Christmas Party! Millitimed Vaguely to "Sometime Around Christmas"

[kitchen_maid]

Anne and Amy have been very very busy over the last week or so, transforming their usually simple white room into the perfect place for a Christmas party.

There are garlands of holly and balsam strung around the room, leading away from the wreath between the windows (and there's a grumpy looking crow, perched in the middle of the wreath, trying to figure out how to get the red ribbon from around his neck). A Christmas tree, candles ablaze, stands in one corner, with presents tucked under its branches.

Welcome, dear friend, to Anne and Amy's Christmas party.

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[smallestopener]

"I like the Fa la la la la one best. And the 12 days one on the part where you say 'Five golden rings!'"

She sings that part for Amy, extra boisterously.

"Sometimes it's on a boat, but mostly it's in places. It's in different places every time."

[kitchen_maid]

"Oh, I see. So the location 'floats' around. That makes sense."

She smiles at Ingress's extra boisterous singing.

"I don't think I know the one about the twelve days," says Amy, which is a slightly dangerous thing to say to a child, really, but Amy doesn't know that. "I like the part you sang, though."

[smallestopener]

"You don't????"

Amy is then blessed wih a rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas. Or at least the 9 Days of Christmas, with the ladies dancing and lords a' leaping verses repeated a couple of extra times.

"...And a partridge in a pear treeeeeeeeee."

Ingress grins.

"That's it!"

[kitchen_maid]

Amy likes it, even if Ingress' version does seem to contain twenty dancing ladies.

"It's wonderful!"

She smiles.

"You sing very well, Ingress. I think you should reward yourself with a cookie -- or some of my friend Phil's chocolate cake. She made it especially for the party."

[smallestopener]

"Oh yes, please! Let's go get some!"

[kitchen_maid]

Amy grins. "All right," she says. "I think things are under control here for the moment, and I'd like to try the cake. May I put you in charge of Simon Perryvall?"

The little grey squirrel chatters and hops over to Ingress.

[smallestopener]

Ingress reaches down enough for Simon to climb up to her shoulder.

"Okay, I'll watch him."

[kitchen_maid]

Simon Perryvall chatters happily, perched on Ingress' shoulder. Amy settles Mr. Pemberty on her own shoulder, and grins.

"Right, let's go make sure the refreshements are quite perfect for a Christmas party."



[ooc: This can be a fade point, if you like. Don't you just love slowtime?]