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Post by Oracle on Apr 3, 2012 17:42:44 GMT -8
The guy looked back to her and gave her a weak smile. "Th--thanks." he was still nervous about the encounter. "I'm just hoping I pass. Thanks for letting me out Miss." he gave her a small wave and walked out of the building.
He shuffled a bit with his backpack over his shoulder and headed around the outside of the building. Inside? He was annoyed. He was going to have to get back into the building and get that book. Maybe if he just waited a bit longer and tried again later....
Hearing Dinah's question she grinned weakly. "Uh... yeah.. actually.. Only, it was the University's Library... I was in the basement going through some old newspapers for.. something. I wasn't stuck for long though. Luckily, I knew the librarian so once she found out I was there she came back for me. Kind of a funny story after the fact. I was kind of scared at first..."
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Post by Black Canary on Apr 3, 2012 21:44:15 GMT -8
"that really doesn't surprise me" she laughed. "what could you possibly be afraid of in a library? the books coming alive?"
she continued to flip through the pages. "I don't think I have ever gotten myself locked in somewhere for the night, been locked out plenty of times. Got myself locked out on the roof of my High school gym once, the dumb ass football player I was making out with knocked the prop out of the door. we were up there for quite some time until we were able to get someones attention on the ground. I argued that it was safety issue that the doors didn't open from the outside, they gave me detention"
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Post by Oracle on Apr 3, 2012 21:56:46 GMT -8
Barbara could feel her cheeks flushing just slightly at the thought. "It... was dark in there. And I didn't have Woobie." she explained, referencing her beloved white teddy bear she seemed to have had for ever. "Even if wanted to fall asleep there on one of their couches, I was still afraid.. You know how it is when you're younger..."
She went back to imaging the book as Dinah flipped through the pages. She chuckled at the thought. "Mmmm yeah.. That definitely sounds like school administration. Never seem to open their eyes to their school's hazards... or kids that need a little extra attention. It's a shame that so many fall through the cracks..."
She paused a moment. "Was the football player cute...?"
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Post by Black Canary on Apr 3, 2012 22:24:36 GMT -8
"of course....I definetly didn't date him for his intelligence, he was like talking to a caveman but his body....now that was a work of art and he was the hottest guy in school....I bet he is fat, bald and broke now..." Dinah flipped to the last page.
"finally....am I done now?"
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Post by Oracle on Apr 3, 2012 22:32:30 GMT -8
"Not many of the good looking ones in high school stay that way." she mused. "Seems like the geeks always got the upper hand later on in life."
Barbara's fingers quickly went to work rendering her new bound digital book. "You may depart." she told her after a moment.
"Thanks for flipping through the book. The pages are aready coming in handy. I've went ahead and turned it into a scriptable format so any search I run on it--" Her fingers were already quickly typing up a series set of strings. "--and we can automatically find what we're looking for."
Barbara ran a few different searches and stopped when she came to a page that appeared questionable. "I think--" Her jaw dropped when she happened to find a page with a small drawing of what looked like a medieval knight wielding a jewel encrusted sword on a horse. ".....I don't believe it..."
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Post by Black Canary on Apr 3, 2012 22:38:06 GMT -8
Dinah stood up and stretched a little as she walked over to the window. "yes well some of us were lucky to make it out with our good looks, others lucky enough to grow into them" She checked herself out slightly in the reflection of the glass.
"finally I am free, I don't think I spent this much time in the library when I was in school, kind of gives me the creeps...I take back what i said about being afraid in a place like this.
Just as Dinah was about to depart she heard Barbara's surprised voice. "what is it?"
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Post by Oracle on Apr 4, 2012 18:42:15 GMT -8
"Growing into your looks... Sounds exactly what happened to me. I was never really blessed like all the other girls in highschool. Curves didn't start coming in for me until after the fact." she said, her eyes scanning her monitor.
"Heh... Don't tell me that you're now afraid of books coming out to attack you?" she mused.
"It's the sword..." Her eyes quickly scanned the text to read what was written below. "It says that the sword was rumored to have unfathomable power. Cursed by the dark dark witches of the day..." Barbara allowed her sentence to linger as her eyes hung over one choice set of words "Unfathomable power.. that's... not good..." she whispered more to herself, than to Dinah.
"The sword has been given multiple names throughout the century.. but most notably called 'The King's Conquest.'"
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Post by Black Canary on Apr 5, 2012 19:13:25 GMT -8
"yeah only you would be excited over something like that...it sounds like something out of a fairy tale or knights of the round table.....are you sure its not Excalibur? " Dinah chuckled slightly as she left the library making a pit stop for some sugary goodness and caffeine before heading back into the tower.
"where is my monster sundae I was promised?"
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Post by Oracle on Apr 5, 2012 19:29:36 GMT -8
"It really does seem like something right out of a fairy tale. Kind of... awesome, really. I mean, at least from all of the writings here on sword." Her fingers lightly glazed over her monitors as her eyes settled on the image before looking back to the drawing she had done earlier. "I can't believe how accurate I doodled that image either. It's... so weird.
"But I'm pretty sure it's not Excalibur. The look is all wrong."
Upon Dinah's return, she blinked, her eyes turning back to her. "Sundae....?" She totally forgot. She DID promise Dinah a sundae upon her return, didn't she? "OH! right--!" Leaving her station momentarily, she reached into the freezer to pull out the gallon of ice cream. As she started scooping out the ice cream, she lapsed into thought. "You know... there's an exhibit that just opened up at the museum that pertains to the particular era that our dream sword came from. Maybe we'll be able to get a few more clues..."
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Post by Black Canary on Apr 5, 2012 19:35:35 GMT -8
"so first you made me break into a library and now you want me to break into a museum? I must say this is falling into the lame missions category" Dinah leaned against the the sink while Barbara made her sundae.
"I also made a stop and stocked up on some more sugar and caffeine. Just in case....but can this guy really know when we are asleep? you don't think it was just chance he caught us with our guards down?
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Post by Oracle on Apr 5, 2012 19:44:16 GMT -8
"Museas are fun--!" Barbara responded, almost a little too quickly. She thought about it. "Uh.... okay nevermind..." She attempted to pour on the caramel and chocolate sauce over the sundae and pulled out a small jaw of nuts to allow her to top it off with how much she wanted and slide it to her on the counter. "I would have topped it with a cherry but Helena ate them all..."
She smirked. "Well.. maybe not immediately... I know it's been a long night but we've got to try to get some sleep so our bodies will be... more apt to focus."
Seeing the sugar, she shrugged in thought. "I... didn't read anything in regards to that. I'm not really sure what this guy 'sees.' All I really know is that he knows who WE are. Which part of us-- I'm not sure-- but he knows something. And I'm half beginning to wonder if we might be able to get more information about this guy through our dreams. There's a good chance that he may have caught us with our back's turned... or by sheer luck. Or... not. It's hard to say..."
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Post by Black Canary on Apr 5, 2012 20:20:21 GMT -8
"why does she always do that? she always comes over and eats all of the good stuff and never replenishes it for the rest of us, what does she think the stuff just appears?" Dinah shook her head and made the final touches on her sundae before she indulged.
"well I know I won't be able to stay up to much longer even with this, so hopefully we can get a little more sleep before he decides to attack us again."
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Post by Oracle on Apr 5, 2012 20:28:45 GMT -8
"Well.... to her defense, she does bring in a lot of... other things from time to time. Donuts... the coffee. She's pretty good for bringing that kind of stuff." Barbara really knew what Dinah meant, and she did have a point. "Though our cherries haven't been getting used as of late. I guess she finished she'd polish off the jar."
Barbara rubbed her cheek, thinking about it. "Well... what we could do... in the event something goes wrong while sleeping I can wake up up just before you'd reach REM sleep.... More or less... just... take a cat nap and... perhaps we won't have any more incidents like we had before. With your back... and my shoulder."
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Post by Black Canary on Apr 5, 2012 20:31:57 GMT -8
"I guess that might work if we take turns, I would assume we would show some signs of struggle if we are in battle with him, enough for the other to know when to wake them up I hope..." she posed as she ate her sundae.
"do you want some?" she offered the bowl to Barbara
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Post by Oracle on Apr 5, 2012 20:37:42 GMT -8
"That's exactly my line of thinking... Just as long as we're within a reasonable distance from each other while the other sleeps, I think we'll be in good standing. We'll do two cycles and then switch... I think would be best. And then come morning... well... I'll have you go on a bit of a field trip."
Barbara's green eyes eyed her sundae for a moment. Oooh how the thought of ice cream sounded so grand. ".....maybe just a little bite." she smirked.
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