A whole world inside a box? What magic! Ivy was so annoying but also so cool! That creepy woman under the water … was her skin falling off? It was so gross. Why did she like puns so much? Ivy loved puns. She’s a great singer, I guess that’s how she drew me in. Well, I guess maybe that’s probably where I should have started.
So, there we were trying to rest after our incredibly strange encounter at the river where we got the Leaf of Light and we hear Ivy singing. I guess we didn’t know it was Ivy at the time and at first we also didn’t know where it was coming from. So turns out the singing was coming from inside the box that we found the Leaf in! When you look inside the box you see a map, well not a map but a map, of a place called “Norman’s Village in a Box”. A tiny little village in the box. After some convincing, we went to the town. As in, we went into the box but we fit and the village was normal sized. Or were we small? Or was it neither. I remember a wizard coming through the inn a few years ago talking about a pocket dimension, this sounded a lot like that but I don’t understand those things.
Well, getting to the village was easy. I actually did this really bad ass flip into the box, not awkward at all, regardless of what Finn says. I was very nervous because I didn’t know Ivy yet, definitely thought we were trapped. Well, we weren’t trapped we could leave but we also couldn’t go in because there were big lions blocking our way. The drawings dad showed me of lions looked a lot less scary though, not as scaly. We made pretty quick work of those things though but then Ivy kept insisting we had something that belongs to her. Eventually we figured she wanted our map. For her records of “The Watch” which isn’t actually a watch just one of those weird things scholars do with words sometimes, it’s so pretentious. The whole place was filled with buildings, several Ivy said we could not enter or else there would be consequences. Some even required puns to enter them, I suspect that wasn’t an actual requirement of entering the building and more so something Ivy made us do for her own entertainment. Even the names of building were tricky words. I’m not sure what it was about her, or that place, but Finn listened. It was odd. Rather, he showed more restraint than usual I should say. He still did get me dragged into a building filled with water (it was called “The Title” which Ivy thought was quite funny that it sounded like “tidal”) and a strange underwater witch. I didn’t do much to help but they dealt with her pretty efficiently. We got to see an illusion of the The Watch in another building. It was a device created long ago to detect discord created by dragons. DRAGONS. The Watch is for dragons! Except it worked too well and wiped them out. Which made it behave funny and create issues for people and bla bla bla. It was boring. They broke it into several pieces. I think the Leaf of Light is one of those pieces though. If we need to put it back together again does that mean dragons are coming back!? So exciting. There was a few other things we learned but I’m not the scholar here, Araxis can remember all the history and boring stuff.
After that we left the village. I don’t know how but when we went to leave we were back at our camp. I think it’s going to be nice to have a friend with us all the time in the box. At the very least just for her beautiful singing voice.
Leave No Pun Unsaid
