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Post by killian on Jun 30, 2004 7:17:35 GMT -5
I walked into the library, my skin tingling as I did. They must not allow demons in here, I thought. I saw the group by a large pile of books, and I smiled.
"Hi everyone. What are ya doin'?"
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Post by rachelle on Jun 30, 2004 7:18:50 GMT -5
"Hey Killian. Pull up a chair." He did, and sat next to me. "We're learning about apocolypses, and Jessy is teaching us. Right, Jess?" I joked.
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Post by Jessy Jackson on Jun 30, 2004 10:51:37 GMT -5
I looked up from the book. "Pardon? Oh!" For I had just turned the page and noticed a page missing. On what I didn't know but that was what worried me.
"What's up Jessy Giles?"
"Find Cervil now. He has some explaining to do."
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Post by Maya on Jun 30, 2004 11:28:49 GMT -5
[Yo! CERVIL!] I mentally yelled- i smiled, cos i knew it would hurt. Then i legged it after him, and found him testing his ears in the corridor.
"Hey." I said with a grin. He turned, shocked, and said, very loudly,
"Was that you!?"
I just grinned, then,
"Why'd you nick a page from a very old special book?" I asked. He looked very guilty...
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Post by rachelle on Jun 30, 2004 11:33:03 GMT -5
"C'mon." I said to the others, and we followed Maya. We stayed a little away from Cervil and Maya as Maya asked what the deal was. Cervil looked very guilty.
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Post by Joshua on Jun 30, 2004 14:45:05 GMT -5
I walked, more limped actually, into the Training Center, and on my short walk to the Elevator at the back of the building, I straightened my stance, eased my tense muscles, and forcefully relaxed my face. My only hope thoughout my entire being, despite the pain still wracking my body, was that my unknown, but always-there link with Maya would be blocked by the very thing that was happening to me.
By the time the elevator arrived on the Library floor, nobody, not even my girlfriend who knew me better than absolutely anyone in this world, could tell that anything could be wrong with me.
I noticed her and one of the new guys standing just outside the main reading room, saying a couple harsh words, and him looking like he wanted to crawl into the center of the Earth and die. I knew how he felt, having been on the recieving end of Mai's tongue-lashings several times. Finally he handed her a folded piece of paper and she literally kicked his butt back into the Library. After that, we all trailed into the room.
I kissed her on her forehead as I came up to her and then took a seat on the table next to her as I said, "Hey beautiful. Sorry I'm late. Had a late class to take care of."
Maya glared at me, as usual, but under it I could sense a tension of concern, but then the others started speaking, and she was distracted from me and whatever concern she felt for me.
I tried to keep up with the conversation, but I was tended to distraction, not only by the absolute agony shooting through every part of my body and the focus needed to keep up the illusion that I was perfectly fine, but also by keeping the subtle probes Maya sent my way. A rather interesting skill one can pick up when they have a telepathic significant other, methods to block their telepathy.
Not perfected, but it kept her from reading my memories as well as from *feeling* what I'm feeling.
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Post by killian on Jun 30, 2004 14:55:15 GMT -5
(((dude, we are not sitting down. Maya is currently interrogating Cervil)))
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Post by Joshua on Jun 30, 2004 16:13:48 GMT -5
(((Fixed! And I'm still deleting this message in two days.)))
(((You know, it *IS* possible to delete messages like these that are outside of the story.)))
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Post by rachelle on Jun 30, 2004 16:20:56 GMT -5
(((um, Joshua, Maya said that she found Cervil in a corridor. So i guess that means outside the library. Right?)))
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Post by Maya on Jun 30, 2004 16:32:57 GMT -5
((josh, they're right. I followed him into the corridor, and the others followed me.))
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Post by Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison on Jul 1, 2004 3:55:48 GMT -5
((Didn't Joshua say he watched you drag Cervil or Jurag or whatever he's calling himself this week into the Library? Correct me if I'm wrong.))
"Hi..." I saw the girls leveling some very heavy glares at the new guy as Joshua tried, very convincingly, to hide the fact he was in pain. "Uh oh, what did he do?"
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Post by Jessy Jackson on Jul 1, 2004 6:51:15 GMT -5
"He tore a page out of an ancient text that had survived for millenia without harm!" I said, almost hysterically. I paced up and down the room, muttering.
"Jessy?" said Rory, looking worried.
"Over three thousand years old. Three thousand years without harm and now..." I gesticulated weakly.
"Jessy, calm down," said Maya.
"Three thousand..." I muttered faintly.
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Post by Maya on Jul 1, 2004 8:28:13 GMT -5
I held out my hand,
"Gimme." I said to Cervil.
"No!"
I rolled my eyes, and the piece of paper flew from his pocket into my hand.
"Thanks." i said.
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Post by Jessy Jackson on Jul 1, 2004 11:23:50 GMT -5
"Three thousand..." I muttered. My head was resting on my arms by now, the stress load pressing me down. Suddenly my head snapped up as an incredible pain ran through my body. I snatched my hand away from where it had touched Joshua's hand.
"What was that?" Then my brain kicked in. "Get me a book on potions." This was probably a side effect of those potions those vamps had givin me.
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Post by killian on Jul 1, 2004 11:41:41 GMT -5
"How many cups of coffee do you think Jessy has drunken today?" I said to Rachelle.
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