By Jessica Yates
Just after Dr. Simpson began lecturing to over 200 fans, her discourse was interrupted by the Queen of the Fairies, who “froze” her, then announced that she had heard a human was discussing Elves and would be keeping a close eye on the proceedings. Now she would take the spell off our lecturer – and watch from the back.
Jacqueline recovered from her dizzy spell and continued her lecture, speaking mainly by heart with readings from her booklet which contained an expanded version of the talk (just published by Bernard, with a foreword by Terry Pratchett, it is now available in the Dealers’ Room.
Near the end of the fascinating lecture, which there is no need to summarise, the Fairy Queen (Periwinkle) returned and went on the attack, but Jacqueline boldly brandished a silver poker and forced her to retreat!
5 comments:
Iron not silver :-) Silver wouldn't have scared her - it's good, honest steel!
That Clever Mortal used a deception spell on her Iron Poker - to get past the weapons policy - she disguised it as a silver fairy wand! But I could tell and she defeated me - for now....
And Elias - I am the Queen of the Elves - not a fairy!!!!
Periwinkle
I missed this, dammit -.-
-Mazzie
Hi Periwinkle,
First of all, I didn't write it, Jessica Yates did. I just posted it. Second of all, my girlfriend went to the thing (Cheresse - her report is elsewhere), and according to her, one of Jacqueline's points was that elf and fay were more or less synonymous...
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