Reflections of a Lost Time Chapter 10
So here I am again. This is mostly a transport to the following chapters. But I won't upload until I get at least four reviews and some points so I can improve my writing.
Elphaba left the girl in her room and went up the stairs to her tower. The tower looked as usual with her desk against the eastern wall, the only one without a window or a door. Of course there were books everywhere, on the bookshelves, lying on chairs and in piles on the floor, also there was her coat rack, where she always hung her cape and hat.
She was here to start to form the spell to remove the girl's memories of Kiamo Ko, the problem was she didn't know how to do it. So she went to the bookshelves and started scouting for books, which could help her. She found two and so she sat down by her desk where the Grimmere was lying open. She took a pen from the holder and some parchment from one of the drawers. She flipped the first book open and started to read. She was a very fast reader and so she soon found a chapter that sounded interesting: Spells and Hexes for mind tricks and brainwashing. That could help, Elphaba thought and threw herself into reading. Soon her hand was flying over the parchment while she scribbled down rules, limitations, spells and guidelines. Then she switched to the second book and soon she scribbled again.
She looked at the clock that hung on the wall and saw that it was already half past one. So she took the books and put them back in the shelves and went downstairs to help Fiyero set the table. When she got to the kitchen she found Fiyero cooking and her oldest daughter sitting at the table reading. Elphaba went and sat down next to Galinda. When she saw her mother, Galinda looked up from her book.
"What are you reading?" Elphaba asked.
"Animals: a Study," her daughter responded.
"So, what do you think?" Elphaba asked interested.
"I think the person who wrote this should be sent to a mental asylum," She answered fiercely.
"I couldn't agree more," Elphaba said.
"Just look at the way he compares them to animal, I mean they are two different things and then he talks about how he doesn't like all the rights they have, as if they had any."
"Yes, I am very glad you fell that way, but can you put down the book for a second and help me set the table?" Elphaba asked.
"Sure". They rose and went over to the cupboards and took out plates, knives, forks and glasses. They sat them out on the table and then they helped Fiyero get the food in the table. Just as they were finished Aelphaba came down the stairs and soon after Nessarose came too. Elphaba and Fiyero sat down on one side and the three girls on the other. They ate under silence until Nessarose started telling the story on how her friend Oswald, he is a turtle and his problems in trying to get to the lake. Elphaba and Fiyero listened to her story, but both Galinda and Aelphaba were lost in their own thoughts. After the dinner Nessarose and Fiyero cleaned up, Aelphaba went to her room and Elphaba asked Galinda to help her clean up the western library. They went up the stairs and into the very large library. The shelves were full with books. There were sorcery books, novels, medicine books, adventure books, and history books. The annoying part was that there wasn't an understandable categorizing. They sat down at the table that was placed in the centre of the room
"What if we take all the books in one subject and pick them out and organize them and then we do the same with the other subjects?" Galinda suggested.
"That could work," her mother said.
"Do you have a better suggestion?" Galinda asked teasingly. Elphaba smiled at her daughter.
"Yes, I do actually," she said. "We use magic. We just have to decide which system to use first."
"Alphabetical order," Galinda said.
"In subject, in alphabetical order," Elphaba continued.
"Author's last name," they said at the same time and laughed. Elphaba rose and started chanting. The books flew out from their places in the shelves and landed in piles, only to continue to fly into new place in the shelves. When she was finished Elphaba looked around the room, satisfied with her job.
"Thank you," she said to her daughter.
"I didn't do much," Galinda responded. Elphaba hugged her.
"You did more than enough." Elphaba said. "Should we look for our guest?"
"Why not," Galinda said and they went to find Aelphaba.
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