Anna Tomlin
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Post by Anna Tomlin on Jul 4, 2005 14:56:44 GMT
Anna stood at the bottom of the magnificent staircase. Well, it was her favorite place in the castle. The Astronomy Tower. She climbed the stairs slowly, but yet, quickly at the same time. When she got to the door, she smiled and opened it. With her telescope in hand, she walked to the edge of the tower.
While setting up her telescope, she heard a distant sound, so she turned around. But, unfortunately, there was no one there. Anna continued to set up the telescope, then finally, it was done. She put her eye up against it and looked up at the stars. She couldn't believe how beautiful it was. She'd never been able to see stars like this back at home.
Anna sat down on a bench right next to her telescope and looked up at the full moon. Then, out of nowhere, she saw a shooting star, and wished on it. She wished that somehow, her experience here would be great, and that somehow she could find someone that would accept her...
"This is a perfect night," she whispered to herself. "Too bad I'm the only one here to enjoy it."
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Cherry
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Post by Cherry on Jul 5, 2005 7:52:03 GMT
Cherry stumbled clumsily up the the stairs to the astronomy tower. She was hopeless in the dark. Her brown hair stretched out behind her and her emerald eyes were straining to see the steps in front of her...but they were failing and she missed one..two steps, making a loud sound that echoed off the walls. Shaking her head and steadying herself, cherry set off again, FINALLY reaching the top. And about friggen time! Her breath caught in her throat as the sight of the stars swept her vision. "Absolutely beautiful." She breathed. Suddenly she noticed a figure, vaguely the shape of a girl. "This is a perfect night...." The whisper couldn't be heard past that for poor cherry, she really was hopeless in the dark. "Yea, it really is a perfect night, isn't it?" She took an awkward step forward, "My name is Cherry, fancy meetin' you like this." Cherry smiled to herself.
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Post by Anna Tomlin on Jul 5, 2005 20:14:29 GMT
Anna heard a loud sound. Then a second later, voice behind her and turned around as someone introduced themself as Cherry. "Yea, 'tis. I'm Anna..." she said a bit awkwardly. She smiled at Cherry, "Sounded like you took a nasty fall, you alright?" she asked kindly. Anna looked up at the sky and whispered only so someone who was less than a foot away could hear, "thank you," then, she turned her attention back to Cherry and gave her another warm smile.
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Cherry
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Post by Cherry on Jul 7, 2005 15:42:38 GMT
"Hullo, Anna." Cherry smiled, which was barely seen in the light from the stars. She began to laugh after an inspection of her arm, which had a large scrape on it. "Nothing serious. I'm much more graceful when I can see." Cherry looked past Anna a little. "Ah, I see you brought a telescope. Smart girl!" she paused to hold up a lump, "But I brought a blanket. I get awful cold up here." As if on cue, a wind came through, tugging at Cherry's robes. Cherry schivered a little, then smiled. "So anyways, what are you doing up here?"
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Post by Anna Tomlin on Jul 8, 2005 22:46:15 GMT
Anna let out a small laugh. She could barely see Cherry with the little light up in the tower. "Yea, telescopes help a lot, makes the stars bigger." Then, she shivered when the wind came through and realized she forgot to wear her sweatshirt, just before she heard Cherry ask her what she was doing up here. "Just looking around. It's always been my favorite subject, the stars and the sky... I don't know why... it just has." she replied friendly. "How about you?" she asked smiling.
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Post by Cherry on Jul 9, 2005 2:13:53 GMT
"I'm just here to escape from the rest of...everyone." Cherry laughed at herself lightly,"And I just love the stars, so beautiful." She looked up and smiled again, but not as big and cheery, more to herself than anything.
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Post by Anna Tomlin on Jul 10, 2005 15:48:15 GMT
"Yeh. Sometimes I wonder if that's why I love it up here... so remote, and... alone..." she trailed off. "And then I wonder why if it's really the stars, sometimes... weirdly, i feel like I can like, connect with them. . ." Anna looked up at the sky and saw her star... "That's the one that's always been in the sky... maybe the one that all of my dead loved ones went to, just to look down on me..." she just realized she said that out loud. "Ugh. You must think I'm some wack job that can't think of anything else to do with her time..."
