Time: Monday, 4 May, 10:00 AM
Place: The Fiendish Glow
During: Winken, Blinken, and...Tinkerbell ?!
Heather sighed as she left her quarters in the shrine. Thank goodness her tapestry was still okay. The MacCousin couldn't help drooling a bit at the site of those knees. She shook herself out of what may have been a great nunklear meltdown. She yawned at the idea of having to be up so early, but since Lora had conveniently disappeared, she would have to help Brenda open up the place.
The MacCousin straightened her ancient colors MacIntyre sash and pulled on her sandals. She got up off her bed and then lay back down again.
"Just five mo' minutes," she promised herself. She had plenty of time to get there at 10:30.
[20 minutes later]
The MacCousin sat wringing her hands over a computer as a dark figure with yellow glowing eyes, leaned over her shoulder.
"Haven't you figured out her password yet?" he growled.
Heather broke out in a sweat. She had tried fifty passwords and still had not been able to break into Patt's email. "I don't know! I don't know!"
Heather sat bolt upright in bed and shivered. Ever since last Saturday night, she had been having bad dreams.
"Och," she mumbled, looking at the clock. She gathered up her bag and took off toward the shrine entrance, hoping there would be a cab waiting nearby.
There were hardly any vehicles on the street. MacHeather started to run.
"Just five mo' minutes," she promised herself. She had plenty of time to get there at 10:30.
Heather opened the street-level door to the upstairs living quarters by running her arm under the Celtic knot sensor. The sensor picked up her glow and the door unlocked . Where was everyone?
"Hello?" she called out.
She turned and looked around the place. All she could hear was a bunch of racket upstairs. "How did the staff manage to get up there?" the MacCousin wondered to herself. "They must have been given an emergency key." She nearly ran into several members of the staff when she turned the last corner.
"What's going on?" she asked everyone.
"Ms. Bell is locked in her room, an' she willnae let any o' us in," answered Danny.
"Well, how is she going to know you're out here if you don't knock?" asked Heather. She began to walk toward the door.
"Be careful," said Deirdre. "Look at th' faery lights under the door."
Heather observed the glow emanating from underneath the door, but she decided to start banging on the door anyway.
"Brenda! Brenda!" she called. Soon the staff began pounding on the door along with her.
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PARALLEL STORIES: ADVENTURE
DOWNBELOW OR,
HOW
I TICKED OFF THE FANFIC FAIRIES
and
WINKEN, BLINKEN, AND...TINKERBELL
?!
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TRES, QUATRO, CINCO
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LA FIESTA DE LOS NIÑOS
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