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Post by Shelby Crescent on Jul 25, 2008 6:32:03 GMT
Shell nods lightly, biting her lip. "Zoe. She's only sixteen and just came home." she nods a bit. "Jenny was telling me that if Zoe tries to leave again that she would probably go with her seeing as she graduated this year. Just to make sure she's doing okay along with Kalin." Shell says softly glancing at her hands briefly before looking up at Arden again.
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Post by Arden Patricks on Jul 27, 2008 4:24:38 GMT
I shake my head slowly, still absorbing that first part.
"Zoe was with you the last time we ran into each other, wasn't she?" I ask. She's just... little, I add in my head, remembering ruffling her hair.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Jul 27, 2008 4:28:14 GMT
Shell nods lightly. "Yeah, we were going to buy books for her next school year but she's not probably going or so she says." she sighs, with a frown.
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Post by Arden Patricks on Jul 27, 2008 4:30:55 GMT
"Hm...." I grimace slightly in sympathy, able to see how that would probably bother her. "So... is she doing all right so far though? You said... she came back home?"
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Jul 27, 2008 4:46:48 GMT
"Yeah, she's home. Had the baby on her own, no idea where or how. She's doing good though. Never leaves her side." Shell says with a faint smile, remembering when she held Kalin on the couch while Zoe was watching her like a hawk.
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Post by Arden Patricks on Jul 27, 2008 19:39:50 GMT
I smile faintly back, not sure what else to say to that.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Jul 27, 2008 23:33:12 GMT
"So, um. Anything else new with you? Work or the kids?" she asks softly, breaking the silence again. That was one thing that always bothered Shell was completely silence.
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Post by Arden Patricks on Jul 29, 2008 1:59:34 GMT
"No, not really," I shrug. "I've been on another avoiding-people kick, so I haven't even really seen my nieces or nephew... and nothing ever changes at work."
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Jul 29, 2008 2:26:10 GMT
"Am I distrubing your avoiding people plan then? I could leave if you want." she adds with a faint smile over to her.
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Post by Arden Patricks on Jul 29, 2008 2:33:23 GMT
"No, it's all right," I shrug, shaking my head. "I need to stop doing that... and really, I don't know why I've gone out of my way to come here then, if I didn't plan to run into anyone. It always was impossible to ever be alone back when I came here, especially when I wanted to be." I smile faintly and look upward as if I'll be able to see the castle wall I'm sitting against.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Jul 29, 2008 2:52:09 GMT
Shell nods lightly. "I know what you mean. It seemed no matter where you went or still go there's always gonna be somewhere that will ask if you're okay. In a way, we sorta know that coming here. But in our time of wanting to be alone all we can think is that one place we always went to at school and it turns out the same getting some form of company." she smiles a bit more at her feeling the wind sweep through the owlery and through her curls.
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Post by Arden Patricks on Jul 29, 2008 2:57:20 GMT
"If I understood what you just said, exactly," I nod, laughing slightly. "Almost makes you believe in some sort of... fate, higher power sort of thing, that it's so impossible to be alone when you might need it."
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Jul 29, 2008 3:07:31 GMT
Shell grins a bit before brushing her curls out of her face. "That's exactly right Arden. Sorry I have werid wording of well, words." she says with a laugh. "But I agree. It seems in the time we want to be alone the most is the time we need it the most as well and some fate will intervene to make it so you do have that support."
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Post by Arden Patricks on Jul 29, 2008 3:18:22 GMT
"Most of the time, anyway," I nod, sighing slightly for no particular reason. "So... is that why you were here, then?"
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Jul 29, 2008 3:36:53 GMT
Shell shrugs lightly. "Mostly the reason today. I was bored of the astronomy tower. I'm always up there or at the lake. I wanted a change of scenary." she says softly.
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Post by Arden Patricks on Jul 30, 2008 22:08:22 GMT
"Same." I smile slightly. "Sick of the walls of my house, but I like quiet... so I've started coming back to the shrieking shack and now here." I shake my head a bit, then shrug.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Jul 30, 2008 22:19:58 GMT
Shell smiles back at her and sighs a bit. "For quiet I tend to go to an empty classroom or in the forest. But the shrieking shack is a good place as well for quiet." she nods looking back out the window.
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Post by Arden Patricks on Jul 30, 2008 22:28:03 GMT
"Always was...." I laugh slightly. "Though it used to be a bit dangerous as well... sort of like the forest still is." I raise my eyebrows at her in a sort of mock disapproval.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Jul 30, 2008 23:12:46 GMT
Shell glances at her but shrugs. "I suppose. I just used to go there alot as a kid and when I was in school. It just doesn't bother me, the forest." she says with a sigh, knowing she probably said too much. "Or I would go to the astronomy tower before everyone else went up there." Shell adds with a small laugh.
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Post by Arden Patricks on Jul 30, 2008 23:21:36 GMT
"Same," I shrug, meaning the forest... then frown slightly. "No... actually, I started going to the forest back when I liked it better because it was dangerous. And then it just grew on me. But the tower really was a popular place, wasn't it?"
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Jul 30, 2008 23:44:39 GMT
"Ooh, aren't you a rebel going after the dangerous stuff." she teases, thinking that was the first time she ever used her sarcasm with Arden. "Yeah, I still catch kids up there tinkering with my books and everything else. I'm just afraid one day I'm walk in on something I don't wanna see."
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Post by Arden Patricks on Jul 30, 2008 23:51:47 GMT
I grimace slightly, thinking of all the times I went up to the astronomy tower to admire the drop, or sit in the window self-harming because I wasn't allowed to be in the forest.
"It's not really rebellion if everyone's doing it, is it?" I ask instead. "Fitzy once ranted at me about going in there, and about how it was too bloody crowded." I laugh slightly at this, finding it funny in hindsight considering we'd been viciously arguing at the time.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Aug 1, 2008 3:06:17 GMT
Shell shrugs a bit. "They still told us never to go into the forest, so I guess in a way it still is." she says with a sigh. "I haven't heard from him in years." she laughs, hearing him actually saying that now in her head. "It was crowded sometimes in that forest. I will admit that."
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Post by Arden Patricks on Aug 1, 2008 14:11:33 GMT
"I suppose....." I nod slightly. "Did seem like you ran into other people there more often than not, and considering it was forbidden and there was a war on, you wouldn't think most would venture there, really."
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Aug 1, 2008 19:11:48 GMT
Shell thinks for a moment before biting her lip. "To be honest, whenever I would go there just to read or when I was upset, someone was always there or would show up. Of course we would draw our wands at one another cause of the war, but yes for the general idea."
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Post by Arden Patricks on Aug 2, 2008 2:19:10 GMT
"Sensible of you," I muse, raising my eyebrows. "I honestly felt a bit paranoid most of the time, because most people seemed so relaxed, war on or not."
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Aug 3, 2008 20:52:41 GMT
Shell shrugs her shoulders lightly. "I guess so. Everyone avoided the forest when the war started to pick up though." she says softly.
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Post by Arden Patricks on Aug 4, 2008 0:25:31 GMT
"If you say so." I shrug slightly. "I was actually forbidden, so I stopped for the most part in about seventh year... and then found other places when I left school, so I guess I didn't know that people started being sensible."
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