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[deathly_origami]

...Huh?

D-did that just...?

...oh dear.

[Anyone in the library will find Yomiko frantically searching for something. Her superpower for the event is the ability to conjure things from written word into reality (think Inkheart... has anyone seen/read that?) and she's just gained and lost something.]

Comments

[frumpyface]

Lady Yomiko? What just happened?

[deathly_origami]

Erk! I, I was just reading a book and then... the words sort of warped on the page and... something darted out!

[frumpyface]

And that something was?

[deathly_origami]

W-Well, it was very fast, but I, um... I suspect from the subject of the book that-

[Yomiko flinches, emiting a startled squeak and suddenly, she seems to have acquired a rather interesting blue necklace.]

E-Erk...!

[frumpyface]

Don't look at me! I don't have any powers!

[deathly_origami]

[Oh, hello there! Miniature dragon (of the not fluffy, speaking, and catlike variaty) pops head out from Yomiko's hair. The "necklace" shifts and moves: it was the dragon's tail.]

[frumpyface]

2/2

[frumpyface]

Lady Yomiko. What is that book?

[deathly_origami]

Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey.

[frumpyface]

Currently taking wagers on the chances of that dragon singing.

1/2

[deathly_origami]

[Dragon makes some chittering noises, then darts back into Yomiko's hair.]

2/2

[deathly_origami]

That would be very interesting... but I think the poor thing is frightened.

[frumpyface]

We have different opinions as to the definition of interesting.

[deathly_origami]

Well, I've never heard a dragon sing before... Er, I've never ever seen a dragon before today, but...

...I wonder how I can get him back into the book...