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From the library to the construction site - Sunday Evening

They knew why the dinosaurs were here. They had a book with an illustration for how things needed to be set up to send the dinosaurs away. They even had an unconventional adventuring party to get the job done. Now all they needed to do was get past the dinosaurs, get down the hole and finish this.

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"Can't you hold them back with your godly powers?" Fraser asked, looking at Hades. "Do they work that way?"

"I coooould, or you could use your mad Mountie skills to defend us all from them." He snapped his fingers. "Oh wait. Your power was in your hat and you let that get eaten. I guess now I'll have to exercise my 'godly powers' as you call 'em." He pushed up his sleeves, readied his hands in a dramatic stance and then let them drop and flicked a finger. "There. Wow. That really took it out of me."

"Oh do be serious, Hades," she told him, with a sort of fond exasperation. "We'll all have to work together to fix this, which means godly powers may be a necessity. Unless they simply don't work against dinosaurs?"

Fraser started snickering at that last comment. "I bet that's it. They don't work."

"Hey, I did my part. That little flick of my finger? That was it. You think it'd take much for a god to deal with dinosaurs? My 'godly powers' as pretentious as that sounds and remember, Mountie, you came up with it, are infinite. God. With the otherworldly mojo. Can deal with anything." He sighed. "Mortals."

Fraser, just because he was feeling a little snarkier than usual (which, for Fraser, meant he was feeling HUGELY snarky) said, "Your hair's out."

Suddenly looking alarmed, Hades grabbed at his hair, only to find it was just fine. His derisive look turned into a glare. "You're lucky I'm a nice guy," Hades muttered and took the lead.

Harriet fell into step beside Fraser. "Now that wasn't very nice," she said, trying to hold back a smile. "He did react quite beautifully, though."

"I know, I'm quite upset with myself for saying that," Fraser said even though he was grinning. "I'll make it up to him somehow."

"I think he'll survive," Harriet replied, and that smile might be sneaking out and turning into a grin. "Somehow I doubt our illustrious vice-principal has a fragile ego. He rather reminds me of somebody, actually."

"You've known someone like Hades before?" Fraser frowned. "You poor woman."

"Mr Fraser, you have no idea," she said, with a very small laugh.

"Will you two put a lid on it? Talking attracts dinosaurs and since you have no faith in my abilities, you're taking your lives in your own hands by not shutting up!" He smoothed out his robe. "Besides, we're almost there."

"I cannot believe that just the small disruption of some stones set this all off," Fraser said, sobering up. "I will take full...almost full responsibility."

"No, Mr Fraser, you will not." Harriet's voice was very firm. "The hole was caused by a natural geographical weakness, disturbed by the necessary activity of rebuilding the school. You went down into it in order to make sure it was safe to continue that rebuilding. Disturbing the stones was an unfortunate accident and nothing more," she finished. "One which we will now put to rights."

"I really can't argue with that," Fraser said. "Vice Principal Hades, would you be able to jump us all down there or should we rappel?"

"Oh, so now you come crawling for the godly powers." Hades reached out and placed one hand on Fraser and another on Harriet. A moment later they were at the bottom of the hole. Why didn't he just do that straight from the library? When you had an eternal existence, you got a sense of dramatic pacing and ran with it. "Go on, do your thing, look at the book and fix it."

"Miss Jones, care to assist so I don't do this incorrectly?"

"Absolutely." She did wonder why Hades hadn't simply done that straight from the library, though. "Let's see now." She opened the book, frowning thoughtfully at the illustration. "I think that one goes there, and the other," she held it so Fraser could see it, "there do you think?"

"I think you're right." He knelt down in front of the stones and slowly and carefully started rearranging them as per the illustration. "I'm handling these like their bombs."

"Yeah, yeah, you just like carrying things daintily."

"And your hair's out again," Fraser muttered, situating a few more of the rocks.

"It's rather disturbing how that keeps happening," Harriet said innocently, and crouched down, nudging one of the rocks slightly to the left. "Any chance of cementing these into place when we're finished?"

"If these can be cemented without being disturbed, I'll look into it," Fraser promised, just about finished with the rocks.

"It would be nice if this never happened again," she told him, humming a little under her breath as she studied the illustration. "I think," she touched one rock, then another, and readjusted them the tiniest bit, "I think we're just about done."

Harriet's words were followed by a deep rumbling in the cave. The rocks started to vibrate in place and directed beams of light shot out through the rock face. To anyone on the surface, it was a decent lights show.

Moments after, the light subsided, but the rumbling in the cave hadn't. "Okay," Hades said. "You've had your fun. Time to exit, stage left." He grabbed hold of them again and a moment later, they were on the surface. The rumbling had stopped.

"I hope that's done it then," Fraser said, looking around. "I thank you both kindly for your help. I suppose we should go see the damage that might have been caused?"

"It was my pleasure," Harriet replied, looking pleased. "That sounds like an excellent idea. And we should stop by the library, let them know and return the book, and when we're done with that, I'll make you both a nice cup of tea."

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