Post by Amaranthim on Jun 10, 2014 5:24:00 GMT -8
Amaranthim: Once upon a time 8 Jun 2014 at 4:40pm x
Amaranthim: there was a Kingdom 8 Jun 2014 at 4:40pm x
Amaranthim: ('cause isn't there always?) 8 Jun 2014 at 4:40pm x
Amaranthim: in this Kingdom there lived a King and his Queen and they had a girl child - the Princess 8 Jun 2014 at 4:41pm x
Amaranthim: (Bear with- I have no clue where am going with this) 8 Jun 2014 at 4:41pm * x
Amaranthim: The Princess grew up wild and happy- her parents - the King and Queen - held very little rules over her 8 Jun 2014 at 4:42pm x
Amaranthim: She had pets. A goat, oddly enough, named Lilly Belle. 8 Jun 2014 at 5:31pm x
Amaranthim: She had a beautiful calico cat named Sixpence 8 Jun 2014 at 5:32pm x
Amaranthim: and a dog of course- Tribette 8 Jun 2014 at 5:32pm x
Amaranthim: but she had one very special pet 8 Jun 2014 at 5:33pm x
Amaranthim: friend 8 Jun 2014 at 5:33pm x
Amaranthim: cohort even 8 Jun 2014 at 5:33pm x
Amaranthim: a very small 8 Jun 2014 at 5:33pm x
Amaranthim: no one else could even see 8 Jun 2014 at 5:33pm x
Amaranthim: dragon 8 Jun 2014 at 5:33pm x
Amaranthim: he was a mighty thing! 8 Jun 2014 at 5:34pm x
Amaranthim: black as midnight 8 Jun 2014 at 5:34pm x
Amaranthim: unless the sun shone just right 8 Jun 2014 at 5:34pm x
Amaranthim: then every color that ever dreamed of existing 8 Jun 2014 at 5:35pm x
Amaranthim: would light upon his scales 8 Jun 2014 at 5:35pm x
Gerrard Winstanley: /me powers up his e-pipe and settles in to hear what comes next 8 Jun 2014 at 8:06pm x
Amaranthim: sorry - RL interfered and will again shortly - but where were we... 8 Jun 2014 at 8:13pm x
Amaranthim: The dragon had no name. Well she did - but it was not a name mere humans could conceive- the meaning of her name held nebulas. The Princess called her Tiny. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:16pm x
Amaranthim: How it came to be... one day the Princess walked the grounds around the castle proper 8 Jun 2014 at 8:17pm x
Amaranthim: as she did, she saw a flash of darkness.. can darkness flash? 8 Jun 2014 at 8:17pm x
Amaranthim: there was an instant of more dark than light? 8 Jun 2014 at 8:18pm x
Amaranthim: it concentrated around some little weeds that grew round some stones and moss. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:18pm x
Amaranthim: The ground was wet and her delicate slippers grew moist. The Princess knew her mother, the Queen, would not be happy over her wet feet. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:21pm x
Amaranthim: But still she stood - ankle deep in the moist grass... she saw a sparkle of blackness.. a dark that was more dark than the light 8 Jun 2014 at 8:22pm x
Amaranthim: how can dark sparkle? But it did.. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:22pm x
Amaranthim: Bending over she tried to find where "it" came from. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:23pm x
Amaranthim: She found a polished looking stone. I glowed in its utter blackness. It was so dark, midnight redefined. Dark bled out of it and stole the light around it.. What was this sphere, this ovoid she had almost stepped on? 8 Jun 2014 at 8:24pm x
Amaranthim: The Princess was afraid- but something called her and she held her hand out.. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:25pm x
Amaranthim: the blackness tingled and her hand felt like it did when storms raged outside her castle room 8 Jun 2014 at 8:26pm x
Amaranthim: she felt the hairs on her arm move.. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:26pm x
Amaranthim: this absence of being- this darkness.. she knelt beside it- unafraid- 8 Jun 2014 at 8:28pm x
Amaranthim: as she reached out, te darkness split and all the light that ever was spilled forth 8 Jun 2014 at 8:29pm x
Amaranthim: Wings!! 8 Jun 2014 at 8:30pm * x
Amaranthim: the darkness split open and where the light spilt there were wings 8 Jun 2014 at 8:31pm x
Amaranthim: tiny, glistening, moist, black wings 8 Jun 2014 at 8:31pm x
Amaranthim: and a small head reared up 8 Jun 2014 at 8:31pm x
Amaranthim: and the Princess took a step forward 8 Jun 2014 at 8:31pm x
Amaranthim: and she heard a soft whisper in her mind 8 Jun 2014 at 8:32pm x
Amaranthim: it was a nuzzle 8 Jun 2014 at 8:32pm x
Amaranthim: a caress.. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:32pm x
Amaranthim: this tiny thing... barely a hands-breadth 8 Jun 2014 at 8:32pm x
