Tick Tock (Lanriael)

A while ago (like April) I wrote with Lani last. And I want to give most of my OC's at least some time in the spotlight. Even if it's in sad events that fit their character...meaning Ev, Ali, Lani,Sammie,Lucie, and Issy. And technically the rest of them, those are just the ones that stand out.

Tick tock goes the clock. Tick tock, tick tock. Over and over, never stop. Tick tick clip clop. Outside the horses stop. Tick tock tick tock. Over and over never stop. Tick tock slip slop. Rain or shine there's always shop. Tick tock, goes the clock, tick tock. Never stop. Tick tick where's the box, I had it somewhere, and now it's lost. Tick tock goes the clock. Tick tick, always sick. Tick tock tick tock. Over and over, never stop. How long it's been, who can tell, only listen to the hourly bell. Other than that, it's all black, only listening to the tick tock tick tock tick tock, ding!

That is my mantra. In the darkness I thrive, black is one of my colors, night is where I do my best thinking. Until those times, in the small hours of the morning. Where I can do nothing but listen to the grandfather clock at the end of the hall, and its constant sound. "Tick tock goes the clock. Tick. Tock. Tick tock. Tick tick get a stick. Tick tock never stop." I make up new verses as I go, whispering in my bed staring at the ceiling. Then I close my eyes, and let darkness descend. I'm woken somewhat roughly the next morning by an unexpected weight on my mattress. "Lani! Wake Up!!!!!!" I hear and a poking sensation on my right check. I open one eye tiredly "Carmen? What're you doin?" I ask with a slight tired lisp slurring my words together. Cam sits back on her legs "wakin you up. Come on we have uni. Your Mum had to leave for work early because it's surgery day! And as you know your dads still away in Hammerfell for work." I sit up and stretch with a yawn. Then look around the room, my bed takes up around a quarter of it, my rooms small. I see my desk and one of the large bay windows to the right against the wall near my bed. And if I look directly across I see my chair, with Sarah, Cam's girlfriend sitting in it sprawled over it head stuck in a book reading diligently. Then the the left of her there's the door. And on the right there's my closet. On the end of the room towards the end of my bed I have some bookcases and other storage things. And leaning against my bookcase is the faded tan messenger bag I use for school. I look back at Carmen "okay. Can you two get out of my room now? I'll see you downstairs, we can go grab coffee and I'll eat breakfast quickly." I say throwing back the thin blanket and ushering them out. As the two head to go down Cam plucks the book out of Sarah's hands, as she was still absorbed in it, and I don't think you'd want your girl/boy/person friend falling down a flight of stairs would you? I quickly throw on a pair of jeans and a green tee shirt, my converse, grab my bag, brush my hair and teeth, and go down the stairs two floors at a time. I check the calendar, shoot, it's Thursday, were supposed to meet Everan, Phillip and another person who works with Phillip, a junior enchanter, Daniel. Philips a senior enchanter and runs most of the first floor and the enchanting lab. Everan,Carmen, Sarah kind of, and I all work in a special department that's secret. We collaborate with the arch Mage, and he prefers punctuality to lateness. We should hurry. I come out of the kitchen clutching a piece of slightly burnt toast in my teeth, grab my keys and tell my friends we should go. We go out the back door and take a short cut through the back streets and ally's. Carmen has connections with the thieves guild of Alinor so we have little trouble. Though that's not to say there weren't "other" characters in those dark back alleys, of which I'd rather not get into detail with. We just looked the other way and closed out our ears. I repeat my little poem as we walk while looking at my watch. "Tick tock tick tock..." I whisper to myself. Then we get to the mages guild. We open the large iron gates and just inside we see Ev and Phil. Sarah waves and Phillip waves back. Their good friends those two, most just the fact that both of them are sweet adorable cinnamon rolls with snarky sassy hilarious love interests. They also look a bit alike, but Phillip has darker hair, it's more of a black color, with Navey blue streaks/highlights in it. There not very noticeable, but cool. And Sarah's is more of a brown color, that compliments her eyes well, and is cropped closer to her skull, while Phillips is a bit longer and I don't know how to explain it...fluffy? "Your late." Everan says with a joking sneer. I give him a look and say with a faux accent "A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives PRECISELY when he means to!" I say quoting Gandalf. We all laugh and head inside. We enter the tower in the center of the university, where the archmage has his meetings and such. We enter the lobby and I see another fellow, taller, with lighter brown hair, and seems a few years younger than us. Phillip waves and brings him over to us "guys, this is one of my colleagues and students, Daniel Lewin-Chase." Daniel waves hello. "I have my paper as well Mr. Evans." He says "what? Okay. And you don't have to call me that you know, you can just call me Phillip. But, it's a step up from 'professor Evans'." Phil says cheerfully. The other enchanter reaches into his bag and pulls out a paper. Phillip scans it quickly then nods and puts it away. Sarah then asks his as the five of us walk into the elevator "are you a professor Phil? I thought you were just a high ranking enchanter? Do you actually teach?" She asks looking at him for an answer. He figits for a moment before answering "well, no. I'm technically not a professor, or a teacher. Yes I have a PhD, but do I actually teach classes? No. I mostly just do my own reaserch on the first floor where most equipment I use is, I just happen to be one of the more high ranking people on that floor so the junior enchanters come to me with questions or their too scared to go see their professors." Phillip explains quickly before catching his breath, that was a lot to say in a single breath. We step off on the top floor and the secretary greets us "hello. Are you here for a meeting?" She asks. Everan says the password "what is something only magic can unlock?" She nods and tells us to follow her. We head down a long hallway that's dimly lit, until we get to a room with a large heavy looking door. "The arch Mage is inside." She says turning around to go back to her desk. It takes all of us to push open the door and when it goes swinging open we all fall forwards and land in a pile on top of one another. "Oh get off of me!" Each of us says untangling limb from limb. We stand up hastily smoothing our cloths to subside the embarrassing incident that just occurred. "Please, sit." Says the arch Mage. The meeting draws on for hours. Eventually by two o'clock it's done. We get back to the lobby and then figure out what to do next "you wanna go get lunch? There's that tavern by the docks." Everan says  looking at us and putting an arm around Phil, who blushes and smiles. We nod and head off. "Tick tock, we're to walk. We're to walk to the dock." I say skipping along with Carmen. Sarah and Everan and Phillip are a few feet behind us watching and laughing. Cam laughs and asks "what?" Giving me a look and a grin. "Nothin' tell ya later. I made a ryme about clocks." She stifles a laugh that eventually gets out "you are a rhyme about clocks?! Your weird Lani." She says as we still skip along. "Ha I know right. And you, and those three nerds back there, are all weird too." She points a finger at me "haha true! When we get to the tavern your telling me that ryme." Carmen says. I nod in agreement and we shake hands twirling around and then stopping and waiting for our friends. I check my watch "tick tock goes the clock..." I say and trail off. Then Carmen yells down the street jokingly "come on you three we've been skipping the whole time hurry it up, it'll be  dinner by the time we get there!" They jog up "ok we're here! The taverns down there." Ev says pointing to a building on the waterfront. We go in and order, then wait and chat. Tick tick tick, I think I see a fish. Tick tick goes the clock. Over and over, never stop."

I thought of the title first, then the ryme, and it's quite hard to think of rymes I must say.

Phillip took a bit of s different, more academic stance in this, I promise we will get back to the regularly scheduled Adorable Phillip Fluff.

Until next time,

Max