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A lot of this stuff looked priceless with how old it was. I was afraid to touch it, but I really wanted to because I was slightly impulsive. I looked back at Nic and decided it was best to not to. "Shall we continue?"

“I could try teaching you some Greek, but that isn’t much of a break...”

Alistair: "I don't think I could learn Greek..." I muttered. I sighed and leaned back a bit, looking up at the ceiling.

“Sorry, I don’t really have any ideas.”

I looked over at her, smiling. "It's okay, don't worry about it." I looked over at my pile of books. "I can read a story to you?"

"Of course," I agreed. "There's not much to do here since we really shouldn't touch anything." We walked around the bunker for a while before I decided that we should head back towards the library. Some of the others might have started on actual work while we wandered around, and while I was enjoying alone time with Aiden, I would feel bad if I found out that others had done work while I didn't.

I walked with him, the gears in my head turning to various things. 'What was the next move?' was the thing that was on my mind the most. With Nic or the entire altogether. It was all a complex process.

“Kinda makes me feel like I’m five, but go for it.”

I laughed. "Come on, I'll tell you my story." I pulled my own book towards me. "It's a good one, there's some romance, action... dragons. Some death, some sorrow. But above all, there's hope."

“Now I feel more like a five year old, go for it.”

I laughed and scooted my chair closer to her and opened my book. "Once upon a time..." I started, you know, like a cliche. I told her the complex story between Snow White and Prince Charming trying to find each other, about how Snow White was a wanted criminal, accused of committing high treason against the throne, against Regina, the Evil Queen. That was the start of it all, kinda. The whirlwind romance as Charming and Snow tried to retake the throne with the help of Red Riding Hood- the werewolf, and the seven dwarves, and others.

I listened quietly.

Then it all got crazy as Regina crashed the wedding and threatened to destroy their happiness by casting a curse. Then I told the part about her actually casting the curse as Emma was born, and how it brought nearly all of us to the land without magic.

I led the way back to the library, walking in an instantly hearing some of Alistiar's story, hesitating for just  moment before turning around and heading to leave the room again. He hadn't been telling it to me, so it wasn't my place to learn his story by listening in, despite how much I wanted to.

Aiden: I quickly followed, keeping up with Nic. "Yeah, probably best we don't intrude on them," I commented.

I nodded in agreement but sighed slightly. "I just wanted to do something. Things may be looking up here, but I still want to get home soon."

"Yeah. My dad must be really ticked. And T'Challa, maybe. I don't know, I was messing around with Wakandan technology, so..." I shrugged. "I don't know, I guess I'll find out when I get home, though."

I laughed slightly. "I was in the middle of a mission," I told him. "My mentor and I were about to sneak up on some Temujai," I paused, remembering he probably wouldn't know what Temujai were, "which are a race of people that are war-like and often aggressive. Recently they're been attempting to take over some of Araluen so we and Ranger Will, and his apprentice--who is also the Princess, her name is Madelyn if you're wondering--were sent to get their locations and plans, and if possible get them out of our land. My horse stumbled and when I fell of I was in Olivia's world." I smiled fondly as I remembered the time leading up to waking up in Olivia's world. That was the excitement I knew and loved. I hoped they'd all safely finished the mission without me in my position.

I nodded a bit. "That's very... different from how I ended up here. For one, I didn't fall off a horse, Wakandans don't really have horses, I think."

"I don't understand that," I replied, shaking my head a little. "Why wouldn't people want to have horses, both for transportation and company. They're often more intelligent than people, if I'm being honest."

"Well, their technology is advanced, plus there really aren't any horses on that continent in the first place. Wakanda does have war rhinos, though, and that's pretty cool."

"War rhinos?" I asked. While I had never seen a rhino, I had heard about them and knew where they were from and that they really should be left alone from humans. "How?"

"Uh, I don't know. I just know that they're there, they're super cool and T'Challa won't let the soldiers teach me how to ride one."

"Who exactly is T'challa?" I asked uncertainly.

((Imagine Shuri meeting Nic and trying to teach him about technology and within 20 minutes she's just screaming because all he does is ask questions and not understand anything))

((That sounds about right.))

"King of Wakanda. He is super cool and a great king. You'd like him."