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[Update] Quirky Aquity - 22/06/06 Spiders and Flies
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dommccas
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 		[Update] Quirky Aquity - 22/06/06 Spiders and Flies
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I remember vividly the week we spent studying spiders in biology class. It was amazing to me that one spindly creature could weave such a giant net and then be content to stay in the centre, motionless. It seemed like magic that, just by sitting there so quietly, the spider could know everything that brushed against its web, and know precisely when to take action to get what it wanted.

I think that's me right now.

I've spun a web; Caine and Anna are the wind blowing unsuspecting prey in - and soon Kurt will be, too - while I sit here in the centre digesting all of the information and doing not much else but avoiding notice.

I'm working, of course, and going out in the evenings to play for my rent, but everything has taken on a surreal normality. At the library, we don't talk about Cymbalisty or Miranda anymore; we just get on with our work. And dad has evidently stopped his madcap game of I-Have-Spies-Everywhere-Don't-Forget, and returned to his lovely old routine of needling me to take admission to the Academy and "live up to my fullest potential," coupled with the occasional oddly thoughtful suggestion for a book I might find interesting or a lecture I might like to attend.

Yesterday for the holiday he even had an afternoon barbecue, with the CRT and a bunch of senior fellows in attendance, though Scarlett was in a sulky mood over something or other and curled up indoors with her key most of the day. Still, it was all so pleasant, it felt like it could have been three years ago, before any of this happened, before I knew anything about this world of secret conspiracies and hidden motivations about to pull the ground from under my feet.

During a lull in the chatter, I heard my dad's voice carry across the garden as he spoke to Uncle Sanjean: "Oh, I complain, but of course I'm very proud of both of my girls," he said. And he caught my gaze from clear across the party, and gave me just a tiny smile and a nod, like he meant me to hear it.

I still can't shake the feeling, though, that he's doing the same thing as I am.

Sitting in his web. Waiting to see what he catches.


Not much said but more of that setting the scene malarky, or am i missing something?

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Jabba
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 		it does sound like the calm before the storm. pretty soon the manure is going to hit the oscillating wind machine.
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GasparLewis
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 		Seems more like two dogs circling each other before a fight to me. Almost like Holmes and Moriarty; the greatest of intellects, so greatly opposed but so intelligent, they both know their own stalemate, and play nice-nice until the windows open.

Dun-dun-DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!

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Dranioth
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GasparLewis wrote:
Seems more like two dogs circling each other before a fight to me. Almost like Holmes and Moriarty; the greatest of intellects, so greatly opposed but so intelligent, they both know their own stalemate, and play nice-nice until the windows open.

Dun-dun-DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!


Ah, But in this situation, who is Holmes and who is Moriarty? And how long untill the waterfall engulfs them both?

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 		Sente = Spidey Man

Viendenbourg = Sente's sekrit spidey man HQ
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oliverkeers13
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 		(sung to the tune of the Spiderman song)

# Sente Kiteway,
# Sente Kiteway,
# Does everything evil genii can,
# Kills a girl, always rude
# No-one's watching, steals the cube!
# Watch out! Here comes Sente Kiteway!
# Watch out! Here comes Sente Kiteway!

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DrKra37
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GasparLewis wrote:
Seems more like two dogs circling each other before a fight to me. Almost like Holmes and Moriarty; the greatest of intellects, so greatly opposed but so intelligent, they both know their own stalemate, and play nice-nice until the windows open.

Dun-dun-DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!


I think I concur. I read that, and my first thought was "Wow, Sente might actually be evil after all..."

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