Upon receiving the ruby gem from the King and Queen, the Fandom Princess finished writing her letter to them, and sent it back by owl, hoping it would get there within the next day. She made a quick trip to the west wing library to check out a book on gems, and rushed back to her room. She frantically went back to the gem, which after looking in the book, she found out to be a Wishing Stone. She whistled for Ghost and he came bounding into the room.

Together they sat in the center of her bed, Ghost curled up next to her with his head on her lap. The Fandom Princess ran her hand through her hair, trying to think of the first thing that she wanted to wish for from the Stone, as the book said you were only allowed three wishes before the gem’s magic was gone. One had to be very careful with the Stone, however. It practically had a mind of its own. Legend said that there was once a man who tried to the stone to never run out of magic, and the stone turned him into a bat.

The Princess sighed and frowned.

“I don’t know what I want, Ghost,” she said quietly.

Ghost looked up at her and barked. The Princess shrugged, and then suddenly, as her eyes landed on the mirror across the room, she looked down at the magic stone in her hand.

“Wishing Stone, I wish from you oh mighty gem to be able to see and speak to my Prince in this here mirror!” She exclaimed.

The gem, as if coming alive, slowly lifted from her hand. Ghost turned his head and watched as it twirled in the air, illuminating a soft ruby glow. The Fandom Princess watched in amazement as the glass on the mirror across the room began to move. Like liquid, it parted and swam to the outer rim of the mirror’s case until a scene unfolded in the mirror instead of a reflection.

The Fandom Princess jumped from the bed and ran to the mirror, looking at a man sitting at a desk inside a cabin. She knew from the gentle swaying of the room that the man was on a ship. He ran one of his hands through his thick, black hair and let out a deep sigh as he gazed over documents on the desk. Oh, how the Princess longed to touch his hair and his face again.

Sad as it was to see him in the stressful state he was in, she couldn’t help but feel giddy with happiness.

“Why are you sighing as if you’ve lost your favorite sword, William?” She said into to the mirror.

The Fandom Prince looked up quickly from his work on the desk and looked around the room, a confused daze in his dark green eyes.

“Well, I must have lost my mind, considering it sounds as if my beloved Princess is here,” his smooth voice replied as he stood from the chair and walked around the small cabin.

“Not your mind,” the Princess replied, “But possibly your sense of hearing and sight. Look over by the mirror.”

The Prince turned and his eyes instantly met the smiling Princess’ face. He ran to the mirror with a grin on his face.

“My Princess,” he said, staring into her eyes lovingly.

She pressed her lips to the cool glass of the mirror, knowing that she was not really kissing him, but liking the idea of doing so anyway.

They chatted for hours. He told her about his many dealings with the mountain ogres and woodland elves, and she talked to him about how someone made an awful batch of coffee at the last Hunger Games fan meeting. He laughed at her stories about Marcus, as he too disliked the brat, and showed genuine interest in the silver-haired wizard. The Princess also went on to tell the Prince about the things she had recently learned in Artemis’ book and from the wizard:

This week’s assignments were, to say the least, quite a lot. Nothing the Fandom Princess can’t handle of course, but even when I started working on it on Wednesday, I still didn’t realize how much I had left to do. But I suppose good blogging is time consuming, and totally worth it. This is all the lovely stuff that we got to do this week!

First off, my philosophy on storytelling can be found here. Hopefully everyone loves reading it as much as I loved writing about loving it. As an English major, storytelling in the form of writing is definitely my thing (as I think many can see from this blog).

My drawing and understanding of Vonnegut can be found here! This was a really neat video to watch and I did get a more basic understanding of how we analyze a story. I think we do it so often that the chart just seemed so simple, if that makes sense. Like, analyzing movies, books, and stories are all just kind of second nature to us now.

My review of some students’ best works can be seen here. I had a bunch of fun with this one. It’s always interesting to see the mindset of other students and what they can come up with.

In addition, we also had to create yet another story using pictures! I decided to do the Five Card Flickr Story, and came up with a sweet story about a musical prodigy!

This week, we also had to comment on some of our fellow ds106 blogger buddies’ blogs (try saying that 5 times fast). I thought that this assignment was not only useful, but it was a good way to get a feel for everyone else’s style in blogging and interest. A lot of my fellow bloggers were very creative in making their themes fit their personality or what they wanted the personality of the blog to be (if that makes any sense). I got a few ideas and I think that my work, hopefully, is on par with a lot of people’s in my group. I may have to tone down the storytelling (hence the shorter intro piece this week), but that’s alright with me. As long as people enjoy reading the stories, that’s all I need to make me happy! The feedback that I received was also very useful. They were mainly words of encouragement and praise, which I think is always great because it lets me know that I’m on the right path and doing a wonderful job!

As stated, week 3 was definitely a kick in the computer science/blogging gear! I might add that I thought it was tougher than boot camp! But it was a lot more fun as well. Great assignments and I really loved getting my mind flowing with more ideas! This Princess can’t wait for more!

Oh, and we can’t forget to mention our lovely creative push-ups:

And my biggest fear. *shiver*

Until next week everyone! Princess, out!