Hello everyone! Here is Part Two o
f Red Coats on the Horizon (You can read Part One
here).
It was fun to write, and I hope you enjoy it, also...there is a surprise at the very end of the post not relating to the story ;) :
Elizabeth walked though the door of Mr. Merriman’s general store,
she turned to Felicity,
“Now we can talk.” she said, and walked to a corner of the room.
Elizabeth remained quiet for a few moments but finally she said,
“Felicity, I know this is a silly worry but—“
“—Elizabeth, if it made you nervous then it isn’t silly.”
Elizabeth sighed, “very well, I’ll tell you what I saw…” Elizabeth looked down at
at the floor and then after a few moments she blurted out,
“I saw a British soldier or, Red Coat as some people call them, by your house, I don’t know what they were doing , but all I know is, I am worried about your family's safety. I know it’s silly…but your family are Patriots and mine are Loyalists. What if they suddenly decided to do something to your family because of their disloyalty to the king?!”
Elizabeth then with tearful eyes brought Felicity into a hug. Felicity sighed,
“Elizabeth I am sure it will be alright.” she said, though she wasn’t entirely
confident about it.
What if something happened? And what on earth was those Red Coat doing? Though, she wasn’t sure she wanted to say that out to loud to Elizabeth? How would Elizabeth react if she wasn’t entirely confident about it? She had heard about some awful things happening to some colonists and she had heard that it was the red coats doing. So would that mean that something awful would happen to the Merrimans?
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The next morning…
Felicity ran through the forest, she didn’t care whether mud got on her dress or if the wind tangled her hair that she had taken out of her bonnet.
She couldn’t wait to get out of the annoying dress, and go to the modern time, also known as…the 21st century.
She ran up to a tree, looked around to make sure no one was watching her,
and then lifted up her necklace.
Within a few seconds she found herself standing by a different tree, she smiled and then tucked her necklace into her shirt.
She then walked around the tree, still thinking how on earth was she supposed to find out what that Red Coat was doing? Whatever they had been doing it was not good, she was sure of that.
Her thoughts were interrupted though, when she realized she was not alone, in front of her sat Z.
“Hi Z!” she said.
Z turned around in a snap, her eyes widened as she saw Felicity,
“Felicity! You scared me!” she inhaled and finally said, “What are you doing here?”
“I thought I would enjoy the fresh air. What are you doing here?”
answered Felicity.
“Oh.” said Z, “I’m just filming a stop motion movie…” she looked over the doll standing in front of her, “I do still need to take some more shots though…”
Felicity sat rather impatiently waiting for Z to finish taking the pictures. She wished she had the patience that Z had sometimes, but she couldn’t help it she was used to action.
A few hours later…
Felicity enjoyed the feel of the wind flowing through her hair, despite it’s coldness she felt comforted, and she felt as if she could forget about her troubles…
“So.” said Z, interrupting the peaceful feeling she had had “How have things been for you?”
Felicity sighed, things were not going exactly well for that matter, there were Red Coats around, and she wasn’t sure how to deal with them. If she had the power to, she would snap her fingers and make them disappear but she didn’t have the power to do so.
“Not well.” she answered.
“Oh.” said Z, “what happened?”
“I can’t exactly talk about it…it, is too personal.” answered Felicity. If she told Z about it, Z would find out she was a time traveller, and that would not be good.
Z nodded, “but if you ever feel like talking about it—“
“I’m fine but thank you.” said Felicity quickly.
They were interrupted by voices,
“Isabelle, this isn’t a 70s themed show—“ came a voice,
“—But, still I do think that your outfit is in need of pink and flowers, and—“
“It’s a country show, Isabelle!” protested Tenney.
“I know that, but anything looks better with pink and flowers, and ballerinas—“ said Isabelle.
Tenney sighed.
“Isabelle, I appreciate you trying to pick out an outfit for me. But I can do this myself—“ she began.
“But you want to look perfect in the show, don’t you?” interrupted Isabelle.
“If your definition of ‘perfect’ is pink and frilly, then no, but thank you Isabelle—“ began Tenney.
Z walked up to them, and raised her eyebrows, “Tenney, Isabelle. What exactly is going on?”
“She won’t let me choose my own outfit—“ said Tenney,
“She doesn’t like the outfit I chose for her—“
“Oh.” said Z.
“Yes, ‘oh’! I can’t believe it, flowers won’t work in a country music concert for some reason!” complained Isabelle.
“It’s not that it doesn’t work, in general for country, it’s just that for this concert it won’t work.” explained Tenney, handing Isabelle back the flower headband.
“Oh.” said Isabelle, who seemed rather annoyed, “well then I am sure I can think of another fashionable outfit for you.”
“Maybe.” answered Tenney, “as long as it isn’t pink, okay?”
“Okay! but what about jewels?” she asked.
“I, um, I would need to see the outfit to decide.” answered Tenney.
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Much later…
“…I haven’t yet gotten out of songwriter’s block which is so annoying, I’ve tried to come up with ideas, I’ve even looked through my songwriting book but no ideas came!” said Tenney.
Felicity nodded, “have you listened to other singer’s songs? Maybe you would come up to ideas that way.”
“No, I haven’t.” said Tenney, “I probably should.”
They continued on their walk, and Tenney told them that she was frustrated because none of the ideas for songs that were in her songwriting book worked.
“Perhaps…” said Felicity as they continued to walk, “you should wait for something to happen, and maybe if that thing happens an song idea will come.”
Tenney looked at Felicity but before she could respond, she was interrupted by a sound of a car as it pulled up to them. Felicity looked over her shoulder to see Sarah sitting in the front seat of the car,
“Sarah? What are you doing here I thought you were still working—“
began Z.
“Well…” said Sarah, getting out of the car “I came home early.”
“Why?” asked Felicity. She was surprised, Sarah did historical reenactments and there was going to be a big event at the plantation soon.
Sarah smiled, “They seemed to like my idea about doing a booth about Deborah Sampson, so they suggested that I pretend to be her for them, and teach people facts about her.”
“That’s amazing!” said Tenney, “But who is—“
“Deborah Sampson.” finished Sarah, “she is a woman who disguised herself as a man so she could fight in the American Revolution. Since not many people know about her, they thought it would be a good idea for me to teach people about her.”
As everyone else was talking, an idea suddenly sparked into Felicity’s head. What if she did what Deborah Sampson did, but she would not join the Patriot army but…spy on the Red Coats!
Felicity was sure she could do it…and maybe while she did it, she could help Elizabeth feel better about what was going on.
To be Continued....
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Who do you think was watching Felicity and Elizabeth?
Love,
Quinley
P.S. Here is the progress of how my Newt Scamander doll has been going:
I used this photo as my reference,
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| (Image from Harry Potter wiki, http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Newton_Scamander?file=NewtonScamander-Profile-crop.png) |
It was very hard to find yarn the color of Newt's hair, but I managed to find a color that worked even though it was not the exact color,
As for the doll, it was very hard to find a boy doll with the same facial shape or features similar to Newt, so I used a girl doll.
Next what I did was cut her hair:
And then after I cut most of the hair off, I began gluing on the yarn:
Doing Newt's bangs was somewhat difficult, but I think it turned out well.
Here is how Newt's hair finally looked when it was finished:
I hoped you enjoyed this extra part of the post. I plan as I continue customizing Newt
to post the progress of how I am doing it. It will appear at the end of posts, but once I finish Newt,
I plan to put all the parts together into one big blog post.
