Memory #16: The Disappearance of Jill
Jan. 22nd, 2013 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maidmalapertGame: Little Match Girl Trauma with Firebird
Form: Tiny golden cages with doors that pop open and closed! There are seven birds made of your team stone or metal inside. Take a bird out of the cage to receive the memory!
Uses: 1/7 (Jill)
Type: Significant Positive
Jill is in the dark with Puddleglum, Rilian and Eustace — she's trying to climb up onto Puddleglum's back. Eventually she manages to sit on his shoulders, and he lifts her up to look through a hole into the light that's coming from outside. At first she can't see much; the air is deadly cold, the light is pale and blue, and there's a lot of noise and white objects flying through the air. She's been in the dark so long she can't tell what's going on, except that she seems to be looking down from above, not up from below. She gets Puddleglum to let her stand up on his shoulders so she can get a better look, and then finds that she can see and hear much better.
She finds that the hole she's looking through is about fourteen feet up in a bank above a snowy clearing, with Fauns and Dryads dancing a complicated dance below, to the sound of wild, sweet, slightly eerie music played on four fiddles, three flutes and a drum. A ring of Dwarfs in their best clothes circle round and round the dancers, throwing perfectly timed snowballs through the dance. It's night — the light she saw from the hole was bright moonlight. Jill turns around to say, "I say! It's all right. We're out, we're home," but only gets as far as, "I say" before one of the snowballs hits her right in the mouth.
By the time she's managed to clear her face enough to speak, she's so caught up in excitement that she forgets to tell the others what's going on, and just shouts down to the dancers for help right away. As soon as they figure out where her voice is coming from, they scramble up to give her a hand, and she slithers down the bank head-first before picking herself up and saying, "Oh, do go and dig the others out. There are three others, besides the horses. And one of them is Prince Rilian."
This causes considerable confusion, but (probably luckily) they decide she's slightly mad and start digging as soon as the Dwarfs have had a chance to go get their tools, anyway. Jill is getting very cold, but a Dryad gets her a furry cloak, and a Faun brings her a hot drink, and after a few moments of digging, Eustace, pale and brandishing his sword and (understandably) wildly alarmed, comes out of the hill. Jill calls to him that they're friends, and he calms down and apologizes, and is helped out. Then Jill goes back to the hole and calls the news down to Puddleglum and Rilian.
She and Eustace shake hands and sip hot drinks and wait while their friends are dug out. When Puddleglum comes out, everyone is very glad to see him, and he's recognized at once, but then the Prince emerges, and they realize who he must be. Everyone takes off their hats and kneels; a moment later all the wood folk and Talking Animals are cheering and laughing and crying and so clearly overjoyed to have Rilian back that Jill starts to cry. The quest was worth it.
Jill is exhausted; the crowd leads them off to a warm cave, set up just like a farmhouse kitchen, and she and Eustace fall asleep while supper is being prepared.
* WE MADE IT OUT!!! FUCK YES!!!
* Oh wow so that's what it is to be a Prince of Narnia
* It was really worth it. It was really okay.
* +5000 love for Narnia
Form: Tiny golden cages with doors that pop open and closed! There are seven birds made of your team stone or metal inside. Take a bird out of the cage to receive the memory!
Uses: 1/7 (Jill)
Type: Significant Positive
Jill is in the dark with Puddleglum, Rilian and Eustace — she's trying to climb up onto Puddleglum's back. Eventually she manages to sit on his shoulders, and he lifts her up to look through a hole into the light that's coming from outside. At first she can't see much; the air is deadly cold, the light is pale and blue, and there's a lot of noise and white objects flying through the air. She's been in the dark so long she can't tell what's going on, except that she seems to be looking down from above, not up from below. She gets Puddleglum to let her stand up on his shoulders so she can get a better look, and then finds that she can see and hear much better.
She finds that the hole she's looking through is about fourteen feet up in a bank above a snowy clearing, with Fauns and Dryads dancing a complicated dance below, to the sound of wild, sweet, slightly eerie music played on four fiddles, three flutes and a drum. A ring of Dwarfs in their best clothes circle round and round the dancers, throwing perfectly timed snowballs through the dance. It's night — the light she saw from the hole was bright moonlight. Jill turns around to say, "I say! It's all right. We're out, we're home," but only gets as far as, "I say" before one of the snowballs hits her right in the mouth.
By the time she's managed to clear her face enough to speak, she's so caught up in excitement that she forgets to tell the others what's going on, and just shouts down to the dancers for help right away. As soon as they figure out where her voice is coming from, they scramble up to give her a hand, and she slithers down the bank head-first before picking herself up and saying, "Oh, do go and dig the others out. There are three others, besides the horses. And one of them is Prince Rilian."
This causes considerable confusion, but (probably luckily) they decide she's slightly mad and start digging as soon as the Dwarfs have had a chance to go get their tools, anyway. Jill is getting very cold, but a Dryad gets her a furry cloak, and a Faun brings her a hot drink, and after a few moments of digging, Eustace, pale and brandishing his sword and (understandably) wildly alarmed, comes out of the hill. Jill calls to him that they're friends, and he calms down and apologizes, and is helped out. Then Jill goes back to the hole and calls the news down to Puddleglum and Rilian.
She and Eustace shake hands and sip hot drinks and wait while their friends are dug out. When Puddleglum comes out, everyone is very glad to see him, and he's recognized at once, but then the Prince emerges, and they realize who he must be. Everyone takes off their hats and kneels; a moment later all the wood folk and Talking Animals are cheering and laughing and crying and so clearly overjoyed to have Rilian back that Jill starts to cry. The quest was worth it.
Jill is exhausted; the crowd leads them off to a warm cave, set up just like a farmhouse kitchen, and she and Eustace fall asleep while supper is being prepared.
* WE MADE IT OUT!!! FUCK YES!!!
* Oh wow so that's what it is to be a Prince of Narnia
* It was really worth it. It was really okay.
* +5000 love for Narnia
