Quest 315

[primrosella]

My goodness, what a busy month it's been--and not just because Christmas is coming, either. We've had months like this before, you know, where it seems as though every day is another curse and there's barely time to breathe for a moment in between. But December is always one of the rather odd months, just like October and May are always a bit awful and August tends to be...well, it has its moments, too.

I must say, though, all those geese the other day were certainly more bad-tempered than Genesta's hen back home. It laid golden eggs, too, and I had to go get it back from an ogre. Ugh, and what an awful moment it was, too, when I was almost out the door and then suddenly it squawked and the ogre woke up from it! Goodness, I don't think I've ever run so fast in my life. But the hen was just scared, I think, and the geese from the other day were just outright troublesome, biting at things and battering at people with their wings.

There's a bird that lays golden eggs in Daventry, too, but I've never seen it myself. I only know it used to nest in my favorite climbing tree, because Daddy once found a golden egg there himself.

But it seems they're all gone now, and today it's something else again. I wonder if it'll be like this the whole month, or if we'll have a respite for Christmas? It's odd, really, how sometimes the curses can seem like one terrible ordeal after another, but others it's almost as though they're a nuisance to contend with. But I suppose that's a matter of how many of them one has seen, really, and how much time one has had to get used to how they come.

Even so, I think there's one out today, but I'm not certain what it is, so I suppose I'll leave my errands for tomorrow and spend today sewing, instead. There's, er, something I need to get done in the little time I have left to do it, and goodness knows I certainly wouldn't be the first princess who whiled her time away that way, anyway.

Comments

[anunluckypenny]

You didn't get attacked by the geese, did you, Rosella?

[primrosella]

I wouldn't call it attacked, no, but I certainly had a time of it with them! Goodness, they were everywhere the other day, weren't they?

[anunluckypenny]

Not attacked is always a good thing, and they were. It's kind of sad how many of them ended up getting hurt--the geese, I mean.

[primrosella]

It really was rather awful. Terrible as they were, they were still only geese--and it wasn't as though they were setting on fire or turning to zombies or anything like that, the way that some animals have before.

[anunluckypenny]

No, they were just protecting those eggs and being geese. Really angry geese.

[primrosella]

And rightfully so, I suppose. They were their eggs, after all.

I did end up with one, though, rather by mistake. It's really rather pretty, honestly.

[anunluckypenny]

Poor geese.

[No, seriously. Yesterday was very upsetting.]

Oh! You didn't trade it in for... whatever you would've traded it in for?

[misterblackbird]

I know the geese were troublesome, but did you try for a golden egg all the same?

[primrosella]

Well, er...only because I didn't realize where it'd come from at first. And then once I tried to get a better look at it, on came the goose and there was a great misunderstanding and it was all a bit of a mess.

[Read: "Pick up everything that is not nailed down" strikes again.]

[misterblackbird]

So you did manage to get one for yourself.

I suppose it's still in your pocket too.

[primrosella]

And a few good nips from a rather angry goose for my trouble, besides.

I'd heard that the deities were asking for them too, you know.

[misterblackbird]

I'm sure of that. All geese can be beastly, but these were especially bad.

Yes, I heard the same.

[primrosella]

Did you find yourself with one of the eggs, then, as well? Or did you simply avoid them all day?

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[punchedhitler]

[He has a black eye but oh well.]

I think geese are usually bad-tempered.

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[primrosella]

[...Steve did you get in a fight with a goose and lose.

You are supposed to be an American eagle, man.]

Well, yes, but these ones were particularly so, I think. And one goose on its lonesome isn't all that bad, either--it's when they all get together in a flock that things get a bit sticky.

Did you, er...have a run-in with them yourself, then?

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[punchedhitler]

[Look it was for Bucky's Christmas present.]

Have you fought geese before?

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[primrosella]

[AMERICAN EAGLE > GOOSE.]

I haven't fought them, no, but I did once swim a fair distance out into the ocean while carrying along a rather angry hen, which I suppose evens out somewhat, really.

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[punchedhitler]

I hope you don't mind me saying that you have an interesting life, Miss Rosella.

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[primrosella]

Oh, not at all! It has been a bit unusual at times, though I find that's more when it comes to kissing frogs or being swallowed by whales or hauled about by flying monkeys, and not so much with the little things like angry hens.

[had_not_lived]

Are you sewing seven shirts, Rosella?

[primrosella]

Oh, no, just one this time! And a pair of little dresses, besides.

[had_not_lived]

Who for?

[primrosella]

That's my secret! I've been working on it a few weeks now, really, getting everything I need for it and marking everything out, and it's almost done now, once I get these last bits sewn.

ROSELLA ARE THESE BABY CLOTHES :| DO WE NEED TO HAVE A TALK

[had_not_lived]

Oh... well... I don't think that's something I could help with, or I'd offer.

ASLGKA;F WHY WOULD YOU IMMEDIATELY THINK THAT GOOD LORD

[primrosella]

Oh, er. Actually...now that you mention it, there is something I could use a bit of help with, if you wouldn't mind. It's rather simple, really, it's just something I can't do on my own without risking upsetting everything.