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Melpomene slept deeply without dreaming, and only woke up when the light between the curtains fell across her eyes.

It was a nice way to wake up. So now, as she opens her eyes, she stirs only slightly, and then settles back into a comfortable position.

Date: 2009-04-23 05:15 am (UTC)
mechanicalswans: (stare)
From: [personal profile] mechanicalswans
"I think the good people at our hotel would be very upset with us if we tried it here. I have to admit, though, the more I think about it, the more I'm tempted."

Date: 2009-04-23 05:47 am (UTC)
mechanicalswans: (stare)
From: [personal profile] mechanicalswans
"The only question is whether they would sell proper souvenir Canadian maple syrup in the gift shop at the Falls," he says with a chuckle. "I suspect the answer is yes."

Date: 2009-04-23 06:24 am (UTC)
mechanicalswans: (down)
From: [personal profile] mechanicalswans
"Not particularly," he says. "It's just a nice touch. We could have taken some of those syrup packages from the restaurant."

Date: 2009-04-23 06:31 am (UTC)
mechanicalswans: (stare)
From: [personal profile] mechanicalswans
"If only you had one of those giant handbags that elderly women carry," he says, "we could've collected enough. We missed a golden opportunity."

Date: 2009-04-23 06:52 am (UTC)
mechanicalswans: (down)
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"We could also use gelatin," he says, "though that isn't specifically Canadian. It would probably hold the shape of furniture better, without being frozen... until we try to use it, at least."

Date: 2009-04-23 07:01 am (UTC)
mechanicalswans: (stare)
From: [personal profile] mechanicalswans
"Use the kind with fruit in it, for greater structural support?" he suggests. "Unless it would only weaken it. I'm not really a gelatin architect."

Date: 2009-04-23 05:57 pm (UTC)
mechanicalswans: (stare)
From: [personal profile] mechanicalswans
"If you're going to do something, it's best to do it right. I can't even imagine the disaster that might ensue if you failed at the gelatin furniture."

Though he does try to imagine, for a moment.

Date: 2009-04-23 06:29 pm (UTC)
mechanicalswans: (down)
From: [personal profile] mechanicalswans
"What we need," he says, thoughtful, "are Swedes. They build the ice furniture. They've got experience making furniture from liquids of varying solidity. They would know, and they would give such detailed little plans for them."

Date: 2009-04-23 07:44 pm (UTC)
mechanicalswans: (down)
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"Then you shall play the lyre while I fail to find the Allen wrench," he says with a smile. "And eventually, we shall give up, get drunk on mead, and throw the gelatin at each other. In a playful way, of course."

Date: 2009-04-23 08:57 pm (UTC)
mechanicalswans: (down)
From: [personal profile] mechanicalswans
"I don't think I'd want to meet surly gelatin."

Date: 2009-04-23 09:18 pm (UTC)
mechanicalswans: (stare)
From: [personal profile] mechanicalswans
"It would sit there, brooding and menacing. It would mock you, in its unnaturally-colored, fruit-containing way."

Date: 2009-04-23 09:34 pm (UTC)
mechanicalswans: (stare)
From: [personal profile] mechanicalswans
"The women in Minnesota are fond of making jello molds," he says. "My mother would make one to welcome new people to our neighborhood. I was always vaguely suspicious of them, you know."

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