Luna Maximoff (i_feel_you) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-01-25 00:23:00

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After some food and more socializing, Luna made due on her promise to show Eli the library. She led him through the halls of Avengers Mansion, until they reached the library.

"This," said Luna, "This is were I spend a large majority of my time. I can often be found here. ...I have considered moving my bed here, sometimes. But I don't know if that would go over well with the rest of the team." She blushed. "Sorry...you wanted me to help you find books on vampires?"

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	i_feel_you 2011-01-28 04:38 am UTC (link)
	"I like to think that her prince took her back to see her mother," Luna said. "At least, that's always how I've painted it in my mind." "I know many others, if you would want to hear them. I have an entire book of fairy tales in my room, actually. I could go get it, if you'd like." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

blinkandmissme
2011-01-28 05:15 am UTC (link)

"Yes, I would like to hear any of them. All of them. I will wait right here for you to return." Eli says, nodding at her suggestion.

When she goes, however, Eli thinks about it and decides that something is missing. When Luna returns, there is a pot of steaming tea on the table and a cup has been poured for her.

There is a bottle of honey in the shape of a bear next to her cup.

"I thought it might be nice if we could try tea here first. If you enjoy it here, then we shall go to England." he says.

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	i_feel_you 2011-01-28 05:34 am UTC (link)
	"I will be right back, Eli," she said, getting up from the table and going to her room. When she returned, she came back with her book of fairy tales, sitting back down next to him. "That sounds like an excellent plan, Eli," she said, opening the book to the table of contents. "Is there anything of interest that you would like me to read first?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	blinkandmissme 2011-01-28 05:38 am UTC (link)
	"Surprise me. I want to hear the tales that you find most interesting." Eli says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

i_feel_you
2011-01-28 05:50 am UTC (link)

"I will share with you one of my personal favorites, then," Luna said. "It is called, East of the Sun and West of the Moon."

Luna added some honey to her tea, taking a sip of it before she started to read.

"A White Bear approaches a poor peasant and asks if he will give him his youngest daughter; in return, he will make the man rich. The girl is reluctant, so the peasant asks the bear to return, and persuades her in the meantime. The White Bear takes her off to a rich and enchanted castle. At night, he takes off his bear form in order to come to her bed as a man, although the lack of light means that she never sees him.

When she grows homesick, the bear agrees that she might go home as long as she agrees that she will never speak with her mother alone, but only when other people are about. At home, they welcome her, and her mother makes persistent attempts to speak with her alone, finally succeeding and persuading her to tell the whole tale. Hearing it, her mother insists that the White Bear must really be a troll, gives her some candles, and tells her to light them at night, to see what is sharing her bed.

She obeys, and finds he is a very handsome prince, but she spills three drops of the melted tallow on him, waking him. He tells her that if she held out a year, he would have been free, but now he must go to his wicked stepmother, who enchanted him into this shape and lives in a castle east of the sun and west of the moon, and marry her hideous daughter.

In the morning, she finds that the palace has vanished. She sets out in search of him. Coming to a great mountain, she finds an old woman playing with a golden apple. She asks if she knows the way to the castle east of the sun and west of the moon. The old woman can not tell her, but lends her a horse to reach a neighbor who might know, and gives her the apple. The neighbor is sitting outside another mountain, with a golden carding-comb. She, also, does not know the way to the castle east of the sun and west of the moon, but lends her a horse to reach a neighbor who might know, and gives her the carding-comb. The third neighbor has a golden spinning wheel. She, also, does not know the way to the castle east of the sun and west of the moon, but lends her a horse to reach the East Wind and gives her the spinning wheel.

The East Wind has never been to the castle east of the sun and west of the moon, but his brother the West Wind might have, being stronger. He takes her to the West Wind. The West Wind does the same, bringing her to the South Wind; the South Wind does the same, bringing her to the North Wind.

The North Wind reports that he once blew an aspen leaf there, and was exhausted after, but he will take her if she really wants to go. She does, and so he does.

The next morning, she takes out the golden apple. The daughter who was to marry the prince sees it and wants to buy it. The girl agrees, if she can spend the night with the prince. The daughter agrees but gives the prince a sleeping drink, so that the girl can not wake him, and does the same the next night, when it was the price of the carding comb.

But trying to wake the prince, she had wept and called on him, and some imprisoned townspeople in the castle told the prince of it, and the third night, in return for the golden spinning wheel, the princess brings the drink, but the prince does not drink it, and so is awake. He tells her that she can save him: he will declare that he will not marry anyone who can not wash the tallow drops from his shirt since trolls, such as his stepmother and her daughter, can not do it. So instead, he will call her in, and she will be able to do it, so she will marry him.

The plan works, and the trolls, in a rage, burst. So the prince and his bride freed the prisoners captive there, and took the gold and silver, and left the castle east of the sun and west of the moon."

