Marianne's adventurs of Nidlongdir (old blogs)

Spider Silk and Smelly a Egg

I have been very busy lately!  My garden is awake, and so are the fairies! Gry is back with all the laundry, I have seen her twice and I have also been staying at The Gnomes Inn some days to work on some maps over Leafenheim city. There are two maps over Leafenheim city, the maps show the two main roads in Leafenheim; Lower Branch Road, and Upper Branch Road. The maps are still under construction, but it is my hope that when I am done you should be able to visit all the buildings showed on the maps. I am sorry to say that it has been impossible for me to draw in all the smaller buildings, so if you go to Leafenheim you self, you might find building that I didn’t put on the map.

I have also been visiting Queen Agrafina in her tower. She has been cheating on her knitting lessons, so I decide to take my magic knitting wands back. I have destroyed them! I simply broke them. Agrafina has gathered all available spider silk in Nidlongdir, so now the good fairies of Nidlongdir can't get any if they need it.

I thought Gry was doing her laundry by washing the flower dresses and hanging them to dry, but I discovered that she actually is hanging the dresses on places where the spiders come by every day, so that they can glue the dresses together. I asked her if spider silk is the only glue they use, and she told me that they also use resin from pine trees, but here on Als we only have very few pines, so the spider silk is very importuned.

Agrafina went totally out of her mind when I broke the knitting needles, but I had taken my precautions before I went to see her. I had Mama Kauppa parked outside her window in her coffee cup pulled by Selene's flying instructor the bat Moonswift. I was in luck because Queen Agrafina had placed the knitting needle in a chair beside the window; she had enchanted the knitting needles so that they could do the knitting for her, and it looked exactly like a ghost was sitting in the chair knitting. I did not speak to Agrafina I just greeted her, and vent directly to the Knitting needles to break them, then I jumped out of the window, where I was caught in the fall by Mama Kauppa.

After this dramatic escape we went to The Gnomes Inn to get a glass of Tree Juice. The inn keeper's wife is a very sweet and loveable gnome called Mrs. Cone. We have become friends, and she told me about an ancient prophecy that says that, the day the Queen of Apple Hold Castle wears a black dress the king will die. It gave me the chills when she told me, as the spider silk knitting the queen had been doing was black.

Shortly after we had the tree juice we broke up, I had to go home as I had promised Selene and Ebbe that we could go to the beach. The weather was nice and Danagonia had made us some sandwiches we could bring along. I also brought my new digital camera with me. As we walked along the beach Ebbe found a dress on a rock, Danagonia picked up my camera and took a photo. Shortly after the dress was taken by a wave and despaired into the sea.  I am not sure this is a fairy dress to me it looks more like something a mermaid might wear?

Selene found a strange egg, she was building a sand castle in the sand when she saw it hiding between some rocks. I have never seen an egg like this so if any of you have seen any thing like it I would like to hear from you. The egg is very hot and it doesn't smell very nice, but it doesn't smell like rotten eggs, more like the smell of sulfur

We had a lovely day at the beach! When we came back home we all went early to bed after a long day of excitement!

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