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Excerpt
from: Journey to the End
“Welcome
traveler. If you go to the front desk, we’ll get you settled for the night.”
“Thanks.”
“Welcome,
Elenia. The City has sent the relevant information ahead by radio as is usual,”
the assistant said as he gave her a piece of paper. “Just sign here.”
“There’s
obviously more people here than just the City,” Elenia commented as she signed.
“I’m
sure you know that not everyone returns from their Journey.”
“It’s
not possible to not know that.”
“You
will see when you come down to the Common Room that there is a lot to the world
that the City doesn’t teach you. That most of Humanity is outside of it.”
Excerpt
from: The Engineer and the Time Lady
She approached the building, to see Betty Brant coming
the other way.
“Good
Morning!” Betty said.
“Morning,”
Nina said.
“Just
so you know, Jameson is going to be insufferable.”
“I
know.”
Excerpt
from: The Heroic Seniors
“Why didn’t you beat him up?” Jim asked.
“I'm not gonna beat up a guy just because he's using too
much power,” Kim responded.
“Ah, you could've kicked him!” Tim added.
“I left him some pamphlets,” Kim said.
“Well, all you kids could stand to turn off a few lights,”
her father said.
Her mother then came with dinner.
Kim excused herself from the dinner and went to call Ron.
“Hey, hey, you've reached the home of Ron Stoppable
and fierce new haircut! Leave a message.”
“How can Ron not be home? Ok, better page him.”
Kim entered the dining room disappointed.
“You and Ronald all squared away?” her father asked.
“Not. I can't even reach him. Dad, did you ever try to
change a friend, to make them better?”
“Yes…”
Excerpt
from: Mysteries of Aurora
By the time she reached Janus
Hadrian Hall, the brighter stars that could outshine Urbs Aeterna’s light
pollution had started coming out. She looked up, appreciative, as the AAUA
campus had less extraneous light than her home suburb. ‘Prettier,’ she thought.
She entered the room to find
Janara playing a different game than in the morning. “Have you been playing all
day?” she asked.
“I have been elsewhere,” Janara
answered.
“Like lunch?”
“Not just lunch.”
“That’s good,” Olivia said.
“How did today go for you?”
“It’s still just scratching the
surface, but I did catch up with someone at the Pool.”
After dinner, Freya decided that
she would watch that movie in the Main Common Room. ‘At least I’ll see what the
fuss is about.’
Dana saw Freya come in. “Cool,
Freya, they’re about to put it on.”
“Cool!”
“You had a good day?”
“Yes. I got plenty of sketching
done, and talked to a few people,” Freya answered.
“Looks like you had fun.”
“Yes. I feel like I’m ready for
what is ahead, including what I might find out about those Renaissance artists.”
Monday, September 9, 2024
After a couple of classes,
Olivia Marcus was back in the Nordic Section of the Main Library. She had taken
a break over Sunday, talking with Olivia as she gamed and listening to various
audiobooks. She was into a book on the situation in Urbs Aeterna in the decades
leading up to the Capture when she heard something in the distance.
“What was that?” She looked
around and saw a couple of people arguing near one of the doorways between the
Nordic Section and the Ancient Section.
“Something’s happening,” she
murmured.
Excerpt
from: Spider Quinn
Daria
waited while eating as Brittany read through the script.
“This
is great! It doesn’t impact the play much at all,” Brittany said.
“Exactly.
I wanted the experience of this weeks performances to be as close as possible to
last weeks.”
“I
will do my best.”
“I
know you will.”
Jane
arrived at the Historia after parking the Plymouth down the street. She put the
thoughts about the news of a robotic pterodactyl out of her mind as she entered
the café. She saw Daria and Brittany eating at a table. “Yo!” she said as she
came up to them.
“Hi,
Jane!” Brittany said.
“I
see that you’re still recovering, from whatever it was SpiderGirl rescued you
from,” Jane said as she said.
“I
was running and I slipped,” Brittany said matter-of-factly.
“In
any case, the play goes ahead, just with Ariel not moving as much,” Daria
explained.
“Very
true,” Jane said.
“I
will be back to my normal self soon,” Brittany said with determination.
At
the Griffin’s, Sandi had finished writing down her thoughts about the robot pterodactyl
when her mother called her down to dinner. “Coming.”
When
she entered the dining room, her brothers were talking about what happened at
the Mall. ‘I guess I’m going to keep hearing about it,’ she thought.
“If
I had a robot pterodactyl, I wouldn’t use it in a crowded mall,” Chris said.
“I would
have a robot T-rex,” Sam interjected.
“But
a T-rex doesn’t fly,” Chris said.
Sandi
rolled her eyes as she sat down next to her mother.
“Did
you find anything?” her mother asked.
“No.
I wasn’t anywhere near there.”
“Just
Ninja Talon and Dafoanairi, wasn’t it?” her mother asked, with emphasis on the
latter name.
“Yes,”
Sandi answered. ‘Has Mother figured out that Daria’s Dafoanairi?’ she wondered.
But dinner time wasn’t the time to clarify.
“It
is something that we need to keep an eye on,” her mother added.
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