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Rose looks into the void. Hello Maria, hello.
“Rose, that was so exciting, that final chapter, I thought I was exchanging my life for my brothers and sisters.”
“That would have been a heroic ending for you, but I wanted you to live. I wanted you to get that happily ever after. I thought you might have been mad, I really kind of pushed the boundaries a few times there.”
“Boundries are you talking about the giant marble nude statue of me and I had to stare at my breasts all through dinner, or the infamous third stroke me button. The first time I did it I expected a genie to pop out.”
“Hey, that's a great idea for the sequel. Hold on, I have to write that down before I forget it.”
“What are you serious about a sequel?”
“Sure, eventually, not right away. Would you be willing to come back as the daughter, we set it sixteen or seventeen years in the future, we’d get a thirty six year old character to play you. OR you could play both roles, we’d just put a lot of makeup on the thirty six year old and just a little bit on you as the daughter. You’d even have scenes where you’d be both in the same scene. Tricky to do but I think you could pull it off. You walked into town naked as a lark.”
“That was a tough scene Rose, it was cold and windy, I thought I was going to my death. Naked with all those guards staring at me.”
“I’m sorry if it seems cruel, I didn’t mean it that way. In the opening chapter the dragon painted you as a fallen woman, then in the Vesta Virgins chapter, you were almost naked while standing on Vesta’s altar. Then the next chapter Em tells you to own the role they try to force on you and throw it back into their faces. You did lean into it when Bethany sculpts you. But by the final chapter, I really felt like you embodied the Slutty Princess and you were so great at it. Naked you step out of the smoke with a spear to the tyrant's throat. Plus that later scene with Ronan when you're still naked. You said I kind of liked it.”
“Well I wasn’t cold then and I really did feel kind of empowered.”
“Well you came a long way from the girl who was going to die on the rocks at the end of the first story to a girl who walks naked into a city and completely conquers it, naked and alone. How was it waking up all tangled up with Ronan on the camping trip. I thought you two had a great chemistry. Care to comment?”
“Well it was embarrassing at first, I gave him that speech, and I’m all over him.”
“I’m sure he didn’t mind. You had me really worried at the mine, I thought you were dumping him for sure and I really didn’t want that to happen. I even started to form a backup plan where I had Em come to the mine and take full responsibility for the doll's three functions.”
“That would have worked I suppose but I did like Ronan’s fiery declaration of love and I thought back, I did tell Em that I’d lean into the whole slutty princess persona.”
“You and the dragon were great together too, you had a great rapport and those back and forth between the two of you were a lot of fun. I never spoke to him, he was just supposed to be a minor character. I’ll have to contact them and thank them, they went from a minor character to almost a leading character. I’ll contact you again soon, come over for tea alright?”
“Thanks Rose, I’d really like that and I’d like to do a sequel if you decide to do another.”
“Thanks Maria, talk soon.”
***
Rose looks into the void Hello Cormac, hello.
“Hello Rose.”
“Wow you’re pretty chipper, still hanging out with all those beautiful blondes. I told you I’d make up for that first chapter.”
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“No, I’m not still hanging with the blondes unfortunately. I’m pretty sure they all went together to do some kind of Baywatch fan-fic.”
“I love fan-fic but I don’t know what Baywatch is it related to Greenpeace?”
“The only way it’s related is that both are set in the ocean. Baywatch is about a bunch of pretty people in bathing suits on a beach next to the ocean.”
“Did you show your grandfather the story?”
“Yes he said he liked the story, but I’d do better saving whales, then slutty princesses. I don’t think he understood that she really wasn’t slutty, it’s just a label she got labeled with. I don’t know if it’s all of them or just my granddad but old people seem very judgemental.”
“I don’t know if it’s all of them, my granny gave me a cottage when I just started dating my girlfriend, and she suggested to my girlfriend that the cottage was the right size for two. I was very embarrassed but that’s not judgemental.”
“Maybe all old people are just embarrassing to their younger relatives. Your grandmother sounds very open minded for an old person. I thought they were all freaked out if people weren’t hetrosexual.”
“Neither my mother nor my grandmother seemed the least bit upset that I’m a lesbian. Maybe they knew before I did. I wrote a lot of stories about lesbian characters when I was in school. They were always proud and would say that my latest one was the best one yet.”
“Are either of them writers?”
“No, not at all, why?”
“Well my grandfather and I are both in Greenpeace, so maybe he’s comparing himself to me and vice versa.”
“That’s possible, but it’s also not fair to you. I’ll bet a lot of things have changed since your grandfather did the job you’re doing. So it’s like comparing apples to oranges.”
“Thanks Rose, I had a lot of fun doing your story so if you come up with another one sometime. I’d love to come back.”
“Thanks Cormac you were great, and the next time I need a hero, I’ll give you a shout. Bye.
***
Rose calls into the void Ronan Ronan Hello it’s Rose.
“Hello Rose, my God has a bone to pick with you.”
“What, why?”
“Because in the fourth section of the story you proved he doesn’t exist.”
“Oh he read that did he. Well Loki is supposed to be a trickster god right?”
“Yes he is the premiere Trickster God.”
“Well then he should be happy with me, not mad.”
“Because in the fourth section I tricked you into believing that he doesn’t exist. Loki got tricked. I bet that doesn’t happen very often. Plus he’s chaotic, that means he should enjoy the randomness of it.”
“I’ll point all that stuff out to him, and see what he says. What I really want to know is are you really going to do a sequel and do I have a part?”
“I do eventually want to do another one. I talked to Maria and I think she is open to it. This is early stages and I may change my mind completely but I thought it might be a story about your daughter with Maria in two roles: the Queen and also the daughter. Now if we go with that, there would be your part as the Queen’s Prime Minister, but I think it might be really creepy if we make you the romantic lead again with your daughter, even if it is Maria in both parts. What do you think?”
“I think you're right, look I had a lot of fun watching you embarrass Maria, so if you ever need a true neutral for another character, please think of me. Bye Rose, I have to go Loki, needs a word. Bye.
