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there is only what happens and what does not happen - aather ic: candlecall post~
Sand//Mau
[probably is hugging a pillow, resting her chin on the top, and watching intently]
Once there was a girl, the daughter of a king.
[he pauses to get comfortable himself, leaning back against... something, a pillar or a tree, it's hard to make out]
[he pauses to get comfortable himself, leaning back against... something, a pillar or a tree, it's hard to make out]
Yes, a princess. But she did not know she was a princess, and her father did not know he was the king.
He was away from his country, on a long journey, when he became needed for that position, and his daughter had followed after him. So they were lost and far from home when they became king and princess.
The daughter was chasing after her father on a great ship, when a huge storm came.
And the storm was bad?
It was bad. It picked up her ship and hurled it across the sea, rushing over islands, until it hit an island too big to fly over, and was stuck fast between two huge fig trees.
She was. The captain died, and the crew died, but the princess lived. She lived through the night of storm, and when she stepped off her ship onto dry land in the morning, she found herself in a different world...
It was only a metaphorical different world. She was really still on her own world. But it was a place like she'd never seen before. The princess was from somewhere cold and dark, but this place was bright and warm and overgrown, with plants and birds brighter than anything she could imagine.
It sounds... nice.
Yes. It was beautiful, but it was hot and humid and empty. The girl thought, at first, that she might be the only person alive on the island.
No. There was a boy.
She found him on her first day on the island, and tried to speak to him, but he did not see her. He was a strange boy, and spoke to the dead, and his language was not her language. But he was the only other person there.
The princess found some food, and brought it to him. Soon he saw her, and they began to learn each other's languages.
The princess found some food, and brought it to him. Soon he saw her, and they began to learn each other's languages.
Why didn't he see her?
He was too locked in his own head to see her. He thought she was a ghost.
It's good they learned to talk.