fandomhigh | Library [07/15]

Reading, reading, reading.

Still reading. Food too, thankfully. Granted, it's not good food, but it's food.

To be played out tonight. Locked to a certain few.

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Ed hadn't found anything that he thought was going to be useful - at least not to this particular problem though his notebook was littered with page references to be followed up on later. He kept plowing through the books though, wishing more than a few times that he could have been reading alchemy books. So much more interesting.

Sipping coffee, Zack opened yet another book. It was entirely possible he'd spent most of the night reading.

Naomi continued to read through several books. She was still hoping that she'd find something useful.

Hermione's managed to fill a few pages in what's been privately deemed her invasion notebook, as it's got research notes from mummies and trolls already, but she's not sure there's anything really useful.

Though she has learned quite a lot about dinosaurs now.

She's at a table, a pile of books that she looked through yesterday on one side of her, a pile that she still needs to go through on her other.

Evie now had funny hair from falling asleep on a book. She was yawning but gamely drinking coffee and still reading, with the occasional side foray into history other than Fandom's when it seemed relevant.

At some point during the wee hours of the morning, Rodney had fallen asleep with his head on a table. The smell of coffee woke him and he immediately went to fill himself a cup. Once he'd taken a few large drinks, he muttered something about irreparable damage to his spine and went back to his research.

Dawn had fallen asleep under one of the research tables, her head on a pile of books. Sadly, she'd slept in worse places.

When she smelled coffee, she sat up (promptly bumping her head on the table, hi), and crawled out, dragging the books with her.

Nothing yet, but there was still hope. And coffee. And hopefully a toothbrush.

Evie was beginning to jitter a bit from caffiene overload, and finally had to get up and walk around to work the coffee nerves off. "Are you making any progress?" she asked Rodney as she wandered by.

Rodney looked up at Evie. "No," he pushed away the book he had been reading. "I haven't found anything to explain how a temporal disturbance on this scale could happen without draining the power on the entire eastern seaboard and I think we would have heard about it even out here if that had occurred." It would be hard to tell if the caffeine was making Rodney talk faster than normal as this speed was pretty much his default setting.

"What about you? Any luck?"

"Nothing about dinosaurs." Evie threw her hands up, and shook her head vehemently. "All sorts of things appearing and disappearing at random, with varying levels of reliability and verifiability, but no, no dinosaurs. I am beginning to wonder if everyone was eaten or left the island the last time this happened. If it ever happened. And if it never happened before, how on Earth do we make it stop?"

Evie tends to match her speed to whoever's talking to her, so while she didn't quite catch all of what Rodney said, it tended to crank her internal engine up another few notches.

"Right," Rodney pointed at Evie. "This sort of thing seems to happen on a regular basis around here but I haven't seen a reference to anything even approaching this scale. The small stuff is almost easy to explain in comparison, however, the relative size, quantity and temporal distance in this case are unheard of." He looked into his empty cup and sighed. "We're no closer to an answer than we were yesterday."

"No, we aren't." Evie looked discouraged, and sent a look toward Special Collections. "Mind you, we haven't exhausted all of our resources yet. But trips into Special Collections can be problematic, or so I've heard. And it might be a waste of our time if we don't even know what we're looking for, to have *too many* references to explore." She frowned, and said, sounding somewhat impressed, "You can explain the smaller scale appearances? Like the teeny bunnies?"

Karal arrived in the morning, by way of Jumping Firecat, and was sitting at a table, trying to find anything that might be useful. So far no luck, but he knew far more about dinosaurs than he'd ever wanted to. Including how many of them had very sharp teeth.

Altra was lying on the floor next to his chair.

"Well, we might reach the point where it's worth the risk before too long." Not that Rodney knew anything about Special Collections, but he tended to listen when people warned him of danger.

Rodney got a bit sheepish when he answered Evie's question. "Well, I said it was easier in comparison. I don't really understand the mystical side of things."

"Ohhh. No, I don't either. Mostly because there's so many different versions of magic. And things that aren't quite magic, or science, or religion. Lines blur very messily here." Evie sighed. "Which is lovely, usually, to think that there's ever so much to explore, but not when there are dinosaurs trying to eat the horses and keeping one from retrieving one's pillow from the dorms."

"Yeah, I think it might be best for me to concentrate on the sort of thing that works in my own reality for the long term since the rest won't be relevant once I leave here. But for situations like this, I'm thinking we need to go way outside the box." Rodney sighed as well. "Only problem is that 'outside the box' covers quite a lot of territory and we need to be narrowing things down rather than expanding the scope of the search at this point." Things were not looking promising.

"Perhaps more coffee would help?" Evie said, looking hopeful. "And what a shame that we can't simply ask the dinosaurs what they want, and then give it to them, or thwart them from getting it."

"More coffee is always helpful," Rodney grinned at Evie as he stood. "Huh. With all the strange powers people have around here, I wonder if there's anyone who can talk to animals? That would certainly be useful." He considered the possibility. "Then again, the only thing the dinosaurs are probably thinking is 'Catch food. Food good.' And that wouldn't really get us anywhere."

"There used to be a class on talking to animals, or so I remember. I didn't take it." Evie nodded and retrieved her mug, heading to the coffee-maker. "And yes, being food doesn't leave much room for debate, does it? They most likely don't even know how they got here. Or have noticed the difference between home and here, I suspect." She poured herself a cup, and muttered, "Think, think, think, think think think think..."

"Right, let's cross 'reasoning with the dinos' off the list of potential solutions," Rodney nodded as he refilled his mug after Evie. "As much as it pains me to admit it, I don't know where to go from here."

"If we could figure out where they first appeared, there might be clue as to their origins at the site..." Evie stopped. "But that would mean going outside to be bait, and really, I don't wish to do that again ever."

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