nightmare , open

This was it. The end to a very much needed end of the day. Ariadne glared at the piles of books that she could still easily see from the place she was standing in the library. Being the new kid on staff still meant that she was set with cleaning up the library once they closed everything up for the night. Ari let a soft sigh slip through her lips, one that was barely audible. She waved the other librarians out, assuring them that she could indeed clean up everything on her own. Just because she hated doing it didn’t mean that she was going to whine about it and make them stay behind to help her. She was a child, yes, but she wasn’t that much of one.

Ariadne pushed her hand back through her long, dark hair before she pulled it up into a low, messy ponytail. It was the best she could bring herself to have effort for at the moment. Her steps were slow and drug a bit as she made her way to the first table, wand in hand. She swished it quickly to levitate the books, uttering the spell quietly. For some reason, she hated being loud in the library after they were closed up for the night. It was the one time that she probably could have screamed bloody murder in the place and no one would have even batted an eyelash at it, but she couldn’t bring herself to do it. To her, it felt better to remain quiet while she cleaned things up. It meant that she could hear things in the library, though she was never quite sure what it was she was expecting to hear. She leaned her face close to the stack of books and pulled the top one off the stack, keeping the others steady in a feat that she had only managed thanks to lots of practice doing it.

Her bright eyes scanned the shelves as she quickly made her way through shelving the first stack of books. Ari skipped back to the tables, her sneakers making slight squeaking sounds against the floor as she did so. She did a little spin as she reached the next table and then levitated those books as well. Her pace quickened as she headed down the next aisle. She was trying to make quick work of this, but that ended very quickly as she heard a sound in the library. Ari clapped her hand to her mouth as she made a little sound of fear, hoping that she stifled it efficiently. The doors were closed, right? She lost control of her books at that point and they spilled to the floor with several loud thumps. So much for being quiet. Ari lowered her wand as she brought her other hand to her forehead, thumping herself for being so clumsy.

“Well since you know I’m still in here now….bloody clumsiness. Might as well come out.” Ari shook her head at herself again. Honestly, she was hoping that whoever it was just showed themselves. She didn’t have the time or the patience to be scared out of her mind tonight. And it was very likely that whoever it was would end up being hexed if they didn’t help her out with not being scared to death. Ari lifted her wand just to be sure. “The library is closed you know….” She wasn’t even sure why she said it, but the words were already out of her mouth now. Brilliant.