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The building was very old and freezing inside. The wind was still howling outside.

Anka and Joy weren't wearing coats so they were very wet by now. Today had started out with quite nice weather. But now it was horrible.

They sat in the cold, waiting for it to warm up.

"I'll go do some Hot Chocolate for us." Said Joy.

Shivering slightly, the brunette grabbed a few of the books under 'G' in the 'Magic' section of the store, and hurried back to the back rooms.

"I've no idea if any of these have anything to do with Geomancy or Geomancers, but I'm freezing, and I'd rather not spend too much time in the front rooms," she said, dumping her load on the round kitchen table.

"Anyway, the hot chocolate mix is in the cabinet right above the counter next to the stove. And yes, if you were wondering, I live here, so don't start asking me if it was really all that intelligent to break into a shop when it's closed."

Deirdre remembered, with no small amount of amusement, that the first time she'd taken Andrew to the house, he'd thought she was breaking in- a good assumption, actually, as the front door had been locked, and she hadn't been able to find the key, so she'd had to climb up the gutter and go in through her bedroom window in order to get in.

Shaking the thought of Andrew out of her head- she didn't want to get too depressed now, after everything that had happened today, the girl went upstairs, yelling behind her, "I'll be back in a second, just don't burn down the house trying to boil water."

Upon reaching her room, she swiftly changed into warmer clothing before grabbing a few sweaters and pairs of thick, flannel pants and heading back down to the kitchen.

Talim smiled nervously, "Wrong? Oh no.... nothing's wrong. If you'll both just follow me, I've got to find my way back to everyone else."

Tira slipped off her military jacket shaking it out before hanging it on a hook by the door. She walked through the front room to the kitchen and began trying to make hot chocolate. A few minutes later, she sat browsing through the books Deirdre had gathered, mug of hot chocolate warming her frozen fingers.

Deirdre tossed each of the other Geomancers a pair of pants and a sweater, saying, "Here- I turned on the heat, but until the radiators warm up, we'll have to make due. Sorry if these are all horrible, but I just grabbed what I thought looked like your sizes. Er, sorry, Anka- that's your name, right?- I only have one sweater that looks like it'll fit you, and, um, as you can see, it's, well. Hot pink," she finished, wincing slightly as she gestured awkwardly at the sweater she'd thrown at him.

"Anyway, if anyone needs anything- a bathroom, the key to the storeroom, if you want to look through more books- just ask me."

Now that she was on her own territory, she felt like she had an obligation to be kinder to these people, even if she barely knew them- and even if she'd been having a screaming match with two of them only a few minutes ago.

Grabbing a mug of hot chocolate, Deirdre sat at the table, across from Tira, and took one of the books she'd haphazardly dropped on the table.

"Okay... The Rebels: Geomancy After the Destruction of the Guild, whoa, long title there. Well, it's a new book, published last year. Probably more up-to-date than these others... Let's see..." She opened it to a random page. "Okay, "Upon his death, the hidden ones hit a roadblock, as Davis Denelior-" Right, this one's got nothing in it," she said, loudly snapping the book shut, red staining her cheeks.

Discreetly sticking the book in her bag, next to her chair, so that the others wouldn't find it, Deirdre stood up, smiled weakly, said, "I'm going to go get some more books out of the storeroom," and half-ran out of the room, not realizing she'd left her bag behind.


((I couldn't resist giving the "I love black!!! DEATH AND DESTRUCTION, BWAHAHAHA!" Geomancer of Night a hot pink sweater. Hahaha. Sorry!

Oh, and if you were wondering, the name of the store is Pen Over Sword, based on that oh-so-true saying, "The pen is mightier than the sword."))

((xDDD Good one.))
"Umm... Thanks but I think I'll stay wet..." Anka replied eyeing the pink Jumper.

"Thank's Deirdre. Is there anywhere That I can get changed?" Asked Joy.

Anka sat in the, now, almost warm room next to the fire
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Vilui sat waiting for the right moment. As soon as Anka was alone he would strike.

Asha blinked at all the strangers around her. She was used to being cold, so she just helped herself to hot chocolate and stared at everyone. From her observations, Asha saw one of them gathering Geomancer books almost feverishly. The homeless girl smirked a little and found a corner shelf. She quickly compiled a healthy stack of Geomancer books in one hand and set them down next to the brunette's bag. Once she drew near again the young blond felt a strange urge to ask aloud, "I wish I knew how to read." Of course, she failed to hold back this urge and after speaking aloud, nervously hid part of herself behind the stack of books she had set down.

"Always acting before thinking," her mind told her, though not in those exact words, seeing how uneducated she was.

