Sept. 9th: The Roof is (not) on Fire

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:10 pm

((open thread))

It was late in the night, nearly midnight, and Murphy was on the roof. She had a stick of chalk in one hand and was dreamily drawing large, complicated circles and symbols.

Luckily, it was Britain so there was no chance it would start raining.

by **Vertie Easley** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:25 pm

There was the soft sound the roof access door opening and closing behind Jean-Louise, followed by the sound of soft scraping moving towards her.

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:42 pm

Murphy was lost in her own world. With the circle finished, she dreamily walks towards the center. She sets a large bowl filled with water in front of her.

With a small pocket knife, she cuts her thumb and holds it out above the bowl. Several small drops of blood fall into the water

"Hello," Murphy calls out to Vertie. Her voice is quiet and weary. "I did not expect company tonight."

She sits cross-legged in the circle, "Would you like me to tell your fortune?"

by **Vertie Easley** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 6:33 pm

Vertie stood and brushed off her knees. "Think you can divine the location of a hedgehog named Knobby?"

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 6:44 pm

"Maybe," Murphy says. She sounds amused. "Is he lost?"

by **Vertie Easley** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 6:55 pm

"Well, I TOLD him to stay in my room and that I would let him loose after I got back form classes, But my brother came by and scared the Bejeebus out of him and now he's gone...Knobby, my hedgehog, not Gar. my brother."

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 7:07 pm

"Well. That is trouble," Murphy says. "I can try to find him. However, everything has a price. Mine is a favor."

by **Vertie Easley** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 7:21 pm

"And that would be?"

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 7:28 pm

"Deliver a letter for me," Murphy says, taking a crumpled envelope out of her pocket.

by **Vertie Easley** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 7:30 pm

"At a door or in a hand?" She asked as she walked around the outer edge of the circle.

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 7:35 pm

"Door, mailbox, or whatever you feel most comfortable with," Murphy says. "I'm not very picky, dear."

by **Vertie Easley** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 7:43 pm

Vertie's brow lifted. "One envelope delivered for one hedgehog location. Deal." She held out her hand for the envelope.

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:05 pm

Murphy holds out the envelope vaguely in Vertie's direction. It's pretty clear that the girl can't see.

"Deal," Murphy says. "Do you have something that reminds you of him?"

by **Vertie Easley** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:25 pm

Vertie thought a moment then searched her coat pockets, finding a few fallen spines. "Here." She traded the spines for the envelope and quickly tucked the paper into her pocket.

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:31 pm

"Thank you," Murphy says. "Just make sure that Hannah Murphy gets that envelope."

"Now..."

Murphy pricks her finger with one of the spines and drops it into the dish. She mutters something as it rotates and drifts gently in the water. Eventually, it comes to a stop.

"...Your friend will be found in that direction. I hope that is helpful, my sweet child."

by **Vertie Easley** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:38 pm

"It's more then I had before... thanks and umm...be nice to the girl...she seems like she's nice...'kay?" Vertie made a polite nod, she and Gar had seen odd things before and this was one of the oddest, but she moved along the roof in the direction indicated. Not finding Knobby, she would head down stairs and continue on the ground.

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:45 pm

Murphy smiles enigmatically before closing her eyes. Her body slumps over and before long she's fast asleep.

In the sky, the waxing gibbous moon watches.

by **Vivienne Chinnoir** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 9:13 pm

Vivienne had been up reading and had felt the "pull" of magic. She followed it out and to the roof of the high school dorm building where she found Jean-Louise in the circle. She looked over it a moment before she closed her eyes and extended her hand and called the water from within the bowl, pulling it to her along the ground and through the lines of the symbol. Once the water pooled onto her hand she walked into the broken circle and replaced it the sphere into the bowl and knelt to check the sleeping girl.

"Child, wake. This is no place for you." She lightly touched Jean-Louise's cheek.

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 9:15 pm

"Mrrrm?" Murphy's eyes flutter open. "Wh...I was..."

"I was having a dream."

by **Vivienne Chinnoir** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 9:22 pm

"I am Vivienne...tell me what you saw." She helped Jean-Louise stand.

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 9:30 pm

Murphy holds her head, "Nothing much. It was....there was some old lady or something."

by **Vivienne Chinnoir** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 9:33 pm

"I see. Let us get you inside. Do you often walk in your sleep?"

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 3:05 am

Murphy shakes her head, "No. Not really."

"It's weird. I can't remember what I was doing before I fell asleep..."

by **Vivienne Chinnoir** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 8:45 am

"Do not worry, rest and you shall feel better. Do you recall any other details of your dream, shapes, other women?"

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 8:51 pm

"...A wolf?" Murphy says. She still sounds quite sleepy. "Something about a wolf."

"I think someone was asking questions about my sister."

by **Vivienne Chinnoir** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:07 pm

"I see, your sister is Miss Kaltiera?" She wrapped her arm around the smaller girl.

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:11 pm

Murphy shakes her head. "No. Murphy. The tall one. I'm the smaller Murphy."

"She's a werewolf."

by **Vivienne Chinnoir** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:23 pm

"Ah, another wolf. I will go speak with her for you while you rest." She let the girl "lead" the way to her dorm room.

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:29 pm

Murphy yawns as she's lead away, "I am...pretty sleepy..."

by **Vivienne Chinnoir** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:33 pm

"That happens when one has very strange dreams." Vivienne spoke carefully, keeping the girl calm and reassuring her.

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:37 pm

"What was I doing anyway?" Murphy asks as they walk down the dorm hall.

by **Vivienne Chinnoir** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:51 pm

"When I found you, sleeping on the roof in September. Not very wise." She smiled at the younger girl.

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:06 pm

"That's weird," Murphy says. "I usually sleep in bed. Or at a desk during class. Or in a car. On a train...benches...couches...one time in the antelope pen at a zoo..."

by **Vivienne Chinnoir** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:19 pm

"A few of those seem...weird to me." She chuckled.

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:54 pm

"Where do you sleep?" Murphy asks.

by **Vivienne Chinnoir** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:59 pm

"A bed, a few times I have chosen to sleep beside a lake and up until I arrived here I have never seen a car and I still have yet to see a train or a zoo. I can not imagine they are very comfortable places to sleep."

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:48 pm

"Zoo isn't bad," Murphy says. "You should go sometime."

by **Vivienne Chinnoir** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 7:41 am

"Perhaps, one day. I assume, since you mentioned an antelope and an enclosure, a zoo is like a menagerie."

by **Jean-Louise Murphy** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 2:10 pm

"Sort of," Murphy says. "They're a little more modern than that though."

by **Vivienne Chinnoir** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 2:31 pm

"Of course." She smiled. "Now off to bed, no more zoos and strange dream crones for tonight."

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