I have a selection of omake one of which might grow into a story, so i thought I'd post them.
Eagle and Falcon Omake
“It’s nice that Michał is making friends with young Leopold of Austria,” said Jeremi. “When Ferdynand does die, we shall make sure Leopold becomes Holy Roman Emperor. We now own a number of votes.”
“Or the Sejm does,” said Jurko.
Jeremi shrugged.
“And Gryzelda and I between us own most of the Sejm, one way or another. It comes to the same thing. We don’t even have to stoop to blackmail; we prefer to have people owing us favours.”
“Gryzelda is as ruthless an operator as any, and makes you look almost an amateur,” grinned Jurko. “Mind, Papa, had you noticed something?”
“Hmmm?” Jeremi was too proud of his wife to take offence at Jurko’s teasing.
“The preponderance of spurious treasure maps on sale have increased since Michaś and Leopold had a lesson in mapping together,” said Jurko.
Jeremi considered.
“Anyone fool enough to believe a purchased treasure map deserves to be taken for a fool,” he said. “It’s all good practice for their map making.”
Jurko grinned.
“Why don’t I suggest a few maps in places where I want to dig canals to get things started?” he said.
“You can’t do that,” said Jeremi. “Mind, if they overheard you discussing how you will need a difficult field dug....”
“I take it back; you’re no amateur at all, my liege,” said Jurko.
omake are what might have happened, could have happened, missing scenes, out-takes and also covers the way a scene could have gone to make it funnier. Short snippet of story not told in the long version covers it pretty well. My apologies for using fanfiction jargon.
ReplyDeleteDo not apologise, both are funny. Although I am curious whether Michaś and Leopold realised how many fools are buying their maps.
ReplyDeletethank you. Hmm, a good question. I suspect they paid the odd stall holder to sell maps and checked up in the first couple of weeks, and then got bored and forgot....
DeleteJurko has a real talent for making unpleasant people turn into very interesting colours.... LOL!
ReplyDeleteLilya Laurel (still don't know what's wrong with blogspot)
it's a Cossack skill?
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