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Librarian Amelle Nicchi

June 07, 2015 6:24 PM

Library Assistant and Monitors Needed! by Librarian Amelle Nicchi

She was getting closer and closer to her mid twenties and Amelle’s parents felt that she had yet to really prove herself as an adult to them. She hadn’t received any worthwhile awards, she still only had her associates (despite nearly being halfway done with her bachelors), they hated the job that she currently held (she had no idea why, she thought working at a school would be a definitely plus…), and she was single. Amelle felt her parents thought the ‘single’ part was the worst of it. Amelle knew that for her heritage, a woman’s place was a step behind her husband, but Amelle’s mother had refused to take part in that and Amelle felt she was well within her right to do so as well. Besides, she was still young. There was plenty of time for her to meet men.

Like here, at Sonora. Since she started, there are already two young men working at the school. The adorably handsome, Richard Tellac, and the new guy, the ruggedly handsome, Alfie Pye. She vaguely remembered him helping out last year, but since she was usually stuck in the library for every social meal, Amelle didn’t really get a chance to meet him. But now he was here permanently (or so she assumed), taking over Head of House and whatever lesson he was doing (she ought to pay better attention).

Of course, just because there were handsome men at the school didn’t really mean anything. She had yet to really speak with Tellac and she felt Pye probably wouldn’t give her the time of day, but at least she could daydream about them…

Now, however, was not the time to think about it. She needed to get her sign up sheet done and posted. She knew how much these Aladrens liked to get things situated and help out with the books. She enjoyed working with the students because it meant that she had people to talk to on occasion. Amelle had learned a couple of years ago that being the Librarian was not all that much of a social career and it could get a little lonely.

With the sign finished (since she had used the same format over the last couple of years, she really only just copied the sign ups from the year prior in a rush to get it up).

The sign read:

Students are encouraged to help in the library during the school year. There are two roles that are available and two coveted roles that will be awarded to specified individuals (if the numbers allow for this).

Library Monitors (Intermediate and Advance Students may apply for this role)

The Monitors help to check books in and out of the library, organize the books in the stacks, answer any questions that fellow students may have, and complete occasional errands that may be needed.

Library Assistants (Beginner Years can only apply for this role, but all other years are also able to apply for this role)

This role has fewer responsibilities than the Monitor. Their role consists of returning books to their rightful place in the stacks and assist the Library Monitor with whatever duties that need to be filled.

The two coveted roles that will be elected to the individuals by the Librarian are the Head Monitor roles.

The two students who are granted this title will have the first choice in their work schedules and be Lead in deciding what duties each Monitor and Assistant will have for that day (should they so choose to do so), as well as other duties that may come about that the Librarian feels they are the best choice for.

Please note that only two Advanced students will be elected as Head Monitors and it will be based on their experience, responsibilities, and relationship with others. The Librarian will make the announcement to who was chosen when the final work schedule is posted.

If you are interested in either of these roles, please sign your name and the role that you are requesting. Prior experience will be considered for the role of Monitor. For any questions, please see Librarian Nicchi for assistance.

OOC: This sign up will be posted for 2 weeks RL time. After this time, a ‘work schedule’ post will go up with a list of what everyone is doing.

Subthreads:

Signing up! by Barnaby Pye

Me too. by Ava Fletcher

I'm in as well! by Clark Dill

Signing up. by Julian Umland

Giving this a go. by Emrys Lucan

Signing up again. by Keme RunningBear

Back again. by Jack Spencer

Willing to help out! by Gia Donovan

Returning. by Emery Kijewski-Jareau

Here again. by John Umland

Signing up by Chaslyn Brockert

Signing up by Willow Collins

Closed (nm) by Librarian Amelle Nicchi

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Barnaby Pye

June 08, 2015 5:27 PM

Signing up! by Barnaby Pye

Barnaby was leaving the Aladren common room to look for a book when he noticed a new posting on the library’s notice board. Wondering if it might indeed be the sign-ups list for library assistants, he walked in the direction of the board instead of the back bookshelf which held research books on topics like lycanthropy, something that had aroused Barnaby’s interest during the past year. As he got closer, he realized it was indeed a sign for library assistants and he adjusted his spectacles, glad that Alfie had taken him to get some because his eyesight had improved ten-fold since that purchase.

