Knights and Maidens

I keep forgetting this is just background about life in villages like the fictional Cairndhu and getting engrossed in childhood memories. Those memories are sometimes romanticised, or as Mark twin said of his autobiography, some of it is true. Anyway, I've mentioned Tiptoes, our fairy queen and I need to show not tell, what she was like. From time to time, a few of us would gather near where Tiptoes lived and would be drawn into her fantasy world playing Statues. It was a kind of game where each person formed a statue to represent a character or event and Tiptoes would be a princess locked up in a tower waving her hanky to summon rescue. The next boy was expected to look like a knight on a white charger riding to her aid. She would then be seen graciously knighting the poor individual. Looking back, it surprises me that any of us boys, more likely to pull pigtails than be soft enough to carry a lassie's school books, ever took part in the charade.

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