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Post by Sky on Mar 16, 2009 5:29:51 GMT -5
Sky didn’t sleep to much that night, she was excited about the morning’s activities, the move, the sorting of books and constructing the shelves on the 98th floor but most of all, it was the time she was going to spend with Titus that she was excited about. In all her years spent with the man, one would have thought they’d have parted company by now, but they hadn’t, they had remained friends, perhaps the best of and she cherished every moment they had together like nothing else.
His invite to the tower was certainly an honor, as he’d never offered any other Mage a floor in that tower for so long as it had been there, and it had been there a very log time. Her initial thought wasn’t however the honor it was to be invited; it was instead the thought of being just that much closer to him. Where as any other person would have thought of the honor of it first, she thought of him first, the honor second.
The Mage after a nice long hot bath and a quick breakfast got dressed. She decided on her usual, as the work they’d be doing wouldn’t allow for anything like a dress, no and so it was, she reached over and pulled on her leather clothing and then moved toward the small chest where she kept her bottles. From there, she grabbed up a few ales and a bottle of wine that had been there for probably a good 100 years. She smiled. “Well, old friend, nothing like sharing you with another old friend.” She said to it as she placed them in a basket that she’d had sitting on the floor to her right. “Now..” She said and paused to look around. “I guess this will do for now, little early for the drinks but at least I’ll have them when I want them.” She chuckled as she moved out through her door and down the stairs into the main library.
She looked around at the library, it was odd to be leaving here, but she wasn’t, not really, it was simply going to be her work place now instead of her home. After a second of silence, she chuckled and walked out the door towards the tower.
It didn’t take her long to reach the 100th floor, she managed to skip a few steps and run up most the way. She was, after all in great shape and a very excited little woman. When she reached his door and tapped on it. “Hey sexy, you up yet?” She asked and then waited for a reply.
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Post by Titus on Mar 16, 2009 21:01:11 GMT -5
Titus had still been sleeping. No matter how excited the old mage ever got, he always seemed to be able to sleep. In fact, he seemed to sleep better with anticipation as if it tired him out. He woke up though, as soon as he heard his friend’s sweet voice. “Oh dear yes, I am now.” He responded merrily to Sky’s call through the door. “Come on in sweat heart.” He added as he threw off his blankets and stood up from his bed.
It was still fairly early and Titus was glad that Sky had already come. It meant that perhaps she was as excited as he for the move. After taking a second to stretch his arms and legs, Titus turned and walked naked across the room to where he kept his clothing cabinet and started to fish through the drawers for something decent to wear. His usual morning robe was of course, hanging on the coat rack not far from his bed, but the morning robe was not what he wanted to wear for moving books and shelves around on the level below him.
“Good morning beautiful.” Titus welcomed as he searched for a satisfactory outfit that would eventually comprise of a nice white pair of slacks with a tight fitting white muscle shirt and a loosely fitting white over shirt, which he would leave open for some breeze. On the over shirt, were some ancient designs of runes that bode for happiness and good fortune.
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Post by Sky on Mar 16, 2009 21:22:13 GMT -5
Sky entered his room and though she found him nude to start, she wasn’t shocked, she’d seen him before and had gotten used to it by now. She walked across the floor of his room and sat in a chair at one of his many tables and thumbed through a book whilst she awaited his dressing. After he’d finished though, she stood and walked over to him, placing a kiss on his cheek.
“Morning Titus.” She greeted him and then smiled a she pulled the wine from the basket. “I figure after we get thing going, we could open this up in celebration.” She winked at him.
Sky settled her basket on a table next to them and smiled up at her friend. “So, have they figured out how to make those shelves yet?” She asked. “Or am I going to have to show them how it’s done?” She finished as she held the wine bottle out to him.
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Post by Titus on Mar 16, 2009 21:46:38 GMT -5
“Oh this will be wonderful dear.” Titus smiled as he grasped the bottle of wine that Sky was holding out to him. “I’m certain we will have a wonderful celebration.” He added, returning a kiss to each of Sky’s cheeks.
“The boys were looking through the books you sent them last night.” He began with a humored smile. “They looked confused at first, but of course we all know they’re actually smart enough men. I’m certain they have it figured out. After all, they wouldn’t want to disappoint either of us, let alone both of us.” Titus laughed.
“Shall we be taking this with us or leaving it here for later?” He asked, holding the wine bottle up. “Wonderful age this one is.” He added with a smile as he read the fading label. “I have some snacks.” He said then, picking up a basket of his own from a nearby desk. “I have nuts and fruits and some chocolates.” The old mage explained with a wide smile. “And I have some pastries and cookies on order from the bakery shop down the road.” He added with an even wider smile. “They’ll all be quite nice and fresh when we get them.”
Titus held his basket in one hand and put his other arm around Sky’s waist. “Shall we see about your room then?” he asked, then kissed Sky on the cheek again and started for the stairs with Sky at his side.
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Post by Sky on Mar 16, 2009 23:18:47 GMT -5
“We’ll leave it up here for later.” She answered him as they walked out of the room, and she walked beside Titus as they left and then entered the 99th floor, where her new home would be, though at the moment it still contained hundreds of books they would be moving down a floor. When they reached the floor she looked around and grinned.
“Well, I think I can get started taking these down so that they can get the shelves out of here, though maybe not all of them.” She grinned as she moved towards the shelves and ran her fingers over the spines of the books there.
The small mage then moved to another case where she started to take out books all the while she held on her face the happiest smile she could possibly have had as she thought of different ways to move the room about to suit her living.
For now, she simply sat books on the table here, keeping track of the ones she was taking down in her mind. Most people would have probably had to physically catalogue the tombs to paper as they moved along, but not Sky, her mind was used to this sort of thing and she had an incredible memory for this type of work.
“This is going to be fun.” She said and turned to Titus to give him a very warm smile. “I’m so glad we decided to do this…” She told him as she smiled and grinned at the same time, scrunching up her nose in the effect and then turned back to the shelf she was working on.
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Post by Titus on Mar 17, 2009 0:08:48 GMT -5
Titus left the bottle of wine on the last table before the stairs, and continued on down the stairs with Sky to the ninety ninth floor where they were to have her new quarters; the first ever besides his own in the great white tower of the mages. The tower had been there for a great many centuries, and Titus, the ages old master mage was glad he finally had a reliable mage moving into it with him. In a way, Titus had never had a plan in place for who would take care of the tower and likewise, the order of mages if something were ever to happen to him. He was glad that he finally had someone there with him; after all, he wasn’t as invincible as so many rumors believed him to be.
“Yes, this will be great fun.” Titus replied as he peeled a number of volumes off the shelves himself, and placed them likewise, on a nearby table. “It has been quite a long time since I’ve rearranged this many books at once.” He added, smiling warmly back at Sky. Certainly he regularly dealt with books in the tower, and in fact in the regular civilian library as well, but this was an enormous volume of text to be moving. Each floor of the tower, being a hundred feet in radius and covered in bookshelves held myriads of books. The two old mages certainly had their work cut out for them.
“Sky my dear,” the ancient man started, “You certainly have no idea how happy I am to have you join me in the high tower. I’m pleased that you’re so glad to be moving in.”
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Post by Sky on Mar 17, 2009 0:34:22 GMT -5
Sky giggled. “I know isn’t it exciting, so many to move, so many to put in their new home, jut like me.” She grinned positively from eat to ear at the thought.
She had been penned up in that small room over the regular library for so many years now, that this move was something more than just a simple thing for the small Mage, it was, to her, like starting over again, new. Not only that of course, there was the fact that Titus had even asked her to move in up here with him and having someone around and not being alone twenty-four seven as well. There really weren’t many words to describe how she felt and she knew she didn’t’ have to tell him how excited she was or even how honored she’d been when he asked, she knew he knew and she also knew, that was good enough for them both. Though she would, of course, thank him in her own way with small kisses and little hugs and perhaps the best thing she could think of, her ever lasting loyalty and service, both as friend, and a his ‘student’. Though really, she wasn’t a student any longer, she still did come to him for advice and she would always listen to his opinion, but most of all she felt she was his friend.
“I hope you’re keeping track of those as you pull them sexy.” She turned her head and winked at him. As if she needed to tell him, but still, she would, it was almost bread into her to be wary of these things.
Sky had come to a point in her shelf where she had to jump up and grab the next row of tombs from their resting place, or, slide the ladder over, one or the other. And after a few jumps she laughed at herself and then walked over and slide the ladder into position, taking tombs down until her hands were full and then she’d turn around and jump down with such agility that one would rule her out from being a Mage for her shear athletic abilities, but they’d be sorely mistake if they had done so. At one point she even laughed at herself and started to make a little game of it just to see how many books she could hold in her arms and still make the jump without dropping a single one.
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Post by Titus on Mar 17, 2009 0:49:24 GMT -5
Titus smiled at his old friend’s excitement, then started to laugh quite mirthfully at her concern. “My dearest Sky.” He began with a humored smile. “I was keeping a library more than a thousand years before you were born, as hard as that is to imagine for a young lady as yourself, who was here when this great city was but a portside community. I guarantee that every book I pull is deeply imprinted in my mind and let’s not forget, I know almost all them already, as often as I have read them; not to mention as many as I’ve written.” He knew that Sky was obviously not too concerned with his own habits. It was he who had had the tower built and the books moved in there in the first place, and it was he who had tended to them all before she took to keeping up the library. He was also almost the only other person besides her who still regularly maintained the place. Still, it seemed funny that her habits were so deeply embedded in her that she would make such a comment.
As Sky started to climb up and jump down off her ladder, Titus began to laugh again. “You are too terribly cute my dear.” He told her happily as he continued to clear the shelf he was working on, emptying the last of its books onto the table next to him. “You know I completely adore your energy and youthful vigor.” He added, honestly admiring his old friend’s mirth.
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Post by Sky on Mar 17, 2009 1:05:16 GMT -5
“Sky paused just before she took her last jump and then laughed at herself. “Ya, well, there is a lot more where this came from.” She winked at him. “We could test..” She began and then took her last leap from the ladder, landing perfectly once more and depositing her books on the table. “It sometime if you’re up to the task, old man..” She winked and smiled suggestively at him before looking over her books one last time and moving on to the next shelve.
She loved to play with Titus; he was always so accepting and fun. She honestly didn’t know why he didn’t have more people around more often; he was a great person to hang with. Though, of course at the same time, she thought perhaps she’d get jealous if she had to share him, she joked about it, but at the same time she was so used to it, that it may not have always been a joke.
“Ok, so we’ve got two shelves ready for tem, what time did you say they’d be around?” She asked Titus seriously now, eyeing the tables they had already filled and then the books that they were about to pull as well. At the rate she and Titus were removing the tombs from their beds, they’d have all the walls naked of books by noon.
“Oh, and of course you do dear.” She then smiled over at him, deciding to respond after all to his little speech about his book handling abilities. “You know me though…” She went on. “Always worrying about these things.” She finished as she slid her hand over the books almost lovingly.
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Post by Titus on Mar 17, 2009 1:19:53 GMT -5
“You’re welcome to test my memory any time you wish young lady.” Titus laughed merrily. “I am over fifty times older than any mortal man who still has a mind about him.” He added, making an unexaggerated joke about his old age. “We’ll see if you still have a mind like yours when you’re four times as old as you are.” He added, laughing merrily again.
“The youngsters will be up here shortly.” The old mage answered. “They were to be here ten minutes ago, but we both know they take longer to climb the stairs than they plan for.” He explained, simply accepting the way those mages were. He hadn’t had to look at a clock or even out a window to tell the time. As long as Titus had lived had given him an incredible sense of time. He seemingly always knew what time it was without ever needing any sings.
“I ordered a dozen of those hoodlums up here for this morning.” He added with a wide grin. “I figure those young whipper snappers will need some extra help to keep up with us old folks.” He laughed, and winked at Sky. He was right though, that the other mages wouldn’t have had as much energy as he and Sky; that’s how things were when some people stayed more active than others, and as well, when some gained more experience. That was not to mention as well, that moving the shelves to the lower floor would be a more time consuming task.
“I ordered them a keg of ale to be delivered in the lower foyer for when their work is done.” He told her. “I decided I’ve been asking enough of them lately to give them something back.”
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Post by Sky on Mar 17, 2009 1:34:58 GMT -5
Sky laughed at the wording he suddenly chose to use, such as whippersnapper and youngsters. She laughed so hard that she nearly fell over once or twice as she was in the middle of carrying a load of books from the shelf to the table as he spoke to her.
“Indeed? Well, there is even more incentive for them then, good because after this, they are going to want a few nice cold ones.” She responded still with a little bit of giggle between her words. “I was thinking…” She then stated, her tone growing more serious again, or at least more thoughtful. “That those three…” She pointed at the three shelves against the furthest wall. “Should be moved last.” She finished, knowing what they contained. “Oh, and speaking of books…” She then changed the subject all together. “Have you finished any of those ones Kyrea left for you?” She asked hopefully. She really was itching to set eyes on them very much.
She turned and began work again, there were still a lot of books to be taken down and she really wanted them out so that she could start making plans for her room. “My room.” She said quietly and not really to Titus at all, just thinking out loud and she smiled very wide.
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Post by Titus on Mar 17, 2009 1:51:29 GMT -5
“I agree.” Titus said, looking over at the shelves Sky had mentioned. “We don’t want those taken for granted.” The books on those shelves were particularly old and delicate. They also contained some important and powerful information. That was of course, why they were so close to Titus’ personal quarters. He kept all the most powerful texts high in the tower, and the most powerful of those, on his own private level. Some things were too strong even for the mages of the order. Some things needed to be watched.
“I have finished two of them actually.” He smiled. “I read one by an apparently legendary queen Celeste.” He explained with a broad smile and wide eyes. “Kyrea spoke very highly of her. I also read one by a leader from nearly a millennia ago. Those were pivotal times in the forming of the modern world, so I thought that a good early read. You can pick them up when we go for our celebratory wine.” He concluded, smiling and walked over to Sky where he touched her forehead with a soft kiss just as the other mages made their way up the stairs.
“Do you two have to be so touchy feely?” one of them asked. “If we have to be moving these shelves, you guys better keep up.”
“Don’t worry about us.” Titus laughed. “There are twelve of you so that we aren’t waiting too long on you.”
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Post by Sky on Mar 17, 2009 2:04:47 GMT -5
Sky smiled and then turned around when he said he had two for her and gave him a loving grin. “Yes.” She stated with enthusiasm. “I know what I’m reading tonight then.” She added bas he moved over to her and placed a sweet kiss on her forehead.
After the other’s comment about them being so touchy feely, Sky ‘s grin widened all the more, she would have thought he’d have known better than that about her by now. So, with what he said in mind, she snuggled up to Titus and standing on her toes, gave him a good long kiss and then turned around and laughed, shaking her head as she moved back towards the shelves she was working on. “And I might remind you that I don’t take to doing what others say to mind so much.” She replied with a laugh. “You just worry about you, we’ll worry about us.” She then told him, though she still did it with a perfectly happy smile on her lips.
Sky had managed to take down her second shelve in good time, the books laying on a third table in the order she wanted them in and she patted the top of one and looked around as the guys had the first shelf out but were still taking it down the stairs. She gave Titus a wink and tilted her head to the side. “And they worried about us.” She scoffed with teasing pleasure.
She never did take what the others said to heart, they were who they were and she did love them all in their own little way and she knew they knew it so she felt comfortable enough to pick on them from time to time without stepping on toes, so to speak.
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Post by Titus on Mar 17, 2009 2:16:31 GMT -5
Titus returned the nice kiss Sky had planted him with, even placed his hands on her sides while he was at it. They had always been quite comfortable with each other, but he was enjoying how much of these sweet affections he was getting lately, even if this one was inspired by a joking feud.
Once the kiss was over, Titus licked his lips, smiled, and pulled the books off another shelf of his own. “They just think we all are as slow as they are.” He said jokingly with a smile shot at the other mages. He obviously did care for every member of his order and fully respected them for who they were. He simply teased them all all the time and they all knew how he was. Humor was the best way and the only way in fact, that Titus had ever found to deal with life. Things only got worse when people stressed too much about things. His experiences had taught him to take everything in strides.
By the time the mages had carried the empty shelves down the stairs and returned, there were more already empty for them to take again. The tables were filling up of course, but those could be dealt with later, especially since Titus and Sky were emptying shelves faster than the other mages could carry them away. The time it would take for Titus and Sky to move the books off the tables and down the stairs would give the others enough time later to catch up and start moving the tables.
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Post by Sky on Mar 17, 2009 2:29:47 GMT -5
It wasn’t long and now, Titus and sky had begun making their way down the stairs to deposit books on the tables there. Sky was hopping up the stairs two by two at that point, excitedly, making little jokes about how much older she was then them all and still able to run laps around each and everyone, but with each joke, there was always that little loving wink thrown one way or the next.
By noon, as she had expected, most of the work had been done, all that Titus and Sky had left were the three shelves at the back and so she stopped, lead her head against Titus’s shoulder and sighed. “Time for lunch?” She asked, now thinking about the food.
She was hungry earlier, but when the other guys had shown up, she had made it a point to make sure that Titus and she were well ahead of them, just because. Now she moved over to her basket and took two bottles of ale form its inside and handed one to Titus. as she popped open her own and took a long drink form its contents and than sighed, laying her head back on his shoulder as she watched the guys carry another shelf on its way to the 98th floor.
“When you guys get that one down there, you should take a break too you know.” She told them seriously. She didn’t want any of them falling down from hunger after all.
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