The excitement of being able to see was put down a bit when he noticed that he was still a year too young to be a library monitor, however, he still went to sign himself up as a library assistant because he knew that it would make his chances of someday achieving Head Monitor that much better if he had been interested in the program from the start. And besides, spending more time in the library than he already did, this time with an excuse that he had to be there because he was on a schedule seemed to be the perfect escape from conversing with his classmates for Barnaby. After all, one was supposed to be quiet in a library.

In his careful cursive, he wrote out his name and year, pleased that his was the first on the list, before going to the back shelf to find that book which would hopefully give him insight into the most perplexing of puzzles.

Barnaby Pye, 2nd year, Library Assistant

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Ava Fletcher

June 08, 2015 9:14 PM

Me too. by Ava Fletcher

When Ava woke up, she was determined to put the summer behind her and sign up for her usual library activity in order to keep her mind occupied while she completed her sixth year. What had passed (or not passed) between her mother and herself was history now and there was no need for her to worry about it. This new attitude of hers would only last a few days before Ava would come across the handkerchief she’d gotten while with her mother two summers ago and everything would come flooding back to her. However, for now, she dressed herself in her typical uniform of paint stained jeans, a t-shirt and (now that she was older and fit into them) a flannel shirt of her father’s from when he was in high school, before heading down to the library with a self-inking quill to sign up for library monitor.

This year would be her second year as library monitor and her fifth year helping out in the library since her third year she had missed the deadline due to a painting craze in which all she had done outside of homework was sit in front of an easel in the MARS room and try to perfect the stormy black sea in front of her. Though it was her only outside of class organized activity, she had found that she really enjoyed that. As she wrote her name on the board, she wondered if Cascade Hall would have waffles and powdered sugar, because she was really craving a sweet breakfast.

The newest addition to the library monitor sign-up sheet read Ava Fletcher, Monitor :) in slanted, purple ink, because Ava had just run out of ink in her black self-inking quill. She dug in her bag to scribble down that she needed to put in an order for more black ink and made her way to the dining hall for breakfast. After school that day she’d have to pop in to see the Medic, see if she wanted an assistant. Now that she was older Ava figured the Medic might allow her to hang out in the Hospital Wing and help out, doing small things like carrying her the bandages and potions when she asked for them, or taking inventory. It would certainly be good experience for later on in life, and it would prove to her mother that Ava really was serious about this career path, that it wasn’t some silly childish dream.

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Clark Dill

June 08, 2015 10:17 PM

I'm in as well! by Clark Dill

Clark headed through the library on his way down to breakfast and, as he often did, took a moment to glance over the library's announcement board. Today, there was a new sign-up sheet for the assistant and monitors. Clark looked through his bag for his pen and added his name to the next line of the list without any hesitation.

Clark Dill, 4th Year, Monitor

Now in his second year of being an intermediate, he no longer felt like he might be overstepping anything by attempting to sign up for the bigger role. He had a solid grasp on his studies now, he was nearly halfway through his Sonora years, and he knew the library almost better than he did his own room. He was ready to move out of the assistant role now, and none of the monitor duties sounded like anything Clark would have any trouble with.

And while he wasn't exactly trying to draw attention to himself as prefect material for next year, the thought had crossed his mind that being a Monitor would show he was willing to take on responsibilities and stuff. While he wasn't really set on the prefect badge the way some people were, it did have its draws and he was hoping that next year it would be him getting called up to the front of the Hall during the Opening Feast. Dad had been an Aladren Prefect in his day, and Clark knew he'd be proud if Clark got it, too. But mostly . . . to be entirely honest . . . Clark kind of wanted to be prefect just so Oliver Ferguson did not get it. He wouldn't feel bad at all if Lena got it, he'd be super happy for her, but Clark really did not want to see that shiny badge on his roommate's robes. And maybe that was the Dark Side of the Force talking, but Clark seriously did not believe anything good could possibly come from Oliver wearing the badge.

