Happiest Creature on Earth

[Etcetera Lloyd]

Mr Lloyd- he fiance now, eee!- had just departed and Etsy was still dressed in her birthday dress when she realised she had told none of her sisters. She picked up her skirts and ran up the stairs as quickly as she could, still elated and on cloud nine. This wasn’t a day for climbing the stairs gracefully.

“Oh! Maybelle!” She beamed as she nearly collided with one of her youngest sisters in the corridor in an effort to avoid a kitten. “You will never guess what has just happened!” Etsy laughed, seizing her hands and spinning her around. Oh, she was the happiest creature on earth!

[Maybelle Marriot]

Maybelle had been playing with one of the many kittens when she got one of those strong sense of feeling she sometimes got. It wasn't a bad one this time like the time she had known something bad was going to happen to the cook who had burned herself later in the day but a good one. She wondered what it might be when her sister nearly collided with her.

Laughing as her sister spun her around, she tried to guess. "Did Mister Lloyd get you a hat with ducks on it? Ooh! And does it have a tiny duck pond in it?" She asked rather seriously.

  

[Etcetera Lloyd]

“Better!” Etsy giggled as she continued the twirling despite the fact she was getting dizzy. The hat did sound amazing and perhaps she’d have to go out to the milliners to get one like that now, but at that moment she was too otherwise excited to think about hats much further.

She stopped the spinning to pull out the little glass bottle Ianto had given her till he could find a ring, not realising that it made precisely no sense to anyone who had no knowledge of what had just happened. “Look!” She beamed.

[Maybelle Marriot]

Better than a hat with ducks? Maybelle could think of no such thing at the moment. She was also getting a bit dizzy but she was enjoying the spinning. Perhaps later, she would find Kip so that they could play Ring a Ring o Roses.

As Etsy stopped spinning, Maybelle peered at the little glass bottle in some curiosity? Was it some sort of magical thing? It seemed a bit boring, truth be told. Then why was it making Etsy so happy? Etsy wouldn't like boring things so it had to have some sort of magical thing about it. "Is it magic?" She asked, giving up trying to figure it out on her own.

  

[Etcetera Lloyd]

Etsy shook her head. “It had a squeaky voice potion in!” She explained, not realising she was still making absolutely no sense whatsoever.

[Maybelle Marriot]

A squeaky voice potion? Well, that sounded more interesting but she still couldn't make sense of why it would make Etsy as happy as she was. "And that i s what has you so happy?"

  

[Etcetera Lloyd]

“No, silly!” Etsy giggled, shaking her head at her younger sister. “I’m going to be married!”

[Maybelle Marriot]

MARRIED? Maybelle squealed in delight! "To Mister Lloyd?" She demanded. She was sure it was be him, anyone else, she would shank sabatoge! Because Mr. Lloyd was obviously her sisters soulmate.

  

[Etcetera Lloyd]

Etsy nodded fervently. “He hasn’t got a ring yet, but yes!” She felt so happy she could burst, only that would make everyone rather sad and so she wouldn’t.

[Maybelle Marriot]

"Is that why he gave you the bottle? To seal the promise?" Maybelle asked, now eyeing the bottle that had confused her with reverence.

  

[Etcetera Lloyd]

“Isn’t it pretty?” She exclaimed. “It had squeaky voice potion in before!”

[Maybelle Marriot]

Maybelles eyes widened slightly in awe despite still not having a clear idea on what a squeaky potion actually was. "Ooooh. It is quite a pretty bottle and now utterly special, too! You're going to be even more stupidly happy than you are now in a few months," Maybelle said with a slight faraway look and a mildly different tone that sometimes tended to happen before she continued on in normal, childish chatter. "Kip and all our invisible friends will be so excited!"

  

[Etcetera Lloyd]

Etsy was too excited to notice her sister’s change in tone beyond wondering if she’d drunk a funny potion too for half a heartbeat. “You shall all have to be bridesmaids!” She replied, meaning all her sisters- though she supposed it wouldn’t cost anything for the invisible friends to be bridesmaids too, seeing as they wouldn’t need a dress.