❋ Princess Aurora ❋ 004 // A Happily Ever After

[cursedtosleep]

Who: philip_charming and cursedtosleep and somarium
Where: Church of Roses in Espoir
Style: First for speed
What: PHILIP AND AURORA ARE GETTING MARRIED AND EVERYONE WAS INVITED
Status: OPEN TO ALL WHO WANT TO ENJOY A WEDDING AND FREE FOOD! (new arrivals please feel welcome to join!)
Warnings: DISNEY ROMANCE

[As the city was recovering and released from the hold of the plague and

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RECEPTION

[cursedtosleep]

[Please, feel free to enter. The reception tent is set up. There is a seat for everyone.]

MEET THE BRIDE AND GROOM

[cursedtosleep]

[Come congratulate the royal couple!]

[madcuriosity]

Congratulations, your highness! The ceremony was lovely!

[philip_charming]

[Sorry, no greetings for YOU little miss Alice.

Nope, you're getting swept up into a big ol' hug instead!]

Thank you, Milady, oh, thank you; you helped make today possible. I owe so much happiness to your doorstep, I don't know how I'll be able to repay it!-

[You're not particularly worried about your feet leaving the floor, are you Alice? Because with a hug like this, your feet are NOT on the floor.]

[madcuriosity]

[Oh! Hello feet off ground! She giggles as she's hugged tightly, her dress swirling about.]

I did? [That... was news to her.] I didn't do anything your highness!

[philip_charming]

[Sorry Alice, your protests mean nothing to the force of HUG.]

Now, now. We've been over this before, you know; you helped bring us together. It wouldn't be much of a wedding if one of us didn't know to come, now would it?

[Ack, she is getting put down gently! And having her nose booped by a sly-looking prince!] So really, you helped on one of the most important parts of ALL.

[madcuriosity]

[You're making the fairy child blush, Phillip. But she offers a bright smile.]

Well, I think you would have found her without my help, your highness.

[philip_charming]

[Well, shucks. He'll just have to live with making the fairy child blush, now won't he? Such a BURDEN it is, too...]

I can hope, certainly. But between you and I? [He leaned down and whispered very carefully, after looking to make sure no horses or owls or lizards or members of the bride's party were close enough to hear.]

I think I managed to get to her juuuust in time.

[Wink!]

[madcuriosity]

[Just in time? Was something happening when he went to her? She was rather sure it was just snowing.]

Well I'm glad for that then. Especially if it led up to this.

[philip_charming]

[Exactly! SO MUCH SNOW. Why is he the only one to pay heed to the TURRIBLE dangers of the snowstorm? Think of the poor would-be-his-bride's FEET!]

So long as you'll admit your role with pride, mind. [Because little fairy children deserve to be spunky and assertive on occasion! Just like Phili...

Well, maybe not.]

[madcuriosity]

[Alice was not aware Aurora was barefoot at the time... and would sort of think that foolish if she were.]

Mnn, well, I'll admit it certainly. But I still don't think I did very much.

[philip_charming]

[That's because Alice is a charming and sensible young lady who knows better! She'd put on her fairy shoes Philip approves of her care and attention to not-freezing.]

Well, Milady Liddell. You know, once upon a time I saw the inner workings of a water-powered mill, with its big round paddling-wheel on the outside, providing power to the thick round mill-stone on the inside- and the miller had come up with other things to do with that turning, when he wasn't grinding grain. He'd made a little wind-turner that would blow away chaff from the threshed wheat, and a way to get a new bag ready for the flour once the old bag was full fast enough that practically none of it would be wasted.

And when I asked him how he did it, he just smiled and said, "Your highness, little wheels have to spin so that big wheels can turn."

[Philip never quite understood that; wasn't it the other way around? But then, HE'S not the one who came up with the clever devices... and this way seemed like a good lesson for Alice.]

[madcuriosity]

[And all Alice got from that-]

I'm a little wheel?

[philip_charming]

[Well, you ARE awful tiny-]

It's because you offered a little help, that great big things can happen. A little bit in the right place can work wonders.

[You know, like this little bit of EVEN MORE HUG that he's giving you. Who knows what that could wind up accomplishing one day?]

[madcuriosity]

[Oh! Yay! Another hug. She hugs onto him and smiles.] Well, if I made this happen them I'm a very impressive little wheel. [She giggles.]

[philip_charming]

And that's just what I've wanted you to understand. [Yay, she gets it! For this she gets a twirl. Little wheels must spin, right?]