Комната Историй / The Room of the Stories: Глава 6

Act 1. Chapter 6

Camrad_RIP 14.09.24 в 19:52

Author's Note:

Camrad_RIP 19.09.24 в 10:51

So. New chapter. New emotions. I hope I was able to display the emotions correctly since it's been too long since I picked up a brush... that is, a keyboard to write. Although no, I wrote, I wrote, but I somehow forgot about The Room.

Camrad_RIP 19.09.24 в 10:52

But anyway, now I can breathe a sigh of relief.

Camrad_RIP 19.09.24 в 10:53

Phew.

Camrad_RIP 19.09.24 в 10:53

By the way, how long has it been since the last update? Hmm. Almost three months? Wow! I'm getting better! Did I promise two chapters in a year? Here's three! That's how good I am, huh? Praise me! Worship me! Just don't throw stones, okay?

Camrad_RIP 19.09.24 в 10:54

But anyway, let's get back to the Story Room.

Camrad_RIP 19.09.24 в 10:53

Chapter 6 is over. Don't worry, there are no spoilers for this chapter. There are for chapter 7 and beyond. What exactly? Well, I'm going to do a little time skip (dinner) and start chapter 7 with a discussion about what it's like to read a book about them, what they think of the author, and Ozpin and Glynda's conversation about it (although I'll probably just skip that, but who knows?). So, it'll start like this. Then another time skip (sleep and breakfast), and finally, the book will fall into the hands of our inquisitive kitty. Oh, how long she's been waiting for this... a year and four months, if my calculations are correct.

Camrad_RIP 15.11.24 в 16:12

Okay, let me not drag this out any longer and let you finally start reading the EIGHTH *hysterical laughter at the sight of 310 pages* chapter of The Room of Stories.

Camrad_RIP 09.10.24 в 17:20

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A few minutes after the end of Chapter 5, all the locked people gathered around the table again. Several people managed to remove empty plates and replace them with new ones, others managed to relieve themselves, and others simply chatted about the previous chapter and what would happen in Chapter 6. But one way or another, everything was coming to an end, and the little rest was also over.

Camrad_RIP 19.09.24 в 10:51

"I think we should begin," said Ozpin, the informal and formal leader of their entire group. Smiling, he glanced at each of them, noticing slight fatigue and impatience. Making a mental note to rest for the students, the man turned to the next reader and with the same smile said the now all too familiar phrase. "Mr. Ren, you may begin whenever you wish."

Camrad_RIP 09.10.24 в 17:22

Ren nodded. The book opened to the last page he had read, and his pink eyes quickly ran over the lines of text, memorizing and analyzing the information. It would be a lie to say that the boy wasn't interested in the book and the person who wrote it. After all, anyone would wonder who the author was when the character was based on you.

Camrad_RIP 09.10.24 в 17:23

And yet, there are minor differences from the real world. For example, the War Games they decided to organize in the book were still only in the planning stage. And only adults knew about it: teachers and directors. So information about this should not have fallen into the wrong hands. And if it did...

Camrad_RIP 09.10.24 в 17:24

The gaze stopped on the book.

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 13:31

So how long would it take to write this book? A day? Not much. A week? Possibly, but still unlikely. A month? That's something, but still not it. Then how long? A year? They've been here for a few months at most. No one could analyze their characters, habits, and thoughts, and write such an amazing book.

Camrad_RIP 09.10.24 в 17:25

And yet the book in the guy’s hands refuted all his thoughts.

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 13:32

//"However, it doesn't matter for now," flashed through Li Ren's mind. Now he had to read the sixth chapter, and after dinner, try to find paper and a pen in one of the rooms. In these few hours of reading the book, he had managed to hear quite a lot of interesting, although not particularly important information. But even so, his inner voice whispered to him that perhaps it was worth writing down the strange, interesting, and just plain funny moments.

Camrad_RIP 09.10.24 в 17:26

What if they never get the chance to read the book again?

