Chatterbox: We Were Not Born for Idleness
The Inkpen Authoress posted this month's Chatterbox topic. Passing the Time And since we had a power outtage and I couldn't work on the newsletter and it was still too early to go to bed...I sat down and typed out this bit of dialogue. Vincent van Gogh We were not - Born - for Idleness Altan pulled out a battered chair and dropped astride it with her arms folded over the back. "It's said that King Marcellenus has declared war against Helmut of Angar." "Again?" Baatar took a long pull at his tankard and drew the back of his hand across his mouth. "Aye, well, he is but an upstart cockerel of a king." "Determined to make a name for himself or lose his kingdom." Baatar snorted. "And the latter seems the most likely." Altan shrugged. "Little care I for that. But both sides will be needing warriors." "'Tis said that their peoples are on the brink