So Clark would be a Library Monitor (assuming Ms. Nicchi agreed), and he'd be a good teammate in Quidditch, and he'd be involved in clubs, and he'd get great grades, and he'd be friendly to his fellow House and classmates like he always had been except when they made it clear they didn't want to be friendly to him, and surely, surely that would put his name ahead of Oliver Ferguson's when the staff started talking prefects next summer, even though Oliver was somehow related to the Headmaster while Clark was just the son of an eccentric muggleborn who didn't interact much with the wizarding world save the odd visit to some of his old classmates when he got in a rare nostalgic mood.

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Julian Umland

June 08, 2015 11:51 PM

Signing up. by Julian Umland

She still had trouble believing it was really true, but for months now, Julian had had at least an intellectual understanding that she was nearing the end of a whole phase of her life. She had been legally an adult since last December and had gotten at least a rudimentary introduction to the responsibilities of being an adult through summer jobs and recent complications brought about by her biological parents, but it was only with the summer that she would really be in a whole new world. Maybe leaving boarding school was really no bigger a move than coming to it at eleven had been, especially since she knew she was probably going to go to university for something, but it felt as though it was.

Julian had, therefore, resolved to enjoy her last year of semi-childhood as much as she possibly could. Just experience everything, do whatever occurred to her. Have fun with life. The only problem with that plan was that she had always been the responsible ‘little mom’ in the family, and habit died hard. She had probably spent more than she should have of her summer money on things she didn’t want her parents and brothers to know about, but only after buying her school supplies for the year and making sure she had all the appropriate holiday gifts for the next few months in order. She had plans for the book club, had considered the weather varieties they got at Quidditch matches when picking out a new hat, and when she saw the library monitor sign-ups in the library, she walked right over to them without even thinking about it.

The trouble, she thought, was not so much that she was duty-bound – it wasn’t that she disliked any of the same-old same-old responsible things she did. She enjoyed buying presents for her family, felt good about taking the cost of her schoolbooks off her parents, had fun at book club and in the library. Even Quidditch matches weren’t that bad, at least when the weather was tolerable. It was just that she felt like there should be…something…more exciting in the spaces in between all that, and she just didn’t know what, besides wearing clothes her family would blink at and make-up at all, that ought to be. Dressing up was fun, but dressing up just for the sake of dressing up was something only little girls did, like playing tea party with tiny plates and cups but without any tea or scones to put in and on them. She was pretty sure she was supposed to be a little past the stage of just playing pretend for its own sake unless she was doing it with a small child, and she wasn’t associated with any of those at the moment.

She needed, she thought, to consult Charlie, and maybe even her roommates, on how to be Fun. In the meantime, though, she would get on with reestablishing the routine she might be a fun person around.

Julian Umland, Monitor.

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Emrys Lucan

June 09, 2015 8:53 PM

Giving this a go. by Emrys Lucan

The past summer Emrys had spent more time in the library than he thought he had ever spent in a library (consecutively, that was) in such a short span of time. The daily visits and chats with the librarians who by the end of the summer had trusted him enough to allow him into the back room and look at some of their older manuscripts. The smell of the old parchment and fading ink had become both addicting and something of a kryptonite to him. All it took was one smell of the stuff for Emrys to be transported inside his head, lost in daydreams of the times of old, when knights and wizards were in their heyday, and completely oblivious to the outside world. It was a feeling he missed, one that he hadn’t felt since he was young, hanging on to every magical word that his mother weaved for him.

That particular morning he had woken up late and as a result had rushed to breakfast and thus not been able to take his time leaving the common room so he hadn’t seen the sign-up sheet for library helpers until later that afternoon when he was returning from class to drop of his bags and then go down to dinner. He probably would have missed the sheet then too if he hadn’t tripped on his untied shoe right as he walked by the board. When he rose from tying the shoelace he noticed the sheet and scanned over the names.

