forum Time After Time (One on One) {OPEN}

Started June 10, 2019 by @CWPoofToxicRush

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"I don't know." She shrugged, stopping and looking up at him. "Did you…are you blushing?"

"No!" He said, obviously lying. "Why?"

She raised an eyebrow, her own face flushing just a small bit, not too noticeable against her caramel skin, but still there. "You're lying. But whatever. The folder."

"Right, right." He said, looking at the folder. "Let's see what these fuckers want."

Lulu opened the folder, revealing a giant stack of papers that spilled out. It was all in fine print, and there were a lot of retracted things and strange symbols. They looked almost like…alchemy symbols.

Eric picked up a dropped page, looking over it. "I can pick out a few sigils… powerful ones, at that, but troubling."

Lulu raised another eyebrow at him, looking over. "You know what they mean? I…I can read some of the stuff, and I get all of the coding in here, but you know alchemy?"
((oml I just realized my aura is a dark pink :)))

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"Not alchemy, but magic. And these sigils… this is some dark stuff. Like, the stuff I was told to avoid growing up." He said, shaking his head.

"Waaaait a minute." Lulu grabbed his shoulder and turned him towards her. "You recognize the symbols of dark magic?"

"I was taught to avoid them as a child." He said, shrugging. "Never use them, keep a distance."

"Huh." She blinked and leaned back over his shoulder. "So…you can see auras and your family knows magic sigils. Are your family witches?" She asked, turning to him. As she was leaning over his shoulder, her face was really very close to his.

"Ummmm… my mom was. And everyone on my mom's side. Dad on the other hand…" He shook his head, suddenly registering how close she was.

"Dear god." Lulu breathed with a small smile. "That's actually really cool. As long as you're not…you know, summoning dead near me."

"Hey, the only dead I talk to are family." He said, raising his hands in surrender.

She laughed a little, looking back at the folder. "Do they, like…mean anything? There's a ton of retracted stuff around the names of the operators and things like that, and there's some records showing that they got into some databases she might have been in."

"Let's just say… every bad thing you've heard about witches? It's that." He said, shoving the paper away.

"Hm. Alright," She agreed, picking up the one with the coding on it and swinging her other arm around his shoulder to point. "See, this stuff. They got into the wikipedia article on her."

"She has a Wikipedia article?" He asked. "Actually, better question, why are they getting info from Wikipedia?"

"They're not getting info. They're putting stuff in," She said, jabbing a finger at a sentence made of numbers and strange characters. "A whole new section of the article, looks like."

"Any clue what it says?" He asked, a bit worried.

"Yeah." She squinted at the fine print. "New heading: The famed musician and politician died on September 18th, 2019…" She paused and looked up at Eric with wide eyes - their faces were still close, but she didn't seem to notice. "That's four days from now."

Eric froze. "No. No no no no no no no no no no no-"

"Alaistirkha. Relax," She soothed as best she could, tightening her grip on his shoulder with her right arm. "We have four days. Four days, you hear me?"

Eric shook his head. "Four days to uncover a whole conspiracy that can result in our deaths and the death of my little sister." He said, still panicking.

"I don't know about you, but I can get a lot done in four days," She said, keeping a safe grip on him while turning her eyes to the paper again. "We need to get through all this stuff."