[Wright Memorial Library]I'll just leave it for later [OPEN]

[Nai'shee]

She proceed to walk to the mentioned section, checking if the boy was following. She actually still considered herself a girl, despite some attempts at being an adult, and since she already proudly took him as an equal. "I have no idea, I didn't know about whole thing with ghosts, let alone some Arthur Novo- What was his name again?", she couldn't even pronounce it right. This was one of times her lack of education annoyed her. Her step-father taught her everything practical she needed to know, but theory... she was never good at theory. Until she got a proper teacher she was barely aware of how Flux, her top ability, actually works. She always connected feelings she got from various tasks or some logical responses to get things done. So, obviously, she wouldn't know the guy, nor that teacher of his he wrote book about. "By the way, I didn't introduce", she added, trying to end awkward silence while they were walking, "I'm Nai'shee". It was probably one of the simplest introductions she ever made. She sometimes appeared shy, she did, but she was babbling about her recent life-changing discoveries even to shopkeepers. On top of that it was always useless babble, since she was somewhat reserved about her abilities or rare informations that could harm her or her friends. When they finally got to section W4 she proceed to search for the book. She was already fast at this. She had no idea how books are sorted in places like this until she started using Library for classes, around a season ago, but then she fell in love. She hated reading and obligations, but changing the book every now and then, after initial chapters, saved her trouble. When they finally found the book she gestured to Lucas to approach, hoping that they would find desired part right there. Chapter names were weird, so she just randomly swung pages at the part that would gradually contain possession, her eyes scanning them slowly. "Maybe you know more on this than me...", she said offering a book to Lucas with a sigh. She was excited about ghost search, but now she felt as if it was too complicated again.

[Lucas Arias]

„Arthur Novosinsk“, Lucas told her. „The author of the book the librarian told us about. If you don’t know anyhting about him, I suppose we’ll have to find out.“ He shrugged his shoulders and followed her. Unlike Nai’shee Lucas had received an excellent eduction, he just didn’t use it most of the time. Rather than being a noble, honorable, intelligent knight he spent his time with fortune tellers, hunting ghosts and studying the obscure subject of Voiding. And instead of using his good memory to learn all about the knights and their rules, he used it to study all the weird things that were happening in Mizahar.

„And I’m Lucas“, he introduced himself. He didn’t find it awkward at all that they were quietly walking through the library. He was much too busy looking at all those shelves (and wondering what kind of things were hiding in or behind them) to think about that. In Nyka where they had last been, there hadn’t been such a big library. And thus he left the search for the book mostly to Nai’shee since she seemed to be much more familiar with the library.

„Let me see“, he murmurred and took a look at the page she had just opened. „Here it says that ghosts can’t use magic which is definitely a good thing. Maybe we could use magic to capture the ghost then.“ He moved to another page, and his eyes suddenly lit up. „Look here! There is a magic called spiritism that allows you to manipulate ghosts! If we learned spiritism, we could probably find the ghost and talk to it quite easily!“

„Of course one of us could also volunteer to be possessed“, he considered. „I doubt any ghost could resist the temptation of a living body! But you didn’t seem to enjoy the idea of having a ghost inside of you before, and I’m not sure if I would want that either.“

[Nai'shee]

"No way, I'm not letting anyone into my body, it's just scary!", she stated, agreeing with him. "But is it personal magic? I know personal magic is that that require Djed to be lost, I don't know much about the other type. If it's personal magic, I can't learn it, I already waste too much Djed."

But if they can't use magic at all they can't defend against any type of magic. "Do you think combination of that Spiritism and Shielding could capture a ghost?", she asked after some thought. Of course, her Shielding level was much lower than required, but she assumed Lucas won't be able to learn that Spritism much faster. "Or could we find someone willing to be possessed? Or ask a Professor? I don't understand, there must be a Professor for that Spiritism thing, why didn't any of them in the past research the library ghost... Can it be dangerous?!"

It was really only logical option. Generations of Spiritists must have passed trough University of Zeltiva, yet this ghost remained a mystery. Maybe it was powerful. "Can ghosts kill?", she asked, terrified, looking at the book Lucas held.

[Lucas Arias]

„It’s not scary“, Lucas immediately disagreed. „I think it could be quite an interesting experience. I just don’t want the ghost to do any embarrassing things with my body!“

As she talked about personal magic, the failed squire furrowed his brow. There were two types of magic? He’d always thought all magic used djed! „Isn’t all magic personal?“ he wondered. „And if your amount of djed decreases with each magic discipline that you learn, shouldn’t Hadrian be empty by now?“

Hadrian – the man who’d hired him to work for him and subsequently dragged him to Zeltiva – knew at least a dozen different kinds of magic, and he didn’t seem to be in particularly bad shape. He just suffered from headaches every once in a while and occasionally forgot to eat.