Amaranthim: it touched her mind softly.. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:33pm x
Amaranthim: no word 8 Jun 2014 at 8:33pm x
Amaranthim: no concentrated thought 8 Jun 2014 at 8:33pm x
Amaranthim: just a whisper of a touch 8 Jun 2014 at 8:33pm x
Amaranthim: the darkness walked 8 Jun 2014 at 8:34pm x
Amaranthim: it moved closer and a glistening snake like tail wrapped itself around her forearm 8 Jun 2014 at 8:34pm x
Amaranthim: The Princess could not look straight on or she would not see it 8 Jun 2014 at 8:35pm x
Amaranthim: but if she looked off to one side 8 Jun 2014 at 8:35pm x
Amaranthim: between here and not here 8 Jun 2014 at 8:35pm x
Amaranthim: sideways to yesterday 8 Jun 2014 at 8:36pm x
Amaranthim: there was a tiny dragon.. what else could it be but a dragon?? 8 Jun 2014 at 8:36pm x
Amaranthim: Legends!!! 8 Jun 2014 at 8:36pm x
Amaranthim: Tales and stories!!! 8 Jun 2014 at 8:36pm x
Amaranthim: and here it breathed and had claimed her 8 Jun 2014 at 8:36pm x
Amaranthim: stretching its little claws... it waked and walked.. yesterday at 12:15am x
Amaranthim: clambered up her out stretched hand yesterday at 12:15am x
Amaranthim: darkness consumed her arm as the little beast walked on her. yesterday at 12:15am x
Amaranthim: pricklings yesterday at 12:16am x
Amaranthim: both physical and mental yesterday at 12:16am x
Amaranthim: the Princess had never experienced anything like it yesterday at 12:16am x
Amaranthim: raking of her soul... the little beasts claws rent her arm but somehow sketched her soul yesterday at 12:17am x
Amaranthim: she could almost see out of her eyes... yesterday at 12:18am x
Amaranthim: it was foggy but there was a thin, tremulous image in the back of her mind and it was.. her face! yesterday at 12:19am x
Amaranthim: The Princess could see her own face! It must be the wee beastie's thought! What She saw~!! yesterday at 12:19am x
Amaranthim: Home... yesterday at 12:20am x
Amaranthim: an echo in her head yesterday at 12:20am x
Amaranthim: She bent toward the Dark yesterday at 12:21am x
Amaranthim: scooping up the tiny thing yesterday at 12:21am x
Amaranthim: she cradled it next to her breast yesterday at 12:21am x
Amaranthim: parting her clothes- she bound this odd thing to her.. yesterday at 12:21am x
Amaranthim: The Princess walked back out of the garden yesterday at 12:22am x
Amaranthim: it was no longer dark- there were butterflies and bees and birds sang yesterday at 12:22am x
Amaranthim: The days passed yesterday at 12:24am x
Amaranthim: the Princess kept her little dragon pet close but showed no on from the castle yesterday at 12:24am x
she was afraid her mother, the Queen or her father, the King, would take the little dragon away to the Royal Menagerie
bits of honeyed ginger
hibiscus blooms
the Princess fed her little dragon
stolen bits of food stuffs
the little dragon grew
The Princess was finding it difficult to keep her pet hidden. Splashes of darkness would leak out at inappropriate times and people were whispering..
Oh it was a small thing, mostly. And if you looked right at you couldn't actually see.. anything.. you could.. touch...
but the more the little dragon grew, the harder it became to contain- it-
How could Darkness sparkle? But it did.. the edges, tiny mirrors, shimmering and shifting.
One morning when she woke, the Princess spotted a trailing bit of Dark, just wafting 'neath a door. She reached out her hand to feel for the little dragon sleeping beside her and she was not there!
In a mild panic and not wanting to wake anyone, she lept out of bed.
Not bothering with slippers she drew her bed gown tight about her and rushing across the room, flung her door open.
Amaranthim: Her maid was dozing at the door, available should the Princess need her in the night. With a start she sat up and brushed off her aprons..
The Princess stammered a bit- how does one explain rushing Darkness?
The Kingdom had always been a rather easy thing- yes the Princess had duties and such- but roles were not so strict.. her maid, Misha, had grown up with her- they had been friends from childhood. So perhaps it would not be too harsh a stretch..?
"Misha," she said, "We can talk later but right now- I need your help!"
Rubbing sleep still from her eyes, Misha mumbled groggily, "I thought I saw.. something.. Princess, where are you bound and in such a disheveled mess!" She stood shakily but willing to face whatever her Princess required.
"This way!" cried the Princess and they both dashed down the hall..
