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Can I have a ohshc fairy tail and fmab matchup plz I'm a straight short girl around 5'2 with long brown hair and eyes and a leo. I like anime,dragons,reptiles,drawing but I'm not good,tarantulas,sweets,video games, memes,dark humor. I am very kind but I care more about others than I do myself. I have bad anxiety. I tend to overthink about everything. I love to sing especially country music but I am tone deaf. I have trouble standing up for myself because I was bullied alot. I can be very blunt. I also love to swear. I can be very loud. I love a good mystery and cop shows. I love dad jokes and puns.I am terrified of bees and heights. I am very lazy but I can be good at doing stuff if motivated. , unless I know it will happen or if I touch someone. I accidentally snap at people and I find people's pain hilarious so if someone gets hurt there is a good chance I will laugh at them. I sound meaner than intended sometimes. I can have trouble showing that im thankful at times. I pick at scabs as a nervous habit. I love to add alot of lemon juice to my tea to where it's more lemon than tea. When I'm woken up early with low sleep I am very mean and grumpy.

Hello lovely! I hope you like your matchups!

Ouran High School Host Club Matchup: I pair you with… Haninozuka Mitsukuni!

Hani is shorter than you at a surprising 4’10”! The two of you bond over sweets, and he loves to look at your drawings! Whenever you come by the host club, he likes to ask to look at your sketchbook even if you think you aren’t very good! However, he’s not a massive fan of tarantulas or video games; he leaves that to you and likes to watch from afar.

He loves that you are so kind! After you two graduate from Ouran Academy and begin dating (if you’d like to, of course), he likes to tell you how he loves your kindness but urges you to take care of yourself as well! He tries to help with your anxiety and offers you sweets and a hand to hold when he notices you are particularly nervous. He doesn’t mind you being blunt and helps you learn how to stand up for yourself (aka he wants to teach you martial arts).

Hani tells you all the dad jokes and puns! He even goes to Hikaru and Kaoru for more joke ideas when he runs out. He’s also pretty lazy when not motivated by you or sweets but still maintains good academic grades nonetheless! He helps you seem more approachable because he’s just so loveable, and you can sometimes come off rude. So basically, the two of you are polar opposites, but he loves you anyway!

Fairy Tail Matchup: I pair you with… Sting Eucliffe!

Sting is taller than you at a whopping 5’8” and the perfect best friend or boyfriend depending on what you want! He may be busy as a guild master, but that doesn’t mean he neglects you! If anything, he’ll do anything he can to get out of his guild master duties and spend time with you instead!

He definitely likes to show off his dragon-slaying magic for you and tells you all kinds of stories about being raised by Weisslogia. He also has a big sweet tooth, so the two of you bond over sneaking out of the guild and getting all kinds of sweets! He loves how kind you are and also how caring. He also tries his best to help with your anxiety and overthinking, but he is kind of an idiot sometimes, so who knows how helpful he’ll be, lol!

Sting loves how loud you can be! He’s pretty loud too, so when the two of you start going at it, whether it’s sparring or otherwise, everyone hears you XD. He’s not good at telling jokes, but he’s good at being unintentionally funny, so either way, you are going to be laughing!

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Matchup: I pair you with… Alphonse Elric!

Depending on when you look at Alphonse, he’s different heights. As a teenager in a suit of armor, he’s 7’2” according to the size chart. As a young man near the end of the series, he’s around 5’10”. In the modern-day, I see him as liking anime! Not a whole lot, but just enough to be considered a fan. He likes slice-of-life animes, while I see Edward enjoying more action-packed animes.

Alphonse is a bit of an artist himself, so he likes to take you out to places like fields and hills where the two of you can draw in peace—so drawing dates when he’s older and human again! The two of you come off like balls of sunshine to people like Ed since you are both just so kind and caring to others, even if you can come across as mean sometimes.

The two of you enjoy mystery shows together! He’s also the king of jokes and puns when he gets his body back, and all he wants to do is make you laugh! He’s also usually pretty motivated and helps you get motivated too! He tries to stop you from picking at your scabs as a habit because he tells you they will scar, but overall he just loves you to pieces! Whether you are dating or just friends, it doesn’t matter. He’ll love you anyway!

#fairytailwzard matchup #fairytailwzard matchups #ohshc #ohshc honey #mitsukuni haninozuka #ouran high school host club #ouran high school host club honey #fairy tail #fairy tail sting #sting eucliffe #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist alphonse #alphonse elric #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood alsphonse

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whimsywit · 3 years

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freedjustineappreciation · 7 years

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#Reminder and #Reference about Freed Justine’s height: The guy is roughly 5′11″ (180/181cm). That’s great average height for a man. Guild mates with supposedly about the same height are Gajeel, Droy, Warren and Mest.

