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smallestopenerIngress 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: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Date: 2010-05-19 02:18 am (UTC)The notes turn into horses that gallop and whinny through the air.
blacks and bays, dapples and greys
"I've missed you. And your songs."
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:20 am (UTC)Go to sleep
Don't you cry
Rest your head upon the clover
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:23 am (UTC)Re: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Date: 2010-05-19 02:30 am (UTC)"Maybe we need a song for waking up."
The music is round and bouncy and yellow.
The warmth of your smile
smile for me, little one
and this will be our year
took a long time to come
You don't have to worry
all your worried days are gone
this will be our year
took a long time to come
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:35 am (UTC)And she smiles.
Re: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Date: 2010-05-19 02:37 am (UTC)Little darlin', it's been a long and lonely winter
Little darlin', it feels like years since it's been clear
But here comes the sun
Here comes the sun
And it's all right
Re: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Date: 2010-05-19 02:40 am (UTC)She sings along. They know this song in the Underside, too.
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:45 am (UTC)Still, Charlie changes again
(Sometimes the dead have things to say. They just have a hard time saying it.)
and the music bounces along the ground like measured footsteps.
We sang about the sun and danced among the trees
And we listened to the whisper of the city on the breeze
Will you cry in the most in a lead-free zone
Down within the shadows where the factories drone
On the surface of the wheel they build another town
And so the green come tumbling down
Yes close your eyes and hold me tight
And I'll show you sunset sometime again
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:01 am (UTC)There are purple butterflies drifting through the windows and filling the rafters. Their wings flap to the beat to the music.
Re: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Date: 2010-05-19 03:03 am (UTC)On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes
As a child's silent prayer my hope hides in disguise
While satellites and cameras watch from the skies
An acid drop of rain recycled from the sea
It washed away my shadow burnt a hole in me
And all the king's men cannot put it back again
But the ghetto sun will nurture life
And mend my soul sometime again
Charlie stills the strings.
Re: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Date: 2010-05-19 03:09 am (UTC)She stands and kisses him on the cheek. The butterflies flutter down and surround them.
"I think I have to follow them. They show me where to go. But I don't leave the path."
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:11 am (UTC)Re: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Date: 2010-05-19 03:13 am (UTC)"Oh, I shall. I'll never stop."
She turns to follow the butterflies, but she turns around once more, silhouetted in sunlight, and waves.
She doesn't say goodbye. There will be music in her dreams again.
Re: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Date: 2010-05-19 03:14 am (UTC)On a simple line day by day