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man_of_all_work) wrote2006-01-09 05:40 pm
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It's far too cold to be outside.
Which is why Perry is not. Instead, he's sitting at a table, whittling at something, and whistling cheerfully.
With tea.
Of course.
Which is why Perry is not. Instead, he's sitting at a table, whittling at something, and whistling cheerfully.
With tea.
Of course.
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But she wore a cloak this time, a dark blueish gray one.
It's bright outside, with the sun on the snow.
Amy's smile, just now, is brighter.
"Hello, Perry."
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"Hullo, Amy. Join me?"
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"How are you today?"
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"That's a nice cloak. I see you've returned to at least some semblance of sense about going outside in this weather."
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And then she grins. "'Semblance'? You don't think I'm capable of actual sense?"
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"Or, at least I assume you are. it is, after all, very sensible to wear a cloak because it will decrease the chances of having a snowball thrown at you."
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A moment, and then she nods towards the whittling.
"What are you making?"
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"Do you have much practice with whittling?" she asks, uncertainly.
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"Not really," he says, cheerfully.
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The proper end of that sentence is probably "that it's meant to be a squirrel."
And then she laughs. "Maybe you should go back to paper?"
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"I was just trying to pass the time, anyway. So tell me, your Highness, has this day treated you rather better than the last time I saw you?"
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There were days after that one that treated her rather worse, really. But they're over and done and not to be dwelt on.
"I might even go so far as to say that this day is treating me quite well."
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"Join me for a cup of tea, then?"
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"And what have you been doing with yourself these past few days, Perry?"
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"Oh, not a whole lot, really," he says. "I found the library and was reading, for a while. Mostly I've just been poking around the place."
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"It amazes me, sometimes, how much of this place there is. I mean, there always seems to be something else on the list of things I haven't found yet, or even heard of. Anne and Gilbert and I found an apple tree once, which was lovely. I wonder, sometimes, if this place actually has ends, or if it just keeps slowly expanding."
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Perry sips at his own tea, and looks out the window.
"Maybe it only gets bigger when it needs to. Or when someone needs to find an apple tree."
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He gets a smile that wrinkles up her nose. "Finding that tree was very important. Anne taught me to make pie with those apples. And that was the day I met her friend Gilbert."
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He smiles back. He can't help it. That smile is infectious.
"Lucky Gilbert."
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Her smile may get a bit brighter in response to his. The smiling thing appears to be self-sustaining.
"You and I should go look for something wildly improbable and see if the bar or the lake or whatever produces one for us."
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"What shall we look for? Not dragons, obviously, and not a lemon tree, either. What is something that we could very easily do without?"
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"Well, depending on exactly how improbable we want to be, I'm tempted to suggest something like . . . long lost pirate treasure."
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Not that either of them needs much help.
"Any other ideas?"
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"It has to be improbable and not useful?" says Amy. "Goodness."
She thinks.
"Is there anything you'd like to look for?"
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