Why had he never thought to sign up for something like this before? The thought was a strange one to Emrys and he tried to think why he hadn’t put his name down for the position. He supposed his first year he had just been so overwhelmed with everything and then after that he had spent most of his free time either reading in his room or hanging out with Charlotte playing music, but he had to pass by the library signup board every day on the way to the common room. It didn’t make any sense to him, but he searched his pockets for a ball-point pen, something Ava had given him for his last birthday since she said they fit better into pockets than self-inking quills, and carefully wrote his name on the list after the latest addition.

Emrys Lucan, Library Assistant

He was a little unsure about putting himself down for the lower of the three positions especially since it was something that the librarian had made clear was the only one beginners could do, but he also didn’t feel comfortable signing up for the monitor position since he had his prefect duties to think about and because it would be his first year working in the program. Besides, if he liked the program well enough then he could move up to regular monitor the next year if it proved to work out with his prefect schedule.

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Keme RunningBear

June 09, 2015 9:42 PM

Signing up again. by Keme RunningBear

So far, so good. That was how Keme was thinking of his final year at Sonora. Everything was going smoothly. His relationship with Willow was still going well, despite the months apart for the summer. This had been the first summer where he had actively sent letters to someone. He had sent occasional letters to Willow previous summers, but they weren’t very regular and certainly didn’t have too much to say in them. He had put in more effort this past summer so as Willow didn’t think he was losing interest or something. KoKo was determined to help him with his relationship. She had wed her husband a couple years ago and thus felt like she had a say in his romantic life (she kind of did though since she helped him figure things out). He only hoped that Willow was equally satisfied with their relationship.

Aside from his love life, Keme had also worked hard with is tribe during the summer. He had grown his hair out to his shoulders (it had been a trying hot summer for him to do so), wanting to reunite with the more traditional parts of his heritage and preparing for the celebration of his Adulthood. This was a ceremony that all the males and females participated in during the month of their birth, but since Keme was away at school, his had been delayed until the summer. Keme had always looked forward to this moment in his life. The tribe considered the ceremony of when he becomes a man. The original ceremony involved a Vision Quest to find their spirit animal, that practice was only held for those who had a serious need to discover themselves. Instead, the ceremony was a three day celebration where those turning 17 would dress in ceremonial garb and dance, play games, sing, etc. with their family, friends, and tribe. It had been a grand time and it reminded Keme of all the things he was missing.

Which is why he decided that after he graduated from Sonora, he would be returning to his Tribe and entering the workforce there. He had even sought consultation from his grandfather, the Chief of the tribe, and he agreed that it was what was best. He had offered suggestions too. Keme knew he would want to become one of the Archery trainers, but he wanted to do something else too; he just wasn’t sure on what.

But he had all year to think about it. Right now, he was just trying to sign up for Library Monitors. Picking up his quill, Keme signed his name below the others.

Keme RunningBear, Library Monitor

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Jack Spencer

June 10, 2015 12:02 PM

Back again. by Jack Spencer

There was very little that could keep Jack from the library. His common room entrance was situated somewhere between the stacks and the shelves were full of interesting magical literature that he didn’t have to purchase. Public libraries had never been appealing to Jack, but there was something different about Sonora’s library. That musty scent started to feel like home as he walked out of his common room and into the familiar scene.

As he walked to the desk to return a book – one on the fictional adventures of good wizards who were entransed by the dark side of magic – the sign-up sheet for library assistants caught his eye. Last year Jack had enjoyed volunteering in the library more than he had expected. Though he loved the outdoors and the trees and playing Quidditch, Jack equally liked staying indoors surrounded by old tomes and reading books. It was difficult to find a balance between the two particularly with the coursework and essays he had now, but the time he spent in the library seemed to fly by.