Skirts flying, the Princess led the way, glancing this way and that for what bits of fleeting darkness.. poor Misha was quite confused.. "My Lady, what..." "Not now- you will know when you see it- come!!" And they ran headlong down the halls-
Amaranthim: there was a Kingdom 8 Jun 2014 at 4:40pm x
Amaranthim: ('cause isn't there always?) 8 Jun 2014 at 4:40pm x
Amaranthim: in this Kingdom there lived a King and his Queen and they had a girl child - the Princess 8 Jun 2014 at 4:41pm x
Amaranthim: (Bear with- I have no clue where am going with this) 8 Jun 2014 at 4:41pm * x
Amaranthim: The Princess grew up wild and happy- her parents - the King and Queen - held very little rules over her 8 Jun 2014 at 4:42pm x
Amaranthim: She had pets. A goat, oddly enough, named Lilly Belle. 8 Jun 2014 at 5:31pm x
Amaranthim: She had a beautiful calico cat named Sixpence 8 Jun 2014 at 5:32pm x
Amaranthim: and a dog of course- Tribette 8 Jun 2014 at 5:32pm x
Amaranthim: but she had one very special pet 8 Jun 2014 at 5:33pm x
Amaranthim: friend 8 Jun 2014 at 5:33pm x
Amaranthim: cohort even 8 Jun 2014 at 5:33pm x
Amaranthim: a very small 8 Jun 2014 at 5:33pm x
Amaranthim: no one else could even see 8 Jun 2014 at 5:33pm x
Amaranthim: dragon 8 Jun 2014 at 5:33pm x
Amaranthim: he was a mighty thing! 8 Jun 2014 at 5:34pm x
Amaranthim: black as midnight 8 Jun 2014 at 5:34pm x
Amaranthim: unless the sun shone just right 8 Jun 2014 at 5:34pm x
Amaranthim: then every color that ever dreamed of existing 8 Jun 2014 at 5:35pm x
Amaranthim: would light upon his scales 8 Jun 2014 at 5:35pm x
Gerrard Winstanley: /me powers up his e-pipe and settles in to hear what comes next 8 Jun 2014 at 8:06pm x
Amaranthim: sorry - RL interfered and will again shortly - but where were we... 8 Jun 2014 at 8:13pm x
Amaranthim: The dragon had no name. Well she did - but it was not a name mere humans could conceive- the meaning of her name held nebulas. The Princess called her Tiny. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:16pm x
Amaranthim: How it came to be... one day the Princess walked the grounds around the castle proper 8 Jun 2014 at 8:17pm x
Amaranthim: as she did, she saw a flash of darkness.. can darkness flash? 8 Jun 2014 at 8:17pm x
Amaranthim: there was an instant of more dark than light? 8 Jun 2014 at 8:18pm x
Amaranthim: it concentrated around some little weeds that grew round some stones and moss. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:18pm x
Amaranthim: The ground was wet and her delicate slippers grew moist. The Princess knew her mother, the Queen, would not be happy over her wet feet. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:21pm x
Amaranthim: But still she stood - ankle deep in the moist grass... she saw a sparkle of blackness.. a dark that was more dark than the light 8 Jun 2014 at 8:22pm x
Amaranthim: how can dark sparkle? But it did.. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:22pm x
Amaranthim: Bending over she tried to find where "it" came from. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:23pm x
Amaranthim: She found a polished looking stone. I glowed in its utter blackness. It was so dark, midnight redefined. Dark bled out of it and stole the light around it.. What was this sphere, this ovoid she had almost stepped on? 8 Jun 2014 at 8:24pm x
Amaranthim: The Princess was afraid- but something called her and she held her hand out.. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:25pm x
Amaranthim: the blackness tingled and her hand felt like it did when storms raged outside her castle room 8 Jun 2014 at 8:26pm x
Amaranthim: she felt the hairs on her arm move.. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:26pm x
Amaranthim: this absence of being- this darkness.. she knelt beside it- unafraid- 8 Jun 2014 at 8:28pm x
Amaranthim: as she reached out, te darkness split and all the light that ever was spilled forth 8 Jun 2014 at 8:29pm x
Amaranthim: Wings!! 8 Jun 2014 at 8:30pm * x
Amaranthim: the darkness split open and where the light spilt there were wings 8 Jun 2014 at 8:31pm x
Amaranthim: tiny, glistening, moist, black wings 8 Jun 2014 at 8:31pm x
Amaranthim: and a small head reared up 8 Jun 2014 at 8:31pm x
Amaranthim: and the Princess took a step forward 8 Jun 2014 at 8:31pm x
Amaranthim: and she heard a soft whisper in her mind 8 Jun 2014 at 8:32pm x
Amaranthim: it was a nuzzle 8 Jun 2014 at 8:32pm x
Amaranthim: a caress.. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:32pm x
Amaranthim: this tiny thing... barely a hands-breadth 8 Jun 2014 at 8:32pm x
Amaranthim: it touched her mind softly.. 8 Jun 2014 at 8:33pm x