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 13:32

<…> Chapter 6 – The Lines are Drawn, - Ren began the sixth chapter. - <…> "Even without a home, they drew attention. People whispered of them in hallways, while others watched nervously from afar. A group of isolated and directionless men was nothing new, but there was something about those ones. Those nomads were different; they moved not with fear, but with hope.
And for people without any? That was enough." - Having finished the short passage, Ren paused for a moment to pause between sentences, and then finished: - <…> Attributed to Unknown Male, West Wing

Camrad_RIP 18.10.24 в 19:41

"Is that all?" Nora asked, slightly disappointed, her brows furrowed. She leaned forward and stared at the lines of text. Her face twisted. "Last time it was much…"

Camrad_RIP 09.10.24 в 17:27

"Miss Valkyrie," Glinda said calmly.

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 15:35

"Got it, ma'am!" Nora's loud cry rang out, causing several of the older students from Haven to frown slightly, but no one paid any more attention to it, as Ren, knowing his partner, continued reading the very moment his childhood friend fell silent.

Camrad_RIP 09.10.24 в 18:32

<…> Looking back, it was only a few hours, but at the time it felt like we marched for days. The night gave way to day, and with it came the baking sun that threatened to overwhelm us as we traversed through Beacon, nothing more than a scroll showing a map, and my half-assed guesses as to a destination to guide us. That we'd managed to avoid trouble so far spoke more of my dogged determination to stay away from any objective points than it did luck, not that anyone else thought that. Russel had already begun to proclaim our fortune divine providence, and I was less than enthused with the sonorous agreements of the congregation. - Jaune didn't even change his expression. What happened? Well, after five chapters... okay, four or three, he realized that the further into the forest, the more, um... let's say, the young blond realized that if things continued like this, he would simply blame the Author of this work for everything. After all, it was just a book, not reality. And that allowed him to think of it as a fantasy or a dream, where everyone worshiped him and where it was normal. Yeah... it was much better... probably.

Camrad_RIP 18.10.24 в 19:44

Jaune's sigh was drowned in a glass of juice.

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 15:35

<…> At least at the front I had Ren and Cardin to talk with, and I'd never thought I would count Cardin on a list of people I wanted at my side. - Meanwhile, Ren continued reading the book, and when the conversation turned to him, he felt strange. It was now that the young brunette realized how Jaune felt when he read the book to himself. Perhaps any person in our world, when reading a book in which he is, will feel this... a strange mixture of feelings of unreality, interest, and flattery. Although it most likely depended on the content. So far, Ren did not have such dark feelings towards the book as it was now with Jaune. And therefore, he did not stop after reading, but immediately continued reading, this time the remark of the book Cardin. - <…> "Do we have any idea where we're going?" Cardin asked. "Not that I mean to doubt, of course. I'm simply curious to hear my Lord's wisdom."

Camrad_RIP 18.10.24 в 19:47

There were some light chuckles, which Jaune managed to endure, taking another calm, as it seemed to him, sip of juice. He didn't notice how his cheeks slightly flushed. Although his mind was able to become clear and understand the meaning of existence, his body still reacted to such moments. However, Ren was not going to stop.

Camrad_RIP 09.10.24 в 18:33

<…> I glanced at him for that, wondering if he was being sarcastic, but to my horror he wasn't. He was deadly serious. //"Cursed by Mercury's madness," Jaune thought, forgetting about the fact that all of this had started not with his fellow prisoner, but because of Russell, or more precisely, because of the Author of this book, who had decided to create a new religion using Russell. But either way, Jaune simply hadn't thought about anything that deep. The knight had already decided that if Mercury continued to talk about Arc's Divine Light at the end of his imprisonment, he would simply kill him.

Camrad_RIP 18.10.24 в 19:48

...

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 15:35

Okay, he won't kill him, but he will definitely send him somewhere far away... although it would most likely be him who would be sent somewhere far away, since he was only a first-year student, while Mercury was a third-year student, and also, he didn't enter the Hunter Academy with fake documents, and, of course, we shouldn't forget that a third-year student could have his Semblance open...

