[Fic] "Heirlooms" -- original story, Elsewhere

2010-05-27T01:42:36Z

The Apple and Daphne Rumluck who feature in Secrets as OC yearmates of Ginny Weasley were not originally created for that story. They are transplants (with alterations, obviously) from a world I created in my teens, with occasional help from Vicky. In that world, Apple is the heir to Ivy House and the northern third of Elsewhere proper (one of the four mountain valleys that make up the tiny country of Elsewhere -- the other three being Nowhere, Eastwick, and Southward). Daphne is still Apple's second cousin, but she is also related to the Turnagain family, who rule Nowhere from Briar House.

Apple has a slightly awkward relationship with Blue Turnagain, one of Daphne's cousins, which you can read about in the ficlet Apple & Blue. Blue does not feature in the following ficlet, however, which tells the story of a single incident from one of Apple and Daphne's childhood visits to Briar House. I think Apple is thirteen and Daphne twelve in this story. Therefore, Frost is fourteen, Coin is twelve, and Moon is eleven. Moon is Blue's little sister. ...Actually, given those ages, this is most likely set only a week or so before Blue announces that he's leaving home to see the world.

But anyway. On to the story! (700 words)

( Heirlooms )

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Someday I really must get around to writing the story in which Apple and Blue, and Daphne and some as-yet-unknown characters sort out a political plot in Meriwhen and Elsewhere, with all the complications of having to piece the thing together from two ends and then wait four or five days for letters to travel from Candlewick (the capital of Elsewhere) to Myria (the capital of Meriwhen). But not now.

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[Fic] "Heirlooms" -- original story, Elsewhere