Week 31 - Monday evening in Blackwillow, Valla and Novalin's room

[watchwight]

Vincent slips easily through the halls of Blackwillow, the halls of the dungeonous dormitory far more befitting his Sluagh nature than his home in Fairgrove. There is more than one way to accomplish things, he thinks to himself, I have not yet failed. But, oh, Ducos... what you have become in this day and age...With one firm hand, he knocks on

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[scathachtwins]

"Just a second," Valla's voice calls from behind the door. A few seconds later, she opens the door. "Hi, Vincent; what's up?" She steps aside to let him into the room.

Beyond the sidhe girl, one half of the room is done up in dark blues and deep greens. A CD boom box sits on the bookcase, and there is a black metal CD rack screwed into the wall above; its ends have been shaped into a whimsical cat's head and tail. The CDs inside range from movie soundtracks to New Age to filk; a number of the New Age ones have a Celtic flavor.

The bookcase is crammed with books; not just textbooks, but fantasy fiction and some scholarly tomes on the occult as well. More volumes sit on the desk, propped up by metal bookends.

The walls are adorned with a number of posters; chief among them a poster of Liv Tyler as Arwen Undomiel in Lord of the RingsThe bed is covered by a forest-green comforter; propped up near its head are a number of stuffed animals -- a pair of unicorns, a white tiger, and a black cat

[watchwight]

Vincent enters her room at a stately walk, bowing low to her once within. "Lady Vallaria. Thank you for receiving me." The Sluagh seems to gravitate just a hair closer to the other side of the room, and a far more appropriate backdrop it seems to be for him. "You are most gracious."

Standing ramrod straight, hands still clasped behind his back, he begins. "You are, I take it, familiar with the situation revolving around the Old Science Building?"

[scathachtwins]

It's a few minutes before she answers. "Some of it," she replies cautiously. "I mean, I'm not sure about exactly what's inside it, but I do know that it really did a number on a couple of people who sneaked in there early last semester." She can't suppress a shiver. "I don't think Silia ever really recovered." She looks out the window, just able to make out the squatting bulk of the building in question in the distance. "Darian and I have been doing some research, and the...whatever it is...seems to have a thing for negative vibes - it seems to cause nightmares, or, in the case of people like my brother, make them worse."

[watchwight]

Vincent files some of that information away in the back of his brain for later use