Hi Mary! Still working through a massive backlog…
Great title, considering the gestation story in the A/N
The couple at the center of the festivities seemed to particularly shine.
Date? Wedding?
“As the father of the groom, I will be telling the story today,” Jake replied.
Wedding.
She was a nice enough girl, as far as outsiders went, though she was still unused to their traditions.
Intrigue! Did they buy her from a far away village?
As the oldest living member of the clan, he told the story every year, save for a few special occasions.
From the title I would say sequel. But there’s no more teachers/school but rather a tribal setting. So, either they are in the Mid-West or society has declined since the toppling of the Lexology.
There were millions and millions of buildings, and people taller than the trees.”
Nice flip between building and people.
A smattering of laughter broke out among the crowd. “Other way around, Jake,” said Pops.
Oh. Really? Oops. I would have taken it!
“This was our ancestor, Clark Kent.
/cocks eyebrow/
Okay. Right. Lex censored the first attempt and they didn’t know Superman made it back. And they are a long way from the Lexology.
“Luckily, one of his friends found him: the beautiful Lois Lane. She was the bravest and cleverest woman in the entire world,” Jake recited
So, she didn’t figure out he was Superman – something even a dolt from the future was able to do – and she decided not to go and be save with Wise Lex. That’s what they call ‘clever’?
“yet even she did not know that Clark Kent was Superman.
Ohhhhh…The “cleverest *women*” in the entire world. Just not more clever than Superman. Duh!
LOIS:
Yes, he was so clever, he managed to get 7 billion people killed because he felt like it’s a good idea to NOT tell me the truth.
Some survived by hiding under the ground. One of these was Wicked Lex.”
So, the colonies know of each other and well enough so they can reference each other’s mythology. Hmm…the last time there where groups of people who adhered to different mythologies, their Wise Men decided that war must be waged upon one another because each side holds the single most sacred truth.
Many of the outsiders are descended from his people.”
Ah, I see. So we have a large group of Lexendents and a smaller group that’s descended from Lois and Clark. They rarely intermingle, so you have one population group that stems from an all-father and his many wives and a second group that stems from a father and a mother.
the one part of the story that we all must remember and pass down from generation to generation is that nobody yelled hysterically at anybody.
Huh, what now?
Given they’re one family, does this mean Pops is like Craster, only he doesn’t make his sons into sacrifices to the Great Other?
Jake went on. “Soon, Lois became pregnant with their first child: a daughter.
But…but…they’re not married! And there’s no lifting of the curse
CURSE: They’re stuck on a world filled with dirt and ruble without another human soul to see. I think my work’s done.
Shortly before the girl's birth, the darkness in the sky finally broke, and the sun rose again for the first time!
Ooooh! They called her Dawn?
and finally saw the Great Dawn.”
Aww, they made their daughter a Queen
He was never sure how much of the old myth was true; maybe it was only a “just so” story to explain why odd giftings tended to pop up in their bloodline,
With both this story and Lynn’s original, I so get a Babylon 5 Episode 4x22 vibe, when the monk-ranger told his story of Saints Delenn and Sheridan.
Great companion piece, Queenie! Thanks for picking this up again
Michael
