The best walk-on in "Wizards at War"...

[dianeduane]

If you ask me: but then I'm biased.

It's a humanoid, Nita thought, as the figure came toward them through the smoke. What's that hanging off its head? Humanoids don't usually have tentacles there. And it doesn't look like it's armed.

It wasn't a very big humanoid, either. It was only a little bigger than Nita. As it came through the smoke, Nita could have sworn it was actually human -- the skin color was one of the possible ones, the eyes and other dimly-seen features seemed to be in the right places, and the clothes -- Jeez, will you look at those, Nita thought at the sight of the cropped black T-shirt, the cargo pants in a truly eye-jangling hot-pink-and-green floral print, and the strappy, high pink boots. And the "tentacle" wasn't a tentacle at all, but, hanging down in front of one shoulder, a single long, thick, dark --

-- braid??

Madolin has caught the moment.

Thanks, Mad!!

Comments

[terredancer.livejournal.com]

That admittedly was one of my favourite bits out of the book. (Among many, of course.) Even if the mental image of Carmela's cargo pants likely would have made my eyes hurt.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

(snrk) It made *mine* hurt, I can tell you. :) Madolin has been kind to us by rendering this in B&W.

[azurelunatic]

The moment has been captured indeed.

The other people on the bus at the moment when I was reading it had given up on looking at me oddly by that point, as I'd been snickering for some time.

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

Haven't read the book yet, but I'm not surprised to see (if I've interpreted this correctly) that Carmela has been offered the Oath. I was wondering how long it was going to take before a problem requiring her for the solution was going to crop up.

[inklesspen.livejournal.com]

Damn, I've got a great bit of wordplay to reply to this with, but it's spoilers.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Same here - finished it yesterday. And to say more would indeed be spoilery.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Mela! Woohoo! I've been getting more and more interested in her. Although in Madolin's comic neither she nor Nita look anything like the way I pictured them, por supuesto.

I didn't know it was out! Wahoo!

*tears off to bookstore, forgetting that current clothing consists of bathrobe, underpants, and flip-flops*

[cjmr.livejournal.com]

I've actually seen hot-pink-and-green camo pants in a children's clothing catalogue. They also had purple-and-bright-orange ones. I don't know what they were thinking.

[wetdryvac.livejournal.com]

*grins*

That scene nearly got me kicked out the library, it did. Thanks for the link to the pic.

[terani.livejournal.com]

I still would love to see the return of hot pick parachute pants from the 80's in some book. Ahh... the good old days.

*nods* Finished it yesterday.

*sighs* I think I lost my mental bet. Oh well.

*dreams of Ireland*

[kengr]

There is a *real* camo pattern that's shades of pink and grays. It's for certain desert areas.

A few years back some folks showed up at Orycon wearing it and claiming to be Martian Special Forces (they'd had some good unit patches done up)