Slumber Birthday Party

[smallestopener]

The tea party room in the House of Arch has been re-arranged. The chests of dress-up clothes are still there, but the large table is gone. In its place are comfy, overstuffed chairs, a long sofa, and several cushions and bean bags scattered about. There is a small table loaded with snacks like crisps, dips, cupcakes, candy, and soda. There's also

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Story Time

[smallestopener]

It's gotten later, the lights are dimmed, and it's time for stories. There's a flashlight to shine in one's face, if one is telling a spoooooky story.

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[queenofmay]

((Story taken from the retelling by S. E. Schlosser

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[smallestopener]

Ingress gasps, her eyes wide. "What happened next?"

She knows some witches. They are very nice people. This sounds like one from the stories who bears no resemblance to the real ones.

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[queenofmay]

Marian repressed the urge to smile. She might not have known the story amazing well since it wasn't of her time, but it had held its own creepy notes for someone who's world did have tales of evil and crazy witches

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[smallestopener]

"Tom said sometimes there are evil spells..."

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[queenofmay]

"That they are," Marian said darkly, over the flash light, aimlessly wondering by how, just how it was the thing worked. Reminded her a little of lightsaber but it wasn't painful light

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[mmquitecontrary]

Mary has been scowling all this time.

(Mary is her name! Evil witches should not try to appropriate it for their own ends.)

"That is a stupid thing to do anyways," she announces, loudly.

She is not frightened, of course. She is offended by the stupidity! Yes. That's all.

"Why would you want to call a witch?"

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[smallestopener]

"Maybe if you wanted to be trapped in a mirror?"

She can't imagine who would want to be trapped in a mirror, but even at eight, Ingress knows it takes all kinds.

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[called_lioness]

"What sort of story would you like, lady?" Lucy asks with a grin.

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[smallestopener]

"A scary one, but a funny one."

One not so scary as Bloody Mary, in other words. Just a little bit scary.

"Or, if you don't know ones like that, one about a brave girl."

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[called_lioness]

"All of the scary ones I know are very scary," she admits, "but I think I can manage one about a brave girl."

Lucy muses for a minute.

"I could tell you the story of Alambil, the lady of peace."

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[smallestopener]

"Alambil is a pretty name," she says, and settles back into her cushion. This sounds like a good story already.

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[called_lioness]

"Alambil was the daughter of the North Star," Lucy informs her as she strokes Ingress' hair for a minute with a smile.

"When the world was young, the stars were at war. They had not yet found their places in the sky. They formed alliances and fought for supremacy, ignoring the song of the Lion that would tell them where they belonged.

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[smallestopener]

She nods. "I'd listen to the song of the Lion."

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[called_lioness]

"I know you would, dear." Her smile's fond. "But there are many songs, you know. And sometimes it's hard to hear the Lion's for all the rest. Some are pretty on their own, and mix well with the Lion's, and some don't. It's hard to know sometimes.

"But Alambil refused to listen to the sounds of war and discord, loud songs that clang in the ear and stay in one's head for the rest of one's life. Instead she urged her siblings, all the stars that were, to dance instead of fight and sing with her.

"They didn't listen, though, and stars began to fall, hitting the land with their lights gone out, dim and pale and lost."

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[smallestopener]

"Oh no, how sad... But they got back up in the sky, right?"