"Okay! But I've been thinking on that. You said we should ask Merlin if I came in older, and I didn't. I remember coming through the mirror this age, and the last thing I remember before, was watching the Vale. But if I did get tiny here, I wouldn't remember coming here like this, would I? Does that mean anything?" Ivy took his hand and cheerfully swung it in hers, doing her best to enhance his optimism -- having no idea that this was a fruitless effort, because Grey was an eternal skeptic, and yet always optimistic about Ivy.
"Is he named after Merlin or is he actually Merlin? Humphrey uses fountain of youth, that's how Stanley got young, and Dad used a time spell to travel back to Castle Roogna's past in the tapestry, but everyone knows the first King of Xanth traveled to Mundania to help King Arthur and never returned. This isn't Mundania, but it has money, and magic, so it's like a weird hybrid of both? Maybe there's an eternal youth spell on Xanth Kings? Does that mean I'll get to meet Grandpa Trent when he was still King? Or Magician Roogna?" Headtilt. "And maybe it overcompensated for me, because I'm not thousands of years past whenever, so instead of preserving me from when I'm King... splash! Like Stanley."
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Date: 2019-08-25 09:16 pm (UTC)"Is he named after Merlin or is he actually Merlin? Humphrey uses fountain of youth, that's how Stanley got young, and Dad used a time spell to travel back to Castle Roogna's past in the tapestry, but everyone knows the first King of Xanth traveled to Mundania to help King Arthur and never returned. This isn't Mundania, but it has money, and magic, so it's like a weird hybrid of both? Maybe there's an eternal youth spell on Xanth Kings? Does that mean I'll get to meet Grandpa Trent when he was still King? Or Magician Roogna?" Headtilt. "And maybe it overcompensated for me, because I'm not thousands of years past whenever, so instead of preserving me from when I'm King... splash! Like Stanley."
A huff. "I guess we better ask him."