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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Apr 1, 2008 7:53:04 GMT -5
Lilianne's expression darkened again as she started rubbing her upper arm.
"Yeah... I guess all it took was something that'd make everyone too scared to go play outside, and make us realize just how important learning all this was for our safety..." she said, with a somewhat pained smile.
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Apr 1, 2008 17:03:43 GMT -5
Kel grinned wryly in reply. "Who knew giant monsters with wings and fangs could be so good for our education, right?" She shook her head, still grimacing slightly. Suddenly, she found herself standing in front of a tapestry of trolls in tutus, and, slightly confused, asked, "Whoa. . . I guess we really haven't been paying attention to where we were going. . . this isn't the library." Kel peered behind her, wondering how she could have managed to get so lost. "I. . . I don't even think I've ever been her before. . ." Slightly anxious now (there could be monsters lurking around any corner, after all!), Kel reached for her wand, stuck deep into the bun trailing locks of defiant hair down her neck and looked both ways down the large corridor the two eleven-year-olds were standing in. [OOC: So sorry if Lilianne's already turned twelve! ]
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Apr 4, 2008 8:12:05 GMT -5
Lilianne froze for a while, her eyes wide open. After some time, she managed to move again to look around, clutching her wand with both hands over her heart.
"Oh no... I... I'm not sure where we are..." she muttered in that familiar weak, scared voice.
Don't panic don't panic don't panic...
She closed her eyes in concentration for a moment, and then, with a deep breath, she opened them again, taking in her surroundings.
"We're still on the seventh floor... we haven't taken any stairs, right? I don't think I've ever been there, but..." She stared at the moving tapestry where a wizard was foolishly attempting to teach trolls how to dance. "I think I've heard of that tapestry before..."
Lilianne looked at the tapestry intently, as if she was using it as a distraction from her own fear.
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Apr 4, 2008 14:43:31 GMT -5
Kel, slightly disturbed also, decided that all they needed was to find some stairs and get back to a corridor they knew and they would be fine. She concentrated on just finding a stairwell, and walked forward, searching along the marble hallway for a sign of one. Not immediately finding anything, she went back the way she and Lilianne had come. She didn't spot anything, so she decided to go a little further along the way they had been heading. She investigated a few doors, but all they concealed were a few empty classrooms, a cupboard and a small spiral staircase going up. Kel wanted stairs that went down, so she walked toward Lilianne and the troll tapestry, hoping if she looked further the other way, she would find steps.
Suddenly, she noticed a small niche in the wall that she hadn't seen before and went over to investigate it. She stuck her head in, but it kept going farther back in the wall, and sloped down a bit. Kel's body had blocked off the light coming from the main corridor, so she didn't see the step until she stepped over it.
The Hufflepuff hadn't been expecting there to be a drop, so when her foot met no resistance as it traveled downward, Kel followed right along!
"Ow!" Kel exclaimed, more from surprise and fright than from actual pain.
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Apr 6, 2008 18:34:22 GMT -5
Lilianne had remained in front of the tapestry as Keladry walked past her a couple of times, unsure of what to suggest. She jumped slightly when she saw the wall facing the tapestry open up as Keladry was walking past yet again, though it honestly wasn't that much of a surprise in a place like Hogwarts.
She approached Keladry slowly as she inspected the opening. "I'm not sure you should go there, Kel... maybe we should just go back the way we came until I can recognise where we... Eeek!"
Lilianne let out a scream and put her hands to her mouth when Keladry toppled down. She rushed to the entrance of the passageway, blocking the light again. "... Are... are you okay?"
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Apr 6, 2008 20:33:06 GMT -5
Kel grunted as she hauled herself up whilst trying not to tumble down the stairs she was laying at the top of.
"I'm fine. . . I think I found a staircase we can use, though!" Kel finally dragged herself up, dusted herself off and turned back toward Lilianne.
"Coming?"
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Apr 7, 2008 10:51:24 GMT -5
"Are you sure we should? I mean, we don't know where that leads..."
Lilianne swayed on the spot for a while, hesitating. Hogwarts was such a fun place to explore. Yet with all that had happened lately she could barely handle being alone in the corridors...
