Timestamp: 80th of Summer, 518 A.V.
Continued from: [The Midnight Gem] Koi Ponds & Other Curious Creatures
Continued from: [The Midnight Gem] Koi Ponds & Other Curious Creatures
The building stirred again and Kelski sighed, putting aside her work to talk to it. She laid her hand on the workbench and thought soothing thoughts at it. It was irritated, awoken by something disturbing it. Kelski tilted her head not understanding what The Midnight Gem was upset about until it gave her a clear and sharp mental picture of pigeons roosting on its roof. The pigeons themselves weren’t exactly hurting or annoying the building, but their feces was. The building absolutely hated the pigeon poop! The pigeons were pooping all over one roof peak.
Kelski frowned in annoyance.
She wanted to get her cutting done today, but she wanted to help out The Gem and make it comfortable as well. Buildings in the early stages of awakening often needed comforting or entertaining. And if pigeon poop bothered it, Kelski would go hunt her some pigeons. She sent reassurance down their link, and rose from her bench, stretched and stripped off her clothing. Walking through the workshop and out onto the deck, she shifted and had to beat her wings hard to catch air and get into the sky. Eagles were heavy, but jumping off the balcony would have tipped the pigeons off.
Kelski rose in the sky, beating hard, and circled once, diving on at the rooftop. She opened her talons, launching them forward, and was in the middle of a mass chaos of pigeons before they knew what hit them. She caught birds in either talon, snapped their necks and tossed them onto the balcony before circling around and grabbing another and another as the birds all panicked and started taking wing.
She had a dozen or so by the third pass, her balcony littered with corpses. And she was most pleased with herself until she saw what the pigeons had left. White nasty bird droppings were everywhere. And the Kelvic knew the house wasn’t going to be happy. She landed on the balcony, called for Ember to come and see if she’d clean the birds – which she did – while Kelski drew a bucket of soapy sudsy water and grabbed a scrub brush and set it out on the balcony. Then she shifted to her eagle form, grabbed the bucket handle, and took off in the most awkward sloshing manner possible. But she got half the bucket to the roof, shifted to her human form, and began cleaning.
Two bells later she was finally done and the building was soothed. Luckily Little Rhaus made an appearance and began to play for her, easing the headache of shifting and scrubbing bird poop in the awkward morning light. Ember had pigeons and was going to make some sort of pigeon pie with them, which was actually something Kelski loved. She’d discovered how good pies were with Tove at Isle Park this year and she’d been a fan ever since.
So with a clean roof, Kelski went back to the workshop and picked up her dop once more, studying the preshaped sapphire and her diagram. Facets needed to be made from table to cutlet, some of the cuts forming other cuts just by virtue of the angles.
WC: 526