„I think that combination would be very effective!“ he told her. „Maybe one of the other students would be willing to be possessed if we paid them?“ he wondered. „Otherwise I’ll have to volunteer after all. You’ll need to make sure that the ghost behaves though!“

„But I wouldn’t ask a professor. I’m not sure if this thing is completely legal. As for a professor of Spiritism, I agree, there must be one, but I don’t know who it is.“

„And dangerous …“ He furrowed his brow some more, and then he grinned. Lucas didn’t mind a little danger every once in a while. It was what made life fun, besides … „I think it’s not that that dangerous. It’s just a little dangerous. I’m pretty sure that there are some ghosts that can kill, but this here is a library ghost, not the ghost of a serial killer!“

„On the other hand …“ He glanced in the direction of the librarian who he was deeply suspicious of.

[Nai'shee]

"Oh", she looked at his honest eyes. She didn't look at it from that point of view. But she still thought it was scary. "But imagine having another being in your body. My body sometimes isn't enough just for me", she said, subconsciously referring to Flux, "let alone someone else. And what if I couldn't kick it out? Imagine somebody living your whole life, playing with your friends' emotions... And you just looking from behind..." Talking about it she realized why it would be interesting experience. She wasn't sure if her hunger for "adventures" eventually grew to something more dangerous, but she was now curious about how it feels. She remained silent.

"No, I know there's one more type, my friend Tock doesn't use her own Djed to Animate. I don't know what she uses, tho." She knew her friend didn't know dangers of overgiving by losing Djed yet, and as a student in University she would be aware of those by now, on her level. Nai'shee made a mental note to explain that to her, since she might need help or food urgently sometimes without her realizing what is going on. Her house was usually closer than University.

"Who's that Hadrian person?", the girl asked. She still haven't met her new professor. She knew Stonemiller was going, tho. She was sad. She was sure replacement won't be close as good. Maybe better in magic, but in explaining it to Nai'shee... That required talent. However, she didn't connect the person with missing Professor, so she had no clue who was friend of Lucas', as she assumed.

"I'm not wasting any money, since none of us still has no clue about Spiritism... I can't even see ghosts! Or they didn't appear to me. I don't know how even that works. Could you look it up?" She pointed at the book by her head. "And about you... Well, if you want to be possessed so much, I won't stop you..." The girl shrugged. She actually wanted to stop him. She'll make sure they read at least how the process works before letting him try. How do you try to be possessed at all? Oh, there was so much they didn't know.

She just laughed at his comment about librarian. "If you were a Kelvic I would be sick worried by now", she added, remembering vicious instinct those guys had. She couldn't understand what is so scary about that woman. She wasn't very good in communication until not so long ago, she was still too outgoing and babbling, sometimes even paranoid, but those occasions were rare. She was usually going around chatting with everyone and everything, which is why she couldn't understand Lucas' fear of librarian. She wasn't even looking scary. She was ordinary older lady, maybe dressed a bit better than woman from the city. She didn't pay attention at possibility of her being arrogant or mean. Nai'shee only cared that she was nice with her while working, else didn't matter.

[Lucas Arias]

„My body sometimes isn’t enough for me either“, Lucas informed her. “It’s too short, and the hair is too weird and too red.” He grabbed a few ginger strands that stuck off his head in odd angles as if he hadn’t combed his hair for days.

“Well, that would be bad”, he remarked as she talked about somebody else living your whole life. “But most ghosts probably aren’t powerful enough to take your body over forever. It’s more the short term side effects of being possessed that I’m worried about.”

“That rhymes with ‘knock’”, he observed as she mentioned her friend, the animator. “Does she work with wood a lot? As for that Hadrian person, he’s my boss, kind off. I’m his assistant, and I’m supposed to remind him that he needs to eat and drink, and I also carry out small tasks for him every now and then and pretend I’m his bodyguard. He’s a mage, and he knows pretty much every kind of magic there is.”

Actually he wasn’t sure if Hadrian really knew every kind of magic. He had personally seen him use three different ones (or four?), but it just sounded so much more impresive this way!

“Who said anything about money?” he wondered. “I’m pretty sure we can learn Spiritism without paying a single golden mizas.” He took the book from her and leafed through it, furrowing his brow as he did so. “Here it explains how you can make soulmist and such.” He pointed at the relevant page. “And novice spiritists can even keep the ghost from doing anything with their body! I think I’m not particularly worried about being possessed anymore. Let’s go hunt the ghost! You can watch!”

“Or maybe we should make a bit of soulmist first. You don’t happen to have any blood for me, do you?”

He was about to drag her through the library, when she made a comment about Kelvic. He looked at her, confused. “What do Kelvic have to do with anything?” he wondered. “I almost had a bondmate once. She was an owl, and she couldn’t read. Anyway, trust me, there is something wrong with that woman!”