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Library; Wedneday [ 09/12 ]

If there was anything in this world that might convince Adah to start walking upright and proper, she was thinking it would probably be this place. She'd done a quick tour around the library, collecting this book and that until she couldn't hold any more and couldn't keep going back and forth between the desk and the shelves without ending up a curled ball of pain on the floor. And since the Eel supposedly might slither in today, that would be no good. No good at all.

All at good, no. Good, no, be would that.

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Still armed with last night's mathematical theory book, Hermione headed into the library. Ron thought she spent so much time here anyway, she might as well take the studying out of her room.

Apparently, the fifth period, not being a class period on Wednesdays, was a popular hour. Well, more popular than the other and Adah looked at Hermione as she entered the library with more curiosity than a willingness to help her with anything. A quick glance toward what the girl was armed with, however, made Adah feel like she wouldn't be needing assistance at all. Good.

Hermione was set on heading for her favorite table, but she couldn't not at least introduce herself. That would be rude. "Hi," she said. "I haven't seen you in here before. Are you new?"

No, she'd been here all along, all along, and just recently manifested visibility. Adah lowered her book enough so that the girl could see the fact that, of course she was new.

Hermione had expected words, so she wasn't sure exactly how to handle this, social being that she was. "My name's Hermione," she said. "You might see me in here quite a bit."

Now Adah's head tilted to the side a little, her blank expression showing just a hint of curiosity. There was a rather unfamiliar name and she didn't know exactly how to spell it; she couldn't exactly reverse it and play around with it if she didn't know how to spell it. There was something about the rise and fall in the center of it that made her think of a nag, just like the fall of her sister's name made her think of a testy, impatient sigh.

Hermione had no idea what was going on, but she was curious herself. Usually by now there was introductions and some chatter before she went on her way, and she was a little thrown. "What's your name?" she asked.

And this is when Adah realized that she should probably get herself a nametag for days when she worked in the library. She looked at Hermione for a moment, and, besides having a voice tugging in her brain to look up the name as soon as the other girl left, seemed to hesitate. The moment passed, though, and she crept her left hand across the desk to drag her notebook closer. Placidly, she picked up her pen and wrote.

"Adah."

This was new. It was a little unsettling to see that sort of communication when she was used to words, but Hermione knew that was her own perception. She leaned forward to read the name, pronouncing it aloud. "That's pretty," she said. "It's nice to meet you, Adah."

Adah nodded a little, picking up her pen.

"Hebrew," she wrote. "Traditionally ADA." She bit her lip slightly looking down at that, which she prefered better than the clunky, unbalanced version her parents had given her, with the H hanging off the end, attempting to flank the D but failing on account of the A's.

This was definitely one of the strangest conversations Hermione had ever had, but she was interested in finding out how to actually have it, and whether she was doing it correctly. "Mine's Greek," she said. "I was named after a character in Shakespeare, but the name also shows up in Greek myths."

Adah's eyes narrowed slightly. Greek, of course. But Shakespeare? Her frown deepened at the idea that she was slipping up on her Shakespeare. After all, what good was it if you could nearly quote verbatim Titus Andronicus (her favorite) but couldn't remember a Hermione? She wondered if the character had much significance to have slipped her memory. She considered, briefly, sharing the fact that she was named after two characters in the Bible who's merits were listed as "such-and-such's wife," but decided not to.

"Sorry," Hermione said, seeing the expression, but rather than guess, she asked, "What did I say wrong?"

Adah broke out of her mind's digression to look up at Hermione with a confused frown. Wrong? Gnorw?

"What makes you think something's wrong?" she wrote after realizing that she should probably ask.

"You were frowning," Hermione told her. "Which a lot of people do about my name, but not usually the history of it."

Adah was quiet for a moment as she considered Hermione's rather accurate assessment of Adah's reaction.

"I didn't know the history of it," she wrote, "but I didn't."

"I get criticized a lot for telling people things they don't want to know," she said. "I'm sorry if that's what I've done. It's a default." And Adah was probably the only person to ever get an apology from her about that, but Hermione was still trying to figure her out and didn't want to offend her at all.

Adah shook her head lightly.

"I wanted to know," she assured Hermione. There was a gap in the page to indicate a pause.

"But you did deprive me of being able to look for it myself; it might be a little hard to get over that."

Hermione smiled. "You could look up which myth it's from," she suggested.

Adah nodded her head. "There is still that, yes."

And Adah did like her myths, especially pointing out all the things that were so terribly obviously added by the Christian translators...

Hermione nodded back and smiled. "I should start studying," she said. "I'm sure you'll see me here again soon."

With yet another nod...nods were such easy communication, Adah took up her own book again, making a determined plan to make sure she found out everything she could about that myth, and then discover just a tiny bit more than that.

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