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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 30, 2008 21:56:29 GMT -5
Kel, feeling slightly triumphant at getting Lilianne (Lilianne, of all people! Quite an accomplishment) to speak in paragraphs instead of sentences, smiled and quickly agreed.
"I'm sure he won't mind that you're learning. . . he might find it hard to read all the essays, though. Everyone I know has actually been working on schoolwork, partly because there's nothing else to do and partly because they have the time to do it right. It's kinda weird, really. . . I think I thought it would feel like a vacation, but everyone seems really motivated toward learning and working on schoolwork. It seems like everyone's studying and reading up on subjects they've never been interested in before. Kinda weird, but kinda cool!"
'Now I'm the one who's jabbering on. Huh.'
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 27, 2008 17:27:02 GMT -5
Kel, sensing Lilianne's discomfort, jumped headfirst into the topic.
"Well, I'm almost done, but I spent so long in the library researching so it would be perfect! I swear, I looked backward and forward through every book with any mention of anything to do with plants, making sure I had everything possible in my essay. I'm actually going to edit it and take out all the random crap that ended up in there. I mean, now that I know everything about the darn plant, I can take out all the useless stuff I wrote when I didn't!"
Kel sighed blissfully, then added almost jokingly,
"Learning is so fun."
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 24, 2008 18:35:48 GMT -5
Kel, seemingly unworried about the possible presence of man-eating panthers in the school, strode through the halls whistling jauntily.
She glanced at Lilianne. "So, the library sound good? I mean, I just thought we'd talk, hang out. . . that sort o' thing."
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 23, 2008 19:30:17 GMT -5
This question seemed to stump Kel for a moment.
"Um. . . well, I just sorta thought we'd. . . you know. . . hang out, or something. Maybe read a bit, talk a tad. . . grab some vittles from the kitchen. . . sumthin' like that!" Kel, happy with her not-exactly-well-thought-out plan, adjusted her bag's strap slightly, tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear and pushed her wand a bit farther into the messy bun a bit above the nape of her neck. She grinned expectantly at Lilianne.
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 22, 2008 18:27:35 GMT -5
Kel smiled in relief that Lilianne didn't seem to bitter about Kel's notable absence in her time of need.
"Yeah, that would a good idea. Plus, it's kinda chilly." Kel rubbed her arms as a cool draft blew down the hallway.
"Maybe we could go to the library. . . ?" Kel thought aloud. "Unless you can think of something better. I mean, it's probably the best place at the time. . ." She looked to Lilianne questioningly. "What d'you think?"
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 20, 2008 17:16:16 GMT -5
Kel beamed at seeing Lilianne, though the shy Gryffindor didn't seem to be at her best.
"Well, I haven't been in the Great Hall a for meals a lot because. . . I dunno. There's been some different things. I felt crappy for a while because I caught a cold from tramping around in pajamas. . . I helped Anne Hall, Lisa Wheary and Rose Ogden with their studying and showed them how to enchant their drawings to move. . . I've been doing a lot." Kel seemed almost surprised, now that she realized it, that she had been spending so much time with her House-mates and had forgotten Lilianne!
Kel apologetically said "I was so wrapped up with the attacks for the longest time, and then I was doing so much with Anne (she's really good at drawing people, but she wanted to be able to draw realistic backgrounds for her portraits), and Lisa and Rose are both Muggleborns, and they wanted their photos to move like normal ones, so I looked it up and we worked on it a lot. . . I totally forgot about you! I am so sorry, Lilianne! It totally slipped my mind that Isabelle was attacked. . . you must have been so worried. . . oh. . ." Kel trailed off, looking at her shoes, around which Tiria had curled after appearing seemingly out of nowhere as she frequently did. She kept a close eye (and constantly paw!) on Kel after she learned Kel had been in danger from larger felines.
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 15, 2008 15:34:56 GMT -5
Kel had jumped out of the way when the Fat Lady had swung forward, and she smiled thankfully at the girl who had addressed her.
"Oh, no, I'm trying to find my friend Lilianne. . . would it be too much to ask if you could pop inside and find her?" Kel asked hesitantly. She didn't want to force the Gryffindor to do something, but she really did want to find Lilianne. She smiled again, hoping the older student would do it.
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Post by Keladry Lindenshield on Mar 12, 2008 21:25:51 GMT -5
Kel stood before the Fat Lady's portrait, deliberating. She was trying to decide whether to knock on the painting, which the lady occcupying the frame might not appreciate, or wait until someone came out and ask them to find Lilianne. She had been standing there for a rather long time, and the Fat Lady, who had been steadily ignoring her as she had raised her hand to knock, lowered it, bitten her lip, raised it again, paced a bit, went up as if to try to knock again, leaned against the wall beside the portly oil-based woman and then returned to her original position right in front of the gold-framed portrait.
Finally the large lady turned to her and snapped "Oh really! Are you going to stand there all day?" Kel jumped about a foot in the air, her hand immediately flying up to the wand in her hair. Quickly she realized who was talking to her, and her hand returned to fiddling with a loose thread on the side of her pants as her mouth popped open to reply.
"I will stand here as long as it takes for someone to come out." Kel, annoyed after her long wait in the cold corridor, added slightly impertinently, "Or would you like me to knock on your ladyship?"
The picture huffed for a minute, then went back to pretending not to be looking at Kel. The Hufflepuff sighed roughly and wondered if she could just pry the door open.
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