Her head ached, like it always did when Drake sent some stupid message to her. "It's just about time for us to meet up in the desert. I know, weird place to set up shop, but I promise..." She sighed, tuning him out. So they were meeting up in the desert, like they'd promised to do. She understood. She was pretty far away from the desert, though.
Sighing, she stood up, dusting rubble from her cloak. The remains of the library were sinking into the shadows at her feet. The books and shelves were like crags sinking into a black ocean and as Sia gazed at the ground, she wondered what people would think when they came to the library and realized that it was all gone. She'd heard screaming as she was destroying the building, but she'd barely given any living thing inside the building a chance to escape, having used her Splintered Sound spell and following it with a Sonic Boom spell. The library had crumbled so easily... She didn't even remember doing it. Now that her head wasn't screaming at her and was no longer splintered into hundreds of shouting voices, she could admit that maybe destroying the library was too much. Maybe.
Her head wasn't all in one place yet. Other voices were still chattering, mostly nonsense, mostly pleading for blood to be shed, mostly asking her why she wasn't terrorizing other places. She didn't listen to them, just asked repeatedly if there was some way they could teleport her somewhere else. The voices in her head weren't her own voices and though she didn't know who they were, she knew that the voices came from the book. Perhaps they were previous owners of the book? Or maybe one was Nyarlathotep itself? It didn't matter, as long as she could get something useful from them.
She asked for about fifteen minutes before the voices began responding. Words from the book kept flashing in her head, mostly unclear and hazy, until finally she was able to clearly see one:
She whispered it and felt the familiar rush of magic surge through her. The voices in her head were dying down, quieting. Whenever she used magic that's what happened to them, so she wasn't surprised. It was a weird kind of paranoia, where the voices in her head would scream that she needed to use the book, but she couldn't use any spells but Noise ones when she wasn't holding the book. Noise spells just amplified the voices when she wasn't holding the book. Any other spell quelled them. So in a blissfully quiet state, she found herself at the abandoned gas station.
She tried to recall the word that had gotten her there, but her mind kept drawing a blank. There was a slight buzz of noise in the back of her mind, like the other voices hadn't shut up yet, but she ignored it. Instead, she wandered around until she saw Delphinium. Sighing, Sia kicked a pebble and started towards the alien woman. If luck would have it, Delphinium wouldn't bug her with her normal ethical bull. But Sia knew better than to believe in luck. Odds were if someone was going to bug her about the fact that she'd killed a librarian and possibly some library patrons as well as destroy a library, it would be Delphinium. But she couldn't hide from the alien female-- the girl could sense people around her, after all. Sia couldn't see Drake yet... but chances were he was just out of Sia's sight.
Just a few more people... and we're together again, Sia thought, wryly.