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The Snow Queen wandered aimlessly amongst the denizens of Ozland. As the night grew darker and the emerald lights of the city grew lighter. In the glow of the bulbs she was hopelessly lost. Her gathering snow was a delight for assorted munchkin ragamuffins who played gleefully in the frosted street. She looked and looked calling out for her sleigh but no reindeer arrived. Cardmen walked up making sure that she was not an insane beggar who had robbed a rich woman's winter wardrobe. She assured them she was a visitor here from another land. This caused the two cardmen to laugh and leave her be. She decided to sit on a bench and watched the people passing by. One was a woman wearing a hat that had numerous green dyed birds fluttering about attached by green ribbons to the peaked spire of the hat. This woman chuckled delighted at the gathering snow around the Snow Queen. She noticed an odd metallic creature that walked in large clunky steps as he looked around in his emerald glass eyes and smiling a wide brass smile as he ran of with a jarring "clunk clunk" and an ever present "Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock" sound as if a clock was wound too tight.
She called again for her sleigh, and once again there was no answer. A girl wearing a dress entirely made of patches tumbled by, as the Snow Queen looked closer she noticed the girl was also made entirely of patches. The Snow Queen began to become alarmed. She was alone in a land she wasn't familiar with, a land with strange creatures around. To add to the factors that made the Snow Queen at unease was the fact that her normally obedient reindeer, would not answer to her calls.
The snow began to come down in droves, the Snow Queen, who was normally a calm woman...was scared.
Tags:
snow queen, pippi
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The Snow Queen scratched her head in puzzlement as Pippi rattled on. She pulled her furs aside to let Pippi and Herr Nilsson have room on the bench with her. The cold ever-present winds that were a calling card of the Snow Queen were howling as if in delight at the company of the strange little child the Snow Queen was keeping company with.
"I see that since you aren't lost, you would be a great friend to have around" the Snow Queen added.
"You see I came here earlier with a companion of mine, when I was called away for business and now I can't find either my companion, or the sleigh we came here on. You by chance haven't seen a polished silver sleigh with seven white reindeer pulling it have you not?"
The Snow Queen asked the child as the snow continued to dance in the winds around the queen. Snows which were collecting in the sidewalk and making crossing the street very hard for a patchwork girl who appeared to be riding a horse made of wood.
"I must say that this land is quite a sight to behold..such odd individuals, such beautiful sights, sounds...and smells" She added as she sniffed the air and smelled as a clockwork powered, wagon, foodstand rolled by, as the Quadling who worked it attempted to sell his wares.
"I wonder if they'll take the money I have..it is from another kingdom." She added as she pulled out of her pocket a bag of gold coins acquired from selling one of the gems on her sleigh to a merchant in the village where she found the poor child selling matches.
"If you're hungry I'd gladly buy you something to eat" She said generously to the child. Something about this odd child's free spirit appealed to the Snow Queen. It gave her a flash of memory, a memory of visiting her Kay after he left her snowy castle, and watching as he played long into the night with Gerda. Pippi was entirely a different soul from Gerda, but she was another innocent child like Gerda and Kay were, an innocent child like the starving wretched match seller child who froze to death not to long ago. The Snow Queen longed to protect the innocent children.
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The Snow Queen was entertained by the antics of her new companion and her simian chum. The snow now fell slightly and flurried about in the wind in an almost playful dance. The child was not dressed for the snow at all, which caused the Snow Queen to feel some concern in her cold heart. Then the child asked her where she was from. Which caused the Snow Queen to be taken aback. She had no idea. It was a different land that was for sure. But, she didn't know where she was at. Let alone where she was from.
"I can't recall exactly my dear, You see I found myself in a land not to far from here a few months ago, I've been wandering about for a while with naught a memory of who I am, but I do remember I was a queen in the land I came from. Or at least I think I was. I lived in a castle made of ice, and had ice maidens to serve on me, and ice gaurds to protect me. Yet, as you see now, I am no longer a queen."
This melancholy statement made the Snow Queen look down in a somber mood. The snow abruptly stopped falling. The Snow Queen didn't want to see the snow falling, reminding her of all she didn't have, her memories, her powers, her kingdom. It was all lost. Now, her sleigh was lost too. It was as if the fates themselves grabbed the Snow Queen and stepped her underneath their boots.
