Percy
The jingle was followed by footsteps and percy turned to the sound. A girl stood at the end of the hall. "Hi! I'm Kay" she spoke before continuing, " i think there's a teacher coming, so I'd really like to use whatever's behind that door to hide. Would you mind? I won't take long".
Percy eyes studied the girl and moved left to let the girl, Kay, in. He followed behind her quickly closing the door as the sound of poised steps rang just around the corner of the hall. He leaned on the door taking in the rooms he found. It was a relatively small room around 8 feet wide 6 feet long and the roof stood like any of the other rooms in clockworth, tall and mighty. It reminded him of a common bedroom. The girl, Kay, stood inches from Percival.
"I'm Percival Steele. Call me Percy or Civ. May I ask why a maiden such as yourself was running from a teacher? Did you do something wrong?" Percy spoke with proper tone. She smiled lightly. " You can speak normally. I'm middle class." Percy nodded lightly and turned to the room. It looked well taken care of, but was very clearly unused.
"oh wow" Kay's voiced. Its design was beautiful. It held a mechanical look with gears, cogs and other parts showing in the walls. A small fireplace, clearly mechanical as it didn't have a chimney, was unlit and unused as it appeared like the rest of the room. There were chairs around the fireplace and a small table. To Percy it looked like a meeting room, a lodge of sorts, for something. Maybe one of the older groups of students had once used it.
To Percy's amazement the room was truly worthy of being called magnificent. The magnitude of creativity it would tale for a mechanic to build this room. The floors had little rails built in that seemed to connect to the furniture. A sudden loud sound of the door creaking caught Percy's attention. Not unlike Percy, Kay heard it to following Percy's eyes to the door. They both quickly hid and watched from under the dainty table as a pair of expensive shoes walked through the room.
The person stayed for a few minutes scoping the room before leaving. Percy waited a little long before drawing out and looking to kay. "That was close. Now can I ask why you were hiding?" He studied he face watching her expression. Had she done something wrong already? Percival grinned at the thought. This girl would be fun, Percy knew this much.
Kay
"Why I was hiding?" Kay thought for a moment. "I guess I didn't want to make a bad impression on any teachers before class started. You see, I was-" She broke off abruptly, remembering what her roommate had said about not underestimating anyone. But... lying didn't come naturally to Kay, and she'd already started telling the boy what she was up to. She shrugged and continued talking.
"Well, I was looking for my roommate's name. I was hoping it would be in a classroom somewhere, but the one I tried was locked, and I didn't want to seem like I was trying to break into a classroom... And to be honest, the teachers kind of scare me." Kay smiled wryly. "Oh, thanks for letting me in here, by the way! It's nice to meet you, Civ."
The grey-eyed boy nodded. "Likewise. And I appreciate you talking to me normally. Its a first".
"Of course! Talking formally all the time must be exhausting." Kay looked around the room again, more slowly now that there was no immediate threat of discovery by a teacher. She stood up and started examining the fireplace. "This place is awesome... There's no way the door to this room was just open. How did you manage to unlock it?" Kay tried rotating the various gears attached to the fireplace as she listened to Percy's response.
"I grew up with machines and secret rooms, and I've always liked exploring. I could tell that door was made by the inventor Emmeline Wraithwood, meaning there's a trick to opening it." Percy smiled. "All I had to do was flick a lever!"
"That's neat!" Kay was about to say more, but just then, there was a click!, and the gear she had been turning started to move. Kay raised her eyebrows and watched as it started a chain reaction, with larger gears rotating until the fireplace eventually split down the middle. The two sides turned inwards with twin creaks, revealing a cobwebbed passageway.
Kay turned to Percy. "Did you know the fireplace could do that?" She immediately peered into the passageway, trying to figure out where it might lead. "It's too dark... Hold on." Kay scanned the room, looking for a portable light source. The light fixtures on the walls probably won't move, and I don't see any candles... Suddenly, her gaze landed on a small box next to the fireplace. She opened it and found a lantern, which she prompty lit using the matches that had been next to it. That's very convenient. It seems like someone's used this passageway before... But considering all those spiderwebs, it's likely fallen into disuse. So it should be safe enough, as long as the ceiling doesn't fall or anything...
Kay held the lantern so that it illuminated the beginning of the passage, and glanced at Percy. "Well then. I'm getting incredibly curious about all these secret mechanisms, so shall we go see where this passageway leads?"
Percy
Percy's eyes caught kays for a second before speaking. "More exploring? Lets go!" He took a large step into the passage. Walking side by side with Kay the once dark passageway illuminated. Cobwebs hung low in percy's face and brushing one away he spoke, "How long do you think its been since someone used this passageway? It must have been a while".
"Definitely... There seems to be a whole colony of spiders in here." Kay eyed the walls with distaste. Percy followed her eyes and nodded for her to see. "But besides the spiders this is very cool".
The hall seemed to never end with few turns until they came upon a three way split. " Which way?" Kay spoke looking at the different halls."May I get the lantern for a second?" If there was one way to find their way it would be to find the flow of air. Every passage like this would have one. Kay handed Percival the lantern and he opened the doors one it.
His eyes ranked the flame as he began to flow to the left.. "we go that way it will lead outwards." Kay's eyes widened giving her a confused look but Percy quickly learned it wasn't A confused look, it was more of a surprised and awed look, when she spoke.
"Where'd you learn that?! That's almost as cool as the secret passageway behind the fireplace." She questioned. Percys eyes shifted as to avoid the question. " it probably leads out and that's where we need to go". He took large steps down the hall. It was much short of a walk and ended at what looked to be the back of a painting. Kay quickly went up against it pushing her ear close.
"sounds empty where ever we are" her words softened before ahe pushed the painting to the side. It appeared to be a hall in the dorm area. Not far from where Percy and his roommate were placed. He felt relief seeing the bland halls and normal doors. Its large walls and clear glass in the windows helped him forget what had happened not long ago. He looked at Kay before turning to a window.
It was slightly darker that earlier, meaning a good amount of time had passed. It wasn't much he inquired from the sky.
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