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[yay_heiress]

[London is thumbing through the fancy-looking leather-bound journal that she'd found with her name on it. It's quiet enough as she examines the pages. She'd figured that since the book had her name on it, it must obviously be about her! But for some reason, the intrigue of the journal kept her, even after nothing seemed to make sense.]

This book has nothing to do with me...

[She pauses on a page, covered in particularly interesting handwriting.]

Aaah!

[Perhaps the sound of frantically fluttering pages can be heard; she's tossed the journal into the air and watched it fall to the ground with a papery thud.]

Book?... Did you say something?

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dictated (i'm so sorry in advance)

[bow_of_the_galadhrim]

[Oh. Ooooh. London, no. You're going to make this too easy. He holds his own journal closed, getting all his laughter out before he opens it again to a fresh page.]

Hello, I am the spirit of the book. Did you need something?

dictated (Do not apologize!)

[yay_heiress]

Spirit of the book?

[She creeps to where the book landed, face down with pages spread on the floor. Cautiously, she picks it up.]

Um... Oh, wise book spirit! Please tell me what the name of this hotel is!

dictated

[bow_of_the_galadhrim]

[What is a hotel?]

You are in Cair Paradisa now, far away and in another time from what you know.

dictated

[yay_heiress]

So, daddy didn't redecorate the Tipton for me? Lame.

Ooh, maybe he's saving it for my birthday!

dictated

[bow_of_the_galadhrim]

Perhaps but while you are here you will not know. Like others before you, you may spend quite some time in the castle.

dictated

[yay_heiress]

A castle? That's even better than a hotel! I could get used to that. Heehee!

Hey, book spirit, can you tell me where my friends are? They're a little uncultured, but I think they'd love it here!

dictated

[bow_of_the_galadhrim]

More likely than not, they remain home and untouched by Paradisa. But if they are here, they will find you.

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[peacockherald]

_{[ He knows that voice. He's had quite a few long conversations with it, in fact. He had come to like it, even if some of the things said were... odd. ]}

London? You've returned?

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[yay_heiress]

Ahh! It knows my name!

Wait... returned? I've never been here before! At least I don't think I have. Am I dreaming, book?

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[peacockherald]

_{[ For a moment he feels a pain of sadness. He had liked London and her innocence, and it hurt that she did not remember, even though it was not her fault in the least. ]}

Ah, I see... well, I am not a book, I am a person talking to you through the book. It is how these books work. My name is Vanyel.

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[yay_heiress]

So it's a cell phone disguised as a book? Of all the low-down dirty tricks! Books will do anything to get you to read them these days, won't they?

Vanyel. Like Daniel with a V? That's a weird name.

Re: audio;

[peacockherald]

Perhaps, but it is the name I was given. You shall have to argue with my parents on it's strangeness.

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[yay_heiress]

It's not that strange. At least it rhymes with something!

[both_neither]

You sure showed up at a strange time.

[On the other end of the journal is a growl and a slight hiss]

Whoa!

[yay_heiress]

I did? Why? What's going on?

[She pauses after the sound of the growl.]

Y-you're not a monster, are you?

[both_neither]

Not at all. But I do have a little one following me around. Thus the part about it being an interesting week...

[yay_heiress]

A little monster? You mean like a pet?
I didn't know there was such thing as pet monsters! Is it cute? I want one!

[both_neither]

Well, it's a baby, so maybe it is a little, except for the teeth...and the claws...and the stinger.

[There's another tiny growling noise]

No...down boy...off the table...

[yay_heiress]

S-stinger?

[dictated]

[rapscalliongirl]

I didn't.

[dictated]

[yay_heiress]

Oh! I didn't hear a voice like yours before. Were you always inside my book?

[dictated]

[rapscalliongirl]

Really? Yeah, I'm pretty new, so I suppose not.

[dictated]

[yay_heiress]

I'm new, too!
Is it me, or did you totally fall for the whole book-written-about-you thing, too?

[dictated]

[rapscalliongirl]

Yeah? I can tell.

[ wait what? ] What do you mean with that?

[dictated]

[yay_heiress]

Everyone here has a book with their name on it, right? Normally the name on a book is what the book's about. But not this time!