The tribulations of Nalsa
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:32 pm
There's been a short (?) revival of the branch where Astra finds herself in a mirror image of Narnia where all the names spell backwards. While planning it I came up with a couple of ideas that on closer scrutiny didn't fit in with what I had written earlier. So here's a couple of "outtakes" from chapter 72877.
The first comes after the remark about kickstarting life. (Deleted because Nalsa had already explained how he created the world.)
The first comes after the remark about kickstarting life. (Deleted because Nalsa had already explained how he created the world.)
The next part had to go because Astra had already mentioned Eve."No, it wasn't like that at all!" Nalsa said. "If you have to know, I..." He bent his head and muttered something intelligible.
"Sorry, didn't catch that," Astra remarked. "Must be the fur in my ears."
Nalsa looked up and tossed his mane impatiently. "Look, I sang the world into existence, okay?"
"Sang? You mean, like la la la be light, tit willow, tit willow little birds?"
The lion winced. "Something like that. Only with a better tune and something called harmonics."
Oh, and if anyone should wonder about option 4, it's from the opening of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader."Daughter of Mada?" sha asked. "Don't you mean daughter of... his wife?"
"I do," Nalsa affirmed. "But for some reason her name can't be spoken here."
"You gotta be kidding. I can't say..." The name stuck in her throat. She tried again, then fell silent for a moment. "Oh!" She had meant to say Aha! but that didn't work either. "It's names like A... O... Got it!" She had tried to say Anna and Otto. She stood in deep thought for a while.
"A copper for your thoughts," Nalsa said.
"Oh, I'm just thanking Dionysus."
"For what?"
"That beer and ale aren't palindromes."
There was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.