Engell's voice was unsually raised, when Kalkin, Brinna and Daverin came walking through Alabaster. The tower was usually pretty tame, serene even. Plus it was truly odd that one could hear Engell's voice at all from here, because normally he was a stately sort of 'quiet'. Today however, all that was out the window.

As were a half dozen flitters and another bunch of drinks dragons, the miniscule yet fully draconic creatures that remained on to serve drinks (and he did seem to drink a bit much). This torrent of mostly white creatures zipped down the hall, fluttering and making haste to remove themselves from Engell's office.

"Not one more! Do you hear me!?" He yelled, and the trio paused as one, wondering if they ought to enter the office or just what. It might be scary.

"It is far from my place to ask it of you sir, but we have come a long way, and we were invited," said a foreign voice. Kalkin looked from Brinna to Daverin and back, and they hazarded a tiny look into the large office where Engell sat.

He couldn't be seen. Because there was a black reindeer in the way. Who apparently spoke with a quaint accent.

"I can't even believe they asked you to come here," said Engell, frustrated and clearly at wits end. "It isn't their place to ask you to come."

"I understand," said the deer, solemnly. "I ... do wish you would consider us to be part of your family now," he said. Something weird happened, or more accurately almost happened.

Engell snapped his hand onto the table, and growled, "you do not have to use magic here, to get your way."

"It is not for me," said the deer. "But for the others."

"What in the living hell is going on here?" Asked Daverin, walking in boldly as was her way. She saw the other two creatures, one all white, and the other an adorable fudge point winged thing. "They're really pretty, oh - did your flitters bring them here? More of them?"

"And Tehn, and Nitadann," he sighed, and sat heavily back down in his chair.

The others made their way past the larger deer, how in the world had it gotten here anyway? Without being seen? He had graceful feathered wings, hardly seen against the darkness of his coat. Kalkin appraised this with a grunt, and then spied the slinky cat-like Zalor mix in the corner, wondered why Engell wouldn't want this one on his side.

"The deer dragon, here, calls himself Kaspar," Engell said, "was going to cast a miracle at me to allow them to stay."

"Well you don't have to waste a miracle on this," Brinna said hugging the snowball-fudge flying feline. "She's adorable!"

"Ah," Engell said. "Well then you handle it, shall you?" He stood, but Kalkin wouldn't let him out. Finally the white-haired man deflated and rolled his head around. "I swear. If they bring in one more, I'm going to take them all to Pern and have Baeris' sister take care of them."

Kalkin and Daverin laughed at that, Brinna on the other hand said with a worried look, "she has a sister?"

The - DRINKS dragons!

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