1st Reckoning

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

[An eleven year old girl appears on the plane with a frying pan in one hand. The sudden change in scenery startles her, and she thinks for a moment longer.]

… Oh, I get it. "A thought in yer heid." Doors are everywhere. So this place is like that, huh?

[She takes in the scenery for a bit, noticing the lack of a visible floor, then inhales a nice good breath and talks to the plane.]

Alright, Meredith! I want to know why you have your dolls on my land. They’re too close to where Granny Aching’s been buried, and their place sounds like... it sounds like nightmares. You have one chance to explain, or there will be a reckoning! And I defeated the Queen of Fairies, so don’t even think I’m frightened by the likes of you.

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[cyfor.livejournal.com]

[Sniffs around her foot] I see things too. But them dolls aren't dolls, they're people too.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

They aren't really people. They try to be people. It's not the same. [Pokes the cat with her pan. She's also mentally congratulating herself at not freaking out at a talking cat.]

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

Merry Mery's dolls aren't dolls. [Hisses and swats at the frying pan] I don't go poking at you!

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

They look like the china shepherdess, though.

Well you might not really be there!

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

Neither might you, and I still don't poke! And they're not shepping anything.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

Sheep herding. Shepherds take care of the flocks of sheep.

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

I know that. I just don't care about that.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

You said shepping. Shepping isn't a word. Why say it if you know what shepherds are?

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

[Stretches and flicks her tail at Tiffany] Because I like it better.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

[B| This must be why animals aren't allowed to talk in the first place. They mess up the language.]

What would you say "shepping" means, then?

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

[HEY SHE HEARD THAT. D< ]

It means what I want it to mean.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

That's not how language works. There needs to be an agreement on the meaning of the words being used. Otherwise nobody would understand each other.

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

Someone had to make it up first though.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

And he or she gave it a specific meaning, and people agreed that it was a good word to convey that meaning, so they decided to keep it.

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

S' called evolution.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

Of a language, yes, but you can't go making up words for no reason, and especially not words that don't even have a meaning. That defeats the purpose of having a language.

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

I can noodle thingbobs all I wiffle.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

[B|] Now you're just doing it to annoy me.

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't need to twingle you if you didn't twingle me first.

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

I didn't twingle anything.

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

But you think a thing can be twingled?

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

You used it as a verb in three different instances, so that is how it must act.

[cyfor.livejournal.com]

It's very twingle today, don't you think?

[livingchalk.livejournal.com]

[She'd punt you, but she's more mature than that B|] You need to read a dictionary.