Suggested changes: {before : after}
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:03:07 -0800 Brian Randall <brian@azurite.org>
wrote:
The silence of the house at night was disturbed only faintly
by the rustlings of tenants moving in their sleep -- a {faintcreaking : faint creaking}
from a toss here, the scuffing of a mumbling of those nearly asleep
as they wandered to the restroom.
Ranma knuckled back a yawn as she stumbled through the main
room of the inn{, :} on her way to the baths. How long was she going to
have to sleep as a girl, anyway? Suu seemed to pop into her bed --
or at least her bedroom -- whenever she was ready to turn in. She
paused on the carpet in the center of the front room, and glanced
outside the window, towards the deck where Shinobu habitually hung
the laundry up to dry, dimly illuminated in the pre-dawn light.
She made a face at him, then shook her head, waving a hand
at him dismissively. "I'm not drunk," she grumped. "And I won't
drink more, {but : so} don't make such a fuss."
Mulling things over, she frowned. She wasn't happy with this
-- she had wanted her sword back on her own terms. But... at the
same time, this meant that Ranma had made the choice, not her. He
had decided not to {fulfil : fulfill} her sister's commands -- not her. And that
meant... that meant....
"Oh, I'm an {archeologist : archaeologist}," he explained. He nodded to
himself, then glanced around the rooftop. "Is Motoko-chan here?"
"{Archeology : Archaeology}?" Ranma asked after a moment, breaking the
silence.