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Out by the lake, there is a large construction dedicated to the 10th birthday of Lady Ingress of the House of Arch. Ingress has had birthday parties on this site before - there was a birthday princess ball her 7th year, a playground party for her 6th.

This party is different from either of those. Tom, Door, and Ingress worked on the design for months.

There are three ways to get into the birthday party.

Guests can go through the hedge maze. It's enchanted, of course, but the walls shift places at a docile rate. The path is wide and firm, so this is the easiest way to enter the party.

Guests might also try the obstacle course of tubes to crawl through, walls to climb, ropes to swing over deep ball pits, curly slides to fling themselves down. The only enchantment on this entrance are anti-falling charms.

Or guests can bounce through the giant bouncy castle!

Once they've passed through either of the three entrances,they will enter the clearing for the birthday party proper. Picnic blankets are spread out over the grass, and there are plenty of chairs scattered about. Paper lanterns float above people's heads with purple and green streamers linking them together.

A long table overflows with plenty of cold water, birthday treats, and other refreshments. There is a cake with lots of icing roses, of course, and ice cream. Each guest may help him or herself to a Wizarding cracker in a large basket at one end of the table, and there is space beside it for gifts, should guests wish to bring one. Gifts are not expected, however.

Most importantly, there is Ingress, a little girl in the comfortable gray uniform of a Herald-in-training, who is not so little anymore.

Come and have fun!

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

Date: 2009-06-18 03:01 am (UTC)
ellectrical: (thoughtful)
From: [personal profile] ellectrical
She listens to this, taking a sip of the punch as she does so.

Then, with a glance around the clearing, "Are they always like this?"

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

Date: 2009-06-18 03:19 am (UTC)
ellectrical: (assessing)
From: [personal profile] ellectrical
She nods, now poking at the ice cream with her spoon.

"How long do you have them?"

This... probably wouldn't be a question to ask Ingress, but Elle wouldn't know that.

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

Date: 2009-06-18 03:31 am (UTC)
ellectrical: (thoughtful)
From: [personal profile] ellectrical
But it's not really what Elle meant.

"But -" She pauses, trying to think of a way to ask it that vaguely makes more sense.

"- how old are you when you stop having them?"

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

Date: 2009-06-18 03:52 am (UTC)
ellectrical: (she doesn't comprehend)
From: [personal profile] ellectrical
This makes sense to Elle, as it sounds vaguely like every birthday party she's had since she was... seven.

"So you like them?"

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

Date: 2009-06-18 04:11 am (UTC)
ellectrical: (shorter than you)
From: [personal profile] ellectrical
That... does make sense. Sort of.

She's only vaguely getting the 'friends' part. But if people... like that.

So she glances down at the ice cream and says, a little uncertainly (if she's supposed to have some kind of judgment on it), "It's nice."

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

Date: 2009-06-19 01:54 am (UTC)
ellectrical: (dark smile)
From: [personal profile] ellectrical
"... yeah. Squished."

Uh-huh. That's totally what Elle would do. Yep.

"Wouldn't they try to ... bite people or something?"

It's more of a curiosity than a concern.

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

Date: 2009-06-19 02:31 am (UTC)
ellectrical: (thoughtful)
From: [personal profile] ellectrical
"Oh."

She'll just accept that. Yep.

"It's probably better like this, then."

You know. If you're not supposed to hurt the snakes.

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

Date: 2009-06-19 02:49 am (UTC)
ellectrical: (taken away)
From: [personal profile] ellectrical
Elle smiles, but it's small, one that would be transparently dishonest to someone perhaps a little older. She looks down at her ice cream again.

"Maybe later."

Re: The Birthday Party Clearing

Date: 2009-06-19 03:00 am (UTC)
ellectrical: (watching you)
From: [personal profile] ellectrical
She pauses, with an odd sort of uncertainty.

"It's your party," she replies, as though trying out the answer.

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