Vathek and Cedric together ahoy! Though obv Vathek is a secret goody..
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"Portal.. Wonderful.." Will leaned her cheek heavily against her fist. Apparently she was not only a criminal now, but she would be on a constant grounding for sneaking out during her last. She thought back to her last break out. "At least last time I had Caleb to keep me company!" She paused at her own words, but shook off her own surprise. He had been nice enough.. "Tolerable.."
"Blunk keep girly compy!" Will looked sceptically at the creature. He really did look like a toad.
"Company? Uh, sure.. Blunk.." Will screwed her face into a smiled, she knew it couldn't look convincing, but the passling didn't seem to notice. Suddenly a thought struck her. "Can we get those books for Caleb?"
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"Archaeology!" Taranee beamed, then turned to Caleb, "Or for you, the Greek would be Archaiologia.."
"For me it's pronounced 'boring'." Irma leant her elbows on the top of the glass display unit. Caleb snorted and even Cornelia couldn't keep the corners of her mouth from turning up. It was boring.
Hay Lin however was too busy looking at the junk in cases. "Look! It's a rock! With a picture of a snail on it!"
"It's a fossil Hay Lin. Oreektah." Taranee looked at Caleb meaningfully as if he'd know or care what that meant. Irma was right. This was boring. And Caleb generally found that he was interested in such things. In fact he had been when he'd first seen the obscure imprints, but not so much anymore..
"Enjoying tourguide Taranee?" Elyon yawned, smiling sleepily to Caleb. Apparently this trip was for him. Irma had certainly taken that to heart and now the water guardian refused to even look at him.
"Ammonites are an extinct group of marine invertebrate -water- animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. Not snails." Caleb had watched, not really hearing Taranee's oncoming drone and his mind had drifted far and wide. He thought of the rebellion and how much they were probably reveling in time without him. He thought of Aldarn and Aketon, and how he almost yearned for their simpleness. He renounced any wanting for the time he was currently spending with these girls and for once in his lives craved the life he had been living at the rebellion. He needed some sort of sanity. Someone to reprimand these children for him. From him. "These molluscs are more closely related to living coleoids, i.e. octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish than they are to shelled nautiloids such as the living Nautilus species or the-"
"Where's Will?" His features went blank, he hadn't even realized what he was saying when the question slipped out, interupting Taranee.
"FINALLY A QUESTION THAT EVEN I WANT THE ANSWER TO!" Caleb actually jumped at Irma's out burst, but none of the girls seemed to even bat an eyelid. "WHY IS THERE ALWAYS ONE OF US ESCAPING THIS 'QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE'! AND WHY IS IT NEVER ME!"
"Will's grounded."
"What?" Caleb didn't know what grounded meant, perhaps someone had taken her down in a fight. If it was bad enough that she couldn't manage to stand and not listen to this, then it must be bad..
Taranee studied him for several seconds before she answered. The look on her face made it clear she wasn't happy with his interruption and that she might have cottoned onto the fact that he hadn't been paying attention. "It means that she didn't do her homework on time again."
"Oh.." What was homework?