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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: 2010-06-01 01:45 am (UTC)She liked flying on Serenity when they went to that planet with the beach. It was neat to see the stars in all the black.
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: 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: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Date: 2010-06-12 01:30 am (UTC)This is the truth.
"Let's sail!"
The lake is placid, and the sun is high.
For now.