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[treadingdawn]

A castle for a day is better than no castle at all, right?

Things seem quiet. So tell me about your world. Tell me what makes you wonder, if perhaps what you have there might be found elsewhere or even here. I will start.

Where I am from we have gryphons. They are a bit like a lion with an eagle's tail, face, talons, and wings. For many years I didn't know they existed in my world, much less on other worlds. To be honest, at the time I was unaware that other worlds even existed at all. I have come to learn Narnia is not the only place with gryphons and it's interesting to hear how different they are for other people.

But flying with a gryphon is still hard to match in excitement and majesty.

So tell me about unicorns or krakens, dragons or drop bears, and share with me what makes you wonder.

Comments

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I would hope most unicorns would know better than to fight with a lion.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Of course I say this as someone who has yet to meet a Narnian unicorn.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

You have gryphons in your world but no unicorns? That's somewhat surprising.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Oh no we have unicorns. They are elusive and no many could ever mount one, or a Talking Horse for that matter, but unicorns especially. It is a great and rare honor to have one serve as your mount, even for a king.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Now I begin to understand.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Perhaps there are creatures hiding in your Thames River.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I sincerely doubt it. People will say from time to time that they've seen creatures--fairies, or elves, or even things like gryphons--but I doubt that they've really seen what they think they've seen.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Would you like to see them some day?

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I think I rather would, but not in my own world. That would be impossible.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Perhaps one might cross into your England one day, though I hope it would be of a calm disposition.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I would hope so too, but I still say it's impossible.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Did you think it was impossible to come to this world?

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Not at all. After all, we're both here, along with any number of others. But I think going from world to world is more difficult than simply being dragged here.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Lucy might have told you about a wardrobe, but my people came to Narnia through a cave.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Yes, she has told me about a wardrobe, but I still have my doubts as to whether it would happen where I come from. I think her England and mine are rather different.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

And I think it's very different from New York City, although Serena tells me the gargoyles there come alive at night.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

That must make matters complicated for anyone going out at night. I wonder how Miss Serena manages with them. Perhaps we ought to ask her.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

I did and it seems life in New York is too busy to notice moving statues. Apparently they never sleep, the humans that is.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I see. And here I would have expected to hear stories of umbrellas used as swords to fend off the statues.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

I would think that either keeps the statue dry or simply ruins a good umbrella.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Perhaps both, if the statue has its way with the umbrella.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

What do you think happens to a statue that already has an umbrella?

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I've no idea at all. He claims two, I suppose.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

I'll have to ask Serena and her friends, maybe then they'll pay attention to the night.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I'd like to know what they have to say about it too.