seventeen

[lionesssejant]

No home should smell of onions down and upstairs. It's far too cold to open windows. There must be more candles in the house. Who's idea was this? Edmund, I have a sneaking suspicion that would be you. We have to fix this

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[compliantly]

Some ground effelwort should clear the smell up in a bit.

[lionesssejant]

Effelwort? I've never heard of that. But thank you. I'll give it a try.

[compliantly]

I might not exist here, now that I think about it.

[lionesssejant]

Oh. I wouldn't have known. Thank you for the suggestion anyway.

I'm Susan. Where are you from?

[compliantly]

I'm Ella. Of Frell? Although I don't believe anybody here's heard of it at all.

[lionesssejant]

I'm part of those people now. I'm sorry. I'm from London. Some people haven't heard of it either.

[compliantly]

I don't mind. I've never heard of London either.

[lionesssejant]

It's a little fun to go to places you've never heard of. What's Frell like, Ella?

[compliantly]

It's...small. Peaceful, for the most part. Except for the ogres.

[lionesssejant]

Ogres! Are there fauns there too? Talking animals?

[compliantly]

The animals don't. But some of the magical creatures do. The gnomes, for one. And the giants. And the elves.

[lionesssejant]

I've been to a place with all sorts of different creatures. The animals talked. For a moment I thought maybe Frell wasn't far from there.

[compliantly]

It might be. I've never really left Frell, or Kyrria for that matter- and geography wasn't exactly considered a 'ladylike' subject.

[lionesssejant]

There are lady like and unlady like subjects? They want us to learn geography in school. But I don't think that they'd want girls to take on sports at least too many of them.

[compliantly]

I don't think they want girls to do much of anything, actually. Or anything that has to do with real learning. Just sewing. It's very tiresome.