All Gold

[altariel]

Golden toys with keys and wheels that whirred.

Comments

[solanpolarn]

You really do a great job of capturing the mind of these children at different ages. Bron's logic is perfect, and reminds me of a conversation I had with my three-and-a-half year old niece when I visited her family in Uppsala (Sweden) at the end of April: She stated that I speak English, which she knew because she had visited me here in London last summer, and I agreed that I did. Then she followed it up by saying "You do speak some Swedish as well, don't you?", perfectly seriously -- and all in Swedish. *grin*

[altariel]

"You do speak some Swedish as well, don't you?", perfectly seriously -- and all in Swedish. *grin*

Aw, bless her!

I'm glad they sound about right. They're a bit older than 3 and a half, so I'm probably stretching their responses a bit, but Bron is still small enough that Gimli would loom over him. And in Bron-World Bigger Person + Beard = Giant.

[solanpolarn]

I was just about to say it made perfect sense to her brother as well and he is one year older, when I realized that actually I have got her age wrong! I keep forgetting that we are in 2011. So my niece is actually 4 and a half, and her brother is 5 and a half.

[altariel]

Phew, that's closer to the ages of the kids in the drabble!

[altariel]

I think this one is probably stretching at the bounds of 100 words quite a bit, and therefore I'm not surprised it's confusing. Yes, that's Gimli, and he's brought some toys from Dale for the Steward's children. The sun-and-moon-twisting-thing is a puzzle because Léof hasn't been born yet, so Morwen doesn't understand why there are three toys. All becomes clear some months later. (It's a tiny orrery, btw.)

[altariel]

I did a splendid job of making it pretty obscure! (Mostly I wanted to call a drabble "All Gold" having had "Black Magic"...)

[lhun_dweller]

I like the line-by-line reader realization that the "giant" is a Dwarf. Nice little tease...

[altariel]

Thank you! :-)