On the other hand, there were aurors all over the place. She had to admit Hogwarts had to be at it's safest right now.
Still clutching her wand over her chest, she finally took a few steps after Keladry.
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Apr 7, 2008 14:21:32 GMT -5
Kel looked back at Lilianne.
"Well, I think it'll be okay. If it doesn't go straight down, then we can just go all the way back the way we came, but I think this is probably faster. . ."
Kel smiled encouragingly as Lilianne took a hesitant step forward. "Okay? If it takes any weird turns then we can go right back up to the top."
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Apr 9, 2008 7:43:34 GMT -5
"Okay... Well, what could go wrong, anyway, right?"
I could think of a few things...
Lilianne shook her head, denying herself the thoughts. She followed after Keladry down the dark stairs, Dinsdale peeking out from her hood curiously.
"I wish we'd learned that nifty wand light spell yet... Isa's pretty good at it, she used it to light up her face when she'd tell me scary stories when I was younger..."
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Apr 9, 2008 15:13:03 GMT -5
Kel carefully led the way, one hand on the wall and one on her wand, which she had taken out of her hair and now lay waiting in her left hand. The hand on the wall was stretched out in front of Kel's body, flat against the wall, so she could tell when the wall curved. She felt carefully with each foot for every step, making sure that the step was actually there before she put her full weight on it.
"Hmmm. . ." she answered absently to Lilianne's remark about wandlight. Kel didn't know that one, but she vowed to find it and learn it as soon as she got back to the Common Room.
She nearly tripped on the step below her while thinking about which book the spell might be in, and what people she could ask if she couldn't find it in a book. Heart pounding from the near-accident, she steadied herself against the wall and glancing back at Lilianne.
'Wait a minute!' Kel could see Lilianne! That meant light! Kel started going faster down the stairs, saying excitedly, "There's light! We must be getting close to the bottom!"
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Apr 13, 2008 7:20:54 GMT -5
"Ohhhh! I wonder where we'll end up!" Lilianne said, though the excitement in her voice felt half-forced.
Only half, though, because even if she wasn't ready to admit it to herself, a part of her was enjoying the exploration.
She hurried after Keladry, eager to get out of the darkness.
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Apr 13, 2008 19:41:50 GMT -5
Kel jumped down the last three or four steps, emerging into a very familiar corridor.
"Wow," she said, so surprised she didn't even sound like it. "Wow."
When she had touched down on the stone flags of the corridor, she had immediately been faced with the wooden doors leading into the library.
"Weird. . . I've never noticed that stairwell before. . ." Kel said, turning back to face the spiral staircase she and Lilianne had just come down.
"I guess I just never saw it. . . or something." Kel sounded unsure, for she had walked past this stretch of wall many times before and had never noticed the staircase, though it did seem to be rather inconspicuous. The mouth was in a small niche, just like the entrance a couple of floors above, and rather hard to notice. All the same, Kel thought she would have at least noticed the dark space in an otherwise well-lit stretch of corridor.
"Huh."
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Post by Lilianne Wesker on Apr 14, 2008 8:44:32 GMT -5
"Me neither... That's odd, I don't recall ever seeing anyone from my house use it to get to the library, and it's a pretty good shortcut... There's no way we're the first ones to find it either, the school is way too old..."
Lilianne shrugged as she reajusted her bag on her shoulder.
"I'll try to remember how we got there so I can use it again... Should we go in now? Maybe we should compare notes on that transfiguration essay, I'm really not sure I got it right..."
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Apr 15, 2008 14:31:13 GMT -5
Kel nodded in reply to Lilianne's first comment, still curious about the staircase.
In reply to Lilianne's question, Kel said, "Yeah, let's go on in. I'll make sure you didn't miss anything, and you can help me cut out any unimportant bits in mine. I don't want to blabber on about stuff that's totally irrelevant!" Kel pushed open the door and held it open for Lilianne.
[OoC: D'you want to keep on with this plotline? If so, then one of us can make a thread in the library and Kel and Lilianne can interact a little more. But if you think it's gone on long enough and you're getting tired, then it's okay with me if we just stop. It's up to you!]
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