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."Subdued, I thanked him and left.Professor Ahearn was the fifth of Alina's instructors that I'd spoken to so far, and the portrait they'dpainted of my sister was that of a woman I didn't recognize.A woman that didn't attend classes, didn'tcare about her studies, and appeared to have no friends.I glanced down at my list.I had a final professor to track down, but she taught only on Wednesdays andFridays.I decided to head for the library.As I hurried out into a large grassy commons filled withstudents lounging about, soaking up the late-afternoon sun, I thought about possible reasons for Alina'sunusual academic behavior.The courses offered through the study-abroad program were designed topromote cultural awareness, so my sister an Englishmajor who'd planned to get a Ph.D.inliterature had ended up taking courses likeCaesar in Celtic Gaul andThe Impact of Industry onTwentieth-Century Ireland.Could it be she'd just not enjoyed them?I couldn't see that.Alina had always been curious about everything.I sighed and instantly regretted the deeply indrawn breath.My ribs hurt.This morning I'd awakened tofind a wide band of bruises across my torso, just beneath my breasts.I couldn't wear a bra because theunderwire hurt too much, so I'd layered a lacy camisole trimmed with dainty roses beneath a pinksweater that complemented my Razzle-Dazzle-Hot-Pink-Twist manicure and pedicure.Black capris, awide silver belt, silver sandals, and a small metallic Juicy Couture purse I'd saved all last summer to buycompleted my outfit.I'd swept my long blonde hair up in a high pony-tail, secured by a pretty enameledclip.I might be feeling bruised and bewildered, but by God I looked good.Like a smile that I didn't reallyfeel, presenting a together appearance made me feel more together inside, and I badly needed bolsteringtoday.I'll give you until nine P.M.tomorrow to get the bloody hell out of this country and out of my way.The nerve.I'd had to bite my tongue on the juvenile impulse to snap,Or what ? you're not the boss ofme, second only to an even more juvenile impulse to call my mom and wail,Nobody likes me here and Idon't even know why !And his assessment of people! What a cynic."Walking victim, my petunia," I muttered.I heard myselfand groaned.Born and raised in the BibleBelt , Mom had taken a strong position about cussing when wewere growing up A pretty woman doesn't have an ugly mouth, she would say so Alina and I haddeveloped our own set of silly words as substitutes.Crap was fudge-buckets.Ass was petunia.Shit wasdaisies and the f-word, which I can't even recall the last time I used, was frog.You get the idea. Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlUnfortunately, we'd said them so often as children that they'd become a habit just as hard to break asreal cusswords.To my endless humiliation, the way it usually worked was the more upset Igot, the morelikely I was to fall back on my childhood vocabulary.It was a little difficult to get an out-of-handbachelor party at the bar to take you seriously when your threat was they'd better "back off or thebouncer was going to kick the fudge-buckets out of them and toss their petunias right out the door." Inthis desensitized day and age, clean language got you laughed at more often than not.I cleared my throat."Walking victim, myass."Okay, I'll admit it; I'd been quaking in my proverbial boots by the time Jericho Barrons was done withme.But I'd gotten over it.There was no question in my mind that he was a ruthless man.But amurderingman would have killed me last night and been done with it.And he hadn't.He'd left me alive, and by myreasoning, that meant he would continue to do so.He might bully and threaten me, even bruise me, but hewouldn't kill me.Nothing had changed.I still had my sister's murderer to find, and I was staying.And now that I knewhow to spell it, I was going to find out exactly what theSinsar Dubh was.I knew it was a book but abook about what?Hoping to miss the rush-hour crowds and conserve money by eating less frequently, I stopped for a latelunch/early dinner of crispy fried fish and chips, then headed for the library.A few hours later, I had whatI was looking for.I had no idea what to make of it, but I had it.Alina would have known some clever way to search computer indices and go straight to what shewanted, but I was one of those people who needed the placards at the ends of the aisles.I spent my firsthalf hour at the library pulling books about archaeology and history off shelves and toting them to acorner table.I spent the next hour or so paging through them.In my defense, I did use the rear indexes,and midway through my second stack I found it.Sinsar Dubh1: a Dark Hallow2belonging to the mythological race of the Tuatha Dé Danaan.Written in a language known only to the most ancient of their kind, it is said to hold the deadliestof all magic within its encrypted pages.Brought to Ireland by the Tuatha Dé during the invasionswritten of in the pseudohistory Leabhar Gabhala3, it was stolen along with the other DarkHallows and rumored to have found its way into the world of Man.I blinked.Then I scanned down the page for the footnotes.Among certain nouveau-riche collectors, there has been a recent surge of interest in mythologicalrelics, and some claim to have actually beheld a photocopy of a page or two of this "cursedtome." The Sinsar Dubh is no more real than the mythical being said to have authored it over amillion years ago the "Dark King" of the Tuatha Dé Danaan.Allegedly scribed in unbreakablecode, in a dead language, this author is curious to know how any collector proposes to have Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlidentified any part of it.The Tuatha Dé Danaan were said to possess eight ancient relics of immense power: fourLightandfour Dark.The Light Hallows were the stone, the spear, the sword, and the cauldron [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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."Subdued, I thanked him and left.Professor Ahearn was the fifth of Alina's instructors that I'd spoken to so far, and the portrait they'dpainted of my sister was that of a woman I didn't recognize.A woman that didn't attend classes, didn'tcare about her studies, and appeared to have no friends.I glanced down at my list.I had a final professor to track down, but she taught only on Wednesdays andFridays.I decided to head for the library.As I hurried out into a large grassy commons filled withstudents lounging about, soaking up the late-afternoon sun, I thought about possible reasons for Alina'sunusual academic behavior.The courses offered through the study-abroad program were designed topromote cultural awareness, so my sister an Englishmajor who'd planned to get a Ph.D.inliterature had ended up taking courses likeCaesar in Celtic Gaul andThe Impact of Industry onTwentieth-Century Ireland.Could it be she'd just not enjoyed them?I couldn't see that.Alina had always been curious about everything.I sighed and instantly regretted the deeply indrawn breath.My ribs hurt.This morning I'd awakened tofind a wide band of bruises across my torso, just beneath my breasts.I couldn't wear a bra because theunderwire hurt too much, so I'd layered a lacy camisole trimmed with dainty roses beneath a pinksweater that complemented my Razzle-Dazzle-Hot-Pink-Twist manicure and pedicure.Black capris, awide silver belt, silver sandals, and a small metallic Juicy Couture purse I'd saved all last summer to buycompleted my outfit.I'd swept my long blonde hair up in a high pony-tail, secured by a pretty enameledclip.I might be feeling bruised and bewildered, but by God I looked good.Like a smile that I didn't reallyfeel, presenting a together appearance made me feel more together inside, and I badly needed bolsteringtoday.I'll give you until nine P.M.tomorrow to get the bloody hell out of this country and out of my way.The nerve.I'd had to bite my tongue on the juvenile impulse to snap,Or what ? you're not the boss ofme, second only to an even more juvenile impulse to call my mom and wail,Nobody likes me here and Idon't even know why !And his assessment of people! What a cynic."Walking victim, my petunia," I muttered.I heard myselfand groaned.Born and raised in the BibleBelt , Mom had taken a strong position about cussing when wewere growing up A pretty woman doesn't have an ugly mouth, she would say so Alina and I haddeveloped our own set of silly words as substitutes.Crap was fudge-buckets.Ass was petunia.Shit wasdaisies and the f-word, which I can't even recall the last time I used, was frog.You get the idea. Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlUnfortunately, we'd said them so often as children that they'd become a habit just as hard to break asreal cusswords.To my endless humiliation, the way it usually worked was the more upset Igot, the morelikely I was to fall back on my childhood vocabulary.It was a little difficult to get an out-of-handbachelor party at the bar to take you seriously when your threat was they'd better "back off or thebouncer was going to kick the fudge-buckets out of them and toss their petunias right out the door." Inthis desensitized day and age, clean language got you laughed at more often than not.I cleared my throat."Walking victim, myass."Okay, I'll admit it; I'd been quaking in my proverbial boots by the time Jericho Barrons was done withme.But I'd gotten over it.There was no question in my mind that he was a ruthless man.But amurderingman would have killed me last night and been done with it.And he hadn't.He'd left me alive, and by myreasoning, that meant he would continue to do so.He might bully and threaten me, even bruise me, but hewouldn't kill me.Nothing had changed.I still had my sister's murderer to find, and I was staying.And now that I knewhow to spell it, I was going to find out exactly what theSinsar Dubh was.I knew it was a book but abook about what?Hoping to miss the rush-hour crowds and conserve money by eating less frequently, I stopped for a latelunch/early dinner of crispy fried fish and chips, then headed for the library.A few hours later, I had whatI was looking for.I had no idea what to make of it, but I had it.Alina would have known some clever way to search computer indices and go straight to what shewanted, but I was one of those people who needed the placards at the ends of the aisles.I spent my firsthalf hour at the library pulling books about archaeology and history off shelves and toting them to acorner table.I spent the next hour or so paging through them.In my defense, I did use the rear indexes,and midway through my second stack I found it.Sinsar Dubh1: a Dark Hallow2belonging to the mythological race of the Tuatha Dé Danaan.Written in a language known only to the most ancient of their kind, it is said to hold the deadliestof all magic within its encrypted pages.Brought to Ireland by the Tuatha Dé during the invasionswritten of in the pseudohistory Leabhar Gabhala3, it was stolen along with the other DarkHallows and rumored to have found its way into the world of Man.I blinked.Then I scanned down the page for the footnotes.Among certain nouveau-riche collectors, there has been a recent surge of interest in mythologicalrelics, and some claim to have actually beheld a photocopy of a page or two of this "cursedtome." The Sinsar Dubh is no more real than the mythical being said to have authored it over amillion years ago the "Dark King" of the Tuatha Dé Danaan.Allegedly scribed in unbreakablecode, in a dead language, this author is curious to know how any collector proposes to have Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlidentified any part of it.The Tuatha Dé Danaan were said to possess eight ancient relics of immense power: fourLightandfour Dark.The Light Hallows were the stone, the spear, the sword, and the cauldron [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]