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Jan. 9th, 2006 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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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Date: 2006-01-10 05:59 am (UTC)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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Date: 2006-01-10 10:14 pm (UTC)He smiles back. He can't help it. That smile is infectious.
"Lucky Gilbert."
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Date: 2006-01-10 10:33 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2006-01-11 04:16 am (UTC)"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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Date: 2006-01-11 04:43 am (UTC)"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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Date: 2006-01-11 05:11 am (UTC)Not that either of them needs much help.
"Any other ideas?"
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Date: 2006-01-11 05:15 am (UTC)"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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Date: 2006-01-11 05:22 am (UTC)"Or at least the ones we should look for are. It's more fun to search for something you want, rather than something you need, isn't it?"
But he thinks.
"If we're going outside, we could search for a spring, or a cave, or some sort of unlikely creature, although there seem to be rather a lot of those already here."
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Date: 2006-01-11 05:28 am (UTC)After a moment, she says, "We could look for a berry bramble. It's odd to realize that the one in the forest at home is still covered in blackberries, isn't it?"
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Date: 2006-01-11 05:32 am (UTC)Oh, well.
"Perfect," he says, firmly. "A berry bramble it is, then, since we cannot get to the one at home."
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Date: 2006-01-11 05:38 am (UTC)"But not right now, because I've only just gotten my toes warm again."
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Date: 2006-01-11 05:39 am (UTC)"So not right now. But soon?"
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Date: 2006-01-11 05:48 am (UTC)"All right. Peter Aurelious and the squirrels can came. Do you think they'll behave themselves?"
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Date: 2006-01-11 05:53 am (UTC)"Well, Peter Aurelious probably will," she says. "But Mr. Pemberthy and Simon Perryvall . . . "
More giggles.
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Date: 2006-01-11 05:55 am (UTC)"I suppose that was rather a useless thing to ask," he admits.
"And it would be against Peter Aurelious' sense of dignity to misbehave."
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Date: 2006-01-11 06:00 am (UTC)"But I'm quite sure that we'll be able to handle the squirrels. Unless they get hopelessly underfoot. In which case, well, I guess we'll trip."
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Date: 2006-01-11 06:05 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-01-11 06:13 am (UTC)"Especially when there are terrorizing squirrels bent on getting you covered with snow."
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Date: 2006-01-11 06:16 am (UTC)Not that she's ever made much of an effort to, er, corrige, them.
"They tend to knock over teacups, too, I'm afraid."
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Date: 2006-01-11 06:28 am (UTC)"Now that," Perry says, after making sure no squirrels are around his teacup, "is a definite problem. We can't have that, can we?"
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Date: 2006-01-11 06:34 am (UTC)She brightens.
"When I had tea with Ingress, Tom had put a charm on the teacups to keep them from spilling. Even Mr. Pemberthy didn't manage it."
And if ever tea were going to get spilled, it was at that one.
"I suppose if it become too much of a problem, I can ask him about it."
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Date: 2006-01-11 06:37 am (UTC)"Well, there's one of the problems solved, there."
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Date: 2006-01-11 06:42 am (UTC)She's not talking about teacups.
And then laughs, because Perry is laughing.
"Indeed. And are there other problems you think we should solve, Your Majesty? I'm sure between the two of us we could come up with some terribly creative solultions."
Reasonable, practical, or remotely feasible? Maybe, maybe not. But creative? Oh, yes.
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