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15 April 2005 - Linneas discovered something in the Study, what could it be?
07 March 2005 - Linny grew!!!
08 Jan 2005 - Went to the shop for the first time and Linneas was born
07 Jan 2005 - Hired Syrie to help the upkeep and repairs of the shop
05 Jan 2005 - Huni received an odd letter declaring her owner of an old Stationery Shop.

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Necessity is the mother of Invention, and Imagination is its consort. But sometimes, it takes a pinch of Fate to really make things happen.

It all began with a letter declaring Huni to be the new owner of an old stationery shop located somewhere in Barton. In spite of the suspicious circumstances surrounding this news, Huni had always been a trusting person. With little more than an overnight bag, Huni ventured off to Barton to see what sort of shop she now owned.

It could have been a quaint little store, if the display window wasn't covered in grime, and the doors weren't rotten from age and neglect. Still, there was something about the shop that Huni couldn't resist going inside to explore.

With the outside looking so run-down, it came as something of a surprise that the lights still worked. Although the bulbs did threaten to burn out any second. Hastily, Huni gave the shop's first floor a quick scan. The floor creaked whenever Huni walked on them, and the walls looked ready to fall apart. There were some writing tables and wooden chairs, and a couple of empty bookcases. And like the floor, they were all covered with a thick layer of dust.

A staircase that led to the second floor caught Huni's attention, but as she began to ascend, the lights started to flicker on and off. Aside from being trusting, Huni had always been something of a scaredy cat. And not wanting to get stuck upstairs in the dark, Huni decided to explore the second floor some other time. As she descended the stairs, something brushed against her foot. Whether it was a rat, a cockroach or some other vermin wasn't important. All that mattered was that it sent Huni into a blind panic. A shriek, followed by Huni's natural instinct to make a run for it, sent the red head careening for the door.

Unfortunately, it was also when Huni's clumsy nature chose to surface, and she tripped over one of the boxes. She ended up crashing against one of the rotting walls. After the world stopped spinning, and the lights stopped flickering, Huni groggily sat up. She gave a small yelp at the Huni-shaped hole that was gaping in the wall.

But as she peered inside, she gave a small gasp. Behind the wall appeared to be a study of sorts, and it seemed to have been sealed up for years, judging by the layer of dirt. Faded landscape paintings hung on the walls, and an old bear skin rug lay at the foot of a writing table. On the table were some sheets of yellowing paper, some fountain pens and inkwells, and beside the writing instruments was a thick, leather bound tome.

With the lights glowing steadily, and no sign of any movement coming from the study, Huni decided to go inside and give the tome a look. Written on the first page was a poem:

<center>Tell me a story
Any story will do.
Long or short it matters not, or at the very
Least little, neither if it's real or untrue.

Tell me a tale
Anything out of the blue.
Let it be a question or an answer of
Exceptional significance or sheer nonsense
So long as it comes from you.</center>
Huni wasn't sure what the poem meant, and decided to shrug it off as she scanned the rest of the pages. She found it odd that the owner of the book used just the top line, and wrote only one thing althroughout:

<center>Why?</center>
"Why, what?" Huni muttered. After staring at the pages for a few minutes, she found herself reaching for one of the fountain pens. After dipping the pen into an inkwell (and getting ink on her fingers), she added some words to the question and answered it.

As soon as she finished writing, the lights began to flicker again. This time, it burned out completely, and a cold wind blew into the shop. The wind seemed to swirl around Huni, knocking the tome out of her hands. Needless to say the red head screamed her head off at this odd occurance. The sheets of paper scattered into the shop's front and settled at the very center in a small mountain-shaped pile.

Visibly spooked, Huni exited the study back into the store. Once her heart stopped pounded, and the lights stabilized, she proceeded to pick up the papers.

"I didn't realize there were that many sheets." Huni sighed. Just then, a small hand emerged from the pile and grabbed the red head by the wrist. Once again, Huni released an ear-splitting shriek. Her own scream was echoed by the muffled wailing of what sounded like a baby. Huni stopped her screaming, and began parting the pile. Under all the papers was an infant, who was crying his eyes out in fear.

"Oh, oh, shhhhh, shhh." Huni cooed as she gently carried him into her arms. The moment the infant found himself in Huni's embrace, he ceased wailing and contented himself with soft whimpering. "Where did you come from?" she asked, the question directed more to herself than the infant. He gurgled a bit and reached out towards the direction of the study.


What's so special about the Study and the Tome...

