Oh i'm like a kid who just won't let it go,
Twisting and turning the colours in rows,
Elizabeth sat in the library, enjoying one of its many ancient books. Today was the first day students were to be returning from Summer Holidays. For three days, the transport between the school and the rest of the world would go back and forth. If you were late, you had to find your own way in. Luckily she'd been here all summer while her mother and father were in Paraguay retrieving a treasure that that humans were too close to finding. Unluckily, she'd been left here for that. She was pretty sure she'd be left here for the rest of the summers that she had left.
She sighed and let her eyes wander across the grounds that were visible through the textured windows. The expanse of green was marred by waves in the glass, causing it to look fanciful and distorted. She ran the edges of the parched pages she'd already read under her fingers absently as her mind wandered. She'd had nothing to do but think all summer, once her homework had been done. Now it was more habit than anything else. Brown eyes scanned the just visible wrought iron gates, they were closed for the moment, but sooner or later the Headmaster or Headmistress would be opening them for the first arrivals. It'd be nice to have an abundance of people on campus again. Somehow she'd missed the drama.
She stood then, setting the book down on the table in front of her, and stretched, her shirt raising to bare the pale expanse of her midriff. She should have gotten more sun this summer, but she'd found the library too comfortable to leave. The red and green and blue velvet chairs with their brown leather backs and their bronze studs were just the right size to swallow their occupiers. The smell of leather and ink was a nearly seductive mixture that she cherished dearly. And the comfortably dim lighting made her relaxed and most content to sit and read to exhaustion. However, just now she thought it'd be nice to be out and about the grounds. Maybe she'd find some of her old roommates among those that returned.
I'm so intent to find out what it is
This is my Rubik's Cube
I know i can figure it out.
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