Since he’d worked as a Library Assistant the year before, he didn’t want to overstep himself and apply for the next position. Being a Library Assistant for another year didn’t sound too terrible. It meant less responsibility for him and a tad more freedom to do other things like climb trees outside or fly laps around the pitch when there was no one there. This year, Jack wanted to make friends as well. His brother Adam had been quite popular and Jack wanted to follow in his brother’s footsteps to an extent. Unlike their sister, Adam had been very social and secured himself two honours, Quidditch Captain and Head Boy, by his seventh year.

Jack peered down the list of names already on the sheet and recognised his room-mate’s name. It would be nice to get to know his room-mate a little better. Though they’d spent some time together at the Faire and had lived together all last year, it was hardly enough to call each other close mates. The other name Jack recognised was Emrys Lucan. He remembered Charlotte blabbing on and on about this lad. It gave him even more incentive to find out who this wizard was, so without further ado he borrowed the librarian’s desk quill to sign his name with sharp lines.

Jack Spencer, Library Assistant

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Gia Donovan

June 10, 2015 2:40 PM

Willing to help out! by Gia Donovan

This year, Gia wanted to be more involved in things around the school and she wanted her brother to be more involved too. She felt that he was even worse about his seclusion now that they were in a boarding school than he ever was when they were traveling with their mother. Gia understood, to an extent, her brother’s predicament. There was always the fear of people’s reactions if they found out what his illness was, but Gia didn’t understand why that would need to stop him from enjoying everything else in his life. Their mother had the same sort of thought regarding his illness that Jax had, so it was like Gia was fighting two giant walls.

Of course, their mother wanted them to have a decent life. Gia felt so guilty about everything her mother had to endure because of her children. Nothing was anyone’s fault, but Gia’s naivety regarding everything made her feel that her mother’s life could have been so much happier without the burden of two young children. Her mother was a Kostopolous, a Pureblood family from Greece, who could have lived a well to do life in her homeland had she never met Donovan. Instead, they were forced from their home when Gia was four and fled for safety.

Gia didn’t want to think about any of that though. Right now, they were in a good place and Gia really thought that people would give her brother a chance if they knew the truth. It wasn’t his fault or their father’s fault. It was just life. Gia was determined to make sure her brother started living his. She knew he was just trying to keep her safe from the outcome, but she really didn’t think everyone was as terrible as Jax made them out to be.

The first step to getting her brother to be more involved was to sign him up for things. What was better than working in the library? Jax loved the library, there was no way he’d be mad at her for signing him up for it. Besides, if he really didn’t like it, he could just not sign up next year. Anyway, she planned on signing him up for a lot of things this year, this was just the easiest one and the one he was likely to enjoy the most. She already knew that he joined the Book Club and Archery Club last year (completely on his own too! She was so proud), which meant that he was already trying to reach out to people. He would totally support her forward thinking. With a smile, Gia jotted their names down.

Gia Donovan, Library Assistant

Jax Donovan, Library Assistant

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Emery Kijewski-Jareau

June 10, 2015 4:41 PM

Returning. by Emery Kijewski-Jareau

Emery, like in the years past, was still doing his best to be more active with his peers. In the past, he had done so in the hopes that the staff would see that he was a team player (without having to be a Quidditch player) and an all around helpful and connected sort of guy to help gain him the Prefect status (something he had been trying for since the day he came to Sonora to make his mom proud). But that had been overlooked and the title was given to Emrys instead.

Last year, Emery had been really upset by the loss and had questioned the whole system. He still questioned it and didn’t bother believing he would be on the Head Boy ballet (Head spot was about popularity anyway and Emery was not blind to think he was that), but he was no longer upset by the loss and never blamed his friend for it.

So, even though he was no longer vying for any sort of title, Emery actually really enjoyed being a part of things. He still planned on joining the same clubs as last year (basically all of them, unless new ones sprung up) and helping out in the library as he had always done. Joining the clubs allowed him to have fun instead of always worrying about his grades or what Ava was doing. And, since Chloe was in a different house, he could spend time with his sister outside of classes too.

