"After Broken: What the storm left"
Series: After Broken.
Companion to Midas and Nurse Cassandra and Irene Adler.
the series is a set of snapshots of various characters after the pilot episode of season 2.
Title: What the storm left.
Summary: Irene gives Henry the second book with a warning -- and Emma questions Enkindu and Aurora.
Characters: Henry (the Younger), Irene Adler|Jane White; Aurora, Mulan, Enkindu, Snow White|Mary Margaret, Emma.
Rating: PG
Spoilers: 1.01, s1 finale, 2.01, 2.02.
Disclaimer: I own none of them.
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Location: STORYBROOKE:
"I'm here," Henry said, walking into Jane White's office.
"So you are," said Jane, who was also Irene Adler, looking up from a thick little book. "The chair beside you, Henry."
Henry looked there, and there was a book very similar-looking to his Happily Ever After, only this one was titled Transformation He picked it up and was about to thank her for it, when -
Jane quoted, "And now you know, the rest of the story." She then added, "Or you will."
Cool. Not sure if anything could make my mom a sympathetic character, but we'll see, Henry thought. "What're you reading?" he asked.
"Gilgamesh. But you would recognize this part, Henry," and Jane recited:
When something of dawn appeared
a black cloud rose up from the horison.
Adad the thunder god roared within it.
Nabû the god of despoilment and Sharru the god of submission rushed before it,
moving like heralds over mountains and land.
Nergal of the underworld breaks his doorposts.
Ninurta comes, making the dykes flow.
The Anunnaki lift up their torches:
the land glowed in their terrifying brightness.
The confusion of Adad sweeps the heavens
turning all that was light to blackness.
The wide land was smashed like a pot.
Henry made a face and said, "I don't know, it's a bit wordy."
"It's a matter of priorities," Jane said. "The author here is making sure the audience understands not only how destructive it was, but how it was seen and thought of. Your book treats it as a vehicle and nothing more."
"We had it here, too," Henry said.
"We had a fogbank," Jane said. "No one in Storybrooke thought death was at hand. Nothing was destroyed or even knocked aside. The worst it did was to cover our eyes for a few moments."
"Lots of people here were afraid," Henry said.
"I don't doubt it - fear is powerful. "But look through that first book of yours which you so cherish - it was not fear which did the work."
"It was the power, I know."
"Now for your second lesson," Jane said.
"Wait."
"Yes?"
"What was my first lesson?" Henry asked.
"It was a test to see if you had enough curiosity." If you wanted to know the other side of the story, or if half was enough to satisfy you.
~~~
IN THE OTHER WORLD:
Snow and Emma looked over when the Pit's door was at last opened again.
"The Regent wants a look at you both," Mulan said, leading the way, then stepped aside.
The Regent was dressed in two layers of robes, the outer one shorter than the inner one, and a vest atop them both. His face was shaven and curly hair tried to be straight.
Snow gasped.
"You recognize him?" Emma asked her, pretty sure that wasn't the sort of gasp you make when you're glad someone is still alive.
Snow nodded. She knew the Regent as someone who had died and become a legendary figure long before Rumplestiltskin was ever born. "You're Enkindu," Snow said. The Ents of the Cedar Forest described you perfectly when I sought sanctuary among them, it seems.
"I am," he said.
"Enkindu?" Emma repeated, incredulous. I suppose the Hatter should have been a warning that it wouldn't all be fairytales here. But seriously...Gilgamesh's buddy?
"I am."
"Aren't you supposed to be dead?"
Mulan began to draw her sword. Another of the guard had his all the way drawn when -
"Stay your hand," Enkindu asked of them. To Emma, "I was dead. Yes. I lay, smote and struck and leaving nothing but my body and my name to the world. I was nothing but a shade in darkness until the curse that brought ruin upon so much of the world."
"It had a side effect," Aurora said, sounding to Emma like she was just piecing it together.
"For some," Enkindu said. "Those turned to gold, those slain by Dark Ones and gods. For them, even death may die."
And now Lovecraft? Please be a bad choice of words, Emma thought to herself.
'Things turned to gold'? So all of King Midas' treasures... Snow thought with horror, remembering the beastiary she had seen on a royal visit to King Midas years ago. And, in the wake of the civil war, there had been rumors that Midas had gone mad, turning many in his kingdom to gold.
"What does the legendary Wild Man want with us?" Snow asked.
"I was wild, was civilized, was deceased," Enkindu said. "Now, I am regent. His Majesty Prince Philip, slayer of lions, breaker of curses, informed me that power and authority is to pass to Princess Aurora."
Snow turned to look at Aurora. "What do you plan to do with us, Aurora?"
"I'm still thinking," Aurora said
"When you chose, it will be done, Your Highness," Enkindu said. "On your order, the mountain will be crushed."
Yeah, I remember that from school, Emma thought. And that gave her a thought, which prompted Emma to ask, "Princess Aurora?"
"Yes?" Aurora asked.
"From what I've heard in here, you were asleep for a year, not counting the curse. Right?"
Aurora nodded.
"Then don't you know her?" Emma asked, pointing to Snow White.
"How small a word do you think we had?" Mulan asked.
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the end.
