Ingress of the House of Arch (
smallestopener) wrote2010-05-09 12:38 am
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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.
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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"Well," Puck chirps pleasantly, "taking the air, mistress?"
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"Hi, Puck," she calls, fluttering over a beam. It's easy to fly.
Because it has to be Puck. Who else would be such a pretty robin?
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"Shall you come and wave hullo to the rest?" he inquires. A birdy smile. "We've all come round, you see, in your honor."
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"But in honour of the occasion, perhaps we can let it slide."
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"Can you save the endless technique refinement for the bedroom? We're here to celebrate."
She grins at Ingress.
"Cute shoes."
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"Thanks, Lilly," she says, kicking her legs out to see the sparkles better. She does this with very little wobbling as her wings flap and balance her.
So there!
"I didn't know so many people came up into the rafters."
That hammock looks comfy cozy.
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"It's a fair enough place to watch the world go by," he says, and then because in dreams you can be as honest as you please, "I like it here."
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"All the people you like best are here."
She flutters around Lilly, kissing her on the top of her head.
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"Quite so," he agrees cheerfully.
"And you, Ingress? What of the people you like best?"
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The ice cream cones are from Florean's in Diagon Alley, twisted into fanciful shapes like unicorn horns and intricate loop-de-loops. The flavors are unusual, too, and Lilly's smells a little like her drink. Okay, Ingress thinks, it smells a lot like her drink, but just as there are adult milkshakes, she reckons there are adult ice cream cones, too. She hands Lilly's to her and then Havelock's to him.
How a bird can eat an ice cream cone, Ingress isn't sure, but she has faith that Puck will figure it out. He's clever!
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"Ice cream and everything," she says, sampling hers. It's very good, in that special adult way that will give Tom apoplexy when Lilly teaches Ingress about it in a few years.
"You definitely know how to party."
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She beams and her wings flap. "Thanks!"
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...
Give him a moment.
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Not that Lilly has ever pondered licking Death. Shut up. Just because Raph seemed to think it was fun...
Anyway.
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"But it's very good."