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 Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:31 pm
Ari brough in the lively Artemis in her arms, "Mommy needs to look uip somthing, would you like a book Art?"
"Bah looo..." Artemis Giggled. Ari smiled as she went to the childrens books, and pulled out a small stiff paged book with little puppies inside. she, for a moment, sat Artemis in her carrier. She laid out Artemis's blanket on the ground and Lupus and put the book on top before placing Artemis on the blanket.
"I will be really quick, don't go anywhere ok sweetie?" And Ari went to the near by shelf to start looking for the book she needed.
Her work had allowed her to do some of her work while at home until Artemis could be baby sat. This work required her to look up something and without a computer, the cold Library of Head Quarters was her best bet.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:40 pm
Tovar didn't usually have much use for libraries -- the ones beyond the large room stuffed with books in Michael's house, anyway. However, seeing as the older sorcerer had currently comandeered (and locked) their personal library, he found himself resorting to different methods.
And as much as he would have preffered the public library, Tovar wouldn't have even known where to start somewhere that big; at least here, in a semi-private library of the shop's headquarters, he had a little less space and fewer books (though, the number was still impressive) to shift through.
Even so, he wasn't really looking forward to it. Not for the first time, Tovar quietly wished Michael kept a computer - or technology of any sort, really. Then again, Michael always said books and first hand accounts were the only things to be trusted when doing research.
Sighing, cooped up in a corner of the library, Tovar pulled a heavily bound book of the shelf. Stuffed in the back pocket of his jeans, the wand made a faint dark spot where the condensation of river water seeped slowly into the thick denim.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:58 pm
"A Book for Zah a book for Zah purple Zah a book for zah'" Kishi sang as she followed after her father.They'd just returned home after a shopping trip whe're she'd bought her flowerkitten a new collar and her some colouring books. Now they were going to the library to find a book for Zah her favorite friend.
" A book about Zah, well his kind anyways" Malen corrected. He'd promised to babysit the young drow for Neveah that weekened and he wanted to be prepared. He was postive the butterfly woman had foudn books on drow in the library before so that was the best place to look other than bothering Talon and last he'd heard from her the woman was up to ears in sick kids.
Upon entering the library he spotted a young woman and baby he'd never met before " Well hello there" he said softly so as not to startle them.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:04 pm
Ari jerked her head up, her attention pulled from her books, to look at the man and the toddle at his side. The girl seemed preoccupied with a melody in her head, but the man had addressed her. "Hello." She smiled, setting down the book in her hands in such a way to keep her page as she extended her hand for the greeting. "I'm Ariel." she smiled at the baby girl who found slamming the book down on her blanket while giggling far more entertaining then just looking at it, "This is Artemis." She finished the introduction.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:12 pm
Tovar shifted where he stood, pausing a moment to quirk his head slightly to one side and listen hard and the buzz of the air conditioning unit somewhere over head. He could have sworn--
Ah, yes; voices. He must have been here longer than he'd thought, he could have sworn the headquarters' library had been empty when he'd first found his way there. Tucking the current book in his hands absently under one arm, the chesnut haired young man carefully inched his way to the end of the bookshelves and toward the voices, peering curiously around the corner toward the other inhabitants of the library.
"Must be other guardians," he murmured absently, unconsciously tinkering with the dog-eared pages of the book under his arm.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:39 pm
The attention of the man appeared to have wandered off, so Ari shurgged and went back to shifting through her book to find what she had come to look for. She winces as a repetitive tapping sound came from what she would guess was one playing with the cover of a book with real pages.
This left Artemis out completly.
Ari hated when she didn't know if someone was around so she called out, "Is anyone else here?"
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:24 pm
Tovar started at the sudden outburst, nearly dropping the book out from under his arm. Quickly taking a firmer grip on the volume, the young man edged out into the open and offered the group a faint smile.
"Ah, yes. I'm here." And he could only assume he was included in the broad range of 'anyone.' "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to...ease drop or anything." It was just a little difficult to not. As many books as there were in the room, the voices hadn't been completely absorbed in the pages and the hard shelves they were stacked on.
Ah well; it wasn't as if he didn't have a valid excuse to be there.
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:59 pm
"Of course," Ari smiled at new comer, "No, I was merely cautious of another presence." Ari couldn't help but blush. She was a very paranoid person when it came to a room she was in, especially one that she had no control over.
Artemis had crawled over to Ari and was hitting her hands on Ari?s lap. This meant she wanted to be picked up, and paid attention to. Ari lifted up the baby girl and looked back at the man who had appeared, "This is Artemis," She smiled, presenting her charge. "Who are you?" she asked curious.
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:12 am
Malen who'd been momentarily sidetracked by trying to ignore a sudden muscle spasm had completely missed what had been going on around him the last few minutes. He'd simply stood off to the side concentrating on willing the pain away and trying not to look in too much pain in front of Kishi for fear of worrying her. Now able to pay attention he smiled from his potion on the wall " Artemis hmm? I'll have to tell Kierla there's another wand child running about with a greek mythology thing going on."
Kishi walked over Ari streched to her tip toes to get closer to artimis " Hi ." The other child seemed interesting enough despite lacking wings or anything purpel that she could see.
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:59 am
"I'm Tovar," he answered smoothly, shrugging slightly with one shoulder. He was getting alot better at introducing himself to complete strangers on a random basis - meeting people seemed to happen quite a bit once you had children from these...association things. He paused a moment, and then continued with the explination, in case simply his name wasn't what the woman had been interested in.
"I'm a guardian. Another one, apparently - I didn't know there were so many of these..." He hesitated. "Wands." It might be offensive to the other two to pander slightly with the word. Besides, he couldn't be sure all the wands looked like a lump of driftwood.
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:20 pm
Ari smiled to the both of them, "Its very nice to meet both of you." She loved meeting new guardians, despite her need to find this book she figured she could waste a moment. "So what brings you both to the Library beyond the obvious?" While Ari was making small chat with the adults, Artemis decided the new girl was cute and fun.
Upon the little girl with wings greeting Artemis immediatly wiggled to get over to her. Ari put the wiggling Artemis down on the ground where she proceeded to crawl twords the girl with wings. Artemis lifted one hand, delicatly balancing on three limbs she shook her hand around in the attempt of a wave as she made babbling noise, "Gyah pfft bya!" Artemis finished with a giggle.
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:52 pm
Tovar frowned slightly, trying to think of a remotely intelligent way to answer the question. He hadn't been aware there was any reason but the obvious to come to a library...
"Looking for...a book on Kelpies," he explained absently. That probably wasn't what she wanted to know, but he honestly couldn't think of any other answer to offer. Ah well - it was the truth, at least.
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:04 am
" It's a pleasure to meet you to and I'm just prepping for some babysitting I'm going to do." Malen stated watchign Kishi with amusment, it pleased him that she was capable of beign gentle when playign with others.
Kishi smiled at Artemis amused by the greeting "you're cute I like you" she said with a firm nod of her head. Kneeling to lessen the height difference kishi placed her wand on the floor beside her and waited for Artemis to make another move, she looked very gentle not the type to play hard like zah or the funny pink wisp so she wasn't sure what do do with her.
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:34 pm
"I'm here looking for a book for work." Ari explained, feeling it only natural to explain her own presence. "It’s nice to meet both of you." She smiled up at the two from her position on the ground.
Artemis decided to crawl closer to the girl with wings, putting her hand down she wiggled and crawled her way over to the girl, and then lifted herself up to pat the girl's knees with her hands. Artemis continued to babble and giggle at the interesting looking female who she found nice.
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:50 pm
Tovar nodded in agreement, offering the both of them a swift grin that trickled down to the younger children before his features slipped back into a friendly, but relatively passive expression. After a moment or so of hesitation, he cleared his throat and inched a little closer to the cluster of children and their guardians.
"If you don't me me asking...-- are those your children? From here, I mean. Er." Great; he was being oh so eloquent. Way to make an impression, Tovar. "I mean, the ones from the wands? I'm a bit...Frankly, the only child I have came as a kid, not from an object."
One would think Tovar, being a magic worker and an apprentice, would be used to this sort of 'souls in inatimate objects' sort of thing, and maybe he was; he just wasn't quite so used to them being children. Once dead children. That would be coming out again, perfectly alive.
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