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Jeremy sighed. "Phoebe, have you ever just had a moment alone with him, without accusing him? Have you spoken to him calmly about the matter?" She didn't need to answer, he felt like he already knew. "Go follow him. Before you go, at least speak to him alone and without accusation. You might be surprised of his reaction."

Clayton's smile faded. The name of the dish was Tilapia. Though he, too loved that dish, he could never pronounce it, and he didn't want to look like an idiot and pronounce it wrong to the waiter in front of her. When the waiter came up, he asked them, 'What'll it be?' and Clayton gulped. "Ah... Two of this, please." He said, pointing to the tilapia.

"Two of... This?" The waiter asked, pointing to the dish under it.

"No, THIS one, please." Clayton pointed to it again, but the waiter looked confused. In his frustration, Clayton blurted out, "The tealipie-a, the tipilia, th-this one!"

"O-oh, the tilapia?"

"Yes," Clayton said with relief, "Please." Clayton's face was beet red. His minor dyslexia got in the way of words with 'e' and 'i' sounds, and sometimes 'a' sounds. He didn't dare look at Clone, for fear that she was laughing at him.

Erin rose a hand, and from the ground a tree started to sprout from the ground. It was an apple tree, and went a good thirteen feet up in the air. "Here, Cappy." She said to the young girl.

"Oh for the love of-" Hypatia muttered, and reached for Clara. She tried to be gentle, prying the porcelain thing out of her hand without cutting her. "Come ON Clara, it'll just take a second! Give it to me..."

((We should leave Jin and Luca alone for a beat. XP Bow-chika wow wow! ))

Pheobe wanted to defend herself but her uncle made a good point. "I've been kind of rude, I guess" she admitted with a blush of shame. "I'll think about it. For the time being I'll just walk around and try not to get lost"

She paused awkwardly, half-turned as if to leave but undecided on if she should follow through. Then she turned back to hug Jeremy quickly before breaking away. "Thank you".

She left before he could reply, embarassed by her impulsive display. It just felt right to hug the doctor and she really did appreciate his advice. Deep down she truly wanted to solve the mystery of Caleb. He confused and agitated her in an inexplicable way. I grated at her just as much as his attitude.

As she wandered the hallway her feet began to move on their own while their owner tried to piece together the mystery of her life and those in it. She didn't notice that she walked a particular path, reaching out to touch a wall here or automatically ducking under a low overhang there.

Then she came to a complete stop. Jarred from her internal musings she looked up to see wide double doors and her heart skipped a beat. The smell of old books perfumed the air and she could hear the rustle of pages being flipped. She'd found paradise... She found the library.

With the urge to burst into song and dance that she barely managed to stifle she swung open one of the doors and walked in, sucking in a deep breath and holding it until she felt the full glory of the book haven.

"It feels so familiar" Pheobe sighed, hugging herself. She looked at the book on the table with curiousity, craning her neck to see the title. A memory flashed through her mind of a moment in this very place.

She was straining herself to reach a book, a classic that she adored from childhood. It was just beyond the reach of her fingertips and she was standing on the tips of her toes raching with all she had, too stubborn to ask for help.

Suddenly she felt a muscular body press to her back and saw a big and calloused hand easily slip the tome from the shelf. She felt no anxiety, knowing who it was from his scent and the familiar aura he exuded.

"Caleb!". She turned around to face him looming over her with a smirk on his lips. "May I have my book, please?" she asked, holding out her hand expectantly.

"Maybe" Caleb teased, waving the book back and forth over her hand. A flash of a smile crossed his features as she sighed and tried to jump up and grab the book, falling into his chest.

Shaking off the strange sensation she looked up at her companion with confusion. "Familiar..." she whispered.

Clara whined loudly and shook her head again, trying to take it back though she was much shorter then the other female. "Give back!" She demanded loudly. How dare she take something of her's!? She had told her it was her's alone and she didn't want her to touch it, yet she took it anyway! She was quite angry, and would more then likely throw a tantrum if Hypatia didn't give the object back soon.



