"Who is still around, I wonder - I suppose a lot of them have homes they wanted to get back to, there are certainly fewer about now than there were yesterday. I think I'll take a little bit of a survey. What's your name?" Isabella asks the rabbit, pen poised.
"Acorn, if it please Your Majesty."
"Thank you," says Isabella, and she writes this down. "I'll see if we can find anyone who'll tote you around to get farms and gardens started and if anyone wants to go along for plowing and that sort of thing. Oh, James, I made a map of the castle." She tears out that page carefully and hands it over. "We have dungeons and bedrooms and a ballroom and a completely enormous old-fashioned bathroom and kitchens and servants' quarters and there's a granary and pantry that's empty now but perhaps Acorn will fill it before running off so we have stores in case of emergency or confused creatures who don't happen to hear where the farms are."
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Date: 2014-06-25 11:46 pm (UTC)"Who is still around, I wonder - I suppose a lot of them have homes they wanted to get back to, there are certainly fewer about now than there were yesterday. I think I'll take a little bit of a survey. What's your name?" Isabella asks the rabbit, pen poised.
"Acorn, if it please Your Majesty."
"Thank you," says Isabella, and she writes this down. "I'll see if we can find anyone who'll tote you around to get farms and gardens started and if anyone wants to go along for plowing and that sort of thing. Oh, James, I made a map of the castle." She tears out that page carefully and hands it over. "We have dungeons and bedrooms and a ballroom and a completely enormous old-fashioned bathroom and kitchens and servants' quarters and there's a granary and pantry that's empty now but perhaps Acorn will fill it before running off so we have stores in case of emergency or confused creatures who don't happen to hear where the farms are."