45 - video [postdated to evening]

[kyasdaughter]

[Katara is sitting outside, close to an apple tree and between the Minbari Skyscraper and the lake. She has some fish spitted and roasting over the flames of a bonfire and about a dozen apples roasting on some hot embers. It's dark, but her face is highlighted by the licking flames of the fire.]There are plenty of apples to bake, and the fire is

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[voice]

[mister_hatter]

Once upon a time-

[voice]

[kyasdaughter]

Uh huh. Go on.

[voice]

[mister_hatter]

There was a little boy who lived in the woods.

[kyasdaughter]

And how did he come to live there?

[mister_hatter]

His father was a woodcutter, his mother was dead. Every day his father would go out and leave him to play by himself. It was a dangerous forest in a dangerous time, and secretly the man hoped that the little boy might one day simply no longer be his problem- but every day he came home and he was still there, asleep on the cold floor.

[kyasdaughter]

He was hoping his son would die?

[mister_hatter]

He was evil. This is a ghost story.

[kyasdaughter]

.. right. What happened next?

[mister_hatter]

"He was playing in the woods when he met a young boy."

[kyasdaughter]

What was the boy like?

[mister_hatter]

Young, pale- underfed.

[kyasdaughter]

Alright. Go on.

[mister_hatter]

When the lonely woodcutter's child met the child from the hill, they fell into friendship with immediate relief.

[kyasdaughter]

That sounds nice.

[But her tone is wary.]