Maya squirmed a bit, trying to loosen the ropes that bound her hands together. No avail, they were tied too tightly. She tried to get up, but fell down quickly. She tried once again, and awkwardly managed to back up against one of the wooden beams that was holding the room up, and rub the rope against the corner. After a while, she bent her wrist up, uncomfortable though it may be, to feel the rope. It was starting to fray; so she continued what she was doing.
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Neva finished her soup, calmly fishing a pair of gloves out of her coat pocket, and tugging them up a little past her wrist. The bell on the door of the diner made a friendly tinkling as she headed out into the snow, which was almost up to her ankles by then. Looking around, she saw a group of 3 kids having a snowball fight. Jogging over to them, Neva asked, "Hey, can I join? I'll even go solo so that it'll be fair." She faked a smile, and the kids looked to one another and nodded. "Sure lady, if ya really want tuh. But we're warnin' ya, we're pretteh good," a little blonde boy piped in. "Well, I'm pretty good too." Neva smirked as she built a wall of snow that she could easily duck down and hide behind. An arsenal of snowball was at her side. One of the kids declared war, and the snowball fight started.

Vilui desided to check on the Geomancer and the Friend of the Geomancer.

He walked to the dungeons and to the cage in which the girl and boy were in.

"Hello little girl. Awake are we?" He asked her menacingly breathing onto her. His breath stank. "Have you been having fun down here girl? I see your friend is not awake."

Talim smiled as she entered the warm store, she hung her cloak by the door and entered the back room where Tira, Asha and Deirdre were all reading. "This place will be a wonderful 'base' of sorts, we can all come here when we need to meet after separating, or if we find some new information about the location of the remaining Geomancers. Speaking of which, I'm going to go out soon, once I've warmed up, to look for any information about anyone suspicious who could of started this blizzard. I suspect that person will be our Geomancer of Ice."

((Sorry but I can't do anything untill Alex answers Joy or Maya answers Vilui...))

((Waiting for Alex. *pokes her with a stick*))

Deirdre swiftly shut the door of the storeroom and sank down against it, drawing her knees to her chest as she breathed deeply, trying to calm herself.

It was bad enough that so much had happened today, and that most of the things that had happened were related to Geomancy. But why did her father have to pop up again? She'd just gotten over his death- and just barely. She didn't want to have to deal with having to explain everything to these people.

Hearing the Light Geomancer's voice, then Talim's, she let out her breath slowly. She hadn't realized that she'd been holding it in, but that didn't matter now, all that mattered was that they would find out, they could find out about her father, and that would be horrible, she didn't want to have to relive everything all over again and oh, this would be absolutely awful and-

The girl hit her head against the door, not really caring that it would hurt, just trying to shut her brain up.

"Shut up. Stop assuming the worst will happen. Use your brain for once, you moron," Deirdre whispered angrily to herself through gritted teeth, cradling her forehead in one hand, the other curled into a tight fist.

Closing her eyes for a few second, she tried to think of peaceful things in an attempt to calm herself down, but only managed to become increasingly agitated.

Snapping her eyes open, she said to the air, "Oh, sod it, that's not going to work." and pulled herself up.

She entered the kitchen a minute later, a false smile pasted cheerfully on her face as she said, "Well, I couldn't find any other books, so these must be the only ones."

Maya heard a person thump down the stairs into the grimy dungeon. She backed up to the edge of the cage, forming a ball of water with her hands, which promptly turned into a tiny creature and skittered away after a bit of muttering from its creator. She sat on her hands to hide the fraying rope, as a man approached, presumably her captor. He spoke to her, but she simply squirmed away, refusing to answer him properly. "Who are you?" she asked darkly.

Renetta sat on a carpet inside the store, deeply reading a nice little fantasy book, Mint purring slightly as she layed in Renetta's lap, eyes closed in kitty sleepiness. The kitty seemed to be fine after that little shock from before, if 'little' could be described as wrecking a room and narrowly dodging the bill. Bill: what an evil word. Evil enough to send shivers aplenty up her spine when she was confronted by the owner. It went something like this:

"WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT ROOM? YOU BETTER HAVE A WAD OF CASH WITH YOU!"
"Umm.....,"her face begins to turn pale white,"A bear!!!!!!"
"Where?" with the owner wildly looking around, as Renetta snuck out.

"It's alright if Mint stays inside, right?" she politely asked Dierdre, not knowing if there was a no-pets policy in this store. Her eyes never left the page, almost as if she were entranced reading the book, her eyes beginning to move at a blur from line to line, reaching a climax within the story. She always loved the author of the book, so it made it all the easier to read. Tamora Pierce rocked in her eyes, even if so many heroines in her books were Mary Sues. Oh well, enough ranting.

Vilui laughed.
"You want to know who I am do you?" He asked breathing the horrible breath over her.
"I think you may have heard of me Geomancer. I am Vilui, and you are in the city of the Damned. So no matter if you cut through those bonds, you'll still be stuck here."