The Land of Grimney - The Illustrated Adventures of Cora Pearl, aged 12

Your ex sank a whole ship through jealousy!!
I begin to think my solitary existance is the way forward

Quite right Philomena! Imagine sinking a ship when a raspberry would make the point equally as well! *eve naive shakes her head in exasperation* Sometimes they just don't think!

I would love for you to do my hair, thank you so much.

Oh Gwen, I am all in a state of pure confuddlement. I only suggested we take a walk to see the wibble bird, I thought it would be a jolly jaunt. Noone could be unhappy too much seeing the wibble bird flying this way and that like he'd had too much swoozy liquid! It was the wrong thing to say, because wibbly elf cannot leave his toadstool. So he says.

Never mind lets think of happy things. Like a pinknik! I heard you talking of it and it sounds so much fun at the lake. Urat splooshing in the waters and Sweeney green paddling with his britches rolled up round his knees! I've never had a pinknik.

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...

That's Mermen for you, they will kick up a storm at the slightest thing. A solitary existence? I do not think I could live if I did not love but who am I to love? If I marry a merman he will expect me to stay under the waves combing his hair and catching his fish for him. If I marry a human I can only last seven years before the cry of the sea is too hard to resist. So I love foolishly and love briefly. It is the only way.

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maybe one day I will love someone and they me, but for now I am content here with you dear friends.
We must make a grand picnic for eve, with delicious food and bottles of "swoozy liquid"!!!

Poor Philomena, I feel, but hope it not true forever for you... some deep sadness in those words. Atleast for now there is love in it's constance between friends.

*eve naive strokes Philomena's cheeks with tiny fairy hands*

There now my love is not foolish and brief!

A pinknik! *claps and stamps feet excitedly* Swoozy liquid!!

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...

Oh yes and I will dance through the waters for you all, leaping up high in the sky as light as a fairy. Perhaps you could make us all some pretty bathing suits Gwenllian, although I'll just need a top.

Maybe one day eve, maybe. Until then I shall foolishly fall in love with pirate captains and outlaws and other unsuitable mortals!

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Yes one day Philomena...out of the strong comes forth sweetness....one day a someone of great strength will give you so much sweetness and love. I can feel it in my wings!

I think I will go for a moonlit flit over Grimney and see what I can see.

Do not fret dear ones if I am out late...I need to feel free wooshing through the night air!

*eve naive looks about carefully*

We have not had a visit from the gentleman thats swots thing with wings today? Be careful Philomena...he makes me feel squiggly...like grass snakes are making a nest in my belly! If he can eat the last ever of a creature in the whole world and not cry forever over its loss...then he is not entirely good!

*looks furtively around again as if expecting to see Felix behind her with a fly swatter!*

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...

Oh little eve, who would have expected to find one of the biggest hearts in Grimney inside one of the smallest fairies.

All the talk of love and broken dreams, it takes me back to my youth. Still, I must not dwell on times gone by. I just like to listen to you lovely ladies chatting.

The tavern has become more of a home to myself and Sweeney since you all arrived. The food is better, the place is cleaner and Sweeney is less grumpy than he used to be.

I hope you all find what you are looking for in Grimney I really do, but I've found what I've been missing, a magical musical fairy, a beautiful generous mermaid and the mysterious Gwenllian who struggles to know her origins or where she is from, but I'm sure I know where she belongs, and that's right here with us, in our lovely warm swamp.

Goodnight ladies, as always you're most welcome to stay. Sweeney has run me a bath, so I'm going to sit in the tub and smoke cigars, I'll open the window as I know it might make little eve cough when it carries up to the rafters! I'll check in on the boy too, but I know he's in safe hands with all of you.

*eve naive giggles at the thought of Urat in bubbles up to his beard and hidden in steam and smoke*

Sweetdreams! It is your heart that enlarges ours and your hearth that makes us warm!

Urat tell us of your pretty wife someday - tell us the story of how you met! Tell us the tale and make our hearts glad for the love you knew!

*eve naive pulls at the ringlets Philomena had worked into her hair*

How pretty! Philomena will be a wonderful columnist - she will get very very high!

I need to breathe the night air, I will sneak in very quietly, I just want to fly..and think of Xibes...I hope she misses me. It has been such a while.

Goodnight dear ones!

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...

Well, Good morning strangers!
Please excuse my tattered look, and these are just merely scratches. Please Urat if not too early i need something to eat and drink, anything will do! I grow weaker as the day progresses. Very glad to of been carried here, although not my usual mode of transport! but where needs must.
I wont wake eve I shall surprise her later Oh how I have missed her dreadfully. I'm sorry for being particularly icy this morning, seems the warmth of eve and the tavern, couldn't keep me warm long enough, well it seems I have to explain.
I went up to my Mothers castle, was true she wanted me dead. She and her minions had plotted my death for a while it seems and they would not have stopped until they had fulfilled that desire. I just could not let my problem hinder Grimney. So I decided instead of letting the trouble come to Grimney, I would take the trouble to my mother
Oh before I continue, Urat I have a gift for you, completely your choice if you wish to accept.The last remaining Valarax is currently outside the tavern, as i commanded it to. It now shares my thoughts and no one will be harmed, unless of course there is good reason. If you like I can tell it to roam up in the castle, if it would be your wishes? or consider it a guard dog I think it prefers to find it's own food so there are no worries there.
It was the strangest thing, the closer I ventured to my mother, I could feel the power, it filled my very being, my blood , my breath. Perhaps this is why she wanted me off'd here in Grimney. I fought of the evil power as best as i could, I always knew there would be a chance that I'd absorb some It was a chance that I had no fear in taking. Fortunately I have returned victorious! Her icy glare shall no longer pervey Grimney and her finger shall never point in our direction. Without control of the Valarax I knew I would of failed, failed eve and failed you all. I spent two days out of sight in the ice dungeons where the Valarax was being kept, each day I could feel my heart grow colder, but the thought of eve and how cross she would be if I did not return kept me going.
The minions were of no match against the Valarax one swipe of its mighty claws, they troubled me no more. My mother, weak as it was her ill health played it's role nicely. She seemed to soften as I approached her,almost a look of guilt.But her softness did not deter me. After a few choice words of kindness to my dear poor mother, her miserable soul left it's icy abode once and for all. haha!
Now on to more important things, I see you have looked after my eve so very well, I am sure I had better make very good effort now else she will not come home with me I cant ever repay you for your kindness and will always be indebted to you, all I have to offer is one ice castle going to a good owner:)Oh how good it feels to be back! Something warm please Urat, let's defrost this icy past!