comment fic meme!
Following the results of the poll we took last month (don't make it easy on us or anything, guys, haha!), we've decided to hold a comment fic meme once every three months. This gives everyone time to write and prompt to their heart's content, and allows us mods to keep up with y'all. And we're starting right now!
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"From whom?"
"I'd rather not say. Some very complex harmonics, to amplify sound from one plane of reality and dampen all other sound. It was made for a poet who had a serious thing about fairies--"
As she spoke, Urania had been winding the music box (and avoiding my eyes). She let it play. There was a dull, tinny sort of tune, but also a deeper, outside-human-hearing thrum, and then--
"--what a clever little muse, digging that up."
--we could all hear the leprechaun. Urania demonstrated, by talking and clapping, that it was hard to hear anything but the leprechaun, and there was some confused gesticulation, mostly between Urania and Dean; Sam looked like he was appreciating not hearing some of the other planes he'd probably been eavesdropping on.
"But where did you get it, hmm? Last I heard, after the gentleman died it found its way back to--"
Urania stuffed the music box back into her bag, closed the bag, dumped it on the bed, and sat on it, cutting off the tinny music and the leprechaun. I looked at her for a moment, then turned to Sam.
"What did he say? Name your price."
Sam opened his mouth to tell me, then stopped. "Your history with us. Your family's history with my family."
"Let's not get Clio into this," Urania said hastily.
"My immediate family's history, that I personally know of, with your family going back not further than your grandparents," I countered.
"Mel!"
"He said Taliesin."
"Did he." I glowered at Urania, who put a hand to her face.
(No woman is happy to discover her lover cheated on her with her sister. Taliesin... well. Let's say none of us have inspired any harp music in the last century.)
"I knew he had it, and Polly's life is at-- Is in the balance. Leave it, Mel. So, the music box makes you hear stuff from the fairy world, to the near-exclusion of other things. It should be possible to make a similar one for this world."
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Still enjoying this, and looking forward to the conclusion!
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