#freed justine #raijinshuu #fried justine #fairy tail #thunder god tribe #thunder legion #;;reference #;;reminder #;;queue #of course all of this can slightly vary because even mashima doesnt keep his own height and body refs exactly the same the entire time #but judging by his height chart and all this should be roughly it indeed #just reminding/referencing because I still see it in some shipping fanart or fanfiction that make freed almost painfully short #that might also be because his partner in his most popular ship (laxus) is like 6'3" and clearly above average height #;;about #;;important

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artoutoftheblue · 3 months

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Heres the split version of Fauna Fairy Bloodmoon! Left is Carmine and Right is Crimson

These two are the split version of Fauna Fairy Bloodmoon. Bloodmoon is a fusion of these two. They were born split and later found out that they could fuse to make Bloodmoon. When they're split, they're a lot less chaotic. Carmine is the calmer half and Crimson is the chaotic one. Both of them still have a bloodlust. When split, they cant hide their wings like they can when fused. Both still have a venomous bite and venomous barbs on their tails. They're also both smaller when split, and blind in the eye on the black side of their body

Links to other refs: Day Fairy Sun, Night Fairy Moon, Spring Fairy Earth, Summer Fairy Solar, Autumn Fairy Eclipse, Winter Fairy Lunar, Fauna Fairy Bloodmoon, Carmine and Crimson (you're here)

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#im not opposed to reusing names lmao #fnaf security breach #daycare attendant #blues art #blues references #celestial fairies au #fauna fairy bloodmoon #carmine and crimson #fairy carmine #fairy crimson #tsams au #sams au #tsams bloodtwins #sams bloodtwins

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ftmains · 5 years

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approximate heights for the fairy tail guild (based on a height chart designed by mashima hiro and references)

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cryptosensors · 3 years

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How and with what to analyze the connections of cryptocurrency pairs?

Author: Evgenii Bodiagin

From author: Cooperation proposal for the supply of data

How to analyze the relationship of cryptocurrencies? What are the laws governing the movement of cryptocurrencies? What are the features in the movements of the crypt?

Content:

Introduction.

Is everything all right with your distribution?….

Extraction of data on cryptocurrencies. Active cryptopairs.

How is the crypto market moving? ...

A nonparametric tool for analyzing relationships between pairs of cryptocurrencies.

Conclusion.

Introduction

Not so long ago, our world was replenished with another phenomenon: cryptocurrencies. At first, they were treated as a tool that only geeks are interested in. Today it is obvious that the "crypt" is becoming a backbone. Its mysteriousness, frightening volatility attracts more and more people: from speculators to lovers of conspiracy theory. There is a natural desire to understand the movement of the crypt. The urge to organize and "put everything on the shelves" forces you to turn to data processing tools. Very often these tools are used not quite, to put it mildly, correctly.

For example, in the flow of information about cryptocurrency markets, a lot of attention is paid to the research of cryptocurrency connections. Which cryptocurrencies rise / fall at the same time (have the same movement vector)? AND…. on the contrary - which have the opposite direction. The answers to these questions can enrich the investor in the truest sense of the word. This task is a classic task of correlation analysis. It would seem ... we take the quotes of cryptocurrencies ... a package of spreadsheets. "Go" and done. But ... I remember a phrase from an advertisement: "not all yoghurts are equally useful."

The subtleties, as they say, are in the details. The fact is that the methods for calculating correlations are different. Spreadsheets use Pearson's correlation, although it is referred to simply as "correlation." But there is one but. Pearson's correlation is only possible if the data we are trying to analyze is normally distributed.

Is everything all right with your distribution?….

Let's remember what the normal distribution is. First there will be boring formulas, then an entertaining example. So, a one-dimensional random variable that corresponds to a normal distribution has the following probability density function:

Behind the eyes, it is also called the Gaussian function;) It has only two parameters. First: µ is the mathematical expectation (mean), median and distribution mode. Second parameter: σ - standard deviation (σ2 - variance) of the distribution. The probability density function has the following graphical representation:

In order to describe the normal distribution without formulas, consider, for example, the height of the people around us. Think of your friends, acquaintances, work colleagues. Are there many giants among them? Are there many people of extremely small stature among them? The most common value is likely to be "average height".

