About me:

About me:
My name is Venimalia and I’m an Imp. What’s that, you ask? Imps are quite small, but we can pass as human if we want to. I wear high heels and everyone thinks I’m just some small woman. Except that I have yellow eyes like a cat. If I want to pass as a human, I have to wear contact lenses. I have to say, modern human technology is quite practical, but here in my realm, Imprana, we use magic. Imprana lies in a dimension parallel to the human earth and can only be entered and left by Imps.
I work as a keeper of knowledge, which means that I’m in charge of memory stones. See, we don’t have scientific books, we have magical stones that one can unlock to gain knowledge or abilities. One needs great magical powers to unlock some of these stones. Thankfully I am that. Unfortunately I’m also no more than semi-sane. At least people tell me that every time they try to find something in my collection. Personally, I think of myself as slightly eccentric, slightly plump and quite capable at my job.
So here in this blog I’m trying to give my fellow imps and all interested humans insight into my thought processes. I welcome any comments, but please don’t expect a logical-for-you answer.

June 21, 2010

The unconscious student incident

Last afternoon, I went on one of my usual rounds through the House of Knowledge (HoK) I’m in charge of, looking for people I could shush or harass.
When I reached the history section, I found an unconscious Imp lying between the shelves. I know what you’re thinking: Oh my, what happened to the poor sod?
Relax, this sort of thing unfortunately happens quite regularly in a HoK. You see, when one tries to unlock a memory stone but lacks the necessary magical power, it might happen that one’s mind gets locked into the stone. Young Imps often overestimate their abilities and as a result they litter my floors and I have to deal with them. Which means I have to unlock the stone that they got themselves sucked into.
Apart from annoying me immensely, that’s unhealthy. It’s not good to unlock too many memory stones – too much knowledge in one’s brain leads to insanity and I’m already crazy enough, thank you very much!
Anyway, when I picked up the stone, the student had tried to unlock, I saw that it was one I had unlocked before, so at least I wouldn’t have to worry about overloading my brain.
I plunked my ass down next to the prone body and put my right hand on his head while holding the stone with the left. As it was only a level two stone, it took me no more than five minutes to unlock it and funnel the student’s mind through me and into his own head. I shuddered when he went through me. Imagine a wet handkerchief entering your brain through the left ear and then exiting through the right and you will know what I felt.
I hate that feeling, it makes me grumpy, but then that’s why I have a detention room. So that I can let out my bad mood on those who caused it. So, as soon as the student was up again, I brought him to the detention room, all the while coming up with a good punishment.
I made him fill a big vase with raindrops he had to create himself. What he didn’t know was that I used my power to hinder the cloud he was creating from getting any bigger than his head, thereby making sure that it would take ages to fill that vase.
Mean? - Maybe
Fun to watch? - Most definitely.
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