Anna pulled her legs up, so they were crossed and then just layed across the bench that she was sitting on. "Do you ever... wonder what it would be like, to just know, how everyone you know that's died... if they're okay? Or, if they're sitting in hell. Or maybe even they haven't made it out of the world... and are lost. I don't know... but I'd like to know that they're all okay... or relatively okay... and if not, I'd love to help them." she was talking out loud again. "Oops. I'm sorry... I say a lot of my thoughts outloud... and that might be why I come up here... so people won't think of me as weird..." she told Cherry.
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Post by thecryofawhitewolf on Jul 10, 2005 15:56:10 GMT
(ooc hey can you help me with my signature)
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Anna Tomlin
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Post by Anna Tomlin on Jul 11, 2005 20:23:33 GMT
Anna felt herself blush. "Eh... don't mind me... I'm just, myself..." she said, although she wasn't really sure if Cherry was even listening... She turned her head and looked at her, "You wanna sit down?" she asked while sitting up, "I can't believe I didn't ask you earlier." she said.
Anna swung her legs down as she saw a shadow fly towards her, "Ningo..." she muttered to herself. She stood up and put out her arm. He had a mouse in his mouth and swallowed it. "Gross... Go back to the Owlery... you need to sleep." with that, Ningo flew off towards the Owlery, and Anna turned back to Cherry.
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Post by Cherry on Jul 12, 2005 1:57:42 GMT
Cherry just stood there and let Anna talk. It was best that way. "Yeah, I wonder all the time about my dead relatives and friends, it's only natural I would suppose." She looked around and took a seat. She then looked at the owl and laughed. "Owls, strange eating habits, eh?" ((ooc:what do you need help with??))
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Post by Mel Campp on Jul 12, 2005 3:12:04 GMT
Mel made his way cautiously up the old stairway as his shaggy brown hair stuck in his eyes and he could barley make anything out as it was so dark.
"Lumos.", he whispered and his wand lit up as he opened up the door to the astronomy tower. There were two girls already there; sitting and looking at the stars.
"Hello ladies." he said calmly "I don't believe i've met either of you before. I'm Mel."
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Post by Cherry on Jul 14, 2005 4:53:15 GMT
Cherry jumped at the voice behind her. She turned around quickly, making her hair whip in her face rather becomingly. "Oh, well hello there Mel. My name is Cherry." She smiled and pointed at herself. "Would you like to come and join us for a look at the stars? It's an awful clear night." Cherry patted the space of floor next to her. She saw the wand he was holding up and hit her head. Gosh, I'm so stupid! Why didn't I think of that?
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Anna Tomlin
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Post by Anna Tomlin on Jul 15, 2005 20:01:40 GMT
Anna turned and saw a boy who said his name was Mel, she was startled when he first spoke, "Hi, I'm Anna... nice to meet you." She stood up, "Nice night, eh?" she asked. She figured that if she wanted to meet people, she had to strike up conversation... even though she liked the silence sometimes. Anna smiled at Mel, she'd always loved guys with longer hair... just how it suited most of them. Anna turned her blueish grey eyes to the stars and just looked around for a minute, then looked back at Cherry and Mel. *
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Post by Cherry on Jul 16, 2005 6:53:56 GMT
Cherry smiled up at Anna, who had now stood up. She saw her look around quickly and waited for Mel to do something.
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Anna Tomlin
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Post by Anna Tomlin on Jul 17, 2005 1:51:29 GMT
Anna swayed back and forth as she had always done when there were "akward silences" such as these. "So... how long have you been here... both of you," she asked. Anna's eyes darted up towards the sky and to each star. She looked for constellations but only found one of the dippers... she could never tell which was the big dipper and which was the little dipper (ooc: just like me!) She got bored and looked back to Cherry and Mel.
Anna stood up and leaned against the edge of the wall and looked up at the sky. She watched the stars for a moment, then saw a shooting star go by, and she wished on it. She wished as hard as she could, and closed her eyes, while repeating the wish in her mind.*
(ooc: cherry, could you please make your pic smaller! if you need help on how to make it smaller... PM me)
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