Quest 210

[primrosella]

Comments

[horrible_penny]

Framing's fine! Someday I'll have to take some photos of you to work off of so I can do more than a sketch. Sitting for an actual drawing would be boring like you have no idea. I'm really, really flattered that you like it that much. Really.

I was thinking about the cranes. Do you think whoever left them around made a thousand of them?

I'm really liking August.

[primrosella]

Just so long as you don't use the picture of me tied up on the ground, you're welcome to any pictures you like, or any that you'd like to take yourself! But I'm sure I wouldn't mind sitting for a drawing, either, since I had so much fun sitting for the sketches.

A thousand? Goodness, I can hardly imagine what someone would do with so many cranes. Is there something special about a thousand in particular?

I'm glad you're enjoying it, Penny.

[horrible_penny]

What? Nooo. No. Definitely not a good pose for a princess. And a sitting could be kind of fun. Sorry for poking around your conversations, but you making faces? That would be funny.

I've heard something about getting a wish if you make a thousand? But by the time you get that many made, you deserve to have a wish granted. I hope whoever's handing the cranes out is at least getting karma points.

[primrosella]

It really was tempting to start making them when you were sketching me, you know! But I'm glad I managed to restrain myself. I like the sketch just the way it is, without any sign of me sticking out my tongue or wrinkling my nose.

Really? What an odd way of granting a wish! But if there really are a thousand, do you suppose that means we're all meant to put the ones we received together?

[horrible_penny]

But then the sketches would've been so you! Imagine the personality!

It is, and I don't really know how the wish-making's supposed to work. Maybe we could put them all together. Or maybe we all have to make 999 more.

[primrosella]

Making silly faces is so me? I'll keep that in mind for next time, then, if you'd prefer!

Goodness, that's quite a daunting task, isn't it? And I haven't the slightest idea how to make even one. I suppose I could take this one apart and see how it's folded and try to put it together again, but that seems like such a shame, ruining it for the sake of learning how.

[horrible_penny]

I mean that in a good way! It's endearing.

I don't know how anyone makes that many--or any at all. Maybe someone would teach you? Someone in here has to know how. I mean, at least the person who made them.

[primrosella]

Well, I'll save up a perfectly ridiculous one for you, the next time I see you. I'll stick out my tongue and everything.

I suppose it would take a great deal of time and patience--though really, I suppose that might be the whole point, since the person is getting a wish in exchange. Perhaps it's so that the person will have plenty of time to think about their wish while they make the cranes, to be sure that they're really making the right one.

[horrible_penny]

You're amazing, Rosella.

That makes sense! It's like any kind of wish... you have to work for it and think about it and make sure you're not making a mistake. After a thousand cranes, I bet you've earned a wish and you're sure that it's what you want.

[primrosella]

Yes, and you have to be very careful of what you wish for, too. Sometimes the way you say a wish can be just as important, if not moreso, than the wish itself. There are plenty of stories of genies that grant wishes but will turn it around to make it something bad, no matter how good of a wish it was at first. And there are some genies that just grant wishes without you even wishing for them in the first place! My father met one like that once.

[horrible_penny]

What happened? With your dad and the genie? I mean, he's your father... I'm sure he was smart about all of it.

[primrosella]

Oh, well, it was a kind genie, so it all worked out all right. It just didn't give him the chance to make any wishes; every time he rubbed the lamp, the genie popped out and gave him a gift to help him in his quest before he could even say a word. And they were very nice gifts, too--a flying carpet, and a dagger with a snake carved into the handle, and a silver bridle.

[horrible_penny]

That's really handy. Psychic quest-helping genies... I bet there aren't many of them. But even if it would've been one of the usual genies, I'm sure your father would've been okay.

[primrosella]

Genies in general are few and far between, I think. They often come up in stories about the Land of the Green Isles, but of course those are only stories, so they're hardly reliable. But I'm sure if Daddy ever were to meet one of the other kinds, he would've been quite all right, yes!

[OOC: Hilariously enough, Graham does meet an evil genie in KQ5. And yes, he gets away successfully, too. ♥]

[horrible_penny]

What about you? What would you do if you found a genie?

[ooc: ...I need to play KQ. ;;]

[primrosella]

Well, that depends on the kind of genie, I think! But if I had three wishes of my own, and I was sure of getting them...I have a few ideas, I think.

[OOC: I'll just leave this right over here... /whistles]