The Princess Birthday Ball
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smallestopenerThe huge, white tent sprawls on the lawn beside the lake. It has been transfigured there for a very special occasion. A stone walkway leads from the bar to the tent - the pavements are wide enough that ladies' dresses won't trail on the ground as they make their way to the entrance. Over the draped curtains of the entrance way is a large banner which reads "Happy 7th Birthday, Ingress".
Once inside, the honored guests will be in the midst of an enchanted ballroom. There are balloons drifting in bunches from the circular tables lining the sides of the large dance floor. Floating candlabras glow with gentle light from above. There are trees in large ornamental pots interspersed throughout sparkling with fairy lights from real fairies.
One long banquet table is positioned on along the side of the ballroom - there are treats of all description. Little finger sandwiches, chopped up fruit, cookies, cheese and crackers, and other child-friendly h'ors douerves are presented to make sure the dancers are sustained throughout the the party. There are large bowls of ice cream (kept cold with magic)and sundae fixings. Punch bowls of sherbet-flavored drinks await ladling into crystal goblets. But most impressive is the large birthday cake with blue, purple, and pink icing roses festooning it.
Ingress is busy greeting her guests in her gown - a birthday gift from Amy and Susan - but soon she'll be dancing to the music provided by the overlarge Gramophone in the corner, which is playing a wide array of dancing music from waltz standards to court music to pop hits of the 20th century.
Tom, who's pretty tired from the magical effort required to pull this off, is in the background making sure his little girl is having a perfect party, and Princess Amy is helping Ingress in her hostess duties.
Come in and enjoy the party!
Once inside, the honored guests will be in the midst of an enchanted ballroom. There are balloons drifting in bunches from the circular tables lining the sides of the large dance floor. Floating candlabras glow with gentle light from above. There are trees in large ornamental pots interspersed throughout sparkling with fairy lights from real fairies.
One long banquet table is positioned on along the side of the ballroom - there are treats of all description. Little finger sandwiches, chopped up fruit, cookies, cheese and crackers, and other child-friendly h'ors douerves are presented to make sure the dancers are sustained throughout the the party. There are large bowls of ice cream (kept cold with magic)and sundae fixings. Punch bowls of sherbet-flavored drinks await ladling into crystal goblets. But most impressive is the large birthday cake with blue, purple, and pink icing roses festooning it.
Ingress is busy greeting her guests in her gown - a birthday gift from Amy and Susan - but soon she'll be dancing to the music provided by the overlarge Gramophone in the corner, which is playing a wide array of dancing music from waltz standards to court music to pop hits of the 20th century.
Tom, who's pretty tired from the magical effort required to pull this off, is in the background making sure his little girl is having a perfect party, and Princess Amy is helping Ingress in her hostess duties.
Come in and enjoy the party!
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Date: 2006-05-16 03:27 am (UTC)Standing back up, she addresses Snow again. "We're going to have dancing, too. And cake!"
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Date: 2006-05-16 03:34 am (UTC)"Thank you, Ingress. You look quite lovely, yourself."
Millie and Wade snap to attention at the mention of cake.
"Perfect. Everything a party should have. Do you want to open your present now, or would you rather wait until later?"
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Date: 2006-05-16 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-16 04:05 am (UTC)"Then by all means, open it."
The box contains a rather nice dress, in the same style as Snow herself wore at that age. The color scheme has been altered somewhat to a lovely shade of blue, but it's not obvious if you weren't there back in the old days.
But this is just something simple. The real present is in an ebony scroll tube with Snow's royal crest etched on the side.
Within, a sheet of parchment. Snow wrote it herself with quill and ink in elegant calligraphy. The wording is highly formal, but the basic gist of it is that Ingress has been named as an heir to the throne of Snow's old kingdom.
The actual power is effectively nil -- while Snow is perfectly able to name another heir to the line, tradition requires right by marriage and bloodlines to carry more weight than any declaration. And odds are, the land she rules over has been considered a dictatorship for the past 560 years. So Ingress is behind Millie and Wade in line for the throne and doesn't really have any more power than before, but still a genuine princess.
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Date: 2006-05-16 04:24 am (UTC)Then she reads the scroll. She sounds out the bigger words and her eyes get very wide. She knows what "heir to the throne" means.
"Really????"
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Date: 2006-05-16 04:33 am (UTC)"Yes, Ingress. You're a real princess. I'll admit the tube, dress and parchment are just replicas Bar provided, but it's all authentic. And I have full authority to grant this title to you. The actual politics are a bit tricky, but suffice to say you're as much a royal as I am."
A queen who hasn't seen her kingdom in over half a milennia where, odds are, none still living can recall her reign and might prefer the dictatorship . . . well, at least Ingress can't get to the Homelands.
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Date: 2006-05-16 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-16 04:46 am (UTC)"Yay! Now we're BOTH real princesses!"
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Date: 2006-05-16 04:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-16 05:03 am (UTC)"This is gonna be so much fun!"
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Date: 2006-05-16 05:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-16 05:14 am (UTC)"Of course, we won't keep you from your duties as a hostess. Happy Birthday, Ingress."
With that, the trio move to mingle.