The Start

Last last time on the Chronicles of Coralende, it was 10:00 outside of the nilbmah citadel public library and isabel let winfry daydream for a minute before clearing her throat.

CRASH!

It took winfry a while to realize that he had the isabel in the flesh in front of him, but when he did, his face lit up like a crimson lightning bug’s butt, which he hopelessly tried to hide from isabel by examining the cuffs of his jacket.

“oh… er… ms. englewood… it’s you… I… ah…” a glance up for a flash of eye contact before retreating back to his cuffs “wasn’t expecting…”

A minute passed as isabel gazed at winfry and winfry shifted his weight, toyed with his cuffs, put his brain on over-drive thinking of something to say and making his sweat glands work overtime. Then isabel grinned a girlish grin that winfry almost couldn’t see with his head tucked down in his shell.

“Would you like to come in?” Her voice was like a crisp, sweet apple and it made winfry blush all the more because even though he had seen quite a bit of her at the library, he had never heard her speak. “We open at 10:00.”

“oh… yeah… I guess that’s why I’m here.” winfry walked into the library still a little bit startled and a lot a bit flustered. He walked to the long table he normally monopolized with all his clutter and isabel returned to her tidy desk. And that was that for that day. Well, from where they sat they both faced each other but save a few brief moments of accidental eye contact, they were engrossed in their own work. At 5 pm, closing time winfry packed up his clutter and walked past isabel’s empty desk – she was in the stacks replacing books. So yes that was that for that day.