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"Baby Series 3"Written By: Karina Rating: PG Spoilers: None Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine. Pairing: Duo Notes: Challenge 130. Baby Series 3 #161. Takes
place at approximately the same time as Dark Ages State. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Odd, Off, Wrong It was, for want of a better word, odd. Some areas of the palace struck him as being slightly out of sync with the rest of the building. He could not put his finger on it exactly, but there was something `off' about the palace. There was the fact that some of the rooms appeared older than others and, while he knew the Alliance Governor had had a flair for the dramatic and a love of the old noble houses of Europe, there was just something here, in this house, that was… odd. Odd, off, wrong… however you wanted to call it. Most of the rooms and hallways were designed to look old fashioned, a hodge podge of the Regency and other designs. He could reel off a selection of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian style across a selection of rooms, all of them as fake as his birthday, but some of the rooms… they actually looked as though they might be authentic. The instigator behind the building of the palace had had a flair for the dramatic and a love of the early periods of the industrial revolution and earlier; there was one room Duo thought a very good Renaissance reconstruction, and that one felt like a reproduction. Unlike a few others. And then there were the secret passages. He paused, studying the wall to his right and shook his head slightly. No, there was no time to attack that particular puzzle now. He had a king to catch or at least to have a very good attempt at catching and puzzles over the warped mind of the former Governor and his taste in construction techniques could wait. But some sections of the palace sure as hell did not look like they were a touch over twenty years old. This passage way did not have the look of a few that bothered him. It was clearly modern construction with electric cables laid in and low wattage energy saving light globes at periodic placements. He could not say the same of other hidden ways. "Later, Duo. Save it for later." Even in the confines of the passage way his voice was barely above a whisper and did not echo back to him as a heavy foot fall might. It was just another sign that the building here was definitely constructed of modern materials and techniques. There were a couple of secret passages where the walls were decidedly suspect against the actual age of the building. He would have to investigate, no doubt of that, but not now. Not yet. It would just have to wait on the right opportunity.
The clues were in the architecture around him, he just needed to read
it to understand it.
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