The normal distribution has another remarkable property. We measure three standard deviations down from the average height. We measure three standard deviations up from the average height. 99.73% of your subjects will be within this range. In other words, the lion's share of the sample is within the "three sigma" range.

Imagine now that we are in the fabulous Middle Ages. In addition to people, other creatures live on earth: giants, gnomes. Dragons hover in the sky. Elves lurk in the woods. Let's form a sample of the growth of fantastic creatures. As you can see, the histogram has heavy tails.

Why? It's simple - a meeting with a gnome or a giant is not so rare. The distribution of the height of the inhabitants of the fairy forest differs significantly from the normal one.

It is especially worth noting that if a random variable is affected by many random variables that are practically independent of each other, the behavior of such a random variable is described by a normal distribution. The normal distribution is fairly well understood. A lot of data processing techniques are based on it. The Pearson correlation, which requires normality, is only one in a thousand instruments. And here a fundamental question arises. What is the distribution of price changes in cryptocurrencies?

Mining data about cryptocurrencies. Active crypto pairs.

We will consider the Binance crypto exchange as a source of data on cryptocurrency pairs. We will use Python 3.7.7 as processing tools. We use libraries such as: scipy, numpy, pandas, plotly.

At the time of this writing, we have historical data on 600 cryptocurrency pairs. We will consider daily data. Data mining is done using the Binance API. The sample size is 90 days. The subject of consideration will be the following indicator:

Growth_rate_Close = Close temp day / Close last day

Those. if, for example, this ratio is 1.015, the closing price has increased by 1.5%. If the value, for example, is 0.98, then the price has dropped by 2%. Thus, we analyze not the absolute values of the closing prices of cryptocurrency pairs, but their gains.

Note that not all crypto pairs are actively traded. Let's select the most liquid ones. There are two criteria for activity - the number of transactions or the volume of trade. Let's choose the number of deals. So, if you sort all cryptocurrency pairs by the number of transactions, and display it on the chart, you get the following.

Let's take the 35 most actively traded cryptocurrencies. They are shown in red on the graph. All data on cryptocurrency pairs are displayed in blue. The graph shows that the most active part of cryptocurrencies is only 6% of the entire list of cryptocurrencies.

0,05833 = 35 / 600

Yes, that's a fact. These are the realities of the crypto market.

How is the crypto market moving? ...

What does the histogram of price increases for these most active 35 positions look like? How is the crypto market moving? Something like this:

Testing for compliance with the normal distribution is performed both by visual compliance with the normal distribution graph and by calculating statistics. How close is this picture to a normal distribution? Visually? Doubtful ...

Additionally, we will conduct the Shapiro - Wilk test. This test is used to determine whether a sample fits a normal distribution. The following results were obtained:

Only 10 out of 35 crypto pairs have p, which turned out to be higher than the alpha level of Shapiro - Wilk. This means that, technically, we cannot reject the hypothesis that the samples are normally distributed. Here's what the histogram of the 10 mentioned crypto pairs looks like:

To what extent does their appearance correspond to the normal distribution? Despite the significance of the Shapiro-Wilk statistic, it is highly doubtful. Thickened tails are visible on both the right and left. Let's remember about gnomes and giants;)

Cryptocurrency pairs do not live according to the laws of normal distribution! This fact has an important consequence. It is necessary to use such analysis tools that would be free of distribution type. We are talking about nonparametric statistics. And ... researching relationships is also possible there!

A nonparametric tool for analyzing relationships between cryptocurrency pairs

The nonparametric analogue of the Pearson coefficient is the Spearman coefficient. In general, its calculation refers to the methods of rank correlation. But ... rank correlation is applicable to real variables as well. Calculating the Spearman coefficient between cryptocurrency pairs in each case, we get two values: the coefficient itself, as well as the value p, which allows us to assess the significance level of the Spearman coefficient itself.

At the time of the research, we identified only 35 pairs of instruments where there is an interesting and statistically significant relationship. Why is the term interestingused here? Not strong ... not weak? Because the value of the correlation is not the only parameter that indicates how interesting the relationship is in terms of making a profit. You can read the research "Guide indicators in cryptocurrency trading or the Truman effect in action. Weak correlations are in the arsenal of a trader." at www.cryptosensors.info, which will tell you about the nuances of researching relationships.

The cryptocurrency market is volatile, but ... our monitoring software processing works with it. You can find out what relationships exist between cryptocurrency pairs at this time (we are not talking about the time of writing these lines; but about the time when you read these lines) at www.cryptosensors.info.

