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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: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-05 04:35 am (UTC)Enzo is no older than four, by human reckoning. The building blocks he's playing with are each made of four cubes, connected in different configurations. He's building a wall, but he never gets it more than four units tall without it collapsing.
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-05 04:40 am (UTC)When she walks over to the little boy, her skin turns green. She's not a sprite. She's just green for the fun of it.
"I'll help you build a tall one. If you like."
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-05 04:44 am (UTC)Apparently you can win at stacking blocks. Who knew?
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-06 03:31 am (UTC)The fish have swum out to help stack, picking up small blocks with their pixellated mouths and dropping them on top of the blocks Ingress and Enzo stack.
"I bet we could go as high as the moon!"
Or at least the rafters.
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-06 03:41 am (UTC)"I've never been there before!" he says, delighted by the idea. "It'll be a long climb. We'd better bring snacks."
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: 2010-06-09 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."