With the baby in her arms, and the lights burning steadily, Huni re-entered the study. Her first thought was to bring the leather bound tome outside to read in a better lighting condition. But no matter what the red head did, the tome refused to be brought out. And by refused it would grow extremely heavy, or impossibly slippery, or appear to be glued to the writing table.

"What on Gaia?" Huni panted, feeling herself grow tired. In frustration she flipped open the tome and attempted to write a rather... nasty message. But even that proved impossible for as soon as she wrote anything onto the pages, the ink just drained away.

"Darn you!" she found herself yelling and angrily slamming the tome shut before pushing it off the table. There was a strange satisfaction in hearing the dull thud of a heavy book falling against the floor and seeing its pages splay apart. So you can imagine her surprise when she found another tome lying atop the table.

Huni stared at the second tome for a few seconds before her gaze reverted to the first tome on the floor. This went on for a good five minutes before she accepted that she wasn't hallucinating. Upon closer inspection, she saw the second tome was the same hue as the infant's hair. On the cover, embossed in gold leaves were the words

<center>Linneas
by Huni Pi</center>
"Linneas?" she found herself uttering. And the baby in her arms seemed to answer back in gibberish. "Linneas?" Huni repeated, this time looking at the infant. He reached out to her and smiled as if in affirmation. "Oh so that's your name, Linneas is it? Well Linny, let's see what else this book knows about you." she suggested as she flipped the tome to the first page. She quirked a brow at the sight of her handwriting.

<center>Why are things the way they are now?

And below the question was the answer.

Because it's all your fault.</center>
"This was what I had written earlier... So what happens next?" she asked.

And as if in response, the pages turned into a blank sheet and the words "It's up to you" faded in. Instinctively, Huni stepped away from the writing table in case some evil spectre chose to appear at this point. But after several minutes of nothing, Huni decided to bring the book out of the study. While she had no difficulty in removing the second tome, it no longer replied whenever she asked it questions. Apparently, she had to figure this one out on her own.

Once she opened the shop, Huni realized just what was so special about the Study and the Tome. Whoever wrote a response to the Tome's question ended up with an infant and another tome. But what exactly do these new ones signify and what the original tome wants to accomplish is still a mystery.

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He grew up to this fine young man, and he's being such help around the shop.


Awwww, lookit my little man heart Isn't he just adorable?</center>
Fan Art
By chaoticdivinity
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By .End.Of.Hysteria.
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Written on the first page of Linneas' tome

<center>Why are things the way they are now?
Because it's all your fault!</center>
Chaos from order, destruction from life, things eventually fall apart. But why do they decay in the first place? He knew why, but he wouldn't tell anyone. He couldn't tell anyone.

"Lynn!! Lynn wake up!!!" the blonde woman screamed, her lilac eyes wide in horror. She was kneeling above the prone form of her brother, her white gown was soaked with liquid the same hue as Lynn's hair. Even though she was the source of the crimson stain, it bothered her terribly. She Lynn's body roughly, ignoring the gash that ran down the side of his face, ignoring the fact that what she was doing made him bleed even more.

Lynn raised his head in spite of the pain that seared through him, his vision was blurred, and he could barely hear anything other than the pounding in his mind.
"S-stop shaking me." he rasped almost inaudibly.

"Don't sleep! Don't you dare leave me!!!" his sister wailed, embracing his bloodied face. "You just can't!"

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<img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/familiarsnpets/huniimage.gif" align=left>Name: Huni Pi
Age: 20 years old
Gender: Female
Type: Gaian
Specie: Human
Posts in: Lightsalmon

History: Huni isn't what one could call an ordinary gaian, though whether there is such a thing as that is up for debate. Truthfully, Huni never existed until Addy discovered the world of Gaia. The orange haired woman couldn't leave her duties as Warse no Miko, at least not without causing chaos in the Gateway Realm. Interested in learning more about this world, Huni was born. Certain qualities of Addy can be found in the red head, particularly her affinity for anything predominantly orange. Other traits like hyperactivity and generosity can be seen in Huni as well.

But there are other things about Huni that is completely different from Addy. Single Blessedness is one such trait. The orange haired woman already has her proverbial other half, but Huni chooses to stay unattached. It's not that she hasn't had any advances made on her, Addy has tried pairing Huni up with someone already, but the red head just believes that she doesn't want the love of another individual to become anything more than intimate friendship.

Note: The person beside Huni in the picture is Syrie, he is one of Huni's good friends and is also her business partner.

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