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As it happens, Barry is looking for Amanda, though he guesses that what he needs to tell her is already something she knows.

"Good morning."

"Barry. Morning. Please Have a seat." she clears the books off the table so that they can face each other.

He sits, and gets the sense that she is in a fairly businesslike mood as well.

"Have you talked to Guppy of late?"

At the mention of Guppy she looks very concerned, "Yes, why?" what she has to tell him can wait, this is Guppy he's talking about.

"Did he tell you about his father?" Barry hopes that the young doctor has, so he doesn't have to be the bearer of such bad news.

She nods, "Cancer." you can almost hear her heart braking for the young doctor.

"Yeah." Barry goes silent. Some things ~~as the mun knows right now~~ defy words.

"He's going to need friends. But I think he has a good one in you, and that puts my mind at ease a bit."

~~hugs mun~~ She tries very hard. But she knows that there is something more going on. Something that he doesn't want to tell her and that has her very worried. More worried then she is willing to show.

"Thank you." she is still too upset with Barry about Abs to return the compliment but she does opt for not bringning that up. Instead she moves onto the topic that she had in mind, "Barry, have there been any new developments in the Ghosts case?"

"Nothing that I know of," he says, happy to talk about business. "Though it's possible that with the holidays, any news will be slow in getting to me. I suspect we will spread a bit thinif people who can take time off elsewhere do."

"Have you heard of this...what did you call them? affecting peoples dreams? Do you know what they look like? Has anyone reported recieving yellow roses or notes?"

"My, that's a lot of questions." He smiles, wondering if she's had a visit herself.

"I know of a few people getting notes or roses, including Sara. But I hadn't heard anything about dreams.

"Do you know something I don't?"

"Well a friend of mine, Paige, received a rose and a note. And recently she has been having dreams about a masked man."

She is also beginning to suspect Erik but without more information she isn't going to put that out there just yet. He has been the subject of such bigotry in the past she doesn't want to be responsible for setting that on him again.

"Hmmm. It wouldn't be out of the question, given that there were some supernatural elements at work the first time. He certainly seemed to know more than he could about some of his, er, stalkees.

"I should see if I can find Eska Smith and learn if there is any sort of dream-magic on the Disc, or if someone like Salzella could use it." If Barry is talking like Amanda knows who Salzella is, that's becasue he sometimes forgets who knows what. The case is a bit complex sometimes.

She nods as he speaks, "Who is Salzella?" because she wants to know. This is something that could be affecting her friend and she doesn't want to be taken out of the loop whether or not he considers her a civilian.

He pauses and grins a little sheepishly. "Oops. I sometimes foreget who knows what and who doesn't.

"Salzella is the primary Opera Ghost. He kidnapped Andrew Wells last summer, and didn't bother to hide his face during that ordeal.

"He's from the city of Ankh-Morpork, on a world called the Disc. He used to work at that city's opera house, and pulled the same stunt there, from what I've been told. I met him once. Seemed quite the sophisticate, in fact.

"I'm sure there is another person assuming the role, so to speak, but Salzella is the one wh know, and the one whose behavior was more dangerous."

"Thats right you had mentioned that." she goes deep in thought, processing the information, "I will keep my eyes and ears peeled. Please let me know if you find anything out." she is clearly worried about her friend.

"You might want to have your friend talk to me, or Faith, and file an official report. There might also be things that she mentions in the retelling that she forget till now." Barry wants to do at least some of this by the book, though if he is going to have Amanda help - which seems wise - the book is already being ignored in terms of keeping non-staff out of the case.

Yes well without the non-staff he might not have heard about it, "Well Paige saud she was going to talk to Mel." Because believe it or not Amanda had actually instructed her to speak with Security already.

"Excellent. Mel was quite involved with the case in its first go-round." And, if he recalls correctly, was quite angered by one of the Ghosts. He's glad she'll be back on the case.

Well that all depends on whether or not Paige actually goes to Mel.

"That's good. She is the only member of security that Paige has met."

"Well, like I said, she's welcome to introduce herself to me as well." A thought occurs to Barry.

"You know, back in the day I would have found you a business card and told you to have her call me. Sometimes, I miss things like that."

"Yes well back inthe day I probably would have bipsed going to you and dealt with it myself. But things change, they always change. For better or worse." No she doesn't think that Barry will like hearing such a thing but it's the truth and it's who she is. If they were outside of Milliways she wouldn't go to the cops.

Barry considers this. He appreciates that no matter what, she remains honest.

