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[treadingdawn]

Peter has joined us for the afternoon meal. And he is well.

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[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I'm supposed to have a knight but I can't find him anywhere. But I'm okay!

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Are you sure? A Princess should not travel alone unless she has specifically demanded the right.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Mother says I'm not old enough to demand things yet. I have to wait 'till I'm queen.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Your kingdom must differ from mine.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I tried! I said "I decree that I can go as far as Lake Maylie before I have to come home again" and then I went and I got in trouble for going too far by myself.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Well how long have you been a princess, Princess?

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Since I was born, silly! My daddy is a king and my mother is a queen so I'm a princess.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

When I was in my tenth year as prince I rode to the river to catch fish by my own royal decree. It was a good idea at the time.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Did you get in trouble, too? And did you catch lots of fish?

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Oh yes I did. In fact, those who caught me shared the meal.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I know how to fish! I'm not very good at it, though. You have to be really patient.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it was best I was caught in time then. I might have been there all day and night.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh! You have to sit and sit and sit and be really quiet and not jump around or anything, or you'll scare the fish. And sometimes if you do catch a fish you have to throw it back 'cause it's a magic fish!

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

What kind of magic fish have you caught?

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I didn't catch any, but my daddy caught one once. It was big and gold and talked, and he threw it back and it gave him a ride across the ocean! That's how he got to the tower where Mother was.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well I would release a Talking Fish too but I don't know if any of the ones in Narnia would take me across the ocean...unless he was a whale.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Is that your kingdom? My kingdom is called Daventry but I've never heard of one called Narnia. It must be really far away.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Yes, my kingdom is Narnia. I think I may have heard of Daventry before. What do you like most about it?

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Just one thing? I like my castle! ...And my tree, and my garden, and I like visiting Ifnkovhgroghprm 'cause he tells me stories, and I like the king of the leprechauns, too. Can I have more than one favorite?

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Oh if you have more than one that's good too because I also have more than one.

But what is... Ifnkwnf..wdk...the storyteller.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

He's a gnome. He's been friends with my daddy for a really long time, and he made me a marionette for my birthday! He showed me how to make it dance and everything.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Oh, like the wooden puppets on strings? I never learned how to make one dance, but they are very handsome.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh! He makes them. Mine had a little red hat and shoes with curled-up toes.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

It was a man then? I had a dragon puppet once.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh! Mine was a little man. Was your puppet really scary? Dragons are really scary, unless you throw water on their snout and put their fire out. Then they're not scary at all anymore.