Cuhulian Wastes Away (Continued)

Cu and Fand hit it off straight away due to a commonality of interests, chief among these bein' poetry and killin' folk. The both of them, that is Cu and Fand were poets of modest fame and killers too, so they were not just puttin' on airs, either. Into the night they visited and spoke poetry one to another and enjoyed also several bottles of ginger mead. Eventually all the poetry and visitin' in verse and some actin out of the verse, (for example, if Cu's poem involved killin' he would act out the killin' while spellin' the verse), worked up good appetites in the twain of them, both Fand and Cu. Anon they took a break from the poetry and ginger mead drinkin' to have supper. The supper they et up was tomato bisque soup, broiled brook trout, greens sauteed with garlic and butter, scalloped potatoes and sour dough buns and all of it was delicious.

Supper concluded Fand allowed that a Banshee king friend that she was currently livng with was havin' lotsa problems with a rival Banshee king. This particular troublesome Banshee king was given over to rustlin' and was otherwise discourteous and loutish in every manner possible. And such a loathsome character did Fand describe of him, this particular Banshee king, that Cu immediately began to hate his guts. Also, Fand described in much detail the depradations of this Banshee king and the 3000 odd host of rascals that ran with him. So when Fand further suggested that Cu could win great honor and much else besides, for example, a cuddle er two with Fand herself, if Cu would rid Fand and her friend of this particular Banshee king, Cu agreed most heartily to undertake just that.

Now we need to back off and examine the situation. Here we have a married man, only lately recovered from a debilitating sickness of more than a year's duration, besotted with mead, poetry and a delicious supper, promising to single-handedly take on 3001 hardened rascals. And what does he get out of it? --- a cuddle er two with a married woman who is not living with her husband, but with a boyfriend. Well, stranger things have happened. So after performing some ablutions Cu did indeed set out through the faerie landscape to find the troublesome Banshee king and the 3000 rustlin' rascals and put an end to him, and them.

Sure enough after a great while or a good while or only a short while, maybe, Cu indeed encountered the Banshee king and associated rascals. Espying the Banshee king from a ways off and espyin that the Banshee king's back was turned, Cu chucked a spear at 'em and kilt that rascal dead. Then he kilt 30 more rascals and that just warmed him up good. Cu worked a great slaughter on the rustlers that day and collected so many heads that he had to hire portage back to the tourist court fer 'em. This is the manner of the portage. Two wagons pulled by two oxen per wagon, makin' four total ox were loaded up with all the heads Cu had cut off. Still, there were so many heads in the bed of the wagon that many of those heads, the ones riding on top appeared to be peeping out over the wagon side panels.

Fand's boy friend, seeing that his enemies were dispatched from their heads, felt great about the way things were going and courteously left the tourist court, leaving Fand and Cu to disport themsleves at their leisure which they did do for two full cycles of the moon. Then Cu finally decided he needed to get some exercise of the walkin' around sort and chariot ridin' sort so they parted fer awhile, but agreed to meet up at Ibor Cind Trachta, another Banshee owned and operated tourist court, but this tourist court was located on the sea shore facin' Alba.

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