The Snow Queen remembered that her companion was not dressed adequately for the Snow, or the chill that follows her insesantly. This brought her out of her depression and brought her back to her companion.
"Come here and wrap yourself in my coat, you look cold. While you do, tell me, where are you from dear child?" She asked.
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Pippi's mouth gaped open when the woman admitted that she was a queen. Or, at least, had been a queen once before. But in Pippi's mind that didn't change much of anything. If she was a queen once, then she must still be a queen now. She'd just lost her queendom is all. Because she was lost. Unlike Pippi, who knew exactly (more or less) where she was!
"Well, I'm a princess! What a coincidence that we should meet!"
A cannibal princess. Because her father was the cannibal king off in the south seas. Most people didn't believe Pippi when she told them this, but it was true. And when her fatehr came back, then everyone would know!
Pippi didn't want to sit down. Sure, it was getting colder. But she liked to be on her feet (or on her hands), dancing and prancing about. But the woman was insistent, so she thought she'd be polite. Like how she hadn't been at Tommy and Annika's mother's coffee party. So she hopped up onto the bench beside the Snow Queen.
"I'm from Villa Villekulla. That's the name of my house. It's around here somewhere. Old Man is watching it. He's my horse."
Herr Nilsson crawled under the queen's coat. Too cold for him!
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"Oh, you don't have to do that. When my father comes back from his rule, he will take me to his kingdom and then I will be a princess in the South Seas. But that is very nice of you anyway. I will be sure to come and visit you as soon as you find your way back to your palace! And maybe when my father comes you two can talk about royalty and stuff!"
Though, Pippi's view of Kings and Queens and Princesses was probably not nearly the same view as the one the Snow Queen had. But it would be interesting, just the same.
When the Snow Queen began to stand, Pippi immediately hopped to her feet. Herr Nilsson kept close to the warm furs, however, as he was not quite as brave in the cold weather.
Pippi blinked and glanced over at the man picking the lady's pocket. Then she picked up her wooden spoon and hurled it at the thief's head, smacking him in the nose and causing him to drop the wallet. It covered quite the distance to hit him, but Pippi was the strongest girl in the world. And her aim was quite good. That should have stopped him.
"Bad man!" She called from across the way. "Grrr! I really don't like that! ARE YOU OKAY, MISS LADY MA'AM?!"
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The Quadling woman was obviously overcome by fear by being robbed, then being saved by a freckle faced red haired girl hurling a spoon at her theif. The woman quickly fainted.
Yet, this was no concern to the Snow Queen, she huddled over the man who was previously attempting to steal from the woman, as her hands touched him her eyes flooded with images of his life after he was infected by the shard of the devil's mirror.
She saw as he was overcome with rage at the world, as he left his home with the Munchkins and lived a life on the streets, stealing to survive, stealing to fill a void in his heart where the shard of the devil's mirror had peirced. She began to cry, and when her cold tears hit the assailant's chest the shard of devil's glass began to emerge. Taking no chances for a mistake the Snow Queen gently removed the shard and placed it in the mirror frame. Of course this was quite the sight for Pippi and Herr Nilsson.
The Snow Queen, hiding the devil's mirror turned to Pippi and said "Well, wasn't that quite the adventure" As she gave Pippi back her wooden spoon.
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The Snow Queen realized that Pippi was watching her at that moment.
"I'm so sorry you had to witness that my dear Pippi, the worl we live in is a very dark and evil place at times. To evil for a child such as you to wander about in sometimes I fear" She said as she took Pippi by the hand.
"Come let's continue walking" She said as she gently led Pippi through the streets as tears continued to fall from her eyes.
They walked for a while, until they came to a market bustling with Quadling, Munchkin, Gillikin, Evese, Goblin, Tiktok, Cardmen, and Gnome alike all selling their wares. It was a bustling place full of people... a place that one could easily get lost in.
And that was the Snow Queen's purpose. She gently let go of Pippi's hand, and in seconds she was gone. The world was indeed a dark and evil place. Especially the world the Snow Queen lived in, with her constant quest to find the last slivers of glass from the devil's mirror.
All that remained for Pippi to see of the Snow Queen was a few remaining snowflakes dancing in the wind.
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