[Dictated]

[lightbranded]

 Rather a lot of children in the castle now, aren't there? [Will pauses, and then continues with a small laugh.]

Not even my family ever had quite this many.  Even from what I remember of my older brother's stories. Of course I was the youngest, so I've never been around kids much.  But I guess I could still offer my help.

[Another pause, as Will thinks over his words.]

There is one other thing, I suppose.  I've been thinking a lot recently over some questions. Has anyone ever wondered what happens to a story what it finishes?  What the people in a story do in the after?

Comments

Dictated

[sugarwaffo]

They live happily ever after, of course!

Dictated

[lightbranded]

That's one way of looking at it, I suppose.

Dictated

[sugarwaffo]

What other ways are there? [All stories end happily... don't they?]

Re: Dictated

[lightbranded]

Stories end as they end, and that is ending well.

Dictated

[sugarwaffo]

Does that make it a good ending?

Re: Dictated

[lightbranded]

It can be, and the opposite as well. Really, I suppose it depends on the point of view.

Dictated

[sugarwaffo]

Hmm... I guess that makes sense.

What do you think?

[kethedammit]

That ain't the point, though. I mean, unless they go on to other stories.

[lightbranded]

What if all the stories are finished?

[kethedammit]

Then so're the people.

[lightbranded]

Depends on what you mean by story, I suppose.

[kethedammit]

What d'you mean, then?

[lightbranded]

The grand stories, I suppose. Battles between light and dark, with destiny all mixed up.

dictated

[unvarnished]

A story is never really finished. Parts of it might come to an end, but then a new story begins. The old story is still a part of the new story, so in a way it never ends.

dictated

[lightbranded]

That does make sense. All things come to an end. But the important things, the things people care about and remember, I do not think that the could truly end.

dictated

[unvarnished]

Never. Those things go on.

Re: dictated

[lightbranded]

All the same, I think that time between stories, when neither has truly ended or begun...

I think that that time must be difficult.

dictated

[unvarnished]

It is...

Re: dictated

[lightbranded]

Thank you for speaking to me, anyway. My name is Will Stanton.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

They'd have you believe they live 'happy ever after', but they usually have lives, with ups and downs like just about everyone else.

[lightbranded]

I do not know if I think that anything could ever truly be a happy ever after. But that people could just live, with their own choices and paths. I think I could believe that.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

It's the best way for a story to end. Then they're making it all their own.

[lightbranded]

I suppose so. [Will still wondered what it was he was supposed to be doing now.]

Must be difficult, though. To suddenly have to learn how to create your own story.

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

It's not easy, but when forward is the only way you can go...well, it write itself.

[lightbranded]

[Will considers this. He could see the point of it, when he altered his thoughts to think of it not like an Old One.]

I suppose that is true, for people of the track.