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MageSteff
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Wish House

Found by Laz here.

Rudyard Kippling, short story in the book Debits and Credits

Quote:

"Yes," I says, "an' if 'twas you took it away, I'm truly grateful." "'Twas me," she says, layin' 'er cheek to mine. "No one but me knows how." An' then she said she'd changed me 'eddick for me at a Wish 'Ouse.'

'Whatt?' Mrs. Fettley spoke sharply.

'A Wish House. No! I'adn't 'eard o' such things, either. I couldn't get it straight at first, but, puttin' all together, I made out that a Wish 'Ouse 'ad to be a house which 'ad stood unlet an' empty long enough for Some One, like, to come an' in'abit there. She said a fiddle girl that she'd played with in the livery-stables where 'Arty worked 'ad told 'er so. She said the girl 'ad belonged in a caravan that laid up, o' winters, in Lunnon. Gipsy, I judge.'

'Ooh! There's no sayin' what Gippos know, but I've never 'eard of a Wish 'Ouse, an' I know�some things,' said Mrs. Fettley.

'Sophy said there was a Wish 'Ouse in Wadloes Road just a few streets off, on the way to our green-grocer's. All you 'ad to do, she said, was to ring the bell an' wish your wish through the slit o' the letter-box. I asked 'er if the fairies give it 'er? "Don't ye know," she says, "there's no fairies in a Wish 'Ouse? There's on'y a Token."'

'Goo' Lord A'mighty! Where did she come by that word?' cried Mrs. Fettley; for a Token is a wraith of the dead or, worse still, of the living.

'The caravan-girl 'ad told 'er, she said. Well, Liz, it troubled me to 'ear 'er, an' lyin' in me arms she must ha' felt it. "That's very kind o' you," I says, holdin' 'er tight, "to wish me 'eddick away. But why didn't ye ask somethin' nice for yourself?" "You can't do that," she says. "All you'll get at a Wish 'Ouse is leave to take some one else's trouble.

Couple of things to note:
1.) Token a wraith of the dead, or the living (Is this what Sarah has become)
2.) All you get from a wish is the ability to take someone elses trouble...

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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 1:50 am

Myssfitz
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SPEC:

Going on your spec Steff, maybe the old Ashram building is the Wish House, which Don Marzano now has control of? And Sarah's objects are meant to protect her from her Token?

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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 10:02 am

Steffeny
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Re: SPEC: Where is the Wish House

Myssfitz wrote:

Going on your spec Steff, maybe the old Ashram building is the Wish House, which Don Marzano now has control of? And Sarah's objects are meant to protect her from her Token?

I think the Library is more likely- that was where the only picture we have of her was taken, and that is where Iris heard her wraith.

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 11:40 am

Valas
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Re: SPEC: Where is the Wish House

Steffeny wrote:

Myssfitz wrote:

Going on your spec Steff, maybe the old Ashram building is the Wish House, which Don Marzano now has control of? And Sarah's objects are meant to protect her from her Token?

I think the Library is more likely- that was where the only picture we have of her was taken, and that is where Iris heard her wraith.

IIRC, the picture of Sarah was not taken at the old library, but at one of the old buildings in town. Agatha made mention of that building.

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 11:04 am

dmax
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Re: SPEC: Where is the Wish House

Steffeny wrote:

Myssfitz wrote:

Going on your spec Steff, maybe the old Ashram building is the Wish House, which Don Marzano now has control of? And Sarah's objects are meant to protect her from her Token?

I think the Library is more likely- that was where the only picture we have of her was taken, and that is where Iris heard her wraith.

You want to check your picture before you post this, since this isn't right. It's not the library that she's at.

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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 11:35 am

Myssfitz
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Re: SPEC: Where is the Wish House

dmax wrote:

Steffeny wrote:

Myssfitz wrote:

Going on your spec Steff, maybe the old Ashram building is the Wish House, which Don Marzano now has control of? And Sarah's objects are meant to protect her from her Token?

I think the Library is more likely- that was where the only picture we have of her was taken, and that is where Iris heard her wraith.

You want to check your picture before you post this, since this isn't right. It's not the library that she's at.

I never said it was the Library that Sarah was at. I know that. We still don't know what that building is that Sarah is standing in front of. Right?

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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 11:55 am

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