![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Peter, the Spider and the King pt 2
Jan. 30th, 2009 02:36 pmPart two: in which there is a spider - and Peter says "Eep!"
And so it was that the next day came and Young Peter found himself walking the winding paths up the mountain and towards the castle of the King. He had been very surprised to learn of a castle, let alone a king – the village of Lowbury didn’t seem ‘regal’ somehow. But indeed there was a castle, and there was a king.
“He... well, he doesn’t come down too often,” the Landlord had said last night, as he stood talking business with Peter in the tiny office back at the tavern. “And what with his temper, we daren’t go up. Things were not always as they are… but we love the King just the same.”
It all sounded very silly indeed to Young Peter.
( Read more... )
And so it was that the next day came and Young Peter found himself walking the winding paths up the mountain and towards the castle of the King. He had been very surprised to learn of a castle, let alone a king – the village of Lowbury didn’t seem ‘regal’ somehow. But indeed there was a castle, and there was a king.
“He... well, he doesn’t come down too often,” the Landlord had said last night, as he stood talking business with Peter in the tiny office back at the tavern. “And what with his temper, we daren’t go up. Things were not always as they are… but we love the King just the same.”
It all sounded very silly indeed to Young Peter.
( Read more... )
