2nd Floor Common Room, Thursday evening

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

Prince Edward bounded into the common room, a bright, pearly white smile on his face, and he instantly declared, "Greetings! Peas-"

Ahhh, he was alone!

Save for the Magic Mirror!

"Ah-hah! Do not fail me now with the skin images, Magic Mirror! I shant wish to become... to become... JUST DON'T DO IT!"

Bouncing in further, he jumped effortlessly over the sofa and knelt before the Magic Mirror. "Magic Mirror! Tell me where she is? My Giselle! My one true love!"

He blinked. Stared.

"Oooh! You lint licker! Do you know where my one true love is? My one coquette? The answer to my love's duet? MAGIC MIRROR thank you!"

...

"Pickle you kumquat! I shall find this McStinkface! Ah-hah! And there too will my Giselle be! Thank you hoboken!" Prince Edward hugged the Magic Mirror, even as it changed it's faces and someone started frying chicken.

[It's open, of course. My brain is crazy.]

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[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

"We don't use it in Andalasia," he answered, somewhat warily.

Turtle seemed to be picking at his brain. It was kind of hurt-y.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Then trust me," she said. "Codes were meant to be broken."

Turtle eyed Edward thoughtfully. She then eyed his sleeves in exactly the same manner, before turning the eying back to him. "Like, do they have trolls in Andalasia, Edward?"

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

He preeeeened under that careful regard, knowing his princely attire was quite exceptional.

"Ah, of course we have trolls in Andalasia, Turtle."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Well," Turtle reasoned, "are they the bad, evil, icky kind of trolls? Or the kind, misunderstood, heart-of-gold types?"

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

"They are the hunting kind!" he exclaimed boisteriously. "So yes, bad."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Okay," Turtle nodded, gaining a bit of a smile, because she was realizing she could work with this. "Good. So, you know how you totally want to break a troll's face when you're hunting them, right?"

Oh, man, she hoped so anyway.

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

His grin was sublime. "Ah, absolutely!"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Well," she went forward with a bit of triumph, "that's how it is with a code! You want to get in there and break it and beat it until all that's left is the crystal clear meaning that had been hidden inside."

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

"Amazing!" he cheered.

"But you realize, there is nothing crystal clear inside a troll? In fact, it's all a little gooey."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Eeeew!" Turtle couldn't help throwing that in there with a twist of her face before saying, "Of course I know that! We're not talking about troll there; we were talking about the codes."

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I see! And where are these codes that need to be broken?" he asked, clearly trying to get ALL OF THIS!

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle had actually forgotten a bit what they were originally talking about.

"Errr..."

She glanced to the TV and remembered. "Oh! Right. The messages that the Magic Mirror is giving you are clearly codes, Edward. That's why they don't make any sense."

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

He rubbed his chin. "Hm, I suppose that could be right. Those words certainly made no sense to me."

Sigh.

"I shall never find her."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Not with that attitude, you won't!" Turtle chirped, as sarcastically as a chirp could be, although she knew she really shouldn't be encouraging him.

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

"I searched the woods with Priest! I spoke to the squirrels," kind of, "and I've roamed the halls of this place we live. She does not answer my song, Turtle!"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Maybe you're trying too hard?" Turtle offered. "Good things come to those who wait."

Or whatever.

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

"Patience is a virtue?" There was that quick wit! Ah-hah!

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Exactly! And true love always comes through, doesn't it?"

Ugh, did she honestly just say that?

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

"It does! If it is meant to be, it will be!"

People are wearing off on him!

"Do you have a true love, Turtle?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle wondered why that made her blush as brightly as it did, sinking a little in her seat.

"Well," she offered, "I do have a boyfriend."

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

"And this is your true love, is it not?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"I love him, sure," Turtle offered, "but I don't think I believe in that true love stuff."

And she said it before she could think better of it, and she was bracing herself for whatever ridiculous reaction might come from it.

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

GASP!

"There is not any other kind, Turtle! If it is not true, then is it not a lie?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Well," Turtle said after a moment, "I guess if you look at it that way, sure, Jeff's my true love. But it's not like he's my one true love, because then chocolate is my true love, and money is my true love, and my store is my true love, and my dad is my true love, too, because I love all those things, and none of them are lies."

[defeats-buses.livejournal.com]

That was a mouthful and he tried running all that through his head and it all kind of came out squishy.

"You love love!"