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| *randomly tagged* | Norbert(a) | The Wandmaker (tm) Text Cut: Ilse Quote:
Originally Posted by Dances_With_Potter Ilse smiled a bit to herself as Conley’s interest was caught. Anything that added efficiency to his life was probably intriguing to him. When he got close to her, she had to try hard not to scoot away, which was generally her natural reaction to closeness. Her eyes looked to see what he was referencing, and then several things happened all at once. Conley bumped her mouse arm just as she clicked, leaving Ilse with no idea what she’d clicked on, then she saw Conley’s finger about to touch the monitor. ”Conley don’t! It’s -...”
Too late. ”A touch screen...” she finished quietly as the computer processed what had just happened. All of a sudden picture after picture after picture started popping up on the screen accompanied by what sounded like very loud barnyard animal noises. Ilse tried everything - clicking out, ctrl alt delete, pressing the power button... nothing. She had completely lost control of the computer. Covering her ears, she shouted, ”We need to unplug it!”
Dropping to her hands and knees, she began searching through the ridiculous number of things plugged in trying to find the one that went to their computer. ”Make it stop!” Conley yelled over the din of what sounded like a Erumpent in heat. He tapped the screen again with his finger, not understanding what Ilse ment about a touch screen. Hooting joined the Erumpent noises. ”Make is stop!“ He repeated. The noise was hurting his ears and the flashing lights from the box were making him hyperventilate a little. ”Ilse what –“ But she had ducked under the desk.
Misunderstanding what she was doing, he pulled out his wand and started poking the computer with it. ”Finite,” Poke. Nothing happened. ”Finite Incantatem!” Poke. Why wasn’t it working? Poke! Gah! Why was his heart pounding like this?! POKE! What was going on?!!
Perhaps he had poked the machine a bit too hard, because smoke started coming from somewhere.
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