so pleased to have Nicodemus be so open with me and actually admit to using his Magic, that I let the verbal filters slip. My mouth ran off before my brain could catch up with it and shut it up. He did /not/ need to hear all that and it seemed to put a bit of a damper on things. We talked very briefly after that, with me feeling like I wanted to crawl off and die from embarrassment, because I'd blabbered away. I made up a vague excuse about mountains of paperwork that I had to get to, which I do, but I have to wait until my face heals first, then I left. 

Hit the mall instead of work and managed to replace the hat, scarf, and glove combo that I gave to Morgan yesterday. Then I just went home and spent most of the afternoon in raven form and catching up on some sleep.