Amaranthim: no word 8 Jun 2014 at 8:33pm x
Amaranthim: no concentrated thought 8 Jun 2014 at 8:33pm x
Amaranthim: just a whisper of a touch 8 Jun 2014 at 8:33pm x
Amaranthim: the darkness walked 8 Jun 2014 at 8:34pm x
Amaranthim: it moved closer and a glistening snake like tail wrapped itself around her forearm 8 Jun 2014 at 8:34pm x
Amaranthim: The Princess could not look straight on or she would not see it 8 Jun 2014 at 8:35pm x
Amaranthim: but if she looked off to one side 8 Jun 2014 at 8:35pm x
Amaranthim: between here and not here 8 Jun 2014 at 8:35pm x
Amaranthim: sideways to yesterday 8 Jun 2014 at 8:36pm x
Amaranthim: there was a tiny dragon.. what else could it be but a dragon?? 8 Jun 2014 at 8:36pm x
Amaranthim: Legends!!! 8 Jun 2014 at 8:36pm x
Amaranthim: Tales and stories!!! 8 Jun 2014 at 8:36pm x
Amaranthim: and here it breathed and had claimed her 8 Jun 2014 at 8:36pm x
Amaranthim: stretching its little claws... it waked and walked.. yesterday at 12:15am x
Amaranthim: clambered up her out stretched hand yesterday at 12:15am x
Amaranthim: darkness consumed her arm as the little beast walked on her. yesterday at 12:15am x
Amaranthim: pricklings yesterday at 12:16am x
Amaranthim: both physical and mental yesterday at 12:16am x
Amaranthim: the Princess had never experienced anything like it yesterday at 12:16am x
Amaranthim: raking of her soul... the little beasts claws rent her arm but somehow sketched her soul yesterday at 12:17am x
Amaranthim: she could almost see out of her eyes... yesterday at 12:18am x
Amaranthim: it was foggy but there was a thin, tremulous image in the back of her mind and it was.. her face! yesterday at 12:19am x
Amaranthim: The Princess could see her own face! It must be the wee beastie's thought! What She saw~!! yesterday at 12:19am x
Amaranthim: Home... yesterday at 12:20am x
Amaranthim: an echo in her head yesterday at 12:20am x
Amaranthim: She bent toward the Dark yesterday at 12:21am x
Amaranthim: scooping up the tiny thing yesterday at 12:21am x
Amaranthim: she cradled it next to her breast yesterday at 12:21am x
Amaranthim: parting her clothes- she bound this odd thing to her.. yesterday at 12:21am x
Amaranthim: The Princess walked back out of the garden yesterday at 12:22am x
Amaranthim: it was no longer dark- there were butterflies and bees and birds sang yesterday at 12:22am x
Amaranthim: The days passed yesterday at 12:24am x
Amaranthim: the Princess kept her little dragon pet close but showed no on from the castle yesterday at 12:24am x
she was afraid her mother, the Queen or her father, the King, would take the little dragon away to the Royal Menagerie
bits of honeyed ginger
hibiscus blooms
the Princess fed her little dragon
stolen bits of food stuffs
the little dragon grew
The Princess was finding it difficult to keep her pet hidden. Splashes of darkness would leak out at inappropriate times and people were whispering..
Oh it was a small thing, mostly. And if you looked right at you couldn't actually see.. anything.. you could.. touch...
but the more the little dragon grew, the harder it became to contain- it-
How could Darkness sparkle? But it did.. the edges, tiny mirrors, shimmering and shifting.
One morning when she woke, the Princess spotted a trailing bit of Dark, just wafting 'neath a door. She reached out her hand to feel for the little dragon sleeping beside her and she was not there!
In a mild panic and not wanting to wake anyone, she lept out of bed.
Not bothering with slippers she drew her bed gown tight about her and rushing across the room, flung her door open.
Amaranthim: Her maid was dozing at the door, available should the Princess need her in the night. With a start she sat up and brushed off her aprons..
The Princess stammered a bit- how does one explain rushing Darkness?
The Kingdom had always been a rather easy thing- yes the Princess had duties and such- but roles were not so strict.. her maid, Misha, had grown up with her- they had been friends from childhood. So perhaps it would not be too harsh a stretch..?
"Misha," she said, "We can talk later but right now- I need your help!"
Rubbing sleep still from her eyes, Misha mumbled groggily, "I thought I saw.. something.. Princess, where are you bound and in such a disheveled mess!" She stood shakily but willing to face whatever her Princess required.
"This way!" cried the Princess and they both dashed down the hall..
Skirts flying, the Princess led the way, glancing this way and that for what bits of fleeting darkness.. poor Misha was quite confused.. "My Lady, what..." "Not now- you will know when you see it- come!!" And they ran headlong down the halls-