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Lirael (bellslinger) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2011-02-15 09:46:00

Entry tags:

andivad, lirael

Who: Lirael and Andivad
Where: The old Goblin Kingdom
What: Confusion and madness
Warnings: Probably not. Jumping into bed with her lover's son would be awfully Jerry Springer.

At Lirael's best estimation, Jareth had been gone for several weeks. Time was always a bit different in the Goblin Kingdom, but the disorientation was intensified without a king to rule. She knew it was foolish to mope around an empty land, and that Jareth would have laughed derisively at her had he witnessed it.

Still she found herself walking the empty labyrinth, through unmoving pathways. She ran her fingers over dusty stonework. She could almost imagine the sounds of far-off creatures. She closed her eyes, remembering Jareth's scent.. The coppery tinge of free magic mixed with peaches. She knew he was gone, and the kingdom dead. Still, she couldn't help but imagine the pulsing of life.

Lirael yelped when she felt something sharp cut into her left hand. Something bit her! She opened her eyes to look and saw a fairy. She pulled her hand away, loosing Ranna from its pouch, just in case. The fairy didn't seem to chase her as she walked away, however. How strange! She'd thought the kingdom empty. Now there was a fairy, and she saw creatures up ahead, as well.

Was he back?

Lirael started to jog toward the castle, hiking her skirt up somewhat to free her movement. She knew the labyrinth reasonably well, and it should be easy for her to navigate if no one played tricks on her.

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bellslinger
2011-02-16 07:27 pm UTC (link)

Lirael smiled and took his hand, standing up. "Yes, it's certainly an unusual library," she said with a smile. She was quite happy whenever she was surrounded by books. She greeted the librarian by name as they walked in. She had needed to consult him many times when she was organizing the books.

Lirael recited a few Charter Marks and the books began to return to their proper shelves. Some flew from the floor onto the shelves, and others flew from one shelf to another. Strangely, they didn't finish. Half of the books in the piles remained on the floor. Lirael frowned, saying the spell again, but with no additional effect. She glanced questioningly to the librarian, but he simply shrugged.

"Well, it seems part of my magic has worn off, somehow." She picked up a book from a pile, running her hand over its spine. It didn't have a charter mark anymore. This would take a while to fix.

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princeofgoblins
2011-02-17 11:05 am UTC (link)

He paused while she started sorting, and watched with an almost stunned sense of fascination as books floated off to their proper shelves. "Part stayed, that's more than enough for me to be impressed. I wonder why nobody had thought to do that before," he mused aloud, before smiling and gently removing the book from her hand, setting it aside before taking her now free hand, so he could guide her into the deeper parts of the library. The vast selection of books and scrolls, as well as atlases and grimoires was three floors high if it was a yard, and when nudged in certain ways, some shelves led into secret rooms where the more sensitive information was stored.

He pushed a thin, tall shelf that stood against a wall inward a little and it popped open to reveal a door, which he had to crouch to squeeze through, before ending up in the room that held the various accounts of history and the other kingdoms. "Most of these are written in the Common Language," In other words, English, "So you should have no trouble reading them." He smiled as he slipped away from her to meander off towards a large, imposing table that was full of ancient maps and scrolls, plucking one up before sitting down in a chair that seemed to be a part of the castle itself.

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bellslinger
2011-02-18 03:12 am UTC (link)

Lirael smiled. "The magic is relatively simple. I used Charter Marks to index the books to their respective shelves," she explained as he took her hand. It was the actual indexing that had taken a great deal of time and cooperation from the librarian. It looked like she would have to rework some of it.

Her eyes brightened when she saw the secret room. She felt like a kid in a candy store. "This is.." Her voice trailed off as one of the scrolls caught her attention. She picked it up gingerly and was engrossed almost immediately. She slipped into a nook and settled on the floor, pouring over a scroll on the Elven Kingdom.

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princeofgoblins
2011-02-18 05:21 pm UTC (link)

He looked over from where he sat to her over the scroll and smiled quietly. Lirael seemed so different from any women that he'd met in the labyrinth. For one, she was actually his age, or at least close to it, which was comfortable to him. What would his father have wanted from this poor, pretty girl? He couldn't see why the king would have been attracted. Andivad was fairly certain he knew his father's tastes in mistresses and women in general by now, and she didn't exactly adhere to that. First off, her magic was far more important than the trickery of goblin magic, and he knew that Jareth was fairly egotistical about seeming like the more important and powerful one. It would have been a blow to his ego to know that Lirael was stronger.

Then again, he could have been using her. That option was there, and it somewhat sickened him. To distract himself from that consideration, Andivad sat up and went through the scrolls, before pulling out the one for the ghoul queendom and slipped out of the chair to walk to her and settle beside her, holding it up. "This is the one I was talking about." He smiled sweetly.

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bellslinger
2011-02-18 09:26 pm UTC (link)

Lirael didn't notice him move until he was right next to her. "Oh!" She looked up and smiled as she took the second scroll. "Thank you," she said, and there was heartfelt sentiment behind that. She was deeply grateful he had shown her this room. She couldn't believe Jareth had never thought to show her, and it was equally surprising that she hadn't stumbled into it on her own. Charter knew she had found her way into enough restricted areas of the old Clayr library.

"I think I have a new favorite room," she told him with a smile. The ever-expanding bathroom was not nearly as impressive as this place.

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princeofgoblins
2011-02-18 09:31 pm UTC (link)

"You're welcome, milady," said Andivad with a bow of his head, and then chuckled, shaking his head, "It's always been my favorite. All the maps and scrolls. I wish to visit all these lands one day. There's tales and history and maps from realms that five prior kings have been to, and I wish to see what my predecessors have seen before I take the throne, simply so that I can say that I could."

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