Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Mon Dec 01, 2014 12:31 pm**

After classes, Miranda had decided to spend some time in the library. Not having anything specific to look for, she'd talked the librarian into letting her take the full book cart and reshelve books to pass the time. So now she was pushing the cart up and down the aisles, replacing books in their proper places.

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Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:27 pm**

Veronica was on her weekly trip to the library. This time, her target seemed to be fiction section for some light reading. Her brain was on textbook overload, and she needed a nice getaway. As she turned the corner, she noticed Miranda and walked up with a smile. "I belief I haf seen you before around campus, non? Zee orientation, I sink."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:30 pm**

"I was around then, yes," Miranda said. "My name's Miranda. Can I help you?"

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:37 pm**

"Veronica. Oh, non, I sink I know where zee book are I seek are located. I just have not zee chance to meet every just yet, so I wanted to say hello when I saw you."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:39 pm**

"Oh." She seemed a little surprised, "That's very nice of you. You're... French?"

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:46 pm**

She laughs. "You caught me. Eet is painfully obvious, unfortunately. Nice was my hometown. And yourself?"

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:48 pm**

"Um... nowhere really. I guess Maldon is as close to a hometown as I have."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:52 pm**

She is a bit confused about Miranda's answer, but doesn't press into it. "So you volunteer your time at zee library here?"

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:54 pm**

"Well, I really didn't have anything else to do this afternoon and its a penance of sorts. I'm attending the Institute as well."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:06 pm**

"Penance? I do not see how spending time in a quiet and relaxing environment could be considered a place for penance, but zat is just me."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:08 pm**

"It is nice and quiet, but I'm also just shelving books," she pointed out. "So there's work involved."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:28 pm**

"Zis is true." She looks at the cart. "And quite a number off zem. Would you like some aid?"

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:40 pm**

"If you want. I'm not one to turn down help." She pulled another book off the stack and looked for its place on the shelf. Then she reached behind her and pushed a book that had been about to fall back onto the shelf.

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:16 pm**

She smiles to herself and begins to help put away some of the books. "I am sure you haf been asked zis before, so I apologize if eet is a repeat, but you are able to see?"

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:19 pm**

"Yes, clairvoyance, which is good since my eyes apparently didn't work," she said. "Most likely a combination of my Mom's powers with my Mum's powers."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:34 pm**

"Clairvoyance, a gift wis bos positives and negatives." She remarks. "You haf my respect"

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:35 pm**

"Somewhat more useful than my precognition, but you have to take the good with the bad."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:39 pm**

She nods. "Nosing can be so easy."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:45 pm**

"Nothing worthwhile, that's for certain. So what do you do? If it's not rude to ask."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:46 pm**

"Not rude at all. Eet is called psychometry. It also extends to people as well, unfortunately."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:54 pm**

"That must be difficult."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:03 pm**

Veronica pauses, thinking about it. "More difficult zen many would realize. Mais, as you stated, you haf to take zee good wis zee bad."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:06 pm**

"So is it always on like most telepathy or do you have to do something special to access it?"

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:13 pm**

"Wis items, it is a simple matter off concentrating on it. Feeling zee energies zat surround eet and zee residual auras zat haf manifested into strong memories. Wis people, eet is always on as far as I am aware. Zere is no way for me to know as off yet if a simple hug will cause an intrusion on memory, or how to focus eet. As off right now, eet is uncontrollable and always on."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:23 pm**

"Ouch. That stinks. Just a warning then, probably not wise to touch me. Some of my memories are... painful."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:26 pm**

"To be fair, eet is only through skin contact, but zat can happen easily. Accidental brushes and zee like. Eet's happened before. And...I am sorry you haf had to go through such painful memories. I promise you I would never intrude on such unless you deemed eet necessary. I do not like zee idea off seeing sings zey would raser keep to zemselves."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:36 pm**

"Oh, I didn't think you would intentionally intrude. I just wanted to warn you to be careful. I'd hate to have someone inadvertently hit one of my memories."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:54 pm**

She smiles softly. "I will be careful. Sank you for zee warning. Again, eet is a shame you haf had to go through such sings."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:58 pm**

"Thank you. We don't get to choose where we come from. And I'm learning and relearning that it's what with do with the now that matters."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:01 pm**

"Very well said, Miranda. You are very wise."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:04 pm**

"I don't know if I'd go that far," she said with a chuckle and a shake of her head. "If I was I wouldn't have to keep relearning it."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:13 pm**

She shakes her head. "Relearning is part off zee process. Once you get eet right, zen you are able to move on to more sings. Zee fact you haf recognized you must relearn eet is wise in eetself."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:23 pm**

Miranda decided to just take the compliment. No sense in cementing her insanity. "So what sort of things have you learned with your ability?"

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:29 pm**

"Lots off history. Some good, some bad. I haf seen some off zee most beautiful sings, and some off zee most dreadful. A seashell on zee shore can show the beauty of an engagement between two lovers, and zee walls off zee Catacombs in Paris can be...much less appealing."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:43 pm**

"I would imagine the Astral around the catacombs is unpleasant."

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:50 pm**

Veronica tilts her head. Apparently she doesn't know much about that, and it likely shows. Considering how sheltered she was, it makes sense. "Astral?"

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:55 pm**

"Sorry, I forget that I have a leg up on this stuff with my Mum. The Astral. It's kind of like an 'otherspace' and all minds are sort of connected to it on some level, telepaths more than others. It tends to carry hopes, dreams, has its own entities and in some cases it sort of takes on the cast of an area it's 'near'. So I would imagine the catacombs has some nasty entities and influences hanging around it."

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 12:00 am**

Veronica listens closely, genuinely interested in it all. After Miranda explains, she nods. "Indeed, eet sounds like zee catacombs would be a horrible place indeed. I remember seeing zee result off some off zee missing children reported for many years."

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 12:05 am**

"Good and bad leave stains on it, so there are good places too. The Astral here is kind of a mixed bag and can be hard to navigate since there's so much going on here."

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 12:27 am**

"I would imagine so. Are you able to see eet?"

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