"I don't doubt that you would have tried that, yes. I would have as well. But one of the things that has changed is that I rarely try that anymore. Not when I might fare better with help." Smilng, Barry gets up. There is strength in numbers, after all.

"I think I will be heading along, if there's nothing else on your mind. Have a good one."

"Nothing having to do with the stalker." she points to the books, "Just my own obsession."

She smiles, "Have a good day."

"Dream interpretation?"

Guess who's looking over her shoulder.

Even before she sees who it is she recognizes the voice and a wonderfully giddy smile crosses her face. Without turning around, "Morning Nina."

She clears off a space for her friend to join her. "Yep thats what the titles say."

Nina has to go soon--in fact, right after this post, pretty much--but she gives Amanda a brief but tight hug before sitting down. "And your sudden and rather violent interest is caused by...?"

"Strange dreams. Or rather one particular dream." she laughs, "Methos was right, I'm going to obssess over this until I either figure it out or go crazy trying."

Relaxing a bit, "How are you doing?"

Paige practically bounces over, she's had a good nights sleep finally, Bar has given her a very nice dress for her date tonight and she has pancakes and coffee (again) oh and a party invitation, which she's very happy about, especially as it was addressed to her and Dave.

"Morning Amanda!" she grins

Amanda is very happy to see that Paige is happy and has ebergy. Energy usually means sleep was had.

"Good Morning, Paige." she clears off some room for Paige to join her. "Please have a seat and you can tell me all about what has you so excited. Or let me guess it has something to do with your plans tonight." Amanda is beaming. Paiges good mood seems to be contagious.

Paige bites her lip, "Am I that obvious?" she asks sliding into her seat and putting her stuff down.

"Yes you are. But that isn't a bad thing. It's heart warming."

She grins, "well it's few things really," she admits "like I finally slept well, which is always good and I got an invitation to a Christmas party, thank you Amanda, I have to ask Dave if he wants to go, but I'll be there definitely, I'm looking forward to it."

She sips her coffee and looks over at the books, "they're not because of me are they?" she asks looking a little happy that she had previously

"Glad to hear it, on all counts." she grins.

Scanning the books, "As a matter of fact no. But now that I think about it. Alot of people I know have been having strange dreams. All very different but still I didn't really realize it." she falls into thought for a few moments, "No this is actually about a strange dream I had the other night."

That doesn't make Paige feel any better.

"Wanna tell me about it?" she asks picking up her coffee

Why not? they are all unrelated.

"Sure." she decribes the dream (http://www.livejournal.com/users/amanda_darieux/9267.html) in perfect detail. She has hardly been able to think about anything else since.

Paige continues to look worried, "have you found anything in the books?" she asks picking one up to take a closer look

Amanda notices the worried look on Paige's face, "Don't worry. I'm just trying to figure out what my subconsious is trying to tell my concious mind. All I can gather thus far is that I am looking to Methos for guidence. Which let me tell you is a scary thing in of itself." she sighs, "Maybe I'm just trying to remember those that I;ve lost." Granted that doesn't explain why she saw people that aren't dead yet. But she knows someday they will be.

Paige nods slowly, she still dreamt about her parents so she could appreciate not wanted to forgot people.

"You must have lost a lot of people," she says "being an immortal and everything, I can't image how hard that must be."

"It's hard not to become jaded. But as hard as one might try keeping life uncomplicated with relationships seems impossible." Not even Methos could do it.

"Yeah I can imagine," she says, taking a bite of her pancakes, "I hope you find hat your looking for," she thinks for a moment, "there might be spell that could help you," she suggests

"A spell. To help me find the meaning of my dream?" she smiles, "You know one of my dearest friends is a mage and I still never think of using magic to solve things. Perhaps I just don't want to trouble him." shehas seen how exhausting some of his spells are.

Paige nods, "yeah I mean there are spells for pretty much everything you just have to know how to write them. If I can help at all, I mean I'd be happy to."

Amanda's smile broadens, "Yeah, that would be great."

SHe doesn't really know what to do from here.

"I'll see if I can come up with something, so you want to know what's going on in your subconscious right?" she asks

"That sums it up nicely."

"So how are your sisters? They are also invited by the way."

Paige smiles "That'll be nice, I've not seen them in a while, either the ones here or the ones back home. I'm sure I'd know if anything was wrong though, I'd be able to hear them," well she assumed she would at least.

"Well I hope that they can come. And I'm sure you would." Amanda has no idea how Paige would know but it probably has to do with the magic.