Wammy Manor

‘’ Thinking
“” Talking

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“Finally I’m done!”

After almost 17 hours of straight reading and cross referencing and a whole lot of other crap Raito had finally been able to narrow the candidates to a chosen 7. It was a nice number and while not an even number Raito couldn’t complain. He was the one who had to take care of them when the experiment started. So the lesser number of idiots he had to deal with the better.

“Ok let’s see…”

Raito started to nibble absentmindly on his pen as he reviewed over his choices. The professor had given him a total of 24 hours to pick out the prefect group, and then another 24 hours to contact them with some false exaggerated story, most likely a story that involved a lot of cash and that sounded really easy to do for the said easy money.

Raito rubbed his eyes tiredly. He had been up for almost 32 hours now. Both he and the professor had been working on making this project a go for months…even so Raito hadn’t really thought they would go through with it. He was use to the professor’s usual fickle ways. They could spend a whole year planning something along with spending a whole bunch of grant money and then when the time comes to actually do the experiment the professor finds himself wanting to do something else.

It had happened too many times to count since Raito started working for the old man.

Raito blew out hot air and let his arms stretch out over his head. Yawning Raito reached for his 6th cup of coffee and made a face as he came up empty.

“Damn…”

As Raito got up from his seated position on the floor to get a fresh cup he couldn’t help but think about the experiment…and how much of it he was left in the dark about.

‘Hell I don’t even know what it is about really…all I know is that it has something to do with human energy most especially negative human energy. The professor’s experiments always had something different about them.’

The experiments that Professor Ruvie liked to conduct usually had some type of divine or spiritual aspect to them, more often then not something supernatural in nature or at least was rumored to be supernatural.

That’s mostly why he was shunned by the intellectual community. But because he was so rich he was able to fund his experiments without the help and support of his colleagues. Raito didn’t know the reason why the professor had so much money but…his bet was that he was a male version of a black widow when he was younger. Either that or he inherited it all from someone.

Raito snorted in amusement as he pictured his old and ugly employer getting tail…eww.

Raito had also been very skeptical just like everyone else. While he admitted that the professor’s view on the science and reality of the unknown was very intriguing he hadn’t really believed in any of the more…paranormal parts of the professors work. At least not until his second year of working for him and even then he still didn’t really believed, he mostly tolerated and humored it nowadays.

The only reason that Raito had still been working for the old man was because he paid very well. Enough so that even Raito who had only just turned 20 was able to live somewhat comfortably. He had though been entertaining the idea of quitting and getting a different job…one that didn’t take up his whole life.

The professor had been working on some ancient tablet he had gotten in the mail anonymously that day when it had happened, Raito had been handed the tablet to clean so that the professor could translate it without trying to read through all the dirt and grim that covered it. To this day Raito still didn’t know what exactly happened, all he knew was that there had been some echoing boom that had sounded around the room and then he had blacked out…he had awoken to a trashed room and a knocked out professor.

After combing the room he had come across the completely smashed and trashed tablet. He had gotten chewed out big time on that and had almost been fired.

When he had gotten home that night and taken off his clothes to take a shower he had randomly looked in the mirror…that’s when he saw it…a tattoo on his skin which he knew had not been there that morning.

The strange marking was on his right hip bone near his pelvic and groin. A very embarrassing place for there to be anything there, especially a tattoo he didn’t remember putting there. Because he had been a very curious as a child and from working for the professor for almost two years he was able to identify what the strange marking was…an Elven Star, which was a star with 7 points. It was a pretty important symbol in some religions…but all he could think about at that moment was who the hell had inked him without him knowing.

When he had tried to scrub it off in the shower though it hadn’t come off, it was like a real tattoo or some kind of birth mark…except Raito was pretty sure that he had neither when he had woken up that morning.

He had gone to a tattoo removal specialist a few days later…and learned that there was no way for the mark to be taken from him. The doctor had said it was like a birth mark or something…there was no ink to remove.

So Raito had come to ignore it…but sometimes…he wondered what that damn tablet had done to him. He felt like he was now marked or something, which in a ways he guessed he was. He had even tried to track down where the mysterious tablet came from in the first place with no luck.