Note: The passage comes from Tablet XI, Column iii of Gilgamesh (translated by John Gardner and John Maier)
Companion to Midas and Nurse Cassandra and Irene Adler.
the series is a set of snapshots of various characters after the pilot episode of season 2.
Title: What the storm left.
Summary: Irene gives Henry the second book with a warning -- and Emma questions Enkindu and Aurora.
Characters: Henry (the Younger), Irene Adler|Jane White; Aurora, Mulan, Enkindu, Snow White|Mary Margaret, Emma.
Rating: PG
Spoilers: 1.01, s1 finale, 2.01, 2.02.
Disclaimer: I own none of them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Location: STORYBROOKE:
"I'm here," Henry said, walking into Jane White's office.
"So you are," said Jane, who was also Irene Adler, looking up from a thick little book. "The chair beside you, Henry."
Henry looked there, and there was a book very similar-looking to his Happily Ever After, only this one was titled Transformation He picked it up and was about to thank her for it, when -
Jane quoted, "And now you know, the rest of the story." She then added, "Or you will."
Cool. Not sure if anything could make my mom a sympathetic character, but we'll see, Henry thought. "What're you reading?" he asked.
"Gilgamesh. But you would recognize this part, Henry," and Jane recited:
When something of dawn appeared
a black cloud rose up from the horison.
Adad the thunder god roared within it.
Nabû the god of despoilment and Sharru the god of submission rushed before it,
moving like heralds over mountains and land.
Nergal of the underworld breaks his doorposts.
Ninurta comes, making the dykes flow.
The Anunnaki lift up their torches:
the land glowed in their terrifying brightness.
The confusion of Adad sweeps the heavens
turning all that was light to blackness.
The wide land was smashed like a pot.
Henry made a face and said, "I don't know, it's a bit wordy."
"It's a matter of priorities," Jane said. "The author here is making sure the audience understands not only how destructive it was, but how it was seen and thought of. Your book treats it as a vehicle and nothing more."
"We had it here, too," Henry said.
"We had a fogbank," Jane said. "No one in Storybrooke thought death was at hand. Nothing was destroyed or even knocked aside. The worst it did was to cover our eyes for a few moments."
"Lots of people here were afraid," Henry said.
"I don't doubt it - fear is powerful. "But look through that first book of yours which you so cherish - it was not fear which did the work."
"It was the power, I know."
"Now for your second lesson," Jane said.
"Wait."
"Yes?"
"What was my first lesson?" Henry asked.
"It was a test to see if you had enough curiosity." If you wanted to know the other side of the story, or if half was enough to satisfy you.
~~~
IN THE OTHER WORLD:
Snow and Emma looked over when the Pit's door was at last opened again.
"The Regent wants a look at you both," Mulan said, leading the way, then stepped aside.
The Regent was dressed in two layers of robes, the outer one shorter than the inner one, and a vest atop them both. His face was shaven and curly hair tried to be straight.
Snow gasped.
"You recognize him?" Emma asked her, pretty sure that wasn't the sort of gasp you make when you're glad someone is still alive.
Snow nodded. She knew the Regent as someone who had died and become a legendary figure long before Rumplestiltskin was ever born. "You're Enkindu," Snow said. The Ents of the Cedar Forest described you perfectly when I sought sanctuary among them, it seems.
"I am," he said.
"Enkindu?" Emma repeated, incredulous. I suppose the Hatter should have been a warning that it wouldn't all be fairytales here. But seriously...Gilgamesh's buddy?
"I am."
"Aren't you supposed to be dead?"
Mulan began to draw her sword. Another of the guard had his all the way drawn when -
"Stay your hand," Enkindu asked of them. To Emma, "I was dead. Yes. I lay, smote and struck and leaving nothing but my body and my name to the world. I was nothing but a shade in darkness until the curse that brought ruin upon so much of the world."
"It had a side effect," Aurora said, sounding to Emma like she was just piecing it together.
"For some," Enkindu said. "Those turned to gold, those slain by Dark Ones and gods. For them, even death may die."
And now Lovecraft? Please be a bad choice of words, Emma thought to herself.
'Things turned to gold'? So all of King Midas' treasures... Snow thought with horror, remembering the beastiary she had seen on a royal visit to King Midas years ago. And, in the wake of the civil war, there had been rumors that Midas had gone mad, turning many in his kingdom to gold.
"What does the legendary Wild Man want with us?" Snow asked.
"I was wild, was civilized, was deceased," Enkindu said. "Now, I am regent. His Majesty Prince Philip, slayer of lions, breaker of curses, informed me that power and authority is to pass to Princess Aurora."
Snow turned to look at Aurora. "What do you plan to do with us, Aurora?"
"I'm still thinking," Aurora said
"When you chose, it will be done, Your Highness," Enkindu said. "On your order, the mountain will be crushed."
Yeah, I remember that from school, Emma thought. And that gave her a thought, which prompted Emma to ask, "Princess Aurora?"
"Yes?" Aurora asked.
"From what I've heard in here, you were asleep for a year, not counting the curse. Right?"
Aurora nodded.
"Then don't you know her?" Emma asked, pointing to Snow White.
"How small a word do you think we had?" Mulan asked.
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the end.
Note: The passage comes from Tablet XI, Column iii of Gilgamesh (translated by John Gardner and John Maier)