Conclusion

Cryptocurrency pairs do not behave according to the laws of normal distribution. When choosing a tool for analyzing cryptocurrency connections, you must use the right tool. Spearman's correlation coefficient can be used to analyze the crypto market, since it is a nonparametric criterion.

From author: Cooperation proposal for the supply of data

You may be interested in research / data:

Research: Guide Indicators in Cryptocurrency Trading or the Truman Effect in Action. Weak correlations are in the arsenal of a trader.

Research: Cryptocurrency quotes. Collection and processing. What should a trader know about?

Research: Candlestick analysis efficiency statistics for cryptocurrency trading. Patterns: bullish hammer, bearish hammer.

Data: Cryptopairs quotes in xlsx format.

Data: Comparable data for ten well-known cryptopairs.

Data: Exchange candlestick analysis. Evaluating the use and effectiveness of patterns. Patterns: Bull hammer Bear hammer.

Data: Search data for Truman zones ALMOST ALL (guide indicators for cryptocurrency pairs).

Data: Cryptopairs-relationships.

Send your questions and suggestions to [email protected]. We are open for cooperation!

#cryptocurreny trading #crypto market #how the crypto market moves #nonparametric analysis of cryptocurrencies #histogram #cryptocurrency distribution #cryptocurrency relationships #data processing

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dragonshost · 6 years

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Back To The Start

Chapter 3: Complications And Missing Places

Pairing: Acnologia x Lucy

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Summary: Lucy has lost everything she ever cared for, all thanks to the black dragon of the apocalypse. So, with the help of two old journals belonging to her ancestor Anna and a dragon slayer 400 years dead, she will find out the secret to Acnologia’s defeat. No matter the personal cost.

Chapter 3 of the giveaway fic for @momocheww

Sorry this took so long to get out! I finished it a while ago, but I only just got around to editing it. Also, I cried while writing this chapter. A lot. Lucy’s still got some growing to do in this fic, but she’ll get there eventually.

Contrary to her initial hopes, it took Lucy the better part of the day to merely map out the layout of the Tower’s first floor. It was best to know where things were, she had decided. That way she wouldn’t have to keep calling on Crux every time she wanted to know where something was. He had a life of his own in the Celestial World, after all. It would be the height of rudeness to send him home only to drag him right back. Now that she knew how the time flowed differently between the worlds thanks to the party her spirits had thrown her, she understood just how disruptive calling upon them could be for their daily lives. Aquarius’s irritation at her childhood habit of constantly summoning her made a lot more sense now.

It was better for both her and Crux to just keep him summoned while they figured out where everything was, and then she could send him home once she had a grasp on the books’ organization. She just hadn’t expected it to take as long as it did before she could do so. Even the bottom floor of the place was massive. Furthermore, it was a veritable labyrinth that didn’t follow any convention of organization that she could readily recognize. Whatever ancient correlation it had, it was beyond Lucy’s ability to intuit. Which forced her to plot everything out in her journal as she went.

Then there was issue of the fact that Lucy couldn’t read half the languages that the books were written in. It had been a depressing realization, to open up half a dozen books only to find herself incapable of discerning their contents.

She missed Levy intensely in that moment. The blue-haired woman would know exactly what these books said, no matter the language. Loneliness welled up inside of her. The absence of her friends and teammates ached like a missing limb – a large chunk of her soul cut out and gone with them.

It wasn’t as if she wouldn’t find any information in the library without Levy’s help, she knew. Several of the tomes were bound to have translated versions somewhere in the building. And Fiore’s national language was one that had existed for at least four hundred years without too much deviation. The question was whether she’d be able to find the books written or translated to it, and if their contents held what she needed within them.

She wasn’t placing much hope in her infamous luck to help her out in that department. Besides which, it felt lately that her luck had long since run out. Tenrou Island, the Neo Oracion Seis attempting to sacrifice her to a clock, getting the crap beaten out of her at the Grand Magic Games and being thrown into jail, a dragon invasion, and then… Tartaros.

Yeah… her luck had run out a long, long time ago.

Perhaps it had all been used up in meeting Natsu, and in joining Fairy Tail.

By the time she had to call it a day, Lucy had come to the crushing realization that even if the library held all the information that she needed, it was going to take her a lot of time to comb through it all. Let alone discern what information was actually helpful for her cause. Lucy highly doubted a book existed that would be so fortuitously titled: How To Defeat A Dragon King.

