Amelia felt the sense of being watched as she was reading through some books in the library. She looked over to her right and saw the cat-like grinning of Xellos the Trickster Priest who was sitting right next to her. She shook her head giving Xellos an evil look before returning to her reading. But even though she tried to concentrate on what she was reading she couldn't. Not with him intently staring at her like that.
"What exactly are you doing Mister Xellos?" Amelia asked in fake sugariness.
"Why watching you of course."
"And why exactly are you doing that?"
"Why not?"
Amelia shook her head in annoyance. She was still a little bit miffed with Xellos, but not nearly as bad as she was before. "Mister Xellos, would you hand me that book over there?" Amelia motioned to a book right in front of him.
Xellos picked up the book and leafed through it. "What are you looking for in here?"
"I was going to see if I could find anything useful on helping a person with amnesia to get back their memory."
Xellos frowned. "Then you shouldn't read through this one, it only talks about the effects of amnesia." Xellos looked around the room till he saw what he was looking for. He pulled out a book from a shelve and handed it to Amelia. "If you want something to help get back their memory you might find this book a bit more useful." Xellos grinned warmly and walked off whistling.
Amelia regarded the book suspiciously. It can't be anything useful, there's no way that Mister Xellos would actually be helpful. She opened the book carefully and started to read it over.
After Lina's little chat with Mr. Hender she went back to looking up information on creatures that could enter dreams. She quite a bit of information too, but it was all useless information. There was nothing that Lina found that would be helpful to them at all.
Hmm... someone went into our rooms to put up these barriers to protect us in our sleep. And since both Amelia's and Sylphiel's dream barriers are gone like mine was before then that same thing that put the barriers will have to go back their tonight to put up new ones. So maybe we could stake out the rooms to see the creature when it shows up. Lina grinned in thought but then frowned. But then I don't know if the thing will show up if there is anyone else in the room. I know Amelia and Sylphiel could pretend they are asleep and when the thing comes to they could get a good look at it. Lina made a mental note to tell Sylphiel and Amelia before going back to her reading.
Just as Lina picked up another promising but probably useless book Amelia came rushing in a huff.
"Miss Lina!" Amelia ran over to her and successfully tripped on a little footstool and sent herself flying face first into a bookshelf. "AHHHH!!!! OWWWWW!!!" Amelia yelled as she was buried in books and parts of the now broken shelf.
Lina shook her head and helped fished out the young Sailune princess from under the rumble.
"You know Amelia you really should be more careful and not rush into things so fast." Lina said with a laugh.
"Miss Lina! You shouldn't laugh at the misfortune of others! That's unjust and mean!" Amelia mumbled with many bright red marks on her face.
"Okay Amelia I'm sorry. So why exactly were you in such a rush to get here?"
"I have something important to tell you about Mister Xellos!"
Lina rolled her eyes. "Great what did he do this time?"
"Well I'm worried that something way be wrong with him."
"Wrong? Like how?"
"He's acting strangely. When I was looking for information on trying to get back someone's memory who has amnesia and Mister Xellos was actually helpful."
Lina's eyes went wide in shock. "WHAT?!?! He was helpful?! What did he do?"
"Well I asked him to hand me a book near him and he picked up the book I asked for and asked what I was looking for. I told him and then he said that the book I wanted wouldn't be helpful to me and then he handed me another book saying that that one would be helpful. And when I went to go read both the books I realized he was right! The one he handed me was actually helpful with many suggestions on what you could do to help someone get back their memory. While the book I originally wanted didn't help at all!"
Lina blinked a few times. He was helpful... What the hell is going on here?!?!? "Okay that's not right. There has to be something seriously wrong with him."
"That's what I think."
"Well then I think we should tell the others about it and find out what useful information we've gathered. So where is that book that with the amnesia information that Xellos handed you?"
Amelia thought for a moment then lowered her head once she realized where the book was.
"Well Amelia, where is it?"
"Um well you see Miss Lina I had the book in my hand when I came into the room."
"You don't mean...?"
Amelia nodded and pointed to the big pile of books from the bookshelf that Amelia had crashed into.
Lina facefaulted.
Zelgadis who was in a different wing of the library was just leafing through different books aimlessly. He was trying to see if there were any of things he was reading that seemed familiar to him. So far he hadn't been really successful. The closest he had been was when he picked up a book about chimeras and felt a sense of déjà vu. But it was so much the book, it was the act of picking up the book and looking up information on chimeras. Besides that nothing was familiar, no even his 'friends'. There was still a part of Zelgadis was still didn't believe that the people that claimed to be his friends were really who they say they are. Zelgadis figured that if they were really his friends then he should at least feel a little bit of familiarity. But then the other part of Zelgadis rationalized that from what Lina told him, he wasn't a very friendly person to begin with. So even though he had friends he never really got close to them in a friend manner. He had always kept his distance. That's assuming that Lina was telling me the truth with that whole long story. But then what reason would she have to lie? Zelgadis shook his head and went back to reading but a sudden wave of exhaustion over took him and he fell asleep in his chair.
Xellos watched the slumbering ex-chimera from back in a corner in the room.
Almost an hour later Lina decided to give up on trying to find that book that Amelia had about amnesia. Amelia couldn't remember what the book looked like because there was so many different books there and plus Amelia hadn't really looked at the cover of the book in the first place.
"You know I wonder what Mr. Hender is going to say about his bookshelf." Lina grinned evilly with a little cackle.
"Oh no! What is Mr. Hender going to say?" Amelia cried out in worry.
Lina rolled her eyes. "I doubt Mr. Hender say much. Just as long as you apologize."
"Why would Miss Amelia need to apologize to me for?" Mr. Hender asked coming up behind the two.
"I'm sooooo sooorrry Mr. Hender! Didn't mean to break your bookshelf!" Amelia cried out. "Will you please forgive me?!"
Mr. Hender frowned a bit and looked at the damage that had been done to the room. "Ah Miss Amelia, don't worry yourself too much about it. These bookshelves are old and aren't very sturdy anymore. I really should get them all replaced anyway."
Amelia sighed in relief.
Lina shook her head and turned to Mr. Hender. "I think now's a good time to get everyone back together to see what everyone found."
Mr. Hender nodded in agreement and the three of them went off to go get the others.