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Ingress of the House of Arch ([personal profile] smallestopener) wrote2010-05-09 12:38 am

Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.

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.
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[personal profile] once_a_queen 2010-05-21 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Susan pours and hands her namesake a biscuit.

"I think that's an excellent idea, my dear. Tea makes everything better."
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[personal profile] kitchen_maid 2010-05-23 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Tea and company," Amy says, busying herself with sugar and cream.

"Nice company," Princess Susan adds. She breaks her cookie in half and offers part to Ingress.

There are plenty of other cookies, of course, it wouldn't be a proper tea without plenty of cookies.

But that's not the point.
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[personal profile] once_a_queen 2010-05-23 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Worlds can be different, but you take what's important with you. I should think the denizens of Haven wouldn't mind learning something new. It was so at Cair Paravel."

She gazes into the distance a moment, but she's not sad. She's simply thoughtful.

"And it shall be for you, Ingress."
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[personal profile] kitchen_maid 2010-05-23 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
"You can be quite at home in a land you weren't born in," Amy says.

"More than one, even.

"And you'll do brilliantly, wherever you go."

She leans closer, holding her left hand just in front of her heart, near the dreamcatcher she wears around her neck, light catching on her betrothal ring.

"And all of this will always be with you here, whenever you need it."
Edited 2010-05-23 03:07 (UTC)
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[personal profile] kitchen_maid 2010-05-23 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
"And there is always room for more," Amy says, reaching down to ruffle her daughter's hair.

"Hearts are even bigger than dragons," Susan adds, decidedly.

"Bigger and stronger," Amy says.
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[personal profile] once_a_queen 2010-05-23 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Bigger and stronger than the southern sun," says Queen Susan the Gentle.

She hands Ingress a cup of tea, and the saucer does not even clink once. They are no longer in the barn; the tea is laid out under the trees by the greenhouse now.

"By the Lion's mane, dearest, thou art brave and true of heart. Take this joy wherever you go."
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2010-05-26 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
The trees glow with the warm golden light from the sky above them, and the wind in the branches whispers, shaking leave which are not emerald but almost seem to dream of being such an old, beloved shade.

There is a soft laughter coming from above her, just as a slow shower of the leaves shower down on the girl below the tree.
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2010-05-26 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
There is a rustle of skirts, and a second wave of leaves falling.

"Maybe it's you?" The voice is quiet and smooth and teasing.
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2010-05-26 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
When is, just maybe, when a smiling face finally peers down at her.

And somehow the length of a gown that managed to both be perfectly fine and untangled by the tree and it's branches, and quite as there as it had appeared to have not been there during the first wave of looking.

"Perhaps, you are right. I do not seem to have blue hair."
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2010-05-26 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Marian smiled brightly at the greeting, then reached out and cupped one of Ingress's cheek, with a light, soft curl of her fingers. "Trees should always be climbed, dear one. You never know what is hiding them."
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2010-05-29 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Marian smiled, even as white blossoms mixed into her black hair.

"And other things, as well. It's important to go looking, for those things most hidden in places sometimes overlooked. Such wonders can be found in them."
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2010-06-01 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Marian similarly lowered her head, a little regally, to the butterfly, and then hugged the little girl close, a kiss brushing across her temple and into her wind-rustled, apple-blossomed, blue hair.

"Go then, valiant one, and you will find all your heart seeks," is whispered close.