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	blinkandmissme 2011-01-28 06:04 am UTC (link)
	Eli looks, for all the world, like a child who is being read stories at the library. His expression is full of wonder and he seems to be imagining the where this castle could be. "I really liked that one, Luna. How do you feel about the 'classic' fairy tales, like 'Sleeping Beauty' and 'Hansel and Gretel'?" Eli asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_feel_you 2011-01-28 03:39 pm UTC (link)
	"I enjoy them," she said. "I like the ones that most people haven't heard of, but I do like the 'classics' as well." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	blinkandmissme 2011-01-29 12:29 am UTC (link)
	"Are you a fan of stories that have been adapted into movies?" he asks. "I have not actually been to a movie theater, but I hear they are nice affairs, at least the older ones." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_feel_you 2011-01-29 12:40 am UTC (link)
	"Most of them, yes," she said. "Some of the Disney films stray away from the story, but they are still enjoyable." Luna took another sip of her tea. "Maybe...we should make a point to go to a movie theater at some point? Though not right now. The movies released in the winter normally aren't that great, though they are some good ones." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	blinkandmissme 2011-01-29 01:21 am UTC (link)
	"If we do this...can we get popcorn? I am told you are supposed to get popcorn when you go to a theater and I'd like to see what the fuss is about." Eli says. "What is your favorite movie that you've ever seen in the theater?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

i_feel_you
2011-01-29 01:29 am UTC (link)

Luna smiled. "Yes, we can get popcorn. It's part of the theater going experience, after all."

"Anastasia," she said. "I know that it completely goes against historical fact, but...I love the story. And the music. And the romance...I think it's the 'giving up her title for love' in the end that does it for me.

And if you have never seen it, and I just spoiled it for you, I apologize."

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	blinkandmissme 2011-01-29 01:47 am UTC (link)
	"No, I have not seen it, but I would still see it anyway so that I could form my own opinion about it." Eli smiles. "I try not to take too much on face value. I try and many times, I succeed." Eli says. "I would like to see Phantom of the Opera. That looked really interesting." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_feel_you 2011-01-29 01:55 am UTC (link)
	"You will have to see it sometime. I love it." She smiled. "I think Aine has that on DVD. I could see about borrowing it from her sometime." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	blinkandmissme 2011-01-29 02:12 am UTC (link)
	"I would like that very much. It sounds like a good movie." Eli says. "How long have you and Aine been friends?" Eli asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_feel_you 2011-01-29 02:27 am UTC (link)
	"It is," said Luna. "The play is better, but the movie has merit." "About five years," Luna said, "We met in college, were we roommates our freshman year." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	blinkandmissme 2011-01-29 02:30 am UTC (link)
	"College sounds interesting. I think I might try it someday, just to see if it is really the way people say it is." Eli says. "Did you two become friends quickly?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_feel_you 2011-01-29 03:01 am UTC (link)
	"I enjoyed it, though I was probably the world's most boring student, as I didn't go out and party every night." Luna smirked. "Only on special occasions." "Actually, we didn't. I kept to myself a lot at first, but one night she helped me out when I got into a tight spot with my powers, and we've been friends ever since." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	blinkandmissme 2011-01-29 03:21 am UTC (link)
	"That was very kind of her. She sounds like a very nice person. Perhaps I shall me her soon as well." Eli says, considering that it would be a good idea to make a good impression upon Aine. "Parties and drinking are not all there is to life, though I suppose it seems that way when any day could be one's last." Eli says. "What did you study in college?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_feel_you 2011-01-29 03:25 am UTC (link)
	"She is, though I give you fair warning she can come off as a little...intense." Luna grinned. "Library sciences," she said, "I'm a Princess who wants to be librarian." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	blinkandmissme 2011-01-29 05:00 am UTC (link)
	"Intense will not be an issue. I have known intense people before." Eli smiles. "Princess Librarian sounds like an apt title. Will you hold state dinners that I may come and enjoy your company? I am a foreign dignitary, after all." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_feel_you 2011-01-29 05:02 am UTC (link)
	Luna laughed. "I shall. Wonderful state dinners, filled with good food, good wine, and most importantly, good books. And you will be the first on my invite list." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	blinkandmissme 2011-01-29 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	"I will also bring a tribute of good books for the land of...Lunaria and its Librarian Princess. We will form an alliance between our peoples that will shake the foundations of the literary world to its core." Eli grins. "And there shall be at least one portion of the evening where people can stand up on a chair and tell old fairy tales." Eli suggests. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_feel_you 2011-01-29 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	"This will be a most fruitful alliance indeed," Luna said, nodding, trying to keep a straight face. But she ended up breaking into a wide smile anyway. "Oh of course," she said, "It will be a requirement, or off with their heads!" She waved her hand dismissively, laughing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	blinkandmissme 2011-01-29 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	"Reading is fundamental to a strong kingdom, so you may take the heads of any that disagree, as it is your kingdom." he says. "However, I also know how to distract you, so if there are people who deserve a stay of execution, I will use what I have learned to do so." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_feel_you 2011-01-30 02:15 am UTC (link)
	"I don't think I'd have the heart to carry out any executions...though I could always pretend to, simply for these distractions." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)