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Apr 20, 2006 16:01:22 GMT -5
Post by labyrinth on Apr 20, 2006 16:01:22 GMT -5
Koren was walking with her head held high, even though she was one of the only people in the corridor. She was wearing her school robes, and underneath that a pink skirt, with a matching pink blouse. Her black shoes made light taps on the floor as she walked. She was on her way up to the owlery. In the pocket of her robes she had a letter that she was going to send to her mother and daddy.
I wonder if he's going to send me all the stuff I asked for. I hope he does! He better! Koren reached the staircase and started climbing the steps with thoughts still churning in her head. I still can't decide if I want him to send me a blue spring dress, the red gown, or the silver dress for casual wear. Perhaps the red gown flows better around my ankles. Oh! But the silver one matches my eyes so well!
She was about halfway up the stairs when her left foot sank into the step. She was so preoccupied with her thoughts of dresses that she didn't even notice. When she went to take the next step her whole body jerked throwing her off balance. She managed to fall on her hands, but when she jerked her left foot sank even more into the step. Koren turned around to look and see what the problem was. That's when she finally realized her foot was sunk into the step a little past her ankle.
Oh no!!! She had been so busy thinking she forgot to skip over the step. Koren pulled herself erect by holding unto the banister. She surveyed the situation even further, and then tried to pull her leg out. Nothing happened. So she tried tugging with her hands, and still nothing budged. Okay, don't panic. Your leg is only stuck in a step and you can't get it out and there is no one around!!! She tried to tug and at her leg some more. She even put her free leg against the adjacent wall and trying to pull her leg out that way, but she soon got tired. Uh-oh. This is definitely a problem!
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Apr 21, 2006 14:24:03 GMT -5
Post by liliththorncross on Apr 21, 2006 14:24:03 GMT -5
Lilith Thorncross was still exploring the school, for it was her first week here only. She just transfered to the school at her third year, so she was still quite young. In fact, she had not met many people younger than she was. Although she may have the face of the baby, her attitude can really fool someone into thinking she is much older.
In a manner similar to Koren's, Lilith proudly walked through the corridor of the fourth floor. She was actually looking for the common room so she was about to go down the stairs to the dungeons when she heard a rather odd bump from the staircase behind her, the ascending one.
She curiously turned and walked towards it, seeing a very small girl, and if Lilith thinks somebody is small they really are, considering Lilith isnt the biggest perosn ever either, struggling to remove her foot from a broken step in the stairs.
A smirk ran across the brunette's moon shaped faced. She wanted to have fun with this one. What made her hesitate was the fact that the girl was a Slytherin.
"It is quite embarassing to see a Slytherin have their foot stuck in a step, you know." She said in an annoyed tone. She walked closer and offered her hand. "Now take that helpless look off your face, we wouldnt want a lion to come by and see you look like you are in distress."
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Apr 21, 2006 16:17:45 GMT -5
Post by labyrinth on Apr 21, 2006 16:17:45 GMT -5
Koren wasn't panicking yet, but she was close to it when another Slytherin girl that looked about as young as she came up and offered her hand. That was a nice and lady like thing to do, but what wasn't so lady like was when she insulted her. Or rather tried to. Koren just gave a her a blank look. "Thank you," she said firmly grasping the other girl's hand.
Koren tried to pull herself out, as dainty as you please, but still her foot stayed stuck in the step. She tugged and tugged but still the her foot would not be moved. You know I'm starting to think my foot isn't coming out. Koren let go of the other girl's hand and remembered that she had not introduced herself. "My name is Koren. Koren Hurst. Do you have any suggestions, uh......" Koren stopped there because she had no clue what the other girl's name was. So she broke the sentence off there figuring she would tell her.
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Apr 21, 2006 16:35:03 GMT -5
Post by liliththorncross on Apr 21, 2006 16:35:03 GMT -5
Lilith shrugged when the girl let go of her hand. Honestly, Lilith wasnt the strongest person ever so she wouldntve been much help anyway. "My name is Lilith Thorncross." She replied, looking as the girl struggled some more. She tried to think of a spell that would free her but her brain wasnt allowing it.
"Hmm." She bent down, but her back was still upright in a haughty manner. She took out her wand and tapped it on the wooden step. She stood up and looked at Koren, "Maybe we should try to break the wood around your foot?" She suggested in a childish manner.
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Apr 21, 2006 16:51:45 GMT -5
Post by labyrinth on Apr 21, 2006 16:51:45 GMT -5
Koren looked down at her foot again only to find that her foot had sank more into the step. Now instead of her foot it was more like a third of her calf was stuck in the step. This is getting worse by the minute! She had learned from her daddy how to keep cool under pressure, and she was trying hard to keep her composure. Really hard.
"I don't know. It seemse the more I move the more I sink. If we can break let's go ahead, but really my foot is sinking. What instead of me tugging, you pull? Will that help any?" The truth of the matter was, she couldn't even feel her foot. All she could feel was the part of the step around her small calf.
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Apr 21, 2006 17:00:08 GMT -5
Post by liliththorncross on Apr 21, 2006 17:00:08 GMT -5
Lilith thought for a while. She knew pulling might not work because the two girls were both quite tiny, so she would try that as a last resort. Instead she had an idea for a spell. "Okay, dont move." She told Koren.
"Diffindo!" She shouted, pointing her wand exactly at the steps and carefully around the girls foot, so she wouldnt hurt her housemate. The wood around Koren began to split and crack. "Diffindo!" She shouted again, so the spell had more effect. She looked at Koren, wondering what she should do next. The spell wouldnt break the wood but it made it easier to break.
"Give me your hand, maybe we can try pulling again now that the wood is loose." She said, and put her hand out for Koren.
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Apr 21, 2006 17:28:08 GMT -5
Post by labyrinth on Apr 21, 2006 17:28:08 GMT -5
Koren grabbed Lilith's hand again, this time she hoped that she would come free. As lilith pulled, and Koren pulled nothing happened. Both their combined weight apparently had no effect on freeing her. With both of them pulling however, Koren staggered back a little and lost her balance again, this time going backwards. She landed on her but on the step below the one where she was stuck, but the way she landed felt awkward. "Ouch!," she exclaimed.
Her eyes wandered over towards her leg again, and her big grey eyes widened. With all the pulling she and her fellow Slytherin did, half her calf was now sunk into the step. In addition her other foot landed in the step when she fell so now her other foot was stuck. That why her landing felt so akward. Half her calf on the left leg was sunk, and her foot was now stuck aswell. "Can't this get any worse?" she said with exasperation. Then she remembered that if she went falling backwards, Lilith may have aswell. She looked up to see how she had fared.
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Apr 21, 2006 17:36:30 GMT -5
Post by liliththorncross on Apr 21, 2006 17:36:30 GMT -5
The two girls mustve looked quite odd as they pulled together, trying to get Koren out of the...floor. But it wasnt funny at all, she could imagine it was scary and probably painful as well. At one point, Koren lost her balance and this surprised Lilith. She didnt let go of the girl's hands as she fell backwards on her bottom.
Thats why when she fell, Lilith fell as well, but she landed on her knees. She was sure that would leave a little scab but it didnt hurt too much. She was glad she put her hands out in time to prevent herself from getting hurt even more.
She turned to look at Koren the same time Koren looked at her. "I'm sure it could be worse. I mean, I could get stuck too." She said and shrugged once more. The girl seemed to be having bad luck today, and Lilith wasnt helping. She went to pick up her wand but realized her hand could not move.
Terrified, she looked at her right hand and saw that it was stuck in the step now as well, next to Koren's leg. The expression on her face was priceless.
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Apr 21, 2006 17:52:22 GMT -5
Post by labyrinth on Apr 21, 2006 17:52:22 GMT -5
Koren propped herself up on her hands and saw the state Lilith was in and knew things had just got worst. She whined outloud, "What are we going to do now?" Koren honestly couldn't see how they were going to get out of this one. They were both young and didn't have the skills to free themselves. Not only that, but they couldn't move either. Or at least all Koren could do was sit and move her upper body while Lilith could use everything except her one hand.
The pain in her bum had gone away, but it was still akward having one foot shorter than the other so she wiggle her right leg and managed to get it stuck about the same amount as her left. Now both legs were stuck half way up the calf. She was a little afraid, but she was also a little annoyed. Why can't daddy be here?! He would know what to do! Koren thought all this while she waited for a reply from Lilith who looked a bit shocked. That's the way Koren would put it anyway.
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Apr 22, 2006 13:30:31 GMT -5
Post by liliththorncross on Apr 22, 2006 13:30:31 GMT -5
Lilith pondered at the question. What would they do? She would figure it out and get them both out of this awful situation. They were Slytherins, they did not need anybodys help. Next, Lilith did the unthinkable.
She started punching and hittting the steps, slowly cracking them open. She looked like a maniac, rage in her huge eyes, her cheeks turning red, and she was occasionally screaming things like "Dammit!" or "Bloody devil's work, this is!!"
She pulled back one last time until her hand finally got out. She fell backwards, all the way, and down a few steps. Her butt mustve been bruised now, and her knuckle was close to bleeding. But she was out, and she was ready to break the wood around Koren's leg, if it was the last thing her knuckle would break.
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Apr 22, 2006 19:02:24 GMT -5
Post by labyrinth on Apr 22, 2006 19:02:24 GMT -5
((ooc: don't forget it's both her legs now ![:))](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cheesy.png) ) Koren's eyes grew as big as saucers when she saw Lilith smashing the wood around her hand. This girl is crazy!!! Koren actually couldn't believe her eyes. When Lilith was done her hand had come free, but she had gone tumbling down a few steps. "Look at your hand!" she cried. She hand looked mangled, but it wasn't bleeding yet. If Koren wasn't alarmed before she was now. Even more so. When Lilith came towards her and started to pound the wood around her legs, Koren wiped away any traces being afraid and what not. Mostly because of he look on Lilith's face. Still, Lilith looked a little crazed with her clothes all ruffled and her hand close to bleeding and her hair got messed up as well. She did have to give it to her though. She did look determined.
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Apr 22, 2006 21:56:51 GMT -5
Post by liliththorncross on Apr 22, 2006 21:56:51 GMT -5
Lilith was still engraged and pissed off at the steps. She banged the wood around Koren fiercefully, over and over until it split in half. Then she tore of the wood and through it backwards so it crashed somewhere behind her. One leg free, one to go.
Her knuckles were bleeding now, but nothing she really cared too much about. It would heal eventually anyway. She smiled at Koren. "Damn wood."
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Apr 23, 2006 13:41:50 GMT -5
Post by labyrinth on Apr 23, 2006 13:41:50 GMT -5
Koren watched Lilith bang at the wood around on of her legs, and was mortified. Wood chips flews everywhere and Koren moved her head every which way to avoid them. Finally, her left leg came free, and Koren breathed a sigh of relief. Quite honestly, she thought that somthing else would get stuck in the wood. So far so good. By the time her left leg was free, Lilith's hand was all bloodied but yet the girl showed no signs of weakness.
Instead of replying back to the girl's comment, Koren just smiled back and nodded her head in agreement. She was too speechless to say anything. Then Lilith went to pounding the wood around her last leg. After a few minutes it came free, and Koren almost went flying back like Lilith had when she freed her hand, but she managed to grab the banister in time. She stood up on shaky legs, and then went back to her dignified demeaner, although she was still stunned by the series of events. I only wanted to send a letter! "Thank you for the help. That was really something though. The way in you started tearing up the boards like that. Wow!" she exclaimed also extending a hand hoping to give Lilith a dainty hand shake.
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Apr 23, 2006 16:39:39 GMT -5
Post by liliththorncross on Apr 23, 2006 16:39:39 GMT -5
Lilith was relieved when the girl's second leg was finally free. She shrugged, "Dont mention it. Just a Slytherin helping a fellow housemate, right?" She asked. It was Koren's luck she was a Slytherin, otherwise Lilith wouldve went out of her way to make the situation worse. But not to a housemate, never. "What were you doing here anyway, all alone?" She questioned.
She also wondered if the girl had been to the common room yet. The last time Lilith went it was quite empty and she felt a bit of disappointment. Also all the other Slytherins she had met were not exactly as courteous to their housemates as Slytherins should be.
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Apr 23, 2006 17:33:18 GMT -5
Post by labyrinth on Apr 23, 2006 17:33:18 GMT -5
Koren still held on to the banister and straightened out her clothes and reached into her pocket and took out a blue comb with a pearl in the middle of the handle. She began combing her hair and getting it back into order. All this while she answered Lilith's question. "Well I was on my way up to the owlery to delivery a letter to my daddy." As if to prove it she pulled out a letter from inside her robes. It was in a yellow envelope. She then put it away again. "Then I started thinking about which dress I should ask my daddy for when I stepped on that step," she said bitterly pointing to the heap that was now crushed wood, "Then my foot got stuck and that's when you came."
Koren had put her hand away when Lilith didn't shake it. Not the least bit disturbed. "Now that it's over with I'm glad it was you and not someone else." Really she as glad it was a Slytherin that had to witness her humiliation and none of the other houses. Daddy would never let anyone see him in that kind of position. Even if it was someone from his own house. . "You better do something about that hand. It's dripping blood everywhere."
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