Since term started, Emery was keeping an eye out for all sign ups. The first one that he came upon was on his way to breakfast in the library. This was the easiest one for him. Even though it meant not actually chatting with people, he got to have some quiet time with books and that was good enough for him.

Emery Kijewski-Jareau, Library Monitor

After signing his name, Emery went on his way to the Hall.

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John Umland

June 12, 2015 3:38 PM

Here again. by John Umland

John was a few days later getting there than he should have been and knew it, but he still blinked, a little surprised and a little impressed, when he saw how long the library sign-up list had gotten already. Ten people, all but two of them, at least so far, from his House. He really was not wrong, he decided, when he thought of the Aladren common room more as a private reading room appended to the library than as a living room for a surrogate family.

Of course, his real family had a lot of books around the living room, too – all the non-magical books, and since his mom had possessed a lot more money when she still lived with her non-magical parents than she did now and his dad was not a huge reader, that was the majority of their collection. The spellbooks were locked away in trucks and hidden in an extra clothes hamper and for the most part, they only took that part of their lives out when they needed to. The living room books were the ones they lived with and the reason why he couldn’t imagine a family room that wasn’t cluttered with books. If anything, the Aladren common room was frequently a little too uncluttered for his taste, but he supposed the people who were used to huge houses would have been uncomfortable if they had had to worry about knocking things over whenever they turned around, and more of the House seemed to be like that than not.

Or at least it looked that way to him. Looking over the list, he recognized names from the yearbook and last year’s new kids, but the only ones he could say he really knew much about were his sister and the two he played Quidditch with. Since he had no roommate and had not had the better part of ten years to grow on people here, the Quidditch team, mostly made up of rich boys and one rich girl, pretty much was his social life at the moment and was likely to be even more like that this year now that he was in the intermediate class. The others were just names, so much so that he couldn't even begin to speculate about what sort of houses they lived in. Good thing he sort of liked the Quidditch team now, and better thing still that, to his surprise, at least half of them also seemed to like him okay.

Clark, he noticed, had asked for a promotion. He twisted his pen between his fingers for a moment, wondering if he should, too. Would that preserve his status as a reasonably respected member of their herd, or would it make him look like he was trying too hard? He kind of forgot it sometimes, but Pennsylvania Aislinn was the only person John considered himself friendly with who he knew for a fact was younger than him; Tobias Reinhardt might be a few months the junior, but he was a Teppenpaw anyway. In Aladren, everyone but Aislinn had at least most of a year on him….

He frowned, then signed up as an Assistant again. Rank didn’t mean that much to him unless he suspected it was being withheld solely because his mother was Muggleborn, and since that wasn’t really an issue here, he was content to continue doing what he had already been doing. Especially since all he'd do by offering to do a job he didn't even really want to do yet was look un-content and probably annoy the librarian. Neither of those things would be good.

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Chaslyn Brockert

June 20, 2015 1:10 PM

Signing up by Chaslyn Brockert

As usual at the beginning of the year, Chaslyn hit the ground running. Though, more accurately, she'd never stopped to catch her breath over the summer and now she had to go faster, do more, keep up with not just Mother's demands and those of her tutors at home, but those of the professors here at Sonora too. And she couldn't stand to disappoint any of them.

She knew Mother was already disappointed in her. Last summer, she'd participated in gymnastics competitions but had only competed on the floor in individuals-and she hadn't even medaled. Worse than that were the dance competitions. Chaslyn loved dance-especially ballet, though it tended to be lyrical numbers that won competitions-and she'd not gotten any solos all summer. This was made even more horrible when her old studio-the one Amity had gotten them thrown out of for being lazy and talking back-was one of their competitors. And they'd always been such stiff competition and this time was no exception. Of course, Miss Annie, her former instructor had had to get her little digs in at Chaslyn, Mother and Amity. Stuff about how Chaslyn could have been on the winning team had her sister not ruined it for her. And how she'd have come so much farther on her dance if she was truly dedicated. Naturally, Miss Annie had mentioned what a failure Amity was. It didn't matter to Miss Annie that the Aladren alumna had married the Tremont heir, she wasn't a professional dancer.

