Comic Relief. [ basil + jeremiah ]

jeremiah thomas bentman · Subject: Comic Relief. [ basil + jeremiah ] April 22nd 2009, 10:50 pm

It had been a few hours since his encounter with Raphael on the track, and he was feeling a bit better, having been able to hide in a desk in a secluded corner of the library and drown himself in lesson plans. He really had no idea what to do with himself, considering the way he'd been feeling lately. He had been so relieved when he'd arrived, courtesy of Nik's helicopter and expert flying skills. He knew immediately that this building held his destiny, and would bring him happiness in finally being able to fill in the void that had been in his life, growing with the years, ever since he'd come of age. He thought that this would also be the place where he finally buried his past. Alas, instead he found that his past was burning a whole in his brain the more he tried to ignore it. This meant either that he had become irrevocably paranoid and was as such, unstable and unfit to teach here - or that there was something to be learned from his fears, which meant that he was picking up on some bad juju. He was afraid that a bad omen lurked around every corner, and worried that he would wake every morning having spent the previous night tossing and turning and find himself drenched in the cold sweat of his nightmares.

He was supposed to be enjoying this, but instead he found himself wondering if the academy was really just his next desperate attempt at running from the root of his problems - or if, as a much worse scenario, fate had planned for him to come here just so he could face his deepest fears head on.

He sighed and dropped his head onto his stack of papers, feeling very weak, tired, and emotionally drained. What am I going to do with myself?

basil acanthus reef · Subject: Re: Comic Relief. [ basil + jeremiah ] April 22nd 2009, 10:51 pm

After scanning the library entrance from the outside windows to insure that Zina was nowhere in the immediate entrance vicinity of her main dwelling, Basil heaved open the doors and quickly skitted towards the back corner, where the reference books that no one ever looked at and the silent section of desks was located. He couldn't help but wonder if the herbology section was near the silent writing section because no one ever went there, so they figured the people at the desks would never be disrupted. He didn't mind - it made sense.

Making his way through columns of books, he began sorting through books until he realized what a horrible selection they had in terms of information on plants. Does no one care about the environment anymore? Oh well, I suppose they wouldn't. We can barely manage to care for ourselves these days. Basil frowned - a rare sight - and made his way around to the other side of the last section. His eye caught someone hunched over at a desk and he was distracted from his search for his books. It was a man, somewhere around his age - probably younger, there weren't a lot of people he expected to find older than himself, but he might have been older. He couldn't see his face, but the man seemed tired by the way his shoulders sagged. He also seemed incredibly focused, but as Basil peered over the desks, he wasn't sure if whatever this man was focusing on was the papers below him. He seemed to be on another planet. Suddenly the stranger dropped his head in a decidedly resigning manner and for some inexplicable reason, Basil found it to be one of the most adorable and endearing things he'd ever seen a grown man do.

He cocked his head a little in sympathy, smiling a little, and made his way over to introduce himself. He rested a hand on the desk before speaking. "Excuse me sir, but I don't believe we've met. I'm sure you are one of the staff here, but since we haven't really all had a formal meeting yet, I regret to admit that I don't know your name. I'm Basil." He gave his quirky and somehow charming little grin, his body seeming to bounce ever so slightly as he introduced himself.

jeremiah thomas bentman · Subject: Re: Comic Relief. [ basil + jeremiah ] April 24th 2009, 8:42 am

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