Old, Comfy Shoes

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

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.... Continued.....

to speak very quickly in a foreign language. The B-team had no clue what she was saying. Blade thought about interrupting her, but she was so animated when she talked that he decided to let her go, plus he saw something shiny in the ground and got distracted. Luckily for our heroes, Mace was trained in "fake understanding"; a trait that few master. So Leslie talked on and on and Mace expertly wielded his fake smiles, head nods and raised eyebrows with flair. He even threw in a couple "hmmm.... you don't say..." comments just for good measure. He was good.

Suddenly Leslie paused, looked franticly around, and quietly asked in English, "So will you be able to help me?" Arlo jumped in with "Of course! We're experts!" With a quiet "thankyou" Leslie ran out the door and disappeared.

"So what do we do now?" Mace asked.

"I thought you knew!" The General roared!

"How am I supposed to know... I don't speak that language she was babbling in!" Soon the B-team was in a heated argument over how they are supposed to help Leslie if they didn't even know what her problem was.

Finally Blade ended the argument with, "Well I think she is a drama queen and until we figure this out we should go...

....To be continued.....

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