I'm About As Organized As Ran, I Guess? [closed post]

[summerdude]

"And then we realized Frigg was knitting with clouds. Actual factual clouds," Magnus says, passing another box that, as it turns out, holds nothing useful down to Galahad. He climbs up another rung on the little stepladder and starts in on the next shelf. "How many boxes of Legos do we have so far?" He knows it's certainly not enough for a bachelorette party yet, but surely there's something they can go on. He'd kind of tonight that this far after Dark, there would be... more? "Do you think we should find another room to look in? Maybe the game room isn't the best choice."

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[onthewillowsthere]

Galahad's eyes widen, and he grabs Magnus' arm. There's a forest clearing with a brick unicorn; a sea-cliff that plunges down to a ferocious Lego sea, covered with teeny tiny seabirds; the interior of the monastery at Caithness with all its portraits of the saints. In fact, it's all the places he went with Percival.

[summerdude]

Magnus looks over. At the unicorn, he smiles. "Tell me about it?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"When Percival and I were questing for the Grail. Animals always came to him."

[summerdude]

"So you've said," Magnus says. He nods at the monastery. "Is that where you grew up?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"No. It's a place we visited. These are all places we visited."

[summerdude]

"That's so cool." Magnus looks at the cliff. "North, right?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"All over Britain. This was north," pointing to the cliff. "We went because there were seabirds nesting there."

[summerdude]

"Puffins?"

[onthewillowsthere]

He smiles. "Yes. And kittiwakes and shearwaters. Petrels."

[summerdude]

"We saw puffins on the Big Banana," Magnus says, reaching to brush a finger over the little Lego birds. "When we were sailing from Jorvik to Flam."

[onthewillowsthere]

"They make burrows in the earth for their eggs."

[summerdude]

"Ragnelle said that Drosera might want to live on a cliff eventually."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Peregrines do. Percival says eagles make nests."

[summerdude]

Magnus flashes a smile as a thought occurs to him. "Maybe she'll claim the tower," he says. "It's definitely big enough to support her when she's big."

[onthewillowsthere]

The tower would make an excellent spot for an eagle's nest. Galahad smiles at the thought.

[summerdude]

"Oh, ew," Magnus says, suddenly distracted as his eyes catch on a little Lego Naglfar over Galahad's shoulder. "That's the ship where I flyted Loki."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Are there other things here from your travels?"

[summerdude]

Magnus looks around, then laughs. "There's Aegir's mead-brewing setup," he says. "And Utgard-Loki's bowling alley."

[onthewillowsthere]

"What else?"

[summerdude]

Magnus starts to walk around. "I don't recognize this at all," he says, of a Lego glade with a great broken stone Lego slab in the middle. "Do you?"

[onthewillowsthere]

He shakes his head. "No. Do you think it belongs to someone else? Why can't there be books about us, but Legos are all right?"

[summerdude]

"No freaking clue," Magnus says, and then stops, stock-still, at a Lego boat with a rat perched on the wheel. "Oh my gods. Galahad. Do you think -- is that Charlie?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"It could be Charlie."

[summerdude]

"Should we take this back to Tress just in case?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"Are we allowed?" It feels a little like taking the bones from a reliquary.