rainlightlyn
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 22, 2004 3:30:34 GMT
The bording house that Elizabeth was living at wasn't in the poorest part of the city, but it wasn't close to the more prosperous areas either. Basically the rent was cheap, but the building was in fair contition. The other tenants were labourers and poorer craftspeople.
Shortly before she turned onto teh street the bording house was, Elizabeth turned to face the girl
"You are following me." It wasn't an accusation, meerly a statement.
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 22, 2004 5:19:10 GMT
Eli snickered, then pasted on a smirk.
"'Course I am," she replied, "I don't have nuthin else to do, and you seem to know where you're going!"
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 22, 2004 5:37:03 GMT
Elizabeth didn't roll her eyes at the girl's impertenance.
"I knew where I'm going because I was going home." She also could remember the exact route they had taken in to pursuit of the boy who had stolen the book. She looked the girl over again.
"What is your name?"
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 22, 2004 8:59:34 GMT
"Ylime," Eli replied. "Ylime Ellechim. You can call me Eli, 'cause you gave me money. And I'm assuming that your home is a much better place than mine is.."
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 22, 2004 21:58:08 GMT
Elizabeth would have agreed with Eli if the girl had know what Elizabeth's home world was like. Still, the bording house was probably better then whatever place Eli was managing to sleep.
She shrugged. "You can come along, I guess."
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 22, 2004 22:06:32 GMT
"That'd be nice, thanks, Elizabeth." Eli said, her smirk turning into a smile. Content, she began peering past Elizabeth, seeing where they were going before she started following again.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 23, 2004 0:47:36 GMT
Elizabeth lead the way up the stairs to the second floor of the bording house where her rooms were and unlocked the outer door. Half of the first room was spotlessly clean while the other half was cluttered with bits and pieces of different mechanical things. In one corner stood an arch made of various lengths of metal and wires. The bedroom was as as bare as the clean half of the first room with a watercloset beyond it.
She set her notebook on the bench in the "workshop" area and turned back to Eli.
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 23, 2004 1:08:19 GMT
Eli looked around for a moment, noting the lack of clutter, then saw the parts and smirked, she didn't know what they were but they seemed to be the only evendence someone lived here. Ha, she'd change that if she stayed here long.
Eli turned her smirk into a smooth grin when she saw Elizabeth watching her. "It's nice, well, nicer than where I've been staying..."
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 23, 2004 6:39:37 GMT
Elizabeth saw the smirk.
"Don't touch anything over here." She said nodding to the clutteraround her. "You don't want to make me mad by doing that."
She picked her way over to the arch to fiddle with some of the wires sticking out of one side.
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 24, 2004 2:13:27 GMT
Eli nodded, then, after glancing at the weird thing, keeping her smile on, walked over to 'her' corner. (A corner with nothing in it that she planned to take over.) She sat down, taking off her jacket and let her smile fade a little, watching Elizabeth fiddle. 'Home is no more than a pile of ash to me,' she recited to herself, then quickly made her smile wide again.
Like she loved it here.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 25, 2004 1:58:34 GMT
Elizabeth ran a full diagnostic on the arch. The wires kept shorting out when ever she tried to hook up the crud battery she had made. She only had so much money for supplies and, unless she scrounged out of the slag piles, she couldn't afford another set for a while. There were other problems with the portal. The acid bath batteries would not hold enough charge to work the device and do the calculations to open up back in her own world.
After a while she turned away from the arch , blinking when she saw Eli on the 'living' side of the room. She had dissmissed the girl from her mind while she was working.
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 25, 2004 9:13:06 GMT
Eli had gone through her jacket, taking out things she assumed the floor could have. A small knife, a worn map, some stale bread, a change of clothes, some pretty rocks, etc. When she was done she'd proceeded to dump her jacket with all remaining (not much) objects inside on tob of the clutter, then she relaxed against it.
It was nice to relax again.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 26, 2004 23:38:46 GMT
Elizabeth raised an eyebrow at the amount of junk that Eli had with her. The girl seemed to have a very ecletic collection.
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 27, 2004 3:51:16 GMT
Eli noticed and grinned, amused by the look on Elizabeth's face. "This is my stuff, almost all of it," Eli informed her, still grinning, like it was some great joke. And I suppose it was, in a way.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 28, 2004 1:02:18 GMT
"Hmm..." was Elizabeth's only comment. She made a few notations in the notebook and set it aside. Just as she picked up a few bits from a nearby bench, a knock at the door interrupted her.
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