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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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"It helps," Adah responded, "for the next time you read it. Or the first. No book is the same as the first time you read it; the notes help you remember what you've forgotten, or help point to things you may have missed before."

With another grin, he wrote, "You're very smart, you know. I'm learning a lot about things I hadn't ever expected to learn about."

Taking a moment to look at the response and think on it as she read it, Adah smiled lightly again. She wasn't used to being noted for her intelligence; usually, it was Leah, who could actually respond to it, that usually got it.

"I've been learning a lot, too," she wrote back, and, after a moment's pause, a small hesitation, she added, "Many things, also, pretty unexpected...."

"Unexpected?" Yeah, he pretty much agreed with that statement. A lot. "What kinds of things have you found unexpected?"

Adah's head ducked; another unexpected thing was her tendency to blush these days. She remembered when Leah had mentioned something like that happening with her and that ended up just being the warning symptoms of malaria. Adah hoped for the malaria.

She had to answer carefully. "The people," she wrote. "The people here are very unexpected; I did not at all expect them to be as they are..."

"Yeah, me either." He took a moment to chew on the top of his pen, some old habit coming back, before trying to catch her eye. Of course, having a pen in one's mouth while trying to do that didn't make for the suavest move.

"Can be a good thing and a bad thing, I think. There are people here that I really like being around and then there are others...well, they're others."

Adah tried her very hardest to not think about the pen exploding from the chewing, but her hardest wasn't good enough, and she risked being caught peeking up at him through her hair with a smirk on her face, before it ducked down again so she could watch the crook of her hand moving as she wrote more.

"I think a lot of them try to be too helpful..."

The smirk made him laugh quietly and he tapped the pen against the desk instead of chewing on it while she wrote.

"I can see that," he wrote, nodding once. "The only thing you need help with is getting me to stop coming around so much."

To prove he wasn't at all serious, he drew another smiley face, this time with a tongue sticking out. You know, very maturely.

Adah didn't need the sophisticate smiley face for the point to get across, and her head ducked again. This time, her hand accompanied it, wiping her mouth, of course, certainly not trying to stifle what might sound like a small laugh.

"You're wrong," she wrote. "I don't need help with anything."

Especially not that. But that would be left unsaid.

"I'm wrong," he said but couldn't stop the smile from spreading across his face. Sometimes, he'd take being wrong. "I believe you."

Before being silly again, he looked up and nodded once.

"Of course, this means, I just get to keep coming around."

"Your deductive reasoning," Adah wrote, "are truly unrivaled, Eel."

Adah blinked. She...hadn't intended to actually write Eel. Her eyes widened, turning to her left hand. That Benedict Arnold!

He laughed, not able to keep it library quiet.

"Your not the first person to tell me that," he said, laughing quieter now. "But you are the first person to ever call me that. Nickname? I can be Eel."

Malaria, malaria, malaria!

Adah barely watched her hand this time as she wrote, eyes drifted down and away in embarrassment. "It's Lee," she explained. "Backwards>"

"So it is." "Eel. Lee." They both didn't sound too bad. "You know what this means, right? You're smart and creative."

Adah smirked, