[Chapter 1 - "I Couldn't Live a Week Without a Library"]

[cthulhu_ficcer]

[The bookmark flickers to life, showing a short, slender man in a brown suit jacket of a somewhat outdated style, settled down in an upholstered chair in a corner of one reading room, his head leaning back on one of the wings, his grey fedora tilted over his face. He might stir, turning toward the device and tilting his hat back, revealing his lean, lantern-jawed face.]

Ha... I must have dozed off, the completion of the search that endured for thirty years must have taken more out of me than I thought. [And then he looks around him, blinking in surprise and disorientation.] Wait now... this isn't my lodgings, and it isn't the library of the Omnyati Brotherhood, either. Where is this place and how did I come here? [Baffled and a bit suspicious now...]

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[magnus_bane]

Other than the elves I've noticed running around this place, you're the only one talking in such a refined manner.

[Certainly not modern, especially when noting the mode of dress. Not that Magnus minds... he is over 400. He's been there and done that so to speak.]

Omnyati Brotherhood? [That on the other hand, earns a perplexed look.] No, that name is not really familiar... but you're in The Central Library. Or so the Librarians call it.

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[cthulhu_ficcer]

[He'll look around, puzzled, clearly trying to find the source of that voice.]

Where is that voice coming from... Ahh.. [His gaze lands on the bookmark, and he leans in to pick it up, where it's resting on a table at his elbow. He'll study it, intrigued.] I take this is... something like a telephone, only with a visual capture?

It comes as no surprise that you've not heard of them: they are a secretive sect who remain out of sight, guarding strange relics and eldritch tomes.

The Central Library... dare I ask, to what it is central?

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[magnus_bane]

[He looks vaguely amused by how puzzled the other is. He simply took that moment to look over his attire more closely and play a guessing game for a time period. Though it didn't last long as the question interrupted him.]

You could say that. Though it's rather beyond even anything I have seen before. It is quite literally beyond reason.

[Angling his head at the comment about a secretive sect, he wanted to laugh. But he was old enough to know better.]

There really are a lot of those in every world, it seems. Shadow hunters tend to horde all the good stuff where I'm from.

And yes. The Central Library... as for what it is central to, I am not sure. Though, I could venture a few guesses.

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[cthulhu_ficcer]

[From the cut of his suit and the mention of telephones, he looks like he fell in from the early 1930s.]

In that case, it sounds as though we have passed beyond and out of any known realm, into another beyond and behind reality as anyone might know it?

Shadow hunters... might that be the name of a sect of keepers of dark lore? [Clearly intrigued by the notion.]

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[magnus_bane]

I think you're right in that assumption. This reality is very... very different from the one I know. And I can only assume, as I do not know this group you speak of, that we are from different worlds so to speak.

[His smile was nearly feline, showing his eyes for that same cat-like quality as he grins up at the other.]

Half angels. Nephilim. The warriors that stand between the powers of hell and the rest of the normal world. Very elitist group, but they take their world serious. [His expression softens a little at that.] Not all are so insufferable...

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[cthulhu_ficcer]

[He might look curious, even a little wary at first, as he takes in the sight of the other man's eyes.]

Half... excuse me, did you say 'angels'? I admit, I'm skeptical as to such beings, except, perhaps, in their more formidable manifestations. And these Shadow Hunters are their scions?

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[magnus_bane]

[Part of him wonders if he should go further, then he realizes that this person may just happen to meet his boyfriend as some point, so why not save Alec a little trouble?]

Not so much in that traditional, had children way. That is too.. unclean for them likely. More the blood of an angel was given to them in exchange for their services as the supernatural police. Mind you, I am under valuing their work as one of those policed supernatural forces.

[Magnus shrugged a little at that.] You are right however. Angels are very formidable. And none too kind to my own race.

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[cthulhu_ficcer]

[A slow nod, intrigued and perhaps a little relieved to hear of the nature of this transformation.]

Ahhh, something in the manner of the transference of vampirism, in some tales, I take it?

And so I take it that you are of a questionable species, as as far as commonplace codes of morality are concerned?

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[magnus_bane]

Don't ever let any of them hear you say that. They might kill you for being offensive. They don't care much for vampires.

[Though, Magnus is grinning a little at the mere thought of them being angelic vampires. Yes. This cracks him up a little bit even if Alec is a hunter.]

I am a warlock. And no... we are quite 'unholy' so to speak. Think the opposite of a Shadowhunter but with the copulation aspect. [He was sure if his father could hear him now... he'd be snickering in delight. He really disliked the demon.]

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[cthulhu_ficcer]

They sound as though they are an overly sensitive lot, if they cannot readily face a simple comparison by a man armed only with his intellect. [And that grin of Magnus's might get a tiny smirk from the newcomer]

[He might chaff a little.] There is little that is holy nor unholy as I see it: I am an atheist and a materialist, nor do I consider the lines of morals to be as set in stone as people would believe them to be.