Clone didn't laugh, but instead looked at him with worry since he wasn't looking at her. "Clayton?" She asked, trying to see his face and see if something was wrong. She knew people sometimes had trouble saying words, she herself had trouble sometimes. Her tail stopped swishing and curled to rest in her lap, the end of it flicking every moment or so.



Cappy blinked, watching the tree grow as her ears twitched curiously. Once the tree stopped growing she looked to Erin for a moment, "...Thank you..." She said quietly before climbing into the tree and resting on the most comfortable branch she could find. She yawned sleepily and rested her cheek on her arms as they were crossed in front of her like a pillow.

Caleb was silent for an uneasy amount of time. He didn't know what to say, and he didn't know what to do. He sat on the table. "You spent a lot of time here. When you weren't here, you were in your study. you always took care of paperwork and kept an eye on the well-being of students. Everyone was afraid of me... except you. My dignity had no meaning to you, and I found myself embarrassed over and over again to the things you'd say and do to me. But even so, you were the only one that... When you were little, you got lost and followed me until I took you to your house, you were only five or six at the time. I tried everything I could to get you to go away,"

Caleb chuckled, something that sounded like a bitter evil, but it was a chuckle Phoebe would hopefully at least remember as being his carefree laugh. "You're as stubborn as that idiot Hughes. But if it weren't for the two of you, I would be nothing. I would have nothing. I'm a spoiled Nightmare demon. I don't think there's anything like that anywhere else in the world. But I guess... Because of who you are, Jeremy's right. I can't protect you... You would be safest starting over in Torusa. Maybe then you can finally... Have a normal life, like you deserve."

Hypatia groaned and clutched the porcelain piece in her hand. a stream of water swirled around it and her fist, going fast, then consuming the entire porcelain piece. "Here." She said, tossing it to Claire. The porcelain piece was even shinier than before, and the edges were smoothed, impossible to be cut from now. Suddenly an image came and went that only Clara could see. For a brief second, there was a large creature with the torso of a man and the body and head of a buffalo right behind Hypatia, but it disappeared almost immediately.

Clayton looked over at her when she said his name, and he chuckled nervously. "I-it's nothin' Clone, nevamind." He cleared his throat and decided to try and change the subject. "Ah... So uh, ya got any hobbies?"

Erin smiled with her eyes closed up to Cappy. 'Thank the seedling, she is the one that volunteered,' Erin said.

(( Oh right! >///< Oops. ))

Luca was just getting over breathing heavily, his face buried into the pillow, hiding his blush and his smile. His body ached, and he had to remind himself to get Nathan to clean these sheets later... It would take a LOT of persuading. "Jin... That was..." He said into the pillow, but couldn't finish, only giggled.

Clara caught the piece, fumbling it before she got a firm grip on it once again. She looked at it, smiling when she saw that it was even prettier then before. She looked up at Hypatia, about to say something when she saw the image. "Eh?" She tilted her head to the side, then approached Hypatia. She looked behind the woman, a puzzled look on her face. She swore she saw something there, it looked like a cow-human man! Or...was that a buffalo man? She had trouble with animals names sometimes, save for the basics. She then looked around the garden, curious as to who that thing she saw was.



"Hm..." Cappy wasn't sure what to say back to her, so she simply nodded. She felt rather tired, and her throat burned from coughing and her head hurt. She wondered if maybe she had gotten sick from eating half-cooked meat in the forest about a week ago. Perhaps the animal she had hunted at the time had a virus? Either way she didn't feel good...so she decided to rest in the tree for a while, closing her eyes as she felt a slight breeze tickle her ears.



Clone smiled, deciding to go along with Clayton's subject change, "Well, I usually bake foods, or sew." She said, the end of her tail twitching a bit. She remembered when she would always have to sew her own clothes. She wasn't really good at it at first, but soon got a lot better. However, when Grizzler adopted her, she didn't sew as much. Though she did still consider it a hobby. As for baking she usually baked sweets, cupcakes being her favorite thing to make. She remembered the time she baked cupcakes for her friend's birthday, it was so much fun.