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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 18, 2008 23:31:23 GMT -5
"Please don't ever think that we didn't want to raise you. We did. I would have given anything to rock you to sleep as a baby, but Glinda could give you a real life. You had a shot at things being almost normal for you. You'd get to be with people, not have to hide forever..." he regretted not raising her every day. "at least your mother got to see you fairly often as a child. The thing you never new is that I used to sit in the other room, and your mom would give me a looking glass I could watch the two of you in. I'd cry watching the two of you. You were beautiful from the moment you were born. She'd play with your dollies with you and you'd just beam up at her. Such a tiny beauty with big, knowing eyes, and your smile so bright. I wanted to rush in there and just hold you close; but we didn't want to terrify you...."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 18, 2008 23:33:50 GMT -5
"I used to think, when I was a child that everyone came in different colors. Mother was green, I was tan, other people would be red, and blue, and yellow. The world ended up being much less...colorful than I thought it'd be. But you must have known that I wouldn't have a normal life either way. I'm a freak out there."
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 18, 2008 23:37:48 GMT -5
"Well...there's something else you got from me. That's the Winki that made you pretty and tan. If your mother hadn't been green, she would have been very fair. Nessa was terribly pale. In a way, people do come in different colors but it's generally just varying shades from white or peach to brown. Not many green, blue, or red people..." he laughed thinking of her imagining that.
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 19, 2008 6:57:12 GMT -5
"How does it feel?" Ellie asked "To be made of straw?"
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 19, 2008 8:33:58 GMT -5
"Very strange. Kind of hollow. It doesn't feel at all like being human. And of course there's the you loose part of your straw or its gets mouldy or something all too often. Your sweet mother goes out and collects more for me about twice a week. I can't feel the way I felt as a human. It's not like you could hit me, and it would hurt. Nothing hurts. That's the beauty of it. If I fall, I just fall. Even if I burn...I'm scared, but I can't feel...that's the oddest part. I know that was the point, but physically..I can't feel.."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 19, 2008 8:56:50 GMT -5
"But even if you're lit on fire - you wouldn't necessairily die, would you? Isn't that part of the spell?"
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 19, 2008 17:41:16 GMT -5
"I wouldn't die...but it doesn't mean there'd be anything left of me. Whatever was left...would be me...and I guess you could possibly put me back together...or I could just be a pile of nothing forever."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 19, 2008 22:59:35 GMT -5
"That's horrible" Ellie said.
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 19, 2008 23:21:15 GMT -5
"It is. It's the consequences we pay..."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 19, 2008 23:30:32 GMT -5
"I feel like there are things that I should know, but I don't. I know you and mother and Glinda have all told me the truth about what happened, and yet, I still don't feel like I have the whole story..."
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 19, 2008 23:38:56 GMT -5
"I don't know what else to say. I'd tell you anything I knew to say. If you ask, I'll say. I just don't know what else to say...."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 20, 2008 7:09:08 GMT -5
"It's ok. It's just hard, when so much of who you are is because of events that happened before you were born. How will Oz even react to my...condition?"
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 20, 2008 12:57:46 GMT -5
"I don't know...it depends on how it's approached...some will be amazed, some will be jealous, some will be unhappy about it--thinking of tyranny, some will be sympathetic, thinking of you. I think you will merely have a mixed audience no matter what, but you may be able to minimize those of negative feelings by the approach taken."
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Post by Ellie Baum on Sept 20, 2008 13:54:02 GMT -5
"I'm worried about Ian. I'm sure he'd give his right arm to gain immortality."
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Post by Fiyero Tigalar on Sept 20, 2008 14:01:26 GMT -5
"Possibly so. But he would have given his right arm to have you for his love just a short while ago. So perhaps this too will pass quickly..." he brushed her hair back from her face.
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