Post by greenie on Nov 1, 2009 15:57:28 GMT 10
Title: Happily Ever After
Rating: G
Prompt: Happily Ever After (yes, I'm imaginative today
)
Summary: It's story time at the Swoop.
Notes: This one's for minuit.
“…and then she realised that she loved him, and they had a beautiful wedding which even the Goddess herself came to see. And she looked so lovely that there wasn’t a dry eye in the entire hall.”
“What does that mean?”
George looked down at his young son on his knee. “It means that everybody there was so overcome with happiness that they couldn’t keep themselves from crying. Especially his mother. And her father, except that was because he was drunk. So what’s the moral of the story?”
“Don’t get drunk before a wedding?” asked Roald.
“No,” piped up Kally. “It’s that girls should be knights and have lots of adventures, just like Mama and Papa said they can. Except they don’t get to disguise themselves anymore.”
George chuckled. “You’re both right. Girls are allowed to be knights now if they want to-“
“Like Aunty Alanna,” said Kalasin from her perch on his other knee.
“Yes, just like Aunty Alanna. And you should never ever turn up to a wedding drunk.”
“Uncle George, you haven’t finished the story yet.”
“I haven’t?” He gave the princess a bemused grin. “What did I miss, then?”
“Well, did the lady knight and the king of thieves live happily ever after?”
George looked across the room to where his wife was settled sideways into one of the big cosy chairs, the two twins in her arms. Sometime during the story all three of them had fallen asleep. George smiled as he looked at them. “Of course.”
Rating: G
Prompt: Happily Ever After (yes, I'm imaginative today
)Summary: It's story time at the Swoop.
Notes: This one's for minuit.
“…and then she realised that she loved him, and they had a beautiful wedding which even the Goddess herself came to see. And she looked so lovely that there wasn’t a dry eye in the entire hall.”
“What does that mean?”
George looked down at his young son on his knee. “It means that everybody there was so overcome with happiness that they couldn’t keep themselves from crying. Especially his mother. And her father, except that was because he was drunk. So what’s the moral of the story?”
“Don’t get drunk before a wedding?” asked Roald.
“No,” piped up Kally. “It’s that girls should be knights and have lots of adventures, just like Mama and Papa said they can. Except they don’t get to disguise themselves anymore.”
George chuckled. “You’re both right. Girls are allowed to be knights now if they want to-“
“Like Aunty Alanna,” said Kalasin from her perch on his other knee.
“Yes, just like Aunty Alanna. And you should never ever turn up to a wedding drunk.”
“Uncle George, you haven’t finished the story yet.”
“I haven’t?” He gave the princess a bemused grin. “What did I miss, then?”
“Well, did the lady knight and the king of thieves live happily ever after?”
George looked across the room to where his wife was settled sideways into one of the big cosy chairs, the two twins in her arms. Sometime during the story all three of them had fallen asleep. George smiled as he looked at them. “Of course.”
