Dora Xavier
May 27, 2020 10:54 AM
Playing Outside by Dora Xavier
Dora was mad. She wanted to go in the Yellow room with Daddy, but he wouldn't let her. She wanted to read with Dora N (it was so cool that an older boy had the same name as her!) She wanted to follow Zara around because Zara was the best! She wanted to jump on the couches because they were nice and bouncy (but she usually got in trouble for that). She loved the yellow room and Daddy said she couldn't go there anymore, not EVER!! It was NOT FAIR!!"Here, let's try visiting someplace new," Daddy suggested.
She eyed him doubtfully and distrustfully, but Someplace New sounded better than Here, so she reluctantly nodded, and let him take her hand. They went outside, but not to the Greenhouses, or even the Gardens.
They were in a big place with high up seats way way up in the air and Dora got dizzy spinning around looking up at them. "You can run around in here all you want to," Daddy told her. "Stay in the circle, but you can run and yell as much as you want to."
She could yell? And run? This was better than the yellow room. She began running and shrieking as loudly as she could, looking back at Daddy to make sure this was okay, and he just smiled and nodded at her encouragingly. So she shrieked and yelled and ran some more until she got tired of it and then she started spinning again because spinning was the funnest thing ever, and she spun so much she got so dizzy she fell down and that was really funny and she laughed and laughed and that was when she saw another kid - one that was older than three - carrying a big stick and she ran over to them and asked, "What's the stick for?"
She looked over at Daddy to make sure this was okay, too, and he looked like he was paying closer attention now than he had when she was by herself out here, but he didn't look like he was going to stop her from talking to the bigger kid.
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Zeus Brooding-Hawthorne-Smith
May 27, 2020 2:04 PM
It's the best. by Zeus Brooding-Hawthorne-Smith
Zeus spent a lot of time in Daddy's/Tabby's office or in Mommy's/Mary's office, and it was not very exciting. It was cool because he got to look at stuff, but he could only do that so many times before it was all memorised. Plus, Tabby was always very focused when she worked and Mary's work smelled gross. He knew it was important but it still smelled gross. Today, he was sitting in Mary's office, but they were only there for a little bit because then Mary put a bunch of papers in a bag, took his hand, and led him outside. To this big field."I'm going to grade papers," she told him, taking a seat with her back to one of the stands. "I'll be right here if you need me."
Zeus wasn't sure exactly what to do. He'd spent a lot of time playing by himself in his life, but not with nothing to do. This was just a big field. What was he supposed to do? He could run around, and that would be fun, but it wasn't going to be enough by itself. He'd have to use . . . his imagination.
"Can I play Quidditch?" he asked Mary, grinning.
She raised an eyebrow at him and then conjured a stick with her magic stick. "You can play Quidditch on the ground," she told him, smiling.
Zeus promptly boarded the stick and ran around in circles until he was dizzy. He'd forgotten to get balls for the game, but this was just as well. Most of the time, Quidditch games were just big people sitting on sticks and zooming around anyway.
But he really was very dizzy, which is when he discovered that the stick could also be a staff or a cane or something. He felt very old and grand, like a wizened old goblin or something. He was just about to decide what the best thing to whack with his wizened old goblin stick would be when Dora ran up to him. He hadn't even seen her but then he saw her daddy and knew that it was probably because they'd been talking quietly to each other like he and Mary had been.
"I'm a goblin," he told her very seriously. "So I have to be wise and hit bad stuff with it."
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