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Aug. 12th, 2009 09:43 pmFakir came up with a plan days ago, or weeks ago, or months ago. (In Kinkan Town, time passes strangely.) He's ready to act on it now.
The plan requires a few objects, but Fakir knows where to find them. The book gives very clear directions.
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From The Prince and the Raven Chapter 7: "The Grand Masquerade":
...Between the third and the fourth dance of the masquerade, a rumor came that a monstrous Raven was harrying the town. The news passed in whispers from one masked dancer to the next. When the Knight heard it, he broke off his waltz mid-step and began to run, so quickly that the Maiden with whom he danced was left holding only his cloak. She kept the cloak for herself, and when the Knight dropped his mask on the steps of the palace, she kept it too, as a reminder of him...
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From the last page of The Prince and the Raven:
The Prince, whose heart was now shattered, walked away from the battle without concern or care or, in fact, any feeling at all. His sword, with the sign of two swans on its hilt, lay on the ground where he dropped it. None dared to touch it until the Maiden came. She had loved the valiant Knight, who was gone (and who, being far too loyal to his Prince, had never loved her anyway), but she wished to honor the Prince’s sacrifice as well as the Knight’s. She took up the sword and placed it, with the Knight’s mask that she had saved, in a bier within a great crypt, and set candles around the bier so that it should never be dark. The Maiden kept the cloak for herself, and when she married and bore children, she gave it to her eldest daughter, and so it passed--
The book of The Prince and the Raven ends here, halfway through a sentence. Although Fakir doesn't know this, on the original copy, which is hidden in a vault somewhere in the city, the page is stained with blood.
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Fakir takes up his cloak (an old one, given to him by his foster-father) and his lighted candle. He walks the darkened streets of Kinkan Town, turning inward past shops and parlors, past houses and inns and opera houses. At last Fakir reaches the bell tower at the center of the town. He opens the creaking door and descends the curving staircase towards the crypt.
Fakir knows which coffin to open; the carvings match the picture in The Prince and the Raven exactly. Inside the marble bier, the mask and the sword wait for him.
He is halfway up the staircase again, masked and carrying the sword, when the staircase blurs into Milliways.
The plan requires a few objects, but Fakir knows where to find them. The book gives very clear directions.
* * *
From The Prince and the Raven Chapter 7: "The Grand Masquerade":
...Between the third and the fourth dance of the masquerade, a rumor came that a monstrous Raven was harrying the town. The news passed in whispers from one masked dancer to the next. When the Knight heard it, he broke off his waltz mid-step and began to run, so quickly that the Maiden with whom he danced was left holding only his cloak. She kept the cloak for herself, and when the Knight dropped his mask on the steps of the palace, she kept it too, as a reminder of him...
* * *
From the last page of The Prince and the Raven:
The Prince, whose heart was now shattered, walked away from the battle without concern or care or, in fact, any feeling at all. His sword, with the sign of two swans on its hilt, lay on the ground where he dropped it. None dared to touch it until the Maiden came. She had loved the valiant Knight, who was gone (and who, being far too loyal to his Prince, had never loved her anyway), but she wished to honor the Prince’s sacrifice as well as the Knight’s. She took up the sword and placed it, with the Knight’s mask that she had saved, in a bier within a great crypt, and set candles around the bier so that it should never be dark. The Maiden kept the cloak for herself, and when she married and bore children, she gave it to her eldest daughter, and so it passed--
The book of The Prince and the Raven ends here, halfway through a sentence. Although Fakir doesn't know this, on the original copy, which is hidden in a vault somewhere in the city, the page is stained with blood.
* * *
Fakir takes up his cloak (an old one, given to him by his foster-father) and his lighted candle. He walks the darkened streets of Kinkan Town, turning inward past shops and parlors, past houses and inns and opera houses. At last Fakir reaches the bell tower at the center of the town. He opens the creaking door and descends the curving staircase towards the crypt.
Fakir knows which coffin to open; the carvings match the picture in The Prince and the Raven exactly. Inside the marble bier, the mask and the sword wait for him.
He is halfway up the staircase again, masked and carrying the sword, when the staircase blurs into Milliways.
