Brick or Treat?

[Young Grimwold]

I...

*YG looks down at his hand, which is still clutching the detached handle. Due to being thick-skinned, if only in the literal sense, no glass has cut him.*

It, it was an accident. It wouldn't open, and I... wanted it open. It's not as resilient as that brick was to your arrow, it seems.

[Robin]

I'm beginning to doubt that's a brick!

*thinks*

Not your fault you're an ogre, either.

[Young Grimwold]

*YG feels awkward, but reminds himself that coming from Robin, such a comment couldn't have been meant to offend.*

My fault, perhaps not. A fault... *looks at the window* ...rarely otherwise.

Don't come up, or-or rather, no need for you to, since I... I will have to go downstairs and pay for the breakage, and then I'm due at the Crazed Heifer. I work there now.

[Robin]

*Robin nods.*

I'll wait.

[Young Grimwold]

Thank you. I'll, I'll be as quick as I can. Though I must be careful. Careful principally, then quick.

*YG looks down at the handle, still in his grip. He addresses it quietly.*

You... menace. Get out of my sight.

*YG opens a drawer in order to stow the handle, as he puts it in, he sees a note. [OOC: The one mentioned in this post.] He reads it. It is a message from one of the maids to the room's previous occupant.

Tom...

YG looks at the brick, then back at the note (which he then leaves on his bed). Nothing is making any sense - but this is all the more reason to reunite with a friend. Although it will delay him further, YG decides to write a note of his own: to his roommate, explaining about and apologising for the broken window. He uses some parchment that he has on his person, and the red crayon his father gave him. Then he puts the note on his roommate's bed, picks up his club, and heads for the door.*

[Young Grimwold]

[OOC: Merging with the scene outside the room from 'Strangers Enter the Wolf's Howl'.]

*The door of Dreslin's room opens, and Young Grimwold steps out into the corridor. He stares at the corridor gathering in surprise. Among those standing there are his unnamed roommate, and yet more friends.*

Callimpsest! Zeytan!

...I-I'm sorry, what an odd custom that is. Seeing acquaintances and exclaiming their names, when after all, you know your names, and you know that I know your names, and... and this is something of a surprise. Greetings, to-to all... of you.

[Robin]

*Robin enters, looking curious.*

I was bored...

[Dreslin]

*Dreslin smiles at the unusual ogre.*

We meet properly! I am Dreslin. And I must confess that I'm a monk only in clothing.

*Dreslin lowers his hood, revealing a pair of pointed ears.*

Prosper, and live long.

[OOC: For those of you who know the ending of First Contact. ;D]

[Young Grimwold]

Thanks. Good elf, erm, health, to you too. I'm Young Grimwold. Or just Grimwold, to many, who haven't... met my parents. Mercifully.

*YG begins to feel guilty about Dreslin's cordiality, knowing what awaits the elf inside the room. And as he realises that the group might well have overheard his loss of temper, embarrassment rises.*

I'm, I'm afraid the window in the room has become damaged. I'm sorry. There is... I've written you a note about it. The damaged door however, that's as I found it.

*YG looks at the rest of the group, unsure which of his friends to speak to first. He wasn't prepared for a social gathering, or whatever sort of gathering it is, of this scale. He decides that, in spite of his shyness, he should talk to the unfamiliar woman.*

Hello, I, I know everyone else, but not you. *Pause.* Greetings.

[PhoenixFlame]

*Phoenixflame smiled at him and bowed her head slightly to him*

"Hello, I'm Phoenixflame, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance! I'm the former headmistress of the boarding school, and this is Morwena, one of my oldest friends" Phoenixflame motioned to Morwena, who was sitting comfortably on her shoulder.

[Callimpsest]

*Callimpsest has grown impatient, and is squeezing his way along the crowded corridor towards the door.*

If I may... the purpose of our presence is to conduct an investigation of that airborne enigma in brick's clothing, Grimwold; and were we to exhaust the remaining daylight hours with pleasantry trading, the inconvenience is that which would be thorough, and not the examination!

*Callimpsest has reached the doorway. He looks at YG and Dreslin.*

Again, if I may...

*Callimpsest enters the room, and espies the floating brick.*

Ha! I see you. A merry chase you have led us - with minimal movement on your part. But you can expect this magic-imbued net to change that! I will waste no more time.

*Striding over to the open window, Callimpsest reaches out with the net. But the brick is slightly beyond reach. He leans out the window and stretches, but barely brushes the brick. Sighing in frustration, he leans even further, and sweeps the net down from above the brick. The brick is in the net - but Callimpsest is stretching too far to keep his balance. He closes his eyes as he tumbles out the window... and opens them to find himself in mid-air, with a white-knuckle grip on the net handle, hanging off the brick. He struggles for breath.*

H... H... He... HELP! HELP!

[Zeytan]

*Zeytan hears Callimpsest cries and with appolagies to Young Grimwold and Dreslin brushes past them and into the room. At first he can't see Callimpsest but the notices the net hanging from the brick and runs over to the window and looks out.*


"GOOD HEVEANS ABOVE!!!"

*He leans back into the room and shouts to his fellow investigators.*

"Some one go get a rope or a long pole or something right now!!!!"

*He leans back out and tries to grab hols of the handle of the net and see if he can pull Callimpsest closer to the window ledge so he can pull him in, but he can't reach and he dare not lean any further less there be two people hanging from the net.*

[PhoenixFlame]

*Phoenixflame sighed, and shook her head*

"Now what..." She muttered

*She grinned at YG*

"It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance sir, though it sounds like someone got a bit carried away with their brick catching! If you;ll excuse us for just a minute.."

*Phoenixflame slipped past Dreslin and YG, then entered the room and took in the sight in front of her, then headed over to the window*

"I know this sounds cliched Callimpsest, but hold on, we're coming to get you! Excuse me please Zeytan" Phoenixflame gently moved Zeytan aside, then climbed carefully onto the window sill*

[Callimpsest]

*Callimpsest watches as the stone and twisted arrow plummet past his feet to meet the ground. The net must have acted as a barrier, breaking the brick's gravitational hold over its satellites. He continues to grip the handle of the net with both hands.*

[Young Grimwold]

*When YG realises what has happened, he feels a wave of nausea that almost knocks him down. He recalls the sight of Tom, falling to his death from the Dunnfalls - not a true death as it turned out, but a demise nonetheless, and an horrific one to witness. YG can hardly bear the thought that another of his friends is about to suffer this, in his presence.*

I, I'm going downstairs. Per-perhaps, at street level, there is more I can do.

*Thinks: And if I cannot help, I certainly don't want to watch what is going to happen.

With a glance at Robin, YG shuffles off down the corridor. In spite of his panic, he is not rushing: no one likes the sound of an ogre in a hurry, least of all YG.*