WC 364
Despite the knocking, despite suspecting it was her brother who was outside her room now waiting for her to come invite him in, Orin did not answer the door. Instead, the room was silent save for a low, monotone humming, and she didn’t shuffle around within the walls. The faint flickering of candlelight beneath her door bore testament to the fact that she was probably still inside, though. It was common for her to light candles even during the day to get that extra bit of light on the pages she read, but it was completely out of her character to leave the candles and lanterns burning if she was not around to tend to them. Risk burning her books to oblivion? Never!
Instead of rushing to the door, she sat on her bed, the covers all disheveled and pillows strewn about the floor in her haste to pursue this new endeavor. There was an old tome open in front of her, the pages yellowed with age and decay, not an uncommon state for her books. On one page was the printed text of the more modern human printing presses, the other was a copy of an illustration. The figure in the illustration was sitting in a contorted way with it’s arms askew and legs crossed, but something strange was happening at the ankles and the feet were pointing up. Orin was doing her best to mimic the pose. Her eyes were shut, and her thumbs were touching her middle fingers.
She crooned softly to herself, but her humming died out when Niro began knocking. Finally, after another few moments of silence and then another knock, she sighed and peeked through one parted eyelid. Her golden eye glanced down at the book and skimmed for how long she was supposed to try to hold this pose, but could not find the instruction. Suddenly, she looked at the picture again, mortified. The pillows that she had shoved off her bed should have been beneath her! The figure was sitting on the floor, on pillows, not on the bed! In a small, defeated voice, she finally called through the door. “Well. . .” Sigh. “Come in.”
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