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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: 2010-06-12 03:43 am (UTC)The robot turns its head, nods, and then, with a very dramatic clank, slowly comes to a halt.
"Uh oh. I broke it with compliments."
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-12 03:45 am (UTC)Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-12 03:48 am (UTC)"I do, I do!"
She pulls out a little tool kit from a pocket and then says "Oh!" with surprise as she pulls a wrench from her sword sheath.
"I have them."
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-12 03:55 am (UTC)Kaylee kneels by the robot. "Do you know what to do, Ingress?"
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-12 03:59 am (UTC)She taps on the robot and a control panel pings open. The panel is decorated with lace. Ingress starts pulling out gears, blowing on them to get rid of the dust, and putting them back inside.
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-12 04:01 am (UTC)It's not long at all (or maybe it is, but it doesn't feel like it) before the robot's good as new, and it turns them a little curtsey before soldiering on its way, dress and all.
"It talked to you," Kaylee says, beaming. "They got workings, and they talk."
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-12 04:04 am (UTC)She tucks the tools away under her skirt.
"We haven't any robots in Valdemar. But that's okay. I can fix other things. Hey, do you want some punch? There's a big fountain full of it in the courtyard!"
Re: There once was a little girl who came to Milliways
Date: 2010-06-12 04:05 am (UTC)She holds out her hand to Ingress. "Let's go!"