The bright spot in all of it was that while he’d helped her, Crux had also provided enough information for Lucy to write a preliminary article on the place for Jason to look over. She would organize her notes once she got home for the night, though, and then write it. Skipping lunch while working in the archives had been a poor idea, and her stomach was complaining so loudly that it would have gotten her kicked out of a normal library.

“Is it alright if I summon you again tomorrow?” Lucy asked him, just before dismissing him for the day. “I think I’m going to need more help figuring out where everything is. But if not, then I can work with what I’ve already got.” She refused to be an imposition to him. Not like she had been to Aquarius.

The spirit considered it. “I’m afraid that I’m unavailable tomorrow,” he said slowly. “My apologies, Miss Lucy. I would love to continue to assist you, but it will have to wait two of your days, at least.”

Crestfallen, Lucy nodded. “That’s alright. You have your own life to live. It would be selfish of me to take up too much of your time.”

A kind, if sorrowful, smile spread across Crux’s face. “Miss Lucy, you aren’t an imposition to us. I fear that Aquarius’s lack of patience is to blame, here. Hardly any time passes in our world while we’re in yours. Our lives are not disrupted by any great account in being a part of yours. We all knew what being bound to gate keys would entail when we agreed to be so. Truthfully, our lives are enriched for the experience – time moves so slowly in our world that it’s easy to become stagnant, to fall out of touch with what is happening on Earthland. We take great joy being your spirits, and a part of your life and adventures, Miss Lucy. Please take heart in that.”

Hot tears gathered in Lucy’s eyes at his words, and her cheeks and ears burned. Shakily, she nodded her head. “Okay,” she breathed out. She furiously wiped her eyes with her arm and gave Crux a tremulous smile. “I’ll try to remember that.”

She’d keep his words in her heart, always.

“Miss Lucy,” Crux continued, his wizened face relaxing at Lucy’s response, “I am not the only one of your spirits that you can call upon to help you. Most of your spirits will know at least one of the languages in these tomes. Although they aren’t quite my advanced age, they’ve been around a long time, and served many summoners in the past. Call upon whoever you wish, and they’ll keep you company for as long as you need them. And, I suspect, if you should want them longer than that, they’ll happily remain then, too.”

Lucy hiccupped, trying to force back a sob. These were the things she’d needed to hear, she realized. She hadn’t known that she’d needed them until they were already said, and yet they slid so easily into an empty place in her heart. “I will!” she told Crux, her voice heavy with emotion. Lucy needed her spirits, and they needed her, too. She would face them once more, and this time she would try to do it with love in her heart instead of sorrow. “I promise.”

The library, true to Crux’s warning, did attempt to keep Lucy’s notes that night. It took her the better part of a half hour to escape with her notebook intact, though Lucy couldn’t quite explain how the library was doing it in the first place. One moment, the book was in her hand, and the next it was back at the table she’d been working at. It played tricks on her mind – she couldn’t actually say for sure that she hadn’t left it there herself. Multiple times. But she knew enough of magic to know when it was trying to bamboozle her.

It was a minor blessing that it kept returning to the same table, all told. Lucy wasn’t sure she’d be able to find the damn thing again if the library were to shelve it somewhere else in the building.

The whole ordeal rendered Erza’s previous success with removing the clock piece somewhat incredible to Lucy.

Early the next morning, an inability to sleep, despite how tired she was, drove Lucy from her bed long before she had intended to. It seemed as if these days she was perpetually exhausted; on the verge of dropping off to sleep at any moment. And other days, insomnia plagued her instead. Her sleep schedule had gone completely off the charts in terms of predictability. The odd hours she worked with Jason were also not conducive to a consistent night’s rest.

Lacking ought else to do, she found herself at the Library of Sorcery. The world was still covered in blue, the morning songs of the birds just starting their first notes.

Maybe the early start would help her make more progress than the day before, or so she reasoned. The stone edifice of the Tower was hard to pick out, somehow, in the predawn. Like her eyes just… slid right past it. Given the intricacies of the spells within the building, it wouldn’t be too surprising if there were spells on the outside of it, too.

In fact, that might be a large part of the reason it was still standing after four hundred years. Lucy knew from her childhood obsession with the ruins spoken of in Key Of The Starry Skies that very few buildings of that age remained intact around Fiore. She wasn’t sure about Ishgar as a whole, but for Fiore it was definitely true. Not even Cardia Cathedral came close to that age, and it was easily the oldest building in Magnolia. Objectively, Lucy knew that countless wars and the early days of magic experimentation had a lot to do with that. She couldn’t help but feel a sense of loss, however. How many libraries had disappeared over the past four hundred years? Or libraries even older than that? Lacking the extensive, mind-boggling protections that this building possessed, how much knowledge had vanished altogether?