So Raito may believe that there might be some weird shit in the world…but nothing too weird. He didn’t believe in ghosts or monsters, or magic or anything like that. He also didn’t believe in heaven or hell or that there might be a god. No Raito was a very down to earth logical man…but just because he didn’t believe it didn’t mean he wasn’t fascinated by it.

Why else would he be working for an old man who was basically a crazed paranormal researcher?

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After getting his now 7th cup of coffee Raito walked back into his living room to clean up all the papers that were all over the floor. He quickly compiled two piles, the rejected which was a really big pile and the seven lucky or not so lucky depending on how you look at it candidates.

‘Ok now let’s see…I have almost 32 hours left before the professor gets on my case about unprofessional lateness…maybe I can take a short rest for 3 or 4 hours before I try to contact them all.’

Nodding to himself Raito started walking towards his bedroom with a folder of the 7 people he had chosen. He would reread them before falling asleep.

Yawning again Raito took a glance at his watch and was surprised that it was 3 o’clock in the morning.

‘Did I really stay up that late? God I’m going to look like a freaking zombie in the morning. At least I won’t have to meet anyone in person for now, I just have to phone them and set up a meeting spot to interview them…not that they aren’t already chosen but still…got to keep up appearances at least.’

Raito stripped off his clothes and decided that he would take a shower before heading to bed. He dropped off the files on his bed and picked up his red silk robe. Walking naked through his bedroom he walked into his bathroom.

Placing his robe on a hook near the door Raito walked the short distance towards his stand up shower and turned the water to an all most boiling temperature.

Sighing in relief and pleasure as the hot water touched his skin he took the time to relax and think.

‘Ok let’s see now…I’ve got the candidates down and all I’ve got to do is convince them to consent to just about anything. Easy enough I guess, luckily enough for the professor and me I can just show them a bit of the prefect charming Raito to charm them all. Heh it amazes me how gullible people really are sometimes. The professor said not to worry about making the arrangements for where we will be staying…in fact now that I think about it he never even told me if we would still be in the city limits. God damn that man, he’s just loves making things harder for me. Ok then I’ll just have to try to steer any future conversations from that direction until I get more information.’

Raito’s mind made up he quickly reached out for his cinnamon scented shampoo as he noticed the water getting colder. If there was one character flaw that Raito would admit to it was that he like his long hot showers…a lot, so the water bill was always a little high. Washing up his hair and body Raito’s mind started to wander again.

‘Hmm I wonder how this experiment will go…I mean other then lying to these people and making sure they don’t leave mid experiment I guess it’s not to illegal or at least the parts that the professors not stingy enough to tell me about. I hope he doesn’t kill anyone to try to do a séance or something like that. It was bad enough the last time…that poor monkey...what the professor did to it was cruel and just plain wrong…it would almost serve him right if he got caught and went to jail this time. The only reason he didn’t before for cruelty to animals was because of me. At least I gave it a proper burial…I would rather not be haunted by a vengeful monkey thank you very much. Not that ghosts or anything like that are real but…still...no vengeful monkeys for me thank you very much I have enough to deal with in my life.’

Raito shook his head as if to clear it.

‘Ok then I believe that a nap is in order now if I’m know thinking about dead monkeys, I’ll call up the first of the candidates in a few hours.’

Raito got out of the shower after washing off all the soap bubbles from his evenly golden tanned skin and toweled off. After blow drying his hair a little so it wouldn’t wet his pillow he picked up his robe and put it own leaving the front open.

Walking back into his room he set his alarm to go off in about 4 hours then collapsed on the bed and was asleep in less then 10 seconds.

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Do you know what I noticed? I like to use important wiccan symbols a lot to help my plot. That and the idea of Raito tattooed…oh yea…shivers.

Hmm…I just realized that neither L or B will be showing up in the upcoming chapters any time soon. L will show before B but still…L won’t show until the experiment is just underway. Bet you can’t guess why huh? (No one can guess right! Nudge poke…that’s meant as a challenge you know…guess people! Who knows maybe one of you out there might just stumble over the reason why…if you do I’ll write a one-shot for you!)

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