>Hannelore: "Ritter Hutchins, you earlier confided in me that you had
>an understanding with a lady. Without wishing to intrude, is this the
>reason for your excursions every full moon?"
>Gryphon: "Uh, yes?"
>Erica: (bursts out of a concealed nap spot) "Oohh! I want to meet
>her!"
>Trude: (emerges from where she was closing in on her wife's hiding
>place) "When do you have TIME?" (in the tones of a Karlslander whose
>metronome-like understanding of everyone's scheduling has been
>mortally offended)
>Gryphon: (wryly) "I have all the time in The World."

TRUDE
All right, wait, never mind that. You have a fiancée who lives in the area, but you can only go and see her on the night of the full moon?

G
Mm-hmm. It's a pain.

ERICA
(giggling)
Is she a werewolf?

G
No, she's a vampire.

ERICA
TRUDE
HANNELORE
... what.

I may have to use this when the time comes. :)

(Also, I'm getting the read that Erica would be the one to put two and two together and wonder what Future Mrs. Gryph's stance on the 5 East signup sheet is. "I mean, does she know that there's almost always at least one of us in there? Boy, it sounds totally wrong when I say it out loud like that."

"Oh, sure. She's fine with that."

"Huh. OK. Uh, why?"

"Because she has a very kind and generous heart. And she sees it as her patriotic duty to support our fighting forces with every resource she has."

"It sounds like an even more totally wrong thing when you say it out loud like that.")

--G.
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