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Library [09/20]

Bridge arrives bright and early for his first time opening the library, and and settles in behind the desk with a notebook and schematics for the projects he's currently working on.

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Bridge follows her gaze. "Yeah, know what you mean, there." He says. "It's not exactly... self-aware? But it's definitely- there's *some* degree of sentience."

Door nods. "It's also just big. And designed to keep things in and most people out. So it's quite like one giant lock, in a way."

"I haven't been in there," Bridge says. "Yet. I bet there'd be all sorts of interesting stuff to explore, though."

Door, who's read the library rules backwards and forwards by now, as it's the last place she ever wants to get herself barred from, says, "You have to have a pass from a teacher to go in, I gather, though perhaps that doesn't apply to the library aides?" She eyes the shelves thoughtfully, before turning to the public ones and running her fingers along the nearest, searching with her mind for a door or lock that the book she wants might be hidden behind.

"Yeah, library aides are supposed to go with someone when they go in to SC, so it'd be awkward if we had to get a pass every time too."

"You have a point." There is...something, though it's not on a shelf. Door follows the feeling down one of the aisles, towards a small study area.

"You pick up on something?" Bridge asks, bouncing a little as he follows her.

"Maybe. There's something in--" Ah - there's a desk, with two drawers built into one side. "--there. The bottom one." Which unlike the smaller top drawer, filled with pencils and notepads, has a lock on it.

"Can you open it?" Bridge asks.

Door nods. She kneels down next to the drawer. "Though perhaps it's locked for a reason? If I'm not meant to be messing about with it..." She trails off.

"If it were *really* dangerous, it'd be in Special Collections," Bridge points out. "And someone probably would've told me about it, if it was important."

Door nods. "Good point." She trails her fingers over the lock, and there's a tiny click. The drawer slides open at a tug, to reveal... a locked metal file-box within it.

She blinks at it. "Well somebody doesn't want whatever's in there found."

"Maybe they didn't like the book very much?" Bridge suggests.

"That much?" She points at the box.

There's a yellow stick-note attached just above the lock. It says, "BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD."

Okay, so curiousity killed the cat. Bridge, however, was not a cat. So he figured he had nothing to worry about, really. "...Yeah I don't know about you? But that actually makes me want to open it even *more*, now."

Door grins and pulls the note off the box, then brushes her fingers across the lock. It opens with a *click.*

The box is empty.

"...Huh." Bridge blinks, peering at the box. "Wasn't expecting that."

Door shakes the box, then turns it upside down - another small piece of yellow paper flutters out into her hand.

It says, in spidery pencil, 943.01.

Bridge frowns thoughtfully as he looks at the number. "That's in the history section," he says. "Central Europe."

"Well, that's where Florin is, right?" Door nods and carries the scrap of paper towards the history shelves after tucking away the box and closing the drawer again.

And there on the shelf between Guilder: a Guide to the Royal Succession and Lichtenstein: the Biggest Little Secret in History is Buttercup's Baby, unabridged.

Door slides it off the shelf, and blinks at the third Post-It, attached to the dust-jacket.

So not worth all the trouble you just went to. It doesn't even have any kissing parts except for the last page.

Bridge glances at the note, and then does a double-take because the handwriting? Very, very familiar.

So he does the logical thing and bursts into giggles.

Door frowns at the note. "Whoever did that's lucky I'm not one of those people who thinks a book's spoiled if you get told how it turns out." Then she looks up at Bridge. "What's so funny?"

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