Amateur summon
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Barricade
Ms. Kelly Ann Sullivan Loughren stood next to the edge of the summoning pool, holding a small wooden box, carved from native Iowian wood, in which ten small pieces of steel, five from steel cut in 1994, five more from 1962, graciously granted to her from several of the US Navy's archives, wrapped in threads taken from flags handed to her bereaved great-grandparents back in 1943. Just below the steel, laying over a mix of soil taken from the front steps of an Iowa farm, along with a sprinkling of marble from the facade of Alaska's capitol building, was a palm sized broach, cast as if a four-leaf clover.
It was with great solemnity that Loughren gathered her skirts to kneel down at the edge of the pool. Its calm waters gently lapping only inches from her. With infinite care, she rested the box and all that resided inside it atop the surface. Looking down through its depths to a sight only she could see.
Her next words were near silent, with only the honor guard and escort at her side hearing them, somehow coming even more to attention than their flawless precision already was.
"I want to meet them. I want to finally meet my grandfather and his four brothers."
Then gently let her family's offering slip from her fingers.
And the waters churned.
Weaver said:
Had a thought. Amateur summons are a thing (speaking of which, while I've yet to think of a way to feature it in story, I've been imagining that there's an online forum devoted to it which can get very weird at times). How often do you reckon the motivation of said summonings was less to do with the ship and more to do with those aboard her and would it affect the success rate?
Had a thought. Amateur summons are a thing (speaking of which, while I've yet to think of a way to feature it in story, I've been imagining that there's an online forum devoted to it which can get very weird at times). How often do you reckon the motivation of said summonings was less to do with the ship and more to do with those aboard her and would it affect the success rate?
Ms. Kelly Ann Sullivan Loughren stood next to the edge of the summoning pool, holding a small wooden box, carved from native Iowian wood, in which ten small pieces of steel, five from steel cut in 1994, five more from 1962, graciously granted to her from several of the US Navy's archives, wrapped in threads taken from flags handed to her bereaved great-grandparents back in 1943. Just below the steel, laying over a mix of soil taken from the front steps of an Iowa farm, along with a sprinkling of marble from the facade of Alaska's capitol building, was a palm sized broach, cast as if a four-leaf clover.
It was with great solemnity that Loughren gathered her skirts to kneel down at the edge of the pool. Its calm waters gently lapping only inches from her. With infinite care, she rested the box and all that resided inside it atop the surface. Looking down through its depths to a sight only she could see.
Her next words were near silent, with only the honor guard and escort at her side hearing them, somehow coming even more to attention than their flawless precision already was.
"I want to meet them. I want to finally meet my grandfather and his four brothers."
Then gently let her family's offering slip from her fingers.
And the waters churned.