This was the sort of thing that she would have liked to talk to Levy about. Or maybe even Freed. Warren knew a lot about this sort of thing too, surprisingly enough. If he was there, he’d probably regale her with tales of other magical places he’d come across in his extensive traveling. Freed would be over the moon in dissecting the spellwork that comprised the Library, and Levy… it would have been her dream come to life to read the ancient books stored here.

Stars above, she missed them. More than she had words for.

She wondered where they were, at that moment. Her friends were scattered all over the place, so it was hard to find them. There was a map, in her apartment; studded thick with pins and articles tracking individual guild members as they settled into new lives for themselves. Originally Lucy had just been planning to write to them, to check on how they were doing. A way to feel connected, despite the distance. And maybe, if she had the time, she could drop in on them for a visit.

But the reality of her own busy schedule had come crashing down on her hard. It was probably no different for them. They had new lives and new concerns to deal with. She’d just be intruding.

She kept adding to the board anyway, though. It would be too painful to take it down now. That would be like she was admitting that they would never be a family again. Not like they were before.

Lucy swallowed thickly, her hands curling into fists at her sides. With an abrupt turn on her heels, she strode away from the towering library. Lead sorrow sat in her gut, heavy in her chest.

She couldn’t do this today. She’d try again tomorrow.

When she returned home, she fell into bed, and immediately dropped off into a thankfully dreamless slumber.

Jason was more than pleased by how fast Lucy had gotten the first draft finished, nearly blowing out her eardrums over the phone with his excited shouting.

“This is fantastic! Super cool of you!” he crowed, as Lucy held the receiver at arm’s length away. Much as she enjoyed working with the man, he was putting her hearing at serious risk. He was capable of indoor voice, she knew that from experience. But when he got excited it was as if someone had cranked his volume up to the max, and then broken off the dial.

“Thank you! I’m glad you liked it,” Lucy told him, smiling broadly at the praise and flushing with happiness. This was the best she’d felt in a while. The past few days of research on her personal project, and the work she’d put in towards the article on the Library of Sorcery, had beaten her spirit into the ground, honestly. Three days straight of painful quiet, with only Crux and Capricorn to occasionally break the monotony. Three days where she failed to produce the results she wanted. Three days of fighting with the building to let her keep her notes. She was exhausted.

“Liked it?! I loved it! I think we can get this one into the next issue, for sure.”

Lucy’s eyes gleamed; Jason’s excitement was downright contagious, for all its volume. “Thank you!” she said again, so overwhelmed that she couldn’t formulate anything more articulate. “Thank you so much!”

“So on another note,” Jason said, his voice returning to a normal decibel, “I think I’ve gotten a pretty good lead on a possible interview for the magazine. Something that would catch a lot of people’s attention. Since you did so well on this piece, I was thinking you might be able to handle it. Aside from which, the subject requested you personally. Can you come into the office tomorrow, so I can give you all the details?”

‘The real world intrudes,’ Lucy thought morosely. ‘Again.’

It wasn’t as if she’d been making much headway at the Library, though. As much as she still thought it would contain the solutions she sought, they were proving difficult to locate. Extremely difficult. Capricorn and Crux had been a great help, of course. The two spirits had done everything in their abilities to assist her in her search. The old goat had even left off comments about her weight and diet, which was nice. Keeping them in Earthland for as long as she had was improving her magic by leaps and bounds as well, but it was probably high time she took a break. The day she’d gone home and fallen asleep hadn’t really been much of a real rest.

“Lucy?” Jason voice came through the receiver, his clear concern shattering her thoughts. “You still there?”

“Yeah,” she responded with a shake of her head that he thankfully couldn’t see. “What time do you want me in?”

“Seven, please.”

“Got it. See you tomorrow, boss!”

When she hung up, Lucy stared blankly at the wall for a long minute. “I wonder who it could be?” she said aloud. Shooting a glance at the map, bright with pins and cluttered with cut out articles, she let out a self-deprecating little laugh. “Probably not.” Lucy shook her head at her whimsy. For all that she wanted to see them so badly, it was pretty clear at this point that the feeling was not reciprocated on their end. They would have reached out, otherwise.

Calling it an early night, Lucy put herself to bed before the sun had even fully set. She would need the extra rest, after all.

For once, her dreams were peaceful.

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