Camrad_RIP 16.11.24 в 12:34

The more Jaune thought about it, the more gloomy he became.

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 15:36

Okay. He can't solve the problem with force. Maybe with logic? The festival shouldn't last long, and after that, Mercury will disappear from his life, allowing quiet days - quiet? What kind of word is that? Jaune forgot about it the moment he entered the Academy - to return to their rightful place. But what if he makes a mess before he leaves? He's already defiled Yang and Pyrrha with his False-Church-of-Jaune. What if he starts glorifying it to the masses?

Camrad_RIP 09.10.24 в 20:31

Jaune felt a shudder.

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 17:00

//"No! This is complete nonsense," Jaune thought, his cold fingers gripping the glass. "No matter how crazy Mercury is, he simply won't praise me for nothing... like that..."

Camrad_RIP 16.11.24 в 12:33

He blinked.

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 17:00

Wait a minute… could the books be taken out of the Room once they could find a way out? The thought struck the young, intelligent student like a bolt from the blue, leaving him lost in thought until he happened to listen to the voice of his military brother and teammate.

Camrad_RIP 17.11.24 в 12:25

<…> "You'll see when we get there," I said, hedging my bets. "You'll see…"

Camrad_RIP 06.11.24 в 18:38

//"You don't know yourself," flashed through the minds of those who were skeptical of Jaune's abilities, and in general, were not in the circle of love interests. So almost everyone could literally foresee the next lines of the text.

Camrad_RIP 17.11.24 в 12:26

<…> I had no idea where to go, obviously.

Camrad_RIP 06.11.24 в 18:38

Weiss wanted to smack her face hard with her palm. But her face was too pretty to be hit, so she turned to Ruby and then Yang with a bit of interest. She sighed. Fine. Apparently, she couldn't express her disappointment with such a simple, but rather obvious action. So she simply shook her head, quietly whispering something about idiots leading others to their deaths.

Camrad_RIP 17.11.24 в 12:26

<…> The whole school belonged to the women, and we were entering one of the other wings now, which promised all kinds of questions. To put it in picture, there were four main wings of Beacon Academy, each split off from the centre circle that most people just called the academy proper. The wings pointed out like spokes, with curved architecture reaching down from the central tower to join them. I'd seen Ruby's Uncle and Weiss' sister fight atop those, though I wasn't sure why they had, or why no one else hadn't been at least a little concerned about it.

Camrad_RIP 06.11.24 в 18:39

"Wait!" Weiss jumped up from her seat. Her face was stunned by what she heard. "What did you just say?!"

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 17:01

Ren blinked as many eyes turned to him. Most of them were filled with mild shock and interest, as Jaune and his team had no idea Ruby and Yang had an uncle or Weiss had a sister, at least for Jaune, but the Haven team merely raised their eyebrows, while Ozpin, out of range of communication for the first time in hours, frowned. Ms. Goodwitch also raised her eyebrows in surprise.

Camrad_RIP 17.11.24 в 12:29

Ren looked down at the lines of text. "I'd seen Ruby's Uncle and Weiss' sister fight atop those, though I wasn't sure why they had, or why no one else hadn't been at least a little concerned about it."

Camrad_RIP 06.11.24 в 18:40

After these words, all attention was drawn to the frowning Weiss, as well as the two puzzled sisters.

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 17:01

"Um, is something wrong?" Jaune asked quietly. Weiss's menacing gaze was directed at the stupid plebeian.

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 17:05

"Yeah, Ark, something's wrong. Didn't you hear what Ren just said?!"

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 17:35

"Um," Jaune repeated, glancing at Pyrrha and receiving a puzzled shrug. "Do you have a sister?"

Camrad_RIP 22.09.24 в 17:35

Weiss choked on her next words. She blushed and glared at the blond, who cowered away from him, but instead of screaming, she took a deep breath and exhaled.

Camrad_RIP 06.11.24 в 18:40