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<phone rings but Mary Hatch doesn't pick up and the call goes to voicemail>
Hello Mary, it's me Naked Mole Rat Lad. I guess you're busy. Anyway, I just wanted you to know I'm on a LMB mission, and I may be a little late for dinner. I'll call you as soon as I know what's going on. By the way, do you know anything about someone called Phineas B. Fuddle? Bye for now!"
-------------------- Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
From: The waters off eastern Long Island | Registered: Jul 2003
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<quite suddenly, Mary's locket begins to feel very cold; she is alarmed by it, but more intrigued than anything; at first she feels like a voice is calling to her>
Who is Lolita?
<suddenly she hears the double doors of the library slam open, rather rudely; the loudness of the slamming scares her>
Hello? Who is there? The library is now closed!
<she comes down the isle, annoyed, fixing her hair again>
I said, who is there--
<she sees the Legionnaire often in the galactic newspapers: Cobalt Kid, the general known as Cobaltus. Not a man she'd go out of her way to meet. But something about him...something excites her>
Can I help you?
From: Right by Cobie's Side | Registered: Jul 2003
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I certainly think not. Seance, did you say? Ghosts? Well, I must admit, that sounds very exciting, but I don't really know what that has to do with me.
Are you okay? You look very ill. My name is Mary. Mary Hatch. I'm the librarian.
From: Right by Cobie's Side | Registered: Jul 2003
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You look so familiar to me. But that couldn't possibly be.
<smiles, embarrassed>
Okay, so I'm not sure why I'm here. It felt so right at the time. Mary, you said? Well Mary, its been nice to meet you, but--
<and suddenly, as he gets closer, Cobalt Kid smells Mary Hatch for the first time, and it is the sweet smell of Jasmine. He's smelled it before, a thousand times. Every day for so many years. Its reliable, it makes him at ease. Its breathtaking in its beauty. And it stops him dead in his tracks>
No. No, I'm here for a reason.
Mary Hatch...
<gets even closer to her, so now their faces are almost together>
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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<magnetically pulls the books out of Mary's hands and puts them onto the shelves>
Let me help you, Mary. You...this may sound odd...you have a funny way about you.
Mary, I live quite a crazy life. I see things everyday that make no sense. Angry deities coming to life to snuff out the universe. Friends who have died and returned from the dead. People from the past and the future coming to our present time. I've come to believe that all things are possible. That when you have an instinct, you've got to trust it. Mary, do you believe in fate? That some people are destined to know one another?
<knows the question is very odd to a perfect stranger>
I feel like I know you. Don't you feel the same thing?
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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I'm sorry Cobalt, but I don't know what you're talking about. All I know about you is you are a legendary hero in the LMB. But that you're also a war-monger. That you're cold and unkind. I don't know you, and I don't want to know you.
Please...please leave.
<again the locket speaks to her, this time more clearly. It tells her not to let him leave. Mary whispers to the locket>
please stop...I don' t know any Lolita...
From: Right by Cobie's Side | Registered: Jul 2003
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Really, Cobalt, I must insist, please go...I'm rather busy. I'm perfectly happy not being involved in these strange goings-on that occur on Legion World.
<stares into his eyes and suddenly her feelings of anger and disgust seem to change for a moment. There is something warm behind those eyes, almost afraid to come out. But she ignores it, afraid of how she might feel. For that instant, as the locket continues to feel colder yet with more energy, she wonder if she does know him somehow.>
I-I'm not one of those starlets you're always seen with, and I don't approve of your politics--you're warlike ways. There is no reason you should bother me. Please!
From: Right by Cobie's Side | Registered: Jul 2003
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<Naked Mole Rat Lad continues on his way to the Library, having made an unintended stop at the Orrey>
I hope Mary doesn't mind my showing up unannounced. I wonder if she got my voicemail.
<NMR Lad burrows right under the unsuspecting feet of Everyday Girl and into the lobby of the Library>
<POP>
Mary? Mary, are you here?
<NMR Lad hears voices>
Who could be here with Mary? It's not like her to have visitors. Gosh, is that Cobaltus' voice? What's he doing in the Library? I didn't know he could read!
<NMR Lad contemplates his next move>
Maybe I should just wait this out a bit. I'm sure Yellow Kid and the others in the Terresect system won't mind if I'm gone for a while.
Jeepers! Mary doesn't sound happy.
-------------------- Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
From: The waters off eastern Long Island | Registered: Jul 2003
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Okay I'm pretty sure Cobalt Creep is in there... but who else?
Nobody, No One, scout... I want to know everyone inside the library, what they're doing, and how they're armed if at all, including any magical artifacts or devices, like a locket... GO!
Yes! We go! It's been so long... fun times are back!
-------------------- Hi! How are you? <click-click> BLAM!! BLAM!! BLAM!! BLAM!! BLAM!!
From: Here? | Registered: Oct 2003
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