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Old 01-15-2012, 02:14 AM   #153 (permalink)
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Regina Circe Cho
Slytherin
Third Year
x12 x2
Default Fire Seed Bush - #5

Selena looked at the little plant. "Okay, are you ready to go to sleep?" Selena asked, as she glanced over her list once more. Read it a bedtime story. "Y'know what, I'll give you a bed time story, but I'm going to make it up, ready?" Selena said with a pause before she cleared her throat.

"Once upon a time there lived a little plant named Stumpy. Stumpy grew big. He then burned stuff because he was a fire seed bush. The end." Selena said, concluding the story.

There. That seemed like a perfectly good story.

... Not.

Selena giggled to herself. "Alright, here's a better one," she said before opening her bag and pulling out a small picture book she had found in the Slytherin dormitories. Who it belonged to? Selena had no idea, but finders keepers, right?

"Okay, The Princess and the Pea, of course, Stumpy, you're not the pea because you're going to be a fire seed bush," Selena said, talking to the plant before beginning the story.

SPOILER!!: Princess and the Pea plus thoughts from Selena
There was once a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she was to be a real princess. So he traveled about, all through the world, to find a real one, but everywhere there was something in the way.

There were princesses enough, but whether they were real princesses he could not quite make out: there was always something that did not seem quite right.


"Honestly, Stumpy, I just thought that the prince was being a bit stupid, if they have royal blood, they're a real princess, right?" Selena said, after stopping. Really, it had made no sense to her.

So he came home again, and was quite sad: for he wished so much to have a real princess. One evening a terrible storm came on. It lightened and thundered, the rain streamed down; it was quite fearful!

Then there was a knocking at the town gate, and the old king went out to open it.

It was a princess who stood outside the gate. But, mercy! how she looked, from the rain and the rough weather! The water ran down from her hair and her clothes; it ran in at the points of her shoes, and out at the heels; and yet she declared that she was a real princess.

"Yes, we will soon find that out," thought the old queen.

But the Queen said nothing, only went into the bedchamber, took all the bedding off, and put a pea on the flooring of the bedstead; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them upon the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds upon the mattresses.

On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.


"You're lucky you're not the pea, you would've been crushed... or you could've set the whole thing on fire, it's a good thing you weren't there... poor pea..." Selena mused as she looked at the plant. Yup. Definitely lucky little bushling.

"Oh, miserably!" said the princess. "I scarcely closed my eyes all night long. Goodness knows what was in my bed. I lay upon something hard, so that I am black and blue all over. It is quite dreadful!"

Now they saw that she was a real princess, for through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds she had felt the pea. No one but a real princess could be so delicate.

So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a true princess; and the pea was put in the museum, and it is there now, unless somebody has carried it off
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"The end," Selena said, finishing the story. Selena closed the picture book and placed it in her bag. She looked at the plant. "Alright, Stumpy, sleep well, I need some chocolate." Selena wriggled her fingers at the plant in the pot then hesitantly waved at the ivy before skipping out of the greenhouse. Time for some chocolate she believed.
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