So, since I can kinda bend my arm again--

[taennyn]

This journal is currently accepting sparks.

Edited to add that I'm done for the day, I think. :) Thank you, all.

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Wild Roses:
"the word "_____" is starting to lose all meaning to me now." (Ruadhan and Donel)
"more teeth than I want to face in the morning" (Ruadhan, Hernén)
"a beautiful hide" (Baroness Sidonie Two Rivers)
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"Wizard-in-a-box" - unknown

[taennyn]

"And so they locked the wizard and his heart away in separate boxes, so he couldn't escape, and they set the box with his knowledge away in a library, where only the most determined could ask questions . . "

" . . . But the story's not done!"

"Yes it is, see?"

"That's just wrong. How can the story stop there? Does the wizard ever get to get free? Or die? Did someone find his heart and ask what it wanted? Or--"

"--alright, fine, here. Years later, after the people who fought the wizard forgot about him, a very determined student of the Most Arcane Arts started research for their thesis. Now, it was supposed to be on ways to avoid death, looking for historical examples based on Koschei's legends, but the student kept finding evidence for a different legend being true. So they kept looking, distracting their advisors with philosopher's stones and hares that hid within ducks, until they found the wizard in the box."

"Ooh. What then?"

"The student asked the wizard if it'd been worth it--involuntary immortality at such a price. The wizard asked if the student was stupid, said of course it wasn't, and told the student to go soak their head. So the student went away, and did more research, and came back again, and broke the wizard's box into nine pieces, caught the wizard's soul before he could so much as shout 'Freedom!', stuffed the wizard's mind back in with his heart, added a few books written on the wizard's lifetime and what he'd taught the world, and left him to stew for a week."

"Was he dead when the student came back?"

"Stop bouncing like that, you're far too gleeful about this sort of thing. No, the wizard wasn't dead, just very quiet, and very sad. The student gave him the keys to his box, and the nice pieces of his other box, and told him to do as he would.

The wizard was never heard from again . . at least not by his own name."

"Ooooooooh. There! Much better end to the story. Now tell me about Koschei!"

Re: "Wizard-in-a-box" - unknown

[illian]

*cackle*

Re: "Wizard-in-a-box" - unknown

[billradish]

"Stop bouncing like that, you're far too gleeful about this sort of thing."

I like it! Write more! *channels Dormouse*

Re: "Wizard-in-a-box" - unknown

[klgaffney]

*delight!*

yes, do tell.