Kellen McCrea
Wizard
Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Feb 21, 2006 21:03:39 GMT -5
"BECAUSE OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS HE DOES!" Kellen continued the refrain he sang, but was having a hard time singing at the top of his lungs and skipping at the same time, so it came out kind of strangely. He slowed skipping for a moment, and said "I think it's great about that movie how they put so much hope in one bloke, and he turns out to be nothing special and they already had what they needed anyway. Well, mostly."
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Post by Benita Hendrix-London on Feb 21, 2006 21:24:15 GMT -5
"Happy endings, gotta love 'em," Beni said as she slowed down her skipping so her voice didn't sound so unstable. She hated that feeling, like she was going to cry, but really wasn't.
"Are we close, pilot?" Beni asked Kellen, smiling at all of the passersby that could only give them odd looks.
(fixed! ;D)
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Kellen McCrea
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Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
Posts: 152
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Feb 21, 2006 21:53:13 GMT -5
Kellen slowed to a walk and looked around, so he wouldn't get too ahead of himself. He looked around, but the hallway looked the same to him as any other in the school. "Merlin only knows," he concluded. "This building is ridiculous."
"Hello?" a meek painting called to them. Kellen walked over to it. "Are you children looking for the stairs?"
Kellen resented being called 'children' a bit; after all, he would be of age in less than a month. Still, this painting was offering to help, so he didn't voice his annoyance. "Yes, we are. Could you help?"
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Post by Benita Hendrix-London on Feb 22, 2006 19:47:50 GMT -5
"Oh, good painting! How kind of you to help us," Beni grinned, obviously forgetting the past debacles with the paintings in the halls. But she knew that when it was time to head back to the house, she still had hell to pay for the intial encounter with the Fat Lady. At least now she could enjoy the presence of what sounded like a pleasant painting.
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Kellen McCrea
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Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Feb 22, 2006 22:06:33 GMT -5
The painting, an older man who was probably about five feet tall in life, looked at the sheepishly. "The other paintings have asked me to ask you to stop singing," he said quietly.
Kellen grinned. "As long as you direct us to the stairs, we'll stop. Promise."
"Well, all right, then," the painting said shyly. "Go through that door on the right, keep following the hallway, and you'll come to the northernmost stairs in the castle. You should find your way from there."
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Post by Benita Hendrix-London on Feb 23, 2006 18:11:05 GMT -5
"Thanks!" Beni said with an almost relief. The hunger pains had come 'round again, and she sounded like she had a miniture tuba player in her stomach. At least now they had a definite route. "I'd kiss ya if you weren't made of oil and whatnots."
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Kellen McCrea
Wizard
Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
Posts: 152
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Feb 23, 2006 21:42:36 GMT -5
Kellen gave the painting one last look. "Hey...are you blushing?" he asked it, at which point the man rushed out of the frame. Kellen laughed. "I think you've gone and gotten a painting with a crush," he said to Beni. "Watch out now, the paintings'll all say you're a flirt."
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Post by Benita Hendrix-London on Feb 24, 2006 17:15:46 GMT -5
"I'm already notorious among the paintings for being too loud. And, well, I yelled at the Fat Lady one day," Beni admitted as she looked at the man run away. She giggled as she realized how much more was going into her already forming reputation. She looked at Kellen straight in the eyes and added, "But being a flirt isn't so bad."
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Kellen McCrea
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Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Feb 28, 2006 2:22:36 GMT -5
Kellen looked at Beni for a moment. Had we been flirting? he asked himself. He wasn't sure how to react, so instead he brushed off the topic a bit. "It is to the paintings," he insisted. "They're kind of old-fashioned, you see."
He turned up the hallway and he felt his face flush a little. He hadn't meant to be flirting--but would it be so bad if he was? Really, he was just confused. "We should probably get you down to the kitchens," he said, as lightly as he could. "Don't want your stomach to start eating itself or anything, yeah?"
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Post by Benita Hendrix-London on Feb 28, 2006 16:46:18 GMT -5
"No, we wouldn't want that at all," Beni said with a slight grin as she pulled her gaze off. She was a good at reading body language (although at times she ignored them just for the plain funof of it), and she could tell that her little move could have made Kellen nervous. No worries, she thought lightly, He probably isn't used to girls like me.
"If we don't get me there in a few minutes, some of these portrait-chaps are going to have a big chunk of parchment missing," She added, and making a quick flashback to her kinder days, when kids like her would chew on parchment.
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Kellen McCrea
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Healer-In-Training
Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Feb 28, 2006 23:05:04 GMT -5
Kellen was momentarily relieved. Maybe he'd misunderstood. At any rate, he opened the door, and found his way into the hallway there, as the painting had instructed. "Well, then the paintings will be saying even worse things about you," he commented. "I wouldn't recommend eating them, though, they probably taste something awful."
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Post by Benita Hendrix-London on Mar 1, 2006 18:12:57 GMT -5
"A century-old paper doesn't taste so good, I bet," Beni nodded as though she really considered eating them, but was convinced not to. "But I'm sure if you boiled it a bit..."
"So tell me more about your sibs. I'm fascinated, really. As an only child, it was either play alone or look for some friends," Beni usually did the latter, as she realy had a knack since childhood to talk to anyone.
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Kellen McCrea
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Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Mar 1, 2006 22:42:23 GMT -5
Kellen thought for a moment. "Well, there's Kearney. He's...well, he just turned nineteen. He's living in London now, just moved down there. And he's dating one of the Healers from St. Mungo's, actually.
"And Eaden is my little sister, she's thirteen, and kind of a lot like any other thirteen year old girl I know. Full of mood swings, and really into this kind of emo music, I guess. I'm not really sure, but I've never heard of any of the music she likes anyway," he paused for a moment, and realized he hadn't said anything good about her, really. "But don't take that the wrong way," he added quickly. "She's great."
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Post by Benita Hendrix-London on Mar 4, 2006 16:20:56 GMT -5
"She sounds like me when I was that age," Beni told him, understanding that maybe his sister was in a stage that she could easily get of. "I get what you mean about her. She's in the most secret time of her life, probably only sharing her life with a notebook and friends. But give 'em enough time, and they'll be happy to share things with you."
Beni let her hair fall into her eyes, her memories flowing through as she remebered what it was like to be Eaden's age. It wasn't long ago, but it was still worlds apart. "Look at me, I sound like some agony aunt."
Finally pulling herself out of it, she brushed the strands away and continued. "Your brother Kearney dates a healer? I thought he was was a muggle, like the rest of your family."
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Kellen McCrea
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Hey. Don't lose your spirit.
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Post by Kellen McCrea on Mar 5, 2006 2:57:51 GMT -5
"He is," Kellen said quickly. "It's, well, it's kind of complicated actually." He wasn't sure what he was doing. The boy nearly always kept family matters to himself--he barely even opened up to his fellow Ravens about it, not even Allegra. But here he was, explaining it to Beni. "He had leukemia when we were younger," he started. "He got over it eventually, but it left his immune system really weak, you know? So about a year, year and a half ago, he started to get sick again. After the Muggle doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong, Professor Raynor helped me get him admitted to St. Mungo's to see if they could do anything."
It was so much easier to talk about now that the worst was past, Kellen discovered. When Kearney had been at his worst, Kellen had bottled everything up; his mood was always negative, his grades dropped. He'd even made a stupid mistake with that cursed book and had turned himself into a statue doing it. For some reason, he hadn't exactly equated it all together until just then.
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