for beyond_buffy
I found myself wandering the halls of Wolfram & Hart once again. I can't seem to stop doing that. Everyone around here looked so busy. They all looked like they had something important going on. Everyone had an office, or at least a desk outside an office. I saw lawyers in offices behind stacks of files, secretaries behind desks busily answering phones, people and demons wandering the halls (actually looking like they know where they are going) on cell phones sounding all important. And what was I doing? Wandering around completely lost. Maybe I should try to find the library. Then at least I could look like I was doing something important too. And hey, maybe I would be. Why don't I get a desk? Even that half-wit evil vampire, Harmony gets to be someone's assistant! Hey, she gets to be Angel's assistant! How completely wrong is that?? Seriously.
So instead of getting myself any more lost than I already was, I stopped one of the random secretaries to ask where the library was. She looked majorly pissed like I had interrupted something huge. But she was carrying an empty mug.. She was so just fetching her boss some coffee. Way to be an uber-bitch. But at least she knew where the library was and gave me semi-clear directions on how to get there. That's a plus.
I walked into the library and looked around. This place was huge but really well organized. Not a book out of place... Well hey now! There's a scroll randomly sitting out on a table. Guess I was wrong. And people think I'm an idiot. I wouldn't leave powerful scrolls just laying around all willy-nilly. No way. Well, not on purpose anyway.
I tried looking around for books on that demon language, Glashni'lai. I was having a little trouble though and then my mind wandered to that misplaced scroll. I wonder what it's all about and why someone was looking at it... I bet it's something important. Oooh! Maybe it's evil and someone is plotting against Angel! He'd totally want to know if that was happening.
I walked over to the scroll and picked it up. It looked like it was in Babylonian. Huh. Usually big bad things are written in weirder languages than that. Maybe I should just put it back. That is if I can figure out where it goes. Looking around, my eyes gravitated back toward the scroll. My curiousity getting the best of me, I sat down to read the scroll. One of the passages was hard for me to make out so I began to sound it out... out loud. As soon as I had uttered the words, the entire scroll began to glow a bright yellow/orange light.
Dropping the scroll and standing up, backing away, I whispered, "Uh oh.. This can't be good.."
A light flashed so brightly that I was nearly blinded by it, and when I opened my eyes, there it was. A demon. I had summoned a demon! It was almost seven feet tall, with two sets of horns and some really wicked looking teeth. It was kind of a puke-greenish color, with fists the size of my head. It's skin, scaly and hard. So I did the only thing I could think of to do.
I screamed.
So instead of getting myself any more lost than I already was, I stopped one of the random secretaries to ask where the library was. She looked majorly pissed like I had interrupted something huge. But she was carrying an empty mug.. She was so just fetching her boss some coffee. Way to be an uber-bitch. But at least she knew where the library was and gave me semi-clear directions on how to get there. That's a plus.
I walked into the library and looked around. This place was huge but really well organized. Not a book out of place... Well hey now! There's a scroll randomly sitting out on a table. Guess I was wrong. And people think I'm an idiot. I wouldn't leave powerful scrolls just laying around all willy-nilly. No way. Well, not on purpose anyway.
I tried looking around for books on that demon language, Glashni'lai. I was having a little trouble though and then my mind wandered to that misplaced scroll. I wonder what it's all about and why someone was looking at it... I bet it's something important. Oooh! Maybe it's evil and someone is plotting against Angel! He'd totally want to know if that was happening.
I walked over to the scroll and picked it up. It looked like it was in Babylonian. Huh. Usually big bad things are written in weirder languages than that. Maybe I should just put it back. That is if I can figure out where it goes. Looking around, my eyes gravitated back toward the scroll. My curiousity getting the best of me, I sat down to read the scroll. One of the passages was hard for me to make out so I began to sound it out... out loud. As soon as I had uttered the words, the entire scroll began to glow a bright yellow/orange light.
Dropping the scroll and standing up, backing away, I whispered, "Uh oh.. This can't be good.."
A light flashed so brightly that I was nearly blinded by it, and when I opened my eyes, there it was. A demon. I had summoned a demon! It was almost seven feet tall, with two sets of horns and some really wicked looking teeth. It was kind of a puke-greenish color, with fists the size of my head. It's skin, scaly and hard. So I did the only thing I could think of to do.
I screamed.