accomplishedWhy, back to Buckley Township, Michigan.
No tour of the history of the American Price family would be complete without a stop in Buckley. That's where Enid and Alexander settled down; where Jonathan brought home the Fabulous Fran, Star of New Mexico; where Alice Healy met Thomas Price. That's where it began.
It isn't where it ended.
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February 20 2016, 07:29:29 UTC 1 year ago
We get to find out how a member of the most recent generation feels about Buckley Township and it's going to be awesome! Or, you know, involve almost-dead kids and people getting pissed at Verity for saving said kids, and also murder and lingering on the tragedy that befell Alice and Thomas, which all comes out to about the same thing!
"Do not run across your face in the small hours of the night, no, not even if we are afraid of the sounds in the walls and hoping that our claws will wake you."
That...is a very good rule. GAHH. The Aeslin are lucky they're so adorable. Even if they do spring songs about genitalia on their gods (and priestesses?)
And I guess "the ghost in the old
ParrishPrice place" is either going to come back to haunt (ha!) the family later, or it's a story that's cropped up. Or both. 'Both' seems probable.Dominic's first statement upon getting a noseful of pollen makes me wonder: has he had to chase a bogeyman around Euro Disney? Also, the line about how "It can be exhausting, learning not to listen to the things that don't apply to you." makes me wonder how much he's been applying that lesson to being called "the Covenant boyfriend" when he's cut ties with them.
Aaaaaand just so you know, I literally squeaked and danced a bit when Dominic proposed. Awww!
Thank you so much for this excellent story!
February 20 2016, 16:35:34 UTC 1 year ago
Though I am blaming you entirely for the fact that I spent all night coming up with rhymes for scrotum, depending on how you were singing, and what sort of emphasis you put on the words.
P.S. I honestly don't know if this is appropriate, and if it is not, I shall grovel and beg your forgiveness. But does this mean there is a chance that some day you will tell the tale of what happened in Buckley when the Covenant came to visit?
P.P.S. I've been imagining the mice singing the Man-bits Madrigal in squillo to the tune of Carnival Glass.
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February 21 2016, 18:13:42 UTC 1 year ago
I don't understand how you can post so much free fic, to your cats eat the un-edited printouts so you can save on cat food?
But thank you! Thanks you very much!
February 21 2016, 23:15:57 UTC 1 year ago
What are the chances we'll get the lyrics to the mices' song?
February 23 2016, 05:03:22 UTC 1 year ago
Question: Healy's in PA
February 23 2016, 05:08:10 UTC 1 year ago
I just remember being thrilled that they had considered PA as a place to settle.
Thank you for this story.
I loved seeing how, Dominic, once committed, is committed, but he still understands why Verity is concerned about their relationship.
It was interesting, the dialogue about [Spoiler (click to open)]"It's adorable how you apply [conservation before extermination] to things that want to eat you alive" and how he sees the line between "don't kill everything not human" and "it's trying to kill people, kill it", especially given what Basil had to tell Alex in Pocket Apocalypse.
If Thomas is alive, and if Alice finds him, it'll be interesting to see how he and Dominic and the Thirty-sixers hit it off.
The Healys and the Prices have been existing in a sort of vacuum consisting of family, and Cryptids who were aware of their Covenant past and trying to be able to coexist with them. As the family grows with new perspectives, I wonder how their "conservation before extermination" philosophy will change.
Verity and Alex both clearly know there's a line, given their exploits in the books, but I feel they put that line in a different place than Enid, Alexander, or Fran would.
[Spoiler (click to open)]You mentioned the circus in this story, which answered a lot of questions I had about where Kevin and Jane were while Alice hunted for Thomas. Were some of the changes in where the generations draw this line due to this upbringing, rather than in a strictly Healy/Price house?
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Well, shoot...
February 29 2016, 09:20:26 UTC 1 year ago Edited: February 29 2016, 09:20:54 UTC
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