The idea for this story came fom my idea that Eames and Goren might need a catharsis for the harder cases they work. This story has a different plot than the episode it's based on; it has a happy ending because it's written for a child and because of its cathartic nature. The violence I believe to be how Eames would truly feel regarding dead children. Also, I'm not a shipper. You'll see what I mean.
I dreamed these characters one night, then Dick Wolf stole them from my dream. Legally I don't own them. Spiritually they are MINE MINE MINE!
The Tales of Greno the Good
Dear child, this story may be true and it may be false. You can ask the wild wind for the truth, but she will never reveal her secrets to a mortal man.
Once upon a time, in a fair kingdom, there lived a great wizard named Greno the Good. He wove great enchantments, and knew many things, but his greatest gift was to see the hearts of men, and know there secret thoughts. Great in power he could have been, but he always used his magic for good.
His truest companion was the elven knight Alendra; dear child, some people will suspect those that are different than they, though they be pure of heart. Thus some suspected the wizard Greno did dark magic, but she knew his heart was pure, and he was worthy of love. They fought evil side by side, at the behest of their king, James One-Eye.
Chapter 2: the Ogre and the Mother
Dear child, this story is among the most foul the fair kingdom of James One-Eye. I recommend, but remember, you will always have people to love and protect you. Fear for nothing.
Once upon a time in the fair kingdom of James One-Eye, there was an evil ogre that one day swept up a mother and her young children. Many a year did he keep them in thrall with his evil magics, until one day the fair-eyed mother made a terrible choice, to enchant her children with deep magic stolen from the ogre's lair to put them into a deep sleep. But the eldest child, who was nearly a man, saw his mother's deeds, and sent a message in a bottle down the deep river for someone to find, and he prayed to God that the message would be found before it was too late.
One fine day in spring, Greno the Good and his good friend Alendra were fishing for trout to end a long day in the woods. It had been a good day; James their king was proud of their good deeds, and evil was nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly, Alendra leaped up. "Look, Greno, what's that in the water?"
Greno asked the fish to fetch what Alendra had seen over to him. He hadn't been catching anything and they felt sorry for him, so they complied. "It's a message in a bottle. How neat! I've always wanted to find one of these things—"
"Greno, please, what does it say?"
Greno quickly read the message, and his face grew wroth, which as you know child, is terrible to see. "Alendra, we must go quickly to my tower. We must know where this message came from immediately."
They hurried back to his mighty tower, and he quickly scried out the place where the message had come from. He sent his birds out with the message he had found, to show that he had found it and would soon rescue them, and he changed himself and Alendra into great cats to speed their way through James's kingdom to the wild woods where they would find the ogre.
But luck was not with Greno's bird friends, for they were caught by the ogre. He read the message, and grew wroth (and yes, that too is a terrible thing to see) and went to strike down the boy. Not having speech, he roared at the mother and children, and waved the parchment in his hand. The young man knew he would die, but stood his ground so his family would no longer be hurt.
The terrible ogre raised his club to kill the young man . . . but! just then, Alendra the Magnificent leaped up in the air, and let the club strike her down, and her body struck the wall.
Greno saw what had happened to his friend, and his heart was like a thunderstorm. In his cat form, he roared till the earth shook, and his tears made the air quiver as they fell.
But he did not forget his duty. He changed back into his human form, and seeing the wrath upon his brow, the ogre turned and ran, taking the youngest daughter with him.
Grief in his heart, Greno rounded up the young family, running with them from the cave, taking Alendra up in his arms.
Once safely in James' kingdom, the young man screamed at his mother, "Look what you've done! You stupid woman, Alendra the Magnificent took the blow meant for me, and I took it for you, and I would not have done it but not for your evil plot!" And the young man struck her, and she fell to the ground wailing.
Though he was heartsick, Greno turned to the young man and said, "No, son, for your mother was sorely tried and in need of greater courage then she possessed. Besides, a true knight will never strike a lady."
"Please, Greno, let me go back and retrieve my sister, or avenge her."
"No," and now for the first time Greno looked at the mother. "Only your mother may right the wrongs done here today, if it can be done at all. But first, I must retrieve my friend from the dead lands."
He sent the mother and son away, James One-Eye hurried over to the tower, and wept sore when he saw Alendra. Greno, also weeping, sent James away. He alone remained with the terrible sight, and stayed up with Alendra's body until it was late night. He performed magic that had not been done in the land since the beginning of time, and took his love for her, and formed a potion and gave it to her to drink. And, in the morning, Alendra opened her eyes and smiled and Greno, and he, relieved, smiled back.
King James heard the news of Alendra's recovery, and declared a feast for his heroic elven knight. But on the night before, Greno and Alendra stayed up long into the night, performing magics never done before in the kingdom since time began. They took their courage, and concocted a potion to give the mother. They gave her a stout staff of the greatest magic, and told her the magic word that would release her daughter.
She left the next day. Through the next month, and many hardships, she followed the trail of the ogre who held her daughter. As she travelled, her heart grew strong again, and never again was she afraid, and never again did she seek to harm any of her children.
Finally, she found the ogre, and stepped in its path. It would have struck her down, but she raised high the staff and said the magical word, the word that would aid all mothers in need: "Magnificat."
And this powerful word turned the ogre to stone, and the stone into a million pieces, and the pieces into mud. And the daughter threw herself into the mother's arms, and the two of them wept with joy at the reunion.
But Greno and Alendra did not see it, for they were feasting, and enjoying being alive within the safety of their kingdom. They did not venture out for a long, long time.
