Not a native speaker and not betaed so if you find any mistake, please let me know.
I've been staring at my screen for the last 15 minutes in my study but no new words come to my mind.
Come on, Stephen! You can do this.
I'm a Master of the Mystic Arts. I've an MD and a PhD under my sash. Making such entries shouldn't be too hard.
Apparently encouragement can't be used to remove mental blocks. Otherwise, A Song of Ice and Fire will be done by now and HBO doesn't need to improvise.
Focus, Stephen! Don't think about Game of Thrones even though Winter is Coming really soon.
I'm staring at my pitiful entries.
Astute: Wong is very astute. He knows I'm an idiot right from the start.
Beyonce: Wong is the Beyonce's biggest fan. I may or may not have anything to do with it.
Caring: Despite my idiocy, Wong is still willing to be my friend and coping with my idiocy daily.
I know those entries paint myself as the biggest idiot in the multiverses. Those entries are not as insightful as what Christine and Kamar-Taj people gave me yesterday, the one titled "A-Z of Doctor Stephen Strange". But again I'm a doctor and now a sorcerer, not a poet. If I were good at literature, I'd have become a best-selling author rather than fighting monsters on daily basis.
I'm blaming Wong for my current predicament. He presented the list of what other people and myself said about me. I jokingly told him I'd make a list about him and he took it seriously. Well, he might've taken it seriously but I really couldn't tell with his poker face. Ah, that's right. Poker.
I'm typing the new entry into my laptop.
Poker: Wong would win big time in Las Vegas if he ever took up gambling.
That gave me an idea. I don't have to do this A-Z in order. I'm using a word processor. I can just insert a sentence in between other sentences. I also don't have the time to get ink and a scroll like what they did for me. Besides, my shaking hands would make a seven-year-old look like a master calligrapher.
To be fair to Wong, I got myself in this pickle because of my own arrogance. I only gave myself a 24-hour deadline to finish this task before I think about how to defeat Thanos again. I then procrastinated and ended up making a spell for vanishing sparkling vampires in the first 6 hours after a lot of trials and errors. I went to sleep for 7 hours afterward. Apparently Christine somehow managed to program Friday to remind me that I hadn't slept for the last two days due to the Thanos business. She said she already made an agreement with Sophie. She would drag me to bed by force if I haven't slept for two nights in a row and I need to sleep for at least 6 hours. So I gave in to save my dignity. I added 1 extra hour because I was exhausted.
By the way, Sophie is the name of my Cloak of Levitation. Don't judge me. I'm sure Thor and Captain America also name their hammer and shield secretly.
Sophie is also sentient. She has been out of my sight in the past hour but apparently she heard my thought about her. She is peeking at the door at the moment. Now, she is flying to settle on my shoulders.
See, she is sentient so I'm not crazy in naming her.
Where was I? Oh yes, I ended up battling some monsters from some other dimensions in the next 5 hours after doing some intensive research from The Book of the Vishanti about the demons' origin and weaknesses for one hour.
I've been trying to work on the list for the last 30 minutes after the battle. If I don't finish this in the last 4.5 hours, I'll lose to a standard I set for myself. That's unacceptable.
OK, I don't have to do this in order. I could start from what I know about Wong, which admittedly not much but that's a start. I guess I just need to brainstorm and see what I come up with.
Librarian: Wong is a very good librarian. He takes his role very seriously.
Dedicated: Wong is very dedicated at his role as a librarian. I haven't seen any librarian like him.
Again, the library at Kamar-Taj is very different from the rest of the libraries in the world so he needs to be vigilant. That's right. Vigilant.
Vigilant: Wong is very vigilant about his books and the things he cares about.
Maim: Wong is a super librarian. He may or may not have threatened to maim me if I don't return any books on time.
Yes, I know. The list doesn't only compliment Wong but also mention his other less desirable qualities but again the list about me is not all rainbows and unicorns either. I actually haven't met any unicorn in my short time as a Master of the Mystic Arts so I can't confirm its existence.
Focus, Stephen!
Zen: If people claim that Stephen Strange is Zen, then Stephen Strange says that Wong is definitely Zen.
Human: Despite his powers, Wong is very human. He anchors me in daily matters when I have my head in the clouds.
Stoic: Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries should put the picture of Wong next to the word stoic.
Wong is also loyal but I've used the letter L. I should check thesaurus.
Sophie helpfully opens my thesaurus at the word loyal. I sometime wonder how she manages to spell and read. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on who you're, she spells better than some people I know.
OK, synonyms for loyal are faithful and dependable. I could use faithful.
Faithful: Wong doesn't easily believe in something but once he makes up his mind, he is faithful to the end.
Kungfu: Jackie Chan and Jet Li have nothing on Wong about kungfu.
Orderly: Wong organize his life and books in orderly manner.
How many letters do I have left? I haven't done E, G, I, J, N, Q, R, T, U, W, X, Y.
OK, it's less than half but now I'm stuck.
Dingdong, dingdong.
Saved by the bell.
I didn't even know that we have a doorbell. Wong said he had put a spell to discourage people who don't have any good intention to even notice the Sanctum.
Sophie is flying away from me toward the front door. She must be really bored. I guess I need to open the door the old-fashioned way by walking downstairs first. I need the exercise anyway.
When I reach the door, Sophie is flying back to settle on my shoulders. At least she has the decency to pretend to be a normal cloak. Or she just doesn't want to open the door. Cloakspeak is really hard. I need to check with Thor whether Allspeak also speaks cloak.
I open the door to find an elegant Asian woman dressed in a blue T-shirt and jeans.
"Is this the New York Sanctum Sanctorum?"
"Yes, it's."
"Ah, you must be Doctor Stephen Strange. Wong has said so many things about you."
He never said anything about you, whoever you are. "I hope they're good things."
She just smiles in response. "Can I come in? Wong said he would meet me here."
"Sure." I step back to allow her to come in before I close the door. "Do you want to wait in my study? I'm in the middle of something."
"Does it have anything to do with Wong?"
My jaw just drops open. How did she know?
"Oh, don't worry. It's nothing magical. Wong knows you well enough so he knows what you're up to. I believe I can help you."
"I certainly need all the help I can get. And you are?"
"I'm Imei Chang, Wong's fiancée."
My jaw drops open the second time within ten seconds.
Notes:
-This is the first time I write using the first person POV. I want to emphasize Stephen's cluelessness and dorkiness. I hope it works.
-I don't think George R.R. Martin have any writers block. That comment is just Stephen being clueless.
-I also apologize about Jet Li and Jackie Chan. They are definitely kungfu masters. Please ignore Stephen's comments.
- I blame this fic on KarToon12. She "prompted" me to write the sequel. She gave me the idea about Imei visiting the Sanctum although how it turned out is not exactly what she had in mind. She also helped me by suggesting the words don't have to be in order. She also suggested the words "astute", "Beyonce", "librarian", and "zen".
-As for the rest of the words that Stephen haven't written, you're welcome to suggest. If I use them, I'll credit.
-Thor's hammer is called Mjolnir. I know that and have used the fact in some other fics. In here, Stephen just meant what Thor called Mjolnir in private for his ears only.
-Feedback and comments are appreciated.