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Henry, in a frame of mind unusually thoughtful even for him, had made his way to the library on something close to auto-pilot. Next to his and Camilla's room, the library was a kind of sanctuary, whether he had any specific aim in mind or not.

It wasn't often that he did not, and today was no exception. He had spoken to a Dr. Chance Silvey about Caketown, which, so she said, was somehow connected with King Leonidas of Sparta. His own curiosity now piqued, he was determined to add his own research to hers--whatever this 'Caketown' and 'Candy Mountain' were, he had a feeling their connection to ancient Sparta would be...interesting, whatever else might be said of it.

He laid claim to an entire table, thumbing through the card catalogues and hunting up anything and everything that might have any bearing at all on his triumvirate of subjects. He'd brought an array of parchment and straight pens, determined to stay here until at least dinner.

Date: 2007-09-15 04:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chance-silvey.livejournal.com
Chance rubs at her temples. "Jesus. This goes way deeper than I suspected." She imagines liopleurodon remains as something akin to a fossil fuel, only instead of making gasoline, the Hershey people are making food.

She's got to shake this. If she keeps on thinking this way she's going to wind up wearing a tinfoil hat. Focus, Chance, focus.

"The milk chocolate. That's a telling stress on the definite article. Maybe that's got some kind of cultic significance too." She's thinking along the lines of what Adrienne Mayor writes about in The First Fossil Hunters, of course. Folklore and rituals, that kind of thing. Definitely nothing like Templar conspiracies.

"What the author of Cavities and Sea Oddities says is this: 'The magical liopleurodon has spoken. He has shown us The Way.' At this point I can't rule out anything."

Date: 2007-09-15 06:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daxtastic.livejournal.com
"It seems to me that we need to get a sample of liopleurodon," said Dax. "We can theorize all we want, but without a chemical analysis, we can't cross reference Milk Chocolate recipes."

"They're a lot more common than you might think," she said, with a small shrug. Dax herself had been party to at least two millennia-old conspiracies! "Luckily, the older secrets get, that more careless people become about keeping them."

Date: 2007-09-15 06:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chance-silvey.livejournal.com
Chance looks blank. "If I could get a sample of liopleurodon in whatever form, screw the Kandys and the Hersheys and whatever, I'd be set."

Provided they let her live to tell the tale.

Not like she hasn't seen danger before, and not like Liopleurodon magicus isn't a quarry worth the risk. It's all settled in her mind, right here and now. "So I've got to go to Hershey. If I can get the funding, I'd love to have some colleagues along."

Date: 2007-09-15 07:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daxtastic.livejournal.com
"I'm not sure. If it does have any ties to 'The Milk Chocolate', Neb might be our best avenue of query." More than likely a futile attempt, but it was their only tangible lead.

Dax nodded. "I agree. There's safety in numbers." Plus, she'd heard that Hershey Park had some sweet roller coasters, and wanted in on that.

Date: 2007-09-16 06:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chance-silvey.livejournal.com
"If you guys are sure," Chance says, at once grateful for the collaboration -- not to mention moral support and, as Dax says, safety in numbers -- and reluctant to let anyone else risk their kidneys on the trail of the elusive liopleurodon. "I think I can probably get funding from the school. Or the Ministry of Magic. I've been looking into wizarding grants for magical creatures research. Once I hear back, I'll owl you both."

Date: 2007-09-17 06:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daxtastic.livejournal.com
"I agree," Dax said, wholly serious. "You can't go off, foiling a millennium old cult without a proper itinerary."

Really! It ended sloppily for all involved parties.

"I'll keep an eye out for that owl."

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