But she was! The fourth year loved it better than any other activity she'd ever done and that was saying a lot . Yet, she'd gotten out there and had been completely thrown off, making a few missteps here and there. Nobody on her team had said anything of the kind-though Miss Annie's perrenial favorite, Addison, had mocked her, mentioning how Chaslyn had always choked going back to their very first competition and that was another reason she'd never be half the dancer Addison was herself-but the Crotalus knew she'd cost her team.

Of course, Chaslyn knew her mother would be of no comfort to her, that she didn't deserve such comfort anyway. She'd messed up and that was not okay. She'd let down herself, her team, her teacher and her mother and couldn't be more disappointed in herself. Truthfully , being on stage had always made her nervous, even when doing something she loved. The scrutiny of others, never measuring up. The potentially unfavorable comparison to others and Mother's reaction to that. It never failed to make her nervous.

Still,Chaslyn had even skipped the Opening Feast to practice. Normally, she took meals whenever she could get them, but she didn't like big group events, having to sit at the table alone. She always found herself incredibly anxious. There weren't even people to sit with, Tristan and Kelsey had their own friends. Liac was in Teppenpaw. Unfortunately she'd found out later that Kira had been sorted into Crotalus. It was hard to see that girl, to be reminded of her bond with Amity. What she'd gotten to do with the former Aladren that Chaslyn had missed out on. Amity was her sister, not Kira's!

Anyway, not only was Mother putting more pressure on her because of all the mistakes she'd made, she was now also supposed to start studying for her CATS, even though she was only a fourth year. The importance of getting straight Os had been impressed upon her and she could still remember how angry Mother had been when Amity had not done so. Chaslyn didn't want that anger directed at her . It was truly scary.

Still, none of this meant the Crotalus could cut back on anything else. So when she saw the Library Helper Sign Ups, she didn't hesitate to place her name on the list.

Chaslyn Brockert, Library Monitor .

Her eyes flicked over the Head Monitor positon. She was too young now, it would sure be one of the seventh years, but she knew she was going to have to get that position some day. Or she'd be a failure.

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Willow Collins

June 20, 2015 1:45 PM

Signing up by Willow Collins

This was Willow's last year and she was going to enjoy it. She was sick of the drama at home and if things worked out with Keme, she'd be more than happy to go live on his lands, helping out anyway she could. Granted, the main things the Teppenpaw was good at were sculpting, ceramics, aquariums-she knew a lot about what fish needed what food and who got along and whatnot-and of course, Transfiguration. She took COMC and Charms and did quite well in those too. Oh, and library work. She'd been helping in the library at Sonora for years.

Actually, come to think of it, that was quite a lot. Hopefully, some of it could be useful to Keme's tribe. Or Willow could learn a skill that was. Honestly, she was really grateful that she'd met Keme. To think it had happened by random chance that he'd asked her to the ball as first years and now they were together. The potential to escape from a phony society that she'd had enough of was just an added perk. Not that Willow was going to turn her back on people completely, it was just that she'd had enough. She blamed society and it's pressures for making Autumn so sick. Had to blame someone.

Besides, had she met someone from another country-as Nora had- she'd have had to move there and learn their ways. Keme was pure and it was a decent economic move anyway to have dealings with his tribe. None of this mattered much to Willow beyond it meaning she'd get what she wanted. The Teppenpaw briefly remembered Hope trying something similar with less success.

One thing that she and Keme had always both done was sign up to work in the library and it looked like this year wasn't going to be any different. Willow grinned when she saw his name and added her own to the list.

Willow Collins, Library Monitor

She really did hope that it was her and Keme that got the two Head Monitor positions. The seventh year hadn't recieved any badges and barely got anything in the yearbook. It would be nice to have something for once and if Keme had it to, so much the better. Unfortunately, there were still Julian and the sixth years to worry about.

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Librarian Amelle Nicchi

June 22, 2015 9:07 PM

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