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Ingress had a brilliant birthday. She’s eleven. Eleven is nearly grown up! It’s also the year when children in the stories she’s read come into their own. Adventures begin, schooling starts, worlds are saved… she can hardly wait to see what will happen next.
Her party earlier was such fun. Door was almost nice to Puck; Ingress had worried a little about that after she invited him. But he was very nice and charming, and Tom was nice, too, and Puck helped Ingress steal lots of roses off the cake while Havelock talked to Tom and Door, and it was brilliant.
She ate far too much icing sugar, but Tom had the peppermint potion waiting for her when the party was over. She feels much better now. And she’s eleven!
It sounds so good in her head. Eleven, eleven, eleven.
She should have asked Mary to stay the night with her, she thinks, as she tosses and turns. She’s never going to fall asleep, even with staying up past her bedtime. Tom and Door insisted she go to bed after she started yawning. They can be so silly sometimes.
She tosses one more time, and she thinks, again, how impossible it will be to go to sleep tonight. Her eyelids flutter and close. It is not long before she’s deep in dreams.
Her party earlier was such fun. Door was almost nice to Puck; Ingress had worried a little about that after she invited him. But he was very nice and charming, and Tom was nice, too, and Puck helped Ingress steal lots of roses off the cake while Havelock talked to Tom and Door, and it was brilliant.
She ate far too much icing sugar, but Tom had the peppermint potion waiting for her when the party was over. She feels much better now. And she’s eleven!
It sounds so good in her head. Eleven, eleven, eleven.
She should have asked Mary to stay the night with her, she thinks, as she tosses and turns. She’s never going to fall asleep, even with staying up past her bedtime. Tom and Door insisted she go to bed after she started yawning. They can be so silly sometimes.
She tosses one more time, and she thinks, again, how impossible it will be to go to sleep tonight. Her eyelids flutter and close. It is not long before she’s deep in dreams.
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-06 05:35 pm (UTC)Then he looks up to a far horizon that only he can see,
"A sail is on the horizon. To piracy with cake!
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-07 02:10 pm (UTC)She stands and places her feet on the first stair steps (which have become a part of the tower now spiraling up past the rafters.)
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-07 04:20 pm (UTC)Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-07 08:57 pm (UTC)The butterfly flaps past as they level out, and Ingress feels a prickle along the skin of her shoulders. She has her own butterfly wings again.
"Thanks for the ride, Mia, but I have to follow the butterfly."
She kisses Mia on the cheek and waves as she rises into the air. "Bye!"
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-07 08:59 pm (UTC)"Mmm, it tastes of summer!"
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-07 09:00 pm (UTC)Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-07 09:01 pm (UTC)"Look!"
There is a very fancy cake there. Of a pirate ship in full sail.
"You should have to first piece before you go."
She serves it up with the little cutlass that sits on the table top.
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-07 11:58 pm (UTC)Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-08 04:35 am (UTC)The cake is quite impressive, there's even a pirate up in the crow's nest who waves to Ingress.
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-09 02:31 am (UTC)She doesn't seem overly worried by the prospect, which is a key indication of this being a dream.
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-09 02:35 am (UTC)She waves back. The pirate ship cake grows larger and it begins rocking as waves gently splash into the sides.
Ingress steps onto the deck. The sails are painted with purple butterflies.
"I think I get to sail away, too," she calls to the Pirate King. He seems quite far off now.
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-09 02:39 am (UTC)"Follow me!"
They'll play follow-the-leader until Ingress finds Megwyn. Or until she spots the purple butterfly again.
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-09 02:51 am (UTC)"Look!" he cries, pointing into the sky. "There's another one!"
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-09 02:55 am (UTC)"Oh, it's my butterfly. He's helping me find someone."
She waves at the butterfly and it flutters toward them, curly eyelashes blinking.
"Do you want a ride back, or can you get down the ladder yourself?"
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-09 03:05 am (UTC)Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-09 03:08 am (UTC)"Here you go," Ingress says. "You can keep exploring."
She takes the butterfly's hand and prepares to depart.
"I'll see you later, okay?"
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-09 03:13 am (UTC)The green man, already climbing, grins down at her.
"You will, too."
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Date: 2010-06-09 03:47 am (UTC)(Time shifts and changes: now Vanyel's flickering in and out, and the trees behind him are visible through his body. Perhaps, if Ingress looks down, she'll see the gittern Vanyel was holding, grown into the roots of the nearest tree.)
::Ride well, Herald Ingress.::
(Now there's no one here at all.)
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-09 04:25 am (UTC)And takes a long drink.
Re: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Date: 2010-06-09 11:32 am (UTC)It's the Hope, this go-round, shining and larger than she should be, floating on the lake and taking up the center of Mal's vision.
"This is the goal. Always."
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-09 02:34 pm (UTC)Re: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Date: 2010-06-09 02:36 pm (UTC)Galatea flies down, another packet in her talons. She drops it into Ingress' outstretched hands.
Inside are more pictures.
"Caspian's. I'd nearly forgot."
Caspian X smiles up at her, the other Pevensies around him. Eustace waves at her from the confines of the photo.
"It's hard to remember everything."
Re: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Date: 2010-06-09 02:43 pm (UTC)Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-10 02:59 am (UTC)"Are you looking forward to Haven?"
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-10 03:13 am (UTC)"You'll live," the knight grins.
"Yes, for eternity," a wave at the camera, "looking like this."
"It is a shame about her face," Jamie jokes to Ingress.
"Yours is very similar," Thom points out. "I don't know that it's at all effective to tease her about it since that is the case."