fardell24 ([personal profile] fardell24) wrote2025-08-17 06:47 pm

Spider Quinn 18 A Birthday and Stormy Sonnets Part 2

Straight after they finished their meal, Daria and Jane went to the art staffroom, where they found Ms. Dafoe.

“Jane!” Ms. Dafoe exclaimed as she saw Jane come in.

“I’m fine. It’s the first critic who really had a bad experience.”

“I heard about that. But are you sure?”

“Yes. I haven’t had flashbacks yet. But there is something else we need to talk about,” Jane said.

“Oh?”

“There’s this poem I found,” Daria said.

“A poem?” Dafoe asked. “That isn’t really my area of expertise. But that is a form of expression I have some experience in.”

“The thing is, I found it at my father’s grave and it’s has significant influence from Shakespeare,” Daria said.


Claire took that in. It seemed unusual, but with what was going on in Lawndale lately, it didn’t seem that unusual.

“What do you think?” Daria asked.

“It definitely is Shakespearean,” Claire said. “But I see that you’re concerned because someone may have intense feelings for you.”

“Yes. But I’m careful anyway. I just have to be more so when visiting the cemetery,” Daria responded.

“Whoever it is, knows their Shakespeare,” Claire added. “That may narrow it down.”

“Especially at this school,” Daria quipped.

“Thanks for your time, Ms. Dafoe,” Jane said.

“But I wouldn’t go to Mr. O’Neill. You know how he is,” Claire said.

“It will be one of the other Language Arts teachers,” Daria said.

“Or Ms. Li. She was a Language Arts teacher before she was Principal,” Claire said,

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fardell24 ([personal profile] fardell24) wrote2025-08-17 03:55 pm

Church notes - 17th August 2025

17th
Psalm 95

Top down attentional effect. A way our brains work to avoid sensory overload. Focusing in on what we want to see. It affects our thinking in many ways, including in ways that make us anxious and worried.

Isaiah 6
vs 3
The glory of God overwhelms Isaiah, but he is cleansed (in aforeshadowing of what Jesus does for everyone who believes at the Cross).
The angel (or Jesus Himself) reassures Isaiah.

The glory of God shakes not only the Temple but the whole creation. The whole creation proclaims God's glory.

Psalm 23
He is with us, in us, as we go through the valley of the shadow of death.

Matthew 14:22 - 23
Peter walking on the water. He was fine while he focused on Jesus. But he began to sank when he focused on the storm around him.
fardell24 ([personal profile] fardell24) wrote2025-08-15 10:39 pm
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fardell24 ([personal profile] fardell24) wrote2025-08-10 07:12 pm

Spider Quinn 18 A Birthday and Stormy Sonnets Part 1

18 A Birthday and Stormy Sonnets
The teenage girl approached the grave site at sunset while fog was settling in.

The headstone read.

Jacob Elias Morgendorffer
June 23, 1952 – November 4, 2000

The girl flipped back her cloak, allowing the fading sunlight to reflect off her glasses and hairclips. “Hi, Dad,” Daria Morgendorffer said. “I’m sorry I haven’t been here a for a while.” She paused. She still knew it was silly, but it was one way of processing her grief. “Things have been busy lately, especially since Groundhog Day.” She paused. The search for information on Oscorp’s plans for Lawndale, and then becoming Dafoanairi had taken up more of her time than expected. Then there was the unresolved situation with Quentin Beck.
“There are now fourth and fifth vigilantes here in Lawndale. I can imagine you ranting about that. Anyway, the Enigma and Dafoanairi. Can you guess who the latter is? Me. That’s right, I’m fighting crime and rescuing people, armed with a quarterstaff. Can you believe that? At least Jane being abducted didn’t stop my play being played. That’s right, Tempest is now being shown at the Historia. That despite Quentin Beck showing his true colors.” Daria shook her head, she didn’t want to dwell on Beck. She took out the newspaper she had brought with her.

Lawndale Sun-Herald
Sunday, February 25, 2001
Critics and Jane Lane Rescued by Vigilantes including SpiderGirl
Quentin Beck Escapes

“I’ll read out the business section. There’s a lot about Oscorp having a rollercoaster ride on the stock market.”

Daria then heard something. She turned around with her quarterstaff at the ready (as she had walked to the cemetery as Dafoanairi). “Who’s there?” she asked.

There wasn’t an answer. She turned back to her father’s headstone. She then saw that something was behind it. “What’s this?” She grabbed it and saw that it was a sealed envelope. “Who places letters next to a grave?” she asked herself. She then wondered if she would open it or not. ‘Come on, Morgendorffer, what’s going on in Lawndale has you paranoid.’ She then ripped it open.

“A poem?” she asked herself after reading the first couple of lines.

What’s more, it seemed to be a love poem. ‘Really? Who asks grieving teens out in such a way?’ She looked around again. There was no one there. “Sorry. Someone seems to be leaving poems here.” Daria then read out the business section, as well as the front page article.

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fardell24 ([personal profile] fardell24) wrote2025-08-10 04:07 pm

Church notes - 10th August 2025

10th
Psalm 100

Matthew 4:18 - 21
Simon called Peter

John 21:15 - 17
A person set apart by God.

1 Peter 1:3 - 7
fardell24 ([personal profile] fardell24) wrote2025-08-09 02:21 pm
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Mysteries of Aurora - The Manuscript Part 7

“You’re also looking for others?”

“Also, for someone who does specialise in the Mid-Ancient Era,” Olivia added.

“I’m busy at the moment, but I can be at the Library after twelve.”

“Thanks.”

“Something else?” Hraffson asked.

“I’ll try to find someone who specialises in the period the manuscript is from.”


“OK. Mid-Ancient Era, also known as Aurora’s Bronze Age Period,” Olivia murmured, as she left the office. “May need to know when the Iron Age started.”


Back in the Library, Freya and Alexia returned to the Ancient Section.

“What did you find?” Talia asked.

“Some things,” Freya said, as she held up one of the books.

“The game guide in Auroric?” Talia asked.

“And Auroran,” Alexia added.

“So, we have the two points of view,” Freya added.

“A good idea, but will it help?” Talia asked.

“Of course it will,” Janara said.


Olivia found the second office she was looking for and knocked.

“Come in,” the professor said.

Olivia entered and saw that her room as cluttered with various maps, articles and artefacts. “Professor Marvinius?”

“Yes, and you are?”

“Olivia Marcus, first year History.”

“Why are you here?”

Olivia explained everything.


Professor Marvinius thought about what Olivia had said.

“There are things in this university that haven’t been touched for centuries, even millennia. This manuscript might have been one of them.”

“So, will you help?”

“Yes. I’ll see how this Freya has figured out the layout, but my specialty is the expansion of Urbs Aeterna’s influence during the Bronze Age period.”

“That’s fine,” Olivia said. “Let’s go.”


Back at the Library, Janara looked at Freya’s colourful mind map of the investigation again. It was chaotic but there was a pattern to it.

“Wait, you’re using the campus layout?” Janara asked.

“It must be on my mind. But this time, it’s the layout from a later era, towards the end of the Renaissance,” Freya responded.

“It’s like Aurora in general,” Janara mused.

“The layers of history,” Freya confirmed.

“But how does this help us know where to find the manuscript?” Talia asked.

“It’s probably in the core of the campus,” Alexia answered. “But that is still a large area.”

“We’ll probably need to know what was built when,” Freya said, as she wrote 1123 on the mind map. “Probably somewhere built before the Unification.”

“Or maybe,” Janara added as she wrote 810, before the Nordic Era in general. She looked at Alexia and Talia. “Was the campus extended in the Early Medieval Era?”

“What I know is that the end of the Roman Era may have been chaotic, but the Academy as it existed at that time was relatively unaffected,” Talia answered.

“That’s a good point,” Freya said. She looked at her tablet. “Oh.”

“What’s up?” Alexia asked as Freya took a photo of the mind map.

“I have class in twenty minutes,” as she handed over the mind map to Alexia.

“We’ll catch up later then,” Janara suggested.

“I’ll be sketching at Sigrun Sigurdottir Hall,” Freya said before waving and flouncing off.


Olivia, along with Professor Marvinus, arrived back in the Ancient Section near where the manuscript had been. She saw Janara and Alexia there. “Where’s Freya?” she asked.

“She had to go to class,” Janara answered. “But she made this mind map.”

Olivia looked at the mind map, but Freya’s multi coloured writing was too messy for her dyslexia. “I can’t…”

“I can read it out,” Janara responded.

“Go ahead,” Olivia said.

“Certainly,” Alexia said.


Professor Marvinus turned to Talia. “They are certainly eager.”

“It was mostly Freya,” Talia said.

“Really?”

“She has a lot of energy and is very enthusiastic.”

“Sounds like a handful,” Marvinus commented.


“What do you think?” Janara asked Olivia when she had finished reading out the mind map.

“We are going in the right direction, trying to work out what it means and where it might be hidden,” Olivia answered.

“But other than the core of the campus, we still have no idea where to look,” Alexia said.

“That’s a good point,” Olivia said.

Janara looked at a map of the campus on her tablet. The Main Library, the Central Plaza and some portions of the various Departments formed the core. “Show entire campus,” she said.

The screen zoomed out, showing the entire campus., including the dorms to the east and west. The overall campus layout resembled a fractal. ‘It probably was a fractal at some point,’ she thought. But did the fractal relate to the protection rune?

“The whole campus?” Alexia asked.

“Just looking at something,” Janara answered.


Freya hurried out of the Library via the Grand Atrium. She was sure that the others would figure some things out without her.