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Alex somehow felt another heat signature to himself. For some reason, he decided to trust this hunter's instinct. Opening his wings, he dulged into Goliath's mind, and taught himself how to fly. Alsio, while he was digging into the memories, he learned that gargoyles have advances senses, and even able to sense similar heat signatures from hundreds of miles away. "These creatures are amazing! It's a mystery on how they all just dissapeared, though.." He sad to himself.

Reaching the front of the castle, Aneisa found that the door was locked. "Darn. Alright, Saraphina. You're so smart, you tell me how I'm supposed to get into a castle when the doors are locked?"

In her mind, she saw the wall of the back of the castle, then she felt a tingling in her hands and feet. "What? I don't get it. What am I supposed to do?" She saw a memory that she could only assume was Saraphina's. In it, she was watching a bunch of other gargoyles climbing up a rock wall and she was following them. Looking down at her clawed hands and feet, it clicked. "Oh, I get it! Alright, you just tell me where to climb."

Aneisa walked along the wall until she felt something pulling her upward. Looking up the wall, she saw a window. "That's it, huh? Alright, Saraphina. I'm trusting you, though I don't know why. I don't even know who you are." At that, memories started flashing one on top of the other till Aneisa's head started swimming. "Alright, alright. I get the idea. Stop the flashbacks and I'll start climbing, deal?"

As soon as the words left her mouth, the memories stopped. "Whew. That's better. Well, here goes nothing." Walking up to the wall, Aneisa took a deep breath, then as hard as she could, she jammed her claws into the wall. Much easier than she had thought they would, Aneisa's claws sunk into the stone solidly. Gaining some confidence, she dug in her other hand and her foot and began climbing. In no time, she had reached the window.

When she tried pulling it open, though..... "Drats! They have to lock everything up, don't they? Who the hell did they figure was going to get in through this window, anyway?" Looking through, Aneisa examined the lock. "Huh, pretty simple. Just an old fashioned hook and loop. Hummm, if I could just slip something in between the two windows...." Letting go of the wall with one hand, she began feeling around in her pockets. In her back pants pocket, she felt something promising: it felt thin yet sturdy enough to lift the latch. Pulling it out, she examined it. "My hotel key card. Perfect. So, I just take it and slip it in.... then lift up..... and Whala! We're in."

Pulling the windows open, Aneisa climbed through the opening. "Alright, Saraphina. I'm in the room you wanted me. Now what am I looking for? Or what am I supposed to do?"

'Grimoire,' Aneisa heard.

"Grimoire, huh? Isn't that a ...... magic book?" Aneisa looked around. There were hundreds of books in this room, most of them ancient. "Great, Saraphina. You had to pick a common and numerous object, didn't you. Wait a minute, what's that?" On the far side of the room, Aneisa saw a book inside a glass case on a pedestal. Walking over to it, she looked down at it. She felt a flash of excitement she wasn't entirely sure came from herself. "That's it, huh? Doesn't look that impressive to me.....OUCH!! Alright, I'm sorry." Aneisa rubbed her head as a flash of bright pain shot through it.

"Now, how am I going to get it out of there? I mean, I guess I could break the glass, but then they'd notice it was missing in the morning...." Walking over to the desk on the side of the room, Aneisa began opening drawers. In almost the last drawer, she found what she was looking for. "A-ha! Keys. I'll bet one of these fits that lock." Testing her hypothesis, it took a couple keys, but eventually... "And there we have it. Now, we remove book A and replace it with...." she looked around at all the books on the shelfs, trying to find one that resembled the book in her hands. Finding one, she smiled and grabbed it. "Replace it with book B. This way, we'll hopefully have a couple of days minimum before they notice the book missing."

Settling the substitute in the case, locking it and returning the keys to the drawer, Aneisa pulled a length of thread from her already tattered clothes, then looped it around the hook of the window latch. Holding the book in one hand and the thread in the other, Aaneisa climbed out the window, closed them and used the thread to pull the latch closed. "There. Now no one will be the wiser. I think it'd be best to go back to the hotel now." Jumping off the wall, using her legs to push off, she opened her wings and circled the castle a few times, being sure she was high enough to go unnoticed before she headed back into town.

After Alex made his way inside the castle, he made his way into the old rooms of the settlement. The old catacombs, having been long since abandoned, have been riddled with the prescence of cobwebs, dust, and old skeletons. While looking through the rooms, he happened to come across the tomb of one infamous scottish man.

While he couldn't read the scottish writing, Goliath was able to help him translate. "Apparently this is the tomb of the human who imprisoned the gargoyles long ago.." He said to Goliath, who was speaking through him via telepathy. "A thousand years ago, the viking invaders sought to rule the land of Scotland by use of force and steel. They had made their path to here, Castle Wyvern, where they were met with resistance from the gargoyle clan that had been keeping residence in the castle.

Unfortunately, one of the gargoyles betrayed the rest, and caused the vikings to invade the castle, killing the lord and her only daughter. In rage, the castle mage cast a spell that affected all gargoyle. The spell commanded us to turn to stone until every scottish castle rose above the clouds." He finally finished. Alex looked at the pictures of the events that were flashing into his mind, and he wished he hadn't come down here.

"So, is the magical tome still here?" He asked as the sun began to rise outside. Goliath tried to show him a mental picture of where the tome was kept. But by the time Alex had found the area, he had seen that the tome was gone. "Stolen?! And recently too!" He said as the sun just finished it's ascent.

After Alex had a good night's sleep, he walked down to the nearest cafe where he happened to notice an interesting site. A woman reading An Interview with a Vampire. Feeling a little courageous, he decided to sit at the table. "Interview with a vampire, eh? Good choice." He told her.

Alex chuckled a bit by the woman's review to the book. "Ye, it is quite a deep story. I find Lestat to be a more.....how can I say it...down-to-earth vampire, if you understand what i'm saying." He said to her, waving his hand with different gestures. "But anyway, I see that you have a fondness of several rare books. And it just so happens that I am here looking for one." He said to her.

Alex took her hand and began to shake. "Alexander Keith. Anyway, i'm looking for a sort of tome. You see, I travelled here after 2 painstakingly long months to find out where the book was, and I found out that someone had stolen it fro the castle. Now, I am not accusing you of theft, my new-found friend, but any information would help. Besides, it's been said that anyone without magical powers can only read gibberish." He joked to her.

Alex just pouted a bit, and waved his hand in the air. "Like I said, i'm a collector, I like to show off to people with my rare books and such. Also, even if someone HAD magical powers, the person would have to discover that on their own to read the book." He said to her. He then forced his cheeks to flush, and he laughed a bit. "Oh yes, sorry about that. The book is from Castle Wyvern." He told her.

((BTW, I'm planning on making a Matrix RP called the Second Reinassance. Wanna hear about it?))

((Basically, it's the events after the movie. You see, in this future, machines have imprisoned humans in a reality so real, that the humans don't know that they are imprisoned within it. That world is called the matrix. What happens is that one person tries to free humanity and the machines from their need to use each other for energy.))

Alex then heard her said the word 'we'. "Wait, did you just say we?" He asked her, his eyebrows cocked in confusion.