I seem to have unintentionally misled you. I'm so familiar with his story I forget others aren't.
Do you recall this, for the 'strip' prompt from the end of Feb?
*snip* He’s seen his Uncle work some astonishing magic before but this is another kind of magic altogether. Standing on a keel baulk offcut at Uncle Darri’s shoulder, he watches as the hazy sunlight is broken into narrow dusty beams by flecks of thrown-up sawdust and long, curling turnings that his uncle has to blow away every few seconds so he can see the slight registration marks he made on this block of woods.
...
Here, in his uncle’s boatyard, it’s okay to ask questions --encouraged even-- and uncle Darri had smiled and said he’d show him what he was going to do with it but wouldn’t he like some coffee and a snack first? It was a long journey from Beaubatons to Paris and then to Jersey, taken Side-Along.
*snip*
Marcus's nephew, Nicky, goes to Beauxbatons, from where Marcus gets an owl one morning asking him to attend at his earliest convenience as the Headmistress wishes to speak with him. Puzzled (why hasn't the owl gone to his parents?) but curious, Marcus goes and is taken aback by what he hears.
As for why he'd dislike the Metro, or the London underground for that matter, that would be the smell, crowds, noise, and that it's underground. He hates doesn't like caves either.
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Date: 13 May 2009 08:18 am (UTC)Do you recall this, for the 'strip' prompt from the end of Feb?
*snip*
He’s seen his Uncle work some astonishing magic before but this is another kind of magic altogether. Standing on a keel baulk offcut at Uncle Darri’s shoulder, he watches as the hazy sunlight is broken into narrow dusty beams by flecks of thrown-up sawdust and long, curling turnings that his uncle has to blow away every few seconds so he can see the slight registration marks he made on this block of woods.
...
Here, in his uncle’s boatyard, it’s okay to ask questions --encouraged even-- and uncle Darri had smiled and said he’d show him what he was going to do with it but wouldn’t he like some coffee and a snack first? It was a long journey from Beaubatons to Paris and then to Jersey, taken Side-Along.
*snip*
Marcus's nephew, Nicky, goes to Beauxbatons, from where Marcus gets an owl one morning asking him to attend at his earliest convenience as the Headmistress wishes to speak with him. Puzzled (why hasn't the owl gone to his parents?) but curious, Marcus goes and is taken aback by what he hears.
As for why he'd dislike the Metro, or the London underground for that matter, that would be the smell, crowds, noise, and that it's underground. He
hatesdoesn't like caves either.