Topic: For The Record - [open to all Oracle staff]

Amthyst Oak

Date: 2006-07-25 14:46 EST
Amthy stood before the two-story building with her head craned back, and her Hi-light magazine tucked under one arm. "Is this the place?" She asked Caytlin with a measure of curiosity.

The silvery-blonde haired shifter nodded. "It is according to the directory, and well, that sign." she made a gesture before scratching the side of her nose.

"Shall we go inside?" Amthy whispered aside to Cayt.

"Only if you want to talk to them about the article," Cayt answered slowly.

"They have to take it back!" Amthy responded fiercely.

"Then, yes, we have to go inside," Cayt replied as she opened the door and held it open for the green-haired nymph. The whirl of the printing presses tickled her sensitive ears, and she just able to move out of the way of a gaggle of news boys as they made their exodus. "This way, Amthy."

Obediently, Amthy toddled into the building's lobby and smoothed one of her hands down over the skirt of her milkmaid-styled frock. It was a charming cut, and the soft blue color accented her olivine hair and fair features. Once inside, her eyes fastened almost immediately on the receptionist, and she scampered to the desk with a gleeful giggle. She had never been inside the Oracle building before, it was like being on a fieldtrip.

"Pardon me," She chirped to the receptionist. "I need to talk to someone about an article." Amthy began to ramble. "See, they wrote a story about me and it simply isn't true! They said such dreadful things and now my fosterlings won't come and talk to me and cry all the time!" She said quickly in way of explanation, and all in one breath.

"Amthy!" Cayt pet a hand over her sister's hair as she caught up to the nymph and gave a small smile to the receptionist. It was an expression that asked the viewer to be indulgent. "We need to speak to the Editor about a story that ran in last month's paper."

"Neano made the evil-eye sign at me!" Amthy called from the background, exasperated.

The receptionist looked clearly puzzled at Amthy's outburst, and continued to speak with Cayt about the virtues of calling first, or at least sending a messenger.

Cayt cleared her throat. "Ah, no, we don't have an appointment, but it is pressing that we speak to someone in charge, or we will be forced to get our lawyer involved."

The mention of lawyers, Cayt found, made otherwise unagreeable persons more agreeable.

"We don't mind waiting," Cayt explained to the receptionist. "As I said before, this is very important. Do we wait down here, or upstairs?" A wane smile pulled at Cayt's lips, and the expression was wolf-like in quality as it showed more teeth than it rightly should have. "Down here is fine, just let us know when we can go up."

Amthy, on the other hand, had already wandered off. The green-haired lovely was sitting on the floor. Her attention span was short, and dealing with the receptionist was just not her cup of tea! She sniffsnuffed and gave a small wriggle to make herself comfortable before opening up her magazine. She turned to the hidden picture page, and started searching for where the clever artist had hidden the spoon.

Amaltea

Date: 2006-07-27 09:42 EST
The receptionist informs Amal.

"Send her up." Amaltea replies.

Amthyst Oak

Date: 2006-07-27 11:47 EST
When the receptionist called over to the sisters, Amthy was still deep in contemplation. Bright eyes narrowed and her mouth pinched as she scrunched up her nose. A small huff escaped her as she put her magazine down. "I dunn think there really is a duck in the picture," she confided to Cayt. "I think they made it up."

"I doubt they made it up just to vex you."
"Uh-huh, yes, they did so!"

It was around that time that Cayt heard the second attempt by the receptionist to get their attention. One of them was better than none of them! The silvery-blonde shifter eased out of her seat and brushed a hand over her worn jeans. Clearing her throat, she approached the desk.

"Yes?" She politely inquired to the receptionist.

After a few quiet words she was happy to learn that they could go up and see someone. Cayt stayed near the desk and called back to Amthy. "Amthy, it's time to go. Some one will see us now. We shouldn't keep her waiting."

Amthy wound a the pencil she held around her hair. "But I wanna find the duck."

"You can find the duck later. UpUp! It's time to go upstairs," Cayt prodded. Really, sometimes her sister was just ask bad as Audrien and Ariella!

Resigned, the Nymph closed up her magazine and stood. "Oooh all right," she sighed as she started to shuffled in the direction of the stairwell. Cayt met her halfway, and they continued on to the second floor together. Amthy couldn't help but feel just a little bit nervous--they were the ones that said she'd been murdered! That anxiety prompted her to lag a step behind her sister rather than try and race the blonde to the top.

When they reached the top it was to find a room lined with desks, and there were people at the desks typing away. Gasping, Amthy clapped her hands together. "Waaah!" Her lantern-like eyes rounded and like the busybody she was, she looked over every desk as they walked down the aisle. A time or three Cayt even had to stop, backtrack, and drag her a few steps to catch up.

"I like the clicking sounds," she gushed to her sister. "Do you think they'll lemme play?"
"I don't...think so," Cayt replied cautiously. Of course, she didn't know for certain. "I think they're working."
"Working?" Amthy made a sour face.
"Yes, some people have to do that every once in a while."
"Sounds dreadful."
"I daresay that it is." Cayt said with a great deal of amusement. Goddess Forbid that her sister actually work a day in her life (or un-life, she hadn't quite figured it out yet)! "I'm sorry to interrupt," Cayt began to one of the people in the office, "but we're looking for the editor."

A point of a finger sent them further down the aisle to the glass office at the end. Turning toward Amthy, Cayt tidied up the nymph's green hair and smoothed out the quarter puffed sleeves of her dress. She did this primarily for Amthy's benefit rather than her own. "There, now you look very pretty." A little icing never hurt, either, when it came to Amthy.

Amthy cooed happily and twisted in place before the door. "Thanking you."

"You're welcome," Cayt replied as she thwapped her knuckles against the office door.

Tera Destre

Date: 2006-07-29 05:53 EST
Des was happily munching away on a strawberry cream cheese danish as she wrote up an article about the latest Diamond Quest over in the Duel of Fists when she caught sight of something that simply could not be from the corner of her eye. Her mouth stopped moving to be left hanging open even though there was currently food in it as her head turned toward Amal's office.

The pen in her hand dropped to her desk to land beside the danish that she had also dropped as disbelief washed over her in wave upon shocking wave. There was no mistaking anyone for The Pix. That had to be none other than the dead Amthy standing there looking very much alive, not dead.

It wasn't really that Amthy was alive and not dead that was so terrible and had Des truly horrified and not only that but mortified with a rush of scarlet creeping into her cheeks to blush them. She was the one that had written the front page article for The Oracle announcing to the entire world that the beloved nymph pixie was dead. Now here she stood alive!

Des truly didn't know if she should jump up, run over and hug the stuffing out of Amthy, she was so happy to see her, or if she should jump up, crawl into a hole and disappear because her career in journalism could well be in shreds.

If Amal didn't hand her her walking papers over this she was going to be very lucky as it was she figured she was at the very least looking at a possible cut in pay and maybe even being sent out to sell papers on the street corner with the newspaper boys as punishment for this debacle. Of course this was all in her own mind not necessarily what would happen.

But she had gotten this story straight from the mouths of those that had known for a fact that Amthy was dead! Her sources were unimpeachable! What in tarnation was going on she had no clue but this just was not right and she was NOT going to stand on the street corner and sell newspapers with those nasty little boys if she had anything to say about it.

So while she could she decided to make a break for the door. A silently as she possibly could she eased off her chair and slunk into a very low crouch then rounded her desk to the side opposite from the glass wall. Thank goodness her stomach was still flat because a very pregnant Des would not have been able to perform this escape.

She wove a silent, concealed, path through the maze of desks and people, darting occasional glances over in the direction of her Editor's office with numerous starts and stops to ensure she was not caught in the act of escaping the office building.

Des did not want to meet up with the Boss again until she had a chance to check with those people that had told her The Pix was dead in the first place to find out how now The Pix was alive and in The Oracle office building waiting to talk to her Boss no doubt about the article that she had written about her death!

Amaltea

Date: 2006-07-31 17:06 EST
Amal looks up and sees the two women. One of them looks awfully familiar, but she can't place her. They are fussing a bit before the door. From the corner of her eye she sees Des sneaking out and she wonders why. But why is that one girl so familiar? They finally knock on the glass door.

"You can come in." Amal says waving them in.

Amthyst Oak

Date: 2006-08-01 20:06 EST
Cayt caught the flicker of someone sneaking out just at the corner of her eye, but before she could actually do anything (like get a good look), Amthy was tugging at her arm. A blink and twitch of her nose as the silvery-blonde looked back at her sister.

"She said we could come in!" Amthy squeaked excitedly in a strained voice. The Nymph curled her little hands around Cayt's arm as she hopped in place. "Should we go?" Her lilting voice imploring.

"Of course we should, silly."
"You go first!"
"Why me?"
"Why not you?"
"Why not you?" Cayt replied smoothly as she picked a bit of lint off Amthy's dress.
"Should we play paper-rock-scissors to figure out who goes first?"
An amused light played in Cayt's emerald eyes. "Sure."

Amthy scrunched up her nose and rolled her shoulders. "Un-two-threeee!" She called out as she hit her balled fist up against her palm and at three, she stuck out her 'v'd fingers like scissors and Cayt kept hers balled up like a stone. Amthy stared at it a moment.

"There, it's settled."

Amthy continued to look at Cayt, her eyes narrowing suspiciously as the Shifter hustled her through the door. "You cheated, didn' you?"

"How could I cheat?" Cayt asked as she pushed the Nymph passed the threshold and into the office.

"OhMYgoodness, you did!" She hissed scandalized. "Cheaters never prosper."

"But they do get to go into the office second," Cayt said smoothly in a stage whisper as she tweaked Amthy's nose. Clearing her throat, Cayt then looked to Amaltea. "Thank you for seeing us on such short notice."

"The paper told everyone I was dead!" Amthy blurted out as she waved her hands.

"Er...yes, we are here about an article that ran in the paper." Cayt said to Amaltea as Amthy paced a circle around the silvery-blonde haired Shifter.

"The one that said I was murDERed!" Amthy squawked from behind Cayt, her head popping around the blonde. "'m alive!"

"Ah, yes, um, the one that said Amthy had been victim to foul play." Cayt very slowly, and nonchalantly, twined her arm around Amthy's shoulders and fit her hand over Amthy's mouth. "As you can see, she is very much alive."

Amthy huffed and puffed behind her hand. First, she tried to pull Cayt's hand off her mouth finger by finger as the women spoke, and when that didn't work, she restorted to licking at her sister's palm. The silvery-blonde haired Shifter grimaced, but the hand stayed put for the time being.

Amaltea

Date: 2006-08-26 17:55 EST
Amal is confused but she thinks there has to be a logical explanation for all this. Let's see. NOW she remembers her, she's the girl from the first issue. Right, front page news. Who wrote that articl.... ahh... that's why Tera was sneaking out. Oh, she'll be selling newspapers on the corner, unless she can fix this mess.

"I'm really sorry about all this. But you see, technically you were dead. So it wasn't an error. But seeing that you are alive now I'm sure we could write a story of what really happened and how you came back to the world of the living."

Amaltea takes out a pad and scribbles a quick note. She then extends her hand with the note to offer it to them.

"That's the name of the reporter, Tera Starfare. She wrote the original story, she can go ahead and write a new interview." She smiles while thinking 'or else she will be selling newspapers out in the corner real soon.'

Amthyst Oak

Date: 2006-09-03 17:30 EST
Amthy's cheeks puffed out and her lips puckered for a moment behind her sister's hand. "But I didn't die!" She declared her lilting voice earnest when she finally wrenched Cayt's hand down from her mouth. "I dunn even know how people came to that conclusion!" Tsavorite-like eyes rounded into saucers as the nymph worked herself up even further.

"I'm sure the article didn't help matters," Cayt said soothingly as she dried the spit from her hand on the puffy little sleeve of Amthy's dress.

"Of course it didn'!" Amthy gushed as she began to wring her hands.

"So it was an error, you see," Cayt said to Amaltea. "The report that Amthy had perished."

"A mistake!" Amthy readily agreed.

"I think a retraction would solve the matter nicely." Cayt offered to Amaltea as she smoothed Amthy's hair in an attempt to bring the nymph's rising emotions back into check. The scent of fresh-turned soil married with the tang of rain in the area immediately around the green-haired nymph. It took only a moment for Cayt to realize Amaltea was offering her a paper, which she took and gave a brief once over. "Thank you for your time." The note was as clear a dismissal as anything else the woman before the silvery-blonde haired shifter could have said.

Lowering her hand to Amthy's shoulder, she pushed gently to coax Amthy into turning about to face the door. Cayt lifted the paper and gave it a small wave before folding it and tucking the square into her pocket. "Good day."

"Bye!" Amthy chirped over her shoulder as Cayt guided her toward the door with one hand firm between her shoulder blades.

Gavilean

Date: 2006-09-05 16:08 EST
Gav walked in just as Amthy and Cayt were leaving.

"Amthy! Hey, darlin'! Great to see you alive and kickin'. I would hate to see RhyDin's great Tea Party host perish forever."

He snapped a few pictures just in case.

"Good day, ladies!"

He headed to his desk with some very unusual photographs for the October issue of the Oracle.