Joly smiles back. Feuilly is the nicest! Except that Bossuet is the nicest. Very tall. Nice to lean on when everything's funny and wobbly.
Things go wobbly now, as Joly waves an arm in excitement. "Three ladies! So many ladies! I told you, didn't I? So many, in the forest. And --and they were naked? I wasn't sure, they had very very long hair, all--"he gestures in a way that might indicate very long flowing tresses covering much of a person's skin, or might indicate a desperate attempt to regain balance. "--but their arms and legs were bare? It doesn't seem a comfortable way to ride horses. But the three of them, yes. They asked us, they said choose between them? Well, we couldn't do that! That was rude! I asked if they'd seen the cat. The , the white one. With the hair. The woman, I mean. She wasn't a cat, the woman who was a cat was later. The woman on the white horse, she showed us the burning sword, Bossuet, that's where you're getting confused. We said, oh you're all very lovely-they were all very lovely-- and then there was this burning sword, and she said if we thought ourselves worthy to take it we ...something something." Oddly enough, Joly might not have been paying attention to the exact words of the naked woman with a burning skysword.
"She didn't like our answer. Well of course it was fascinating, just burning in midair like that, but we're not going to try and grab something that's on fire!" Come on, weird naked ladies! "--Bossuet asked if they wanted wine, Ithought that was very appropriate. In the circumstances."
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Things go wobbly now, as Joly waves an arm in excitement. "Three ladies! So many ladies! I told you, didn't I? So many, in the forest. And --and they were naked? I wasn't sure, they had very very long hair, all--"he gestures in a way that might indicate very long flowing tresses covering much of a person's skin, or might indicate a desperate attempt to regain balance. "--but their arms and legs were bare? It doesn't seem a comfortable way to ride horses. But the three of them, yes. They asked us, they said choose between them? Well, we couldn't do that! That was rude! I asked if they'd seen the cat. The , the white one. With the hair. The woman, I mean. She wasn't a cat, the woman who was a cat was later. The woman on the white horse, she showed us the burning sword, Bossuet, that's where you're getting confused. We said, oh you're all very lovely-they were all very lovely-- and then there was this burning sword, and she said if we thought ourselves worthy to take it we ...something something." Oddly enough, Joly might not have been paying attention to the exact words of the naked woman with a burning skysword.
"She didn't like our answer. Well of course it was fascinating, just burning in midair like that, but we're not going to try and grab something that's on fire!" Come on, weird naked ladies! "--Bossuet asked if they wanted wine, Ithought that was very appropriate. In the circumstances."