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the raven cycle: adam parrish

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OK so... I've gooed pretty much everything that looks suspicious in this creeptastic little resort - which probably makes sense to no one - but! We're all still here so obviously I'm a little out of my depth.

[ major shruggage, usa, population: claudia. still, undaunted! ]

If you see anything kind of uh, out of place? Which I get is kind of -- everything. But you know the old saying if you see something say something? A funky necklace, or maybe an old Glockenspiel, you know: weird stuff. It would be cool if I could take a look at it.

Oh-- Claudia. Is me. Hey hey, yo! [ insert eyebrow waggle. ]

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[Well, that was not a speech that Cassandra was expecting but the video feed made her more excited than she should have been, nearly fluttering up and out of her sneakers as she responded.]

So you're looking for items like haunted houses, and cursed fairytale books and things like that? I mean, you said suspicious and creepy and you put those together and you can so get Ariadne's ball of yarn and...

[And she suddenly realized that with that door, who knew the time and place people came from. This girl could be a Librarian.]

Also, hi! I'm Cassandra and, uhmm, odd question but funky necklaces and stuff. Did you search for those back home?

Ariadne's ball of yarn is right up this alley, yes! [ wavewave! ] And for real? Is there a haunted house here that I somehow have missed this whole time? Because if so I'm majorly losing my edge.

I don't think it's here, the ball... or the haunted house, but I've encountered them both. I don't think you want a haunted house here, though this one was less a haunted house and more a poisoned house.

[She paused, considering.]

What did you mean by goo?

It's just something that helps when the artif-- the uh, wonky items start getting spunky. We'd need like, goo proton packs for a poison house. [ which she is totally not already thinking about how to build, nope. not at all! ]

Well, for the house, we actually found out that it was a hospitality house and got rid of the toxic entity that had taken over.

[She paused, considering her next question carefully.]

Do you do this sort of work for a Librarian?

Gooed? [Hayley's eyebrows rise slightly, curious as to what purpose putting goo on something serves. Assuming that's what 'gooed' in this context means.] And how weird is not weird enough to mention? Maybe a scale of Not Weird Enough to Weird Enough.

Uhh-- well, kinda. We don't really work in a library, it's more of an attic.

[ ok just the smallest of cringes-- america's attic is more artie's thing. ]

It's definitely not quiet or chill enough to count as a library, I can tell you that. Is that what you do? File books by day, fight crazy houses by night?

My desperation is a little high. I'll try pretty much anything at this point. [ also why she's making the bad choice of broadcasting her skillset, yep. ] Normally they actively do stuff and you can see a pattern but I am currently batting a thousand on that front.

Why? You got something hinky?

Kind of yeah. Pretty much what I do, with less book filing. They kind of tend to do that themselves.

[Or so she assumed since they kept moving, like Eve's desk.]

And you keep the attic neat and then go out putting goo on things that shouldn't go bump in the night?

I know how annoying trying to figure something out can be. Especially one where you keep hitting dead end after dead end. [see: her long search to find out who her biological family was ... only to find that they'd almost all been killed in pack infighting when she was a baby.]

Nothing specific at the moment, but where I'm from there are a lot of hinky things. And people. [and the award for Understatement Of The Century goes to...] Like magical objects, stuff like that. So, my own scale for Not Weird Enough to Weird Enough might have ran a bit off to what you'd be looking for, but in that case - the first sight of something specifically hinky, I'll let you know about it.

[Hayley's eyes glance off camera for a moment as there's a sound of a shriek of laughter in the background followed by the sound of a small tower of blocks falling over; that would be her nearly eleven month old daughter playing with building blocks on the floor a few short feet away. Her eyes glance back to the video feed.] Oh, right, and I'm Hayley. [she might as well introduce herself in return since Claudia gave her name in the original message.]

[ Well. After that video, this confused face shows up on Claudia's video screen. ] Hi. Adam Parrish. Is me. [ Best intro ever. ]

Uhm... [ We'll get past the intro. Adam is the curious sort. And that's why he couldn't let Claudia's video go by without responding. He's good at quests. And if there's something specific she's looking for... well... ] So what exactly are you looking for?

Exactly! I'm not really supposed to talk about it, but I'm not sure how secretive I really need to be with pocket dimensions or ... whatever the cool kids classify this place as.

[ claudia can't help but smile. it's really nice to find a kindred spirit here. ]

Man, if the artifacts filed themselves life would be so much sweeter. Please tell me you trained your books and can share the secret with me?

Dead ends are definitely the annoying part. I'm banking on that whole "two pairs of eyes are better than one" thing, only y'know. However many pairs of eyes are here with us...

[ shrug. who knows the true depth of itinere? ]

But it is pretty groovy to have people that just kind of accept the weird. Normally I'm actively trying to hide and explain the unexplainable. Now you're saying you've got too high a tolerance for it? I'll never complain about my job again, I swear. [ lolz. ]

[ hey it's a pretty good face, confusion and all. ]

Adam, what's up? [ wavewave, as if you've been friends forever! ] Uhh-- well. Could be anything, could look totally normal. Like one time I accidentally grabbed Elvis Presley's hip bone and let's just say that Shakira and her honest hips had nothing on me. [ yeah cause hip bones. totally normal, claud. ]

Or-- oh! Wyatt Earp's badge. Makes you go all gung ho on the crime fighting, classic western style.

That's a pretty specific sorta 'everything' there. What're you plannin' on doin' with it?

Yeah, I'm kind of casting a crazy-wide net. [ heh. oops? ] I'll just see if it reacts to the goo and then go from there, really. I mean, unless the existence of a whole other universe actively threatens the existence of other ones.

I keep thinking alternative dimension, though to what world is the question. As for secrets, I wonder how much we can learn about returning, for those that can't, if we don't at least share a little.

[Especially since Cassie was one of the ones yet to find her doorway back to the Library where she had started.]

I didn't, no. The first Librarian did, I think. They're keyed to the Librarian. Which is why when our Guardian moves things, they move back. It's cute watching her rave about it.

As for the things we find, we file them. Well, he does. The head Librarian. We just kind of help fix things.

Usually doesn't, you know. 'Less someone goes and mucks 'round with things.

[ She's got one of those pointed sort of looks on her face and she might sound a bit like the Doctor there.]

Hopefully enough pairs to accomplish something -- that many sounds about right. [yeah, who knows?]

I haven't really taken a poll to see who here accepts the weird? At least two of us. But yeah I lived with it. Witches, werewolves, vampires, doppelgangers -- so, as you can tell from that, where I'm from is full of the weird and sometimes unexplainable. Or at least what most people would call so. [says the werewolf-vampire hybrid.] And hey, complain as much as you want about your job; I'm not judging.

Whoa, wait. You have a Guardian too? [ she can't help it. claudia needs to know more. ] Do they protect your Library?

[ please excuse claudia's momentary stunned silence. ]

Sorry-- you just actually threw a whole different kind of weird at me, and I'm suddenly feeling super noob-ish. Wait, are there witches and doppelgangers here? Do I need to start carrying garlic at night?

[ mostly she's kidding. ...mostly. ]

Yeah, you're telling me. Once this guy-- [ oh. oh. ] Hey! Hey, don't get all judgy on me! Your scowl is of the utmost unnecessary. I'm a total professional.

Look at this face. Super experienced! [ she will give her best (and probably still not convincing) serious face ever. such serious. very trust. wow! ]

[ He's pretty sure she's talking in riddles. But... ] Well I have a garage. I run.. I run the garage in town. A mechanics shop.

[ He looks like he might stop there, and he almost does except he realizes that that little information tells her nothing. ] I mean there's a lot of stuff there I've collected. Stuff that was there when I got it. Junk, mostly. But... if you wanna go through it...

We do. [Now she was really beginning to wonder if the door here was more than places but time as well. Could this be the Library under another name? Or another one?]

She more protects the Librarian. They tend to... rush in where angels fear to tread. All of us.

[ have a somewhat unsure, yet still friendly enough, wave. ]

Hello Claudia! I'm Jan-Di.

[ a pause, a purse of her lips. ]

Can I ask... What's gooed?

So your kind of weird isn't exactly things that go along with magical objects? [there are way too many categories of weird objects.]

If any from the same place I'm from are here, I sure don't know about it. Which is probably for the best -- one too many bad run-ins with witches there. The garlic wouldn't do much for the vampires, but a regular wooden stake would. For most of them. [except hybrids and original vampires, but ... details. plus, it's not like she'd be giving any information about how to kill her specific species. that would be dumb.]

[ Sorry, Claudia. She learned the judgy from the Doctor. In fact, the face she's making right now is the face he makes when he's judgy. ]

Yeah? What sort of experience? [ so not trusting this. Blame the Doctor. Always blame the Doctor. There's a good chance he deserves it. ]

Like your own personal bodyguard. [ color claudia impressed. also envious! ] That is sick!

[ rapt with attention. that is how you could describe claudia right now. ]

I mean, I don't want to hurt anybody -- unless they're gonna hurt me. The whole blood-sucking thing is legit, then? Cause my version of magic isn't really like this. Consider this my Vampires 101 course.

Crap, hang on. I gotta take notes...

Really!? That would rock. Like, I will owe you.

[ claudia doesn't really do hard to get, if you didn't notice? ]

When can I stop by?

Well, I mean it's kind of classified. Trust me, I know what I'm doing. [ stop making that face she will do anything to turn that frown upside down. oh god she's digging herself in further isn't she... ] Who are you, anyway? I mean, do you have experience with the weird?

Hey Jan-Di, how's it going? Gooed is like ... well it's literally me dipping stuff in purple goo.

[ super scientific explanation there, claud. well done. ]

To see if it reacts.

[ not better! ]

[ Her enthusiasm surprises him. It surprises him enough to just stare into the screen of his phone for a moment. Usually he's the only one excited about the prospect of junk. And Adam's brand of excitement is never that visible. It's just something he feels on the inside.

But finally, his brows lift, an impression of a smile more than an actual smile, something to show he's amused and curious. ]

I'm usually there between eight and four. So anytime between then unless something comes up. [ Usually that something is Ronan. ]

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