Comments | apocralyptic: words of good cheer

apocralyptic

words of good cheer

Dec 25, 2007 17:49

The bag was heavy, but Coin had refused any help with carrying it. If he was going to give out presents, then he was going to do it. Himself.

Not that this wasn't one of those times when he wouldn't have minded a little magic. He wasn't sure about dragging it like this. But at least he was most of the way there.

the lady, dairine callahan, hogswatch, roleplay, lucy pevensie

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youngestqueen December 27 2007, 00:25:43 UTC

Lucy'd not expected to see Coin approaching her home dragging a bag behind him. But seeing him excited her, running outside without even first throwing on a coat, a direwolf on her heels. "Coin! Happy Christmas!"

apocralyptic December 27 2007, 00:37:08 UTC

"Happy Christmas," Coin replied, just as happily. "And Hogswatchday, too. They're both supposed to have presents, so I got Duck to make things." He let go of the bag and opened it up, disentangling a stick and a disk from a bundle of cloth with more sticks in it.

youngestqueen December 27 2007, 00:44:18 UTC

"Is it Hogswatch too?" Coin had told her about the holiday, and she nodded, looking intently at what Coin was untangling.

apocralyptic December 27 2007, 01:24:57 UTC

"I guess so. I mean, this place runs on Earth time, and if they had Christmas in Narnia then the years there must have been pretty close. But ours weren't, so-" He shrugged, and then turned around with Lucy's gift, now well clear of the bag and its other contents. "It's as good a time for Hogswatch as any. Who's going to argue? I declared the moon full once, you know."

In his hands, the cloth came partly unfolded. It was just possible to see the way the sticks fit together, and the little sleeves where they would hold up the cloth.

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wizard_errant December 27 2007, 05:35:33 UTC

Dairine watches him a moment, then hops down out of her tree to offer him a hand. "Need any help with that?"

apocralyptic December 27 2007, 05:57:05 UTC

"Dairine?" Coin blinked. "I was just looking for you. Happy Hogswatch," he added, lowering the sack and drawing out a long stick. It was very simple, unmarked- Dairine was to decide what signs she wanted- except for the round knob on the end.

wizard_errant December 27 2007, 06:01:43 UTC

"You were?" Dairine asks, which is better than the thing she almost said, which was 'Hogswatch?' And then she says "Thank you," because there is a present involved and that is clearly the next thing to say.

apocralyptic December 27 2007, 06:15:14 UTC

"You're welcome," said Coin. "There's supposed to be presents, so I thought I'd do that. And you're a wizard, so I got you a staff."

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picksthelosers January 8 2008, 06:30:50 UTC

The honest truth is everyone could do with a little magic. That's why it's important to note that not everyone gets some.

"Coin, darling, you shouldn't be straining so." It's nearly scolding, but it lacks the certain oompf to really get it through. "There are people for that sort of thing you know."

They're called the disenfranchised. The out of luck.

apocralyptic January 8 2008, 06:52:06 UTC

"There may be," Coin agreed, smiling now that he didn't need to drag the thing any further. "But I haven't found any here yet. Anyway I think I'm done now. This is for you."

From out of the sack, he drew a round of wood a little bigger than a dinner plate. One side had been painted- inexpertly, from memory, but the shapes of continents and so on were easily recognizable. A yellow marble was suspended over it by a wire. What could you give a goddess, after all, but the world?

"Happy Hogswatch," he announced, with as much confidence as is really possible when you're watching nervously to see if you did right.

picksthelosers January 9 2008, 03:23:25 UTC

Now, one must be aware that in all of her vast mindboggling time spent being her, she can count the number of presents she's recieved on both hands. And she can count the number of presents she's recieved by people who aware that she was who she was on just the one hand.

Holding the plate in her hands, she smiles and it's just a touch gentle. She's not getting mistyeyed. At least not that she'll admit. "Oh, happy Hogswatch indeed. It's lovely Coin."

apocralyptic January 9 2008, 04:21:38 UTC

"So you like it."

On Coin's part, before the Island he'd been able to count the number of truly nice things done for people on the fingers of one head. No one had ever told him about it being better to give than to recieve, and he wasn't inclined to make the comparison himself even now that he could. It was just that, appparently, they were both amazing.

You could tell. Faint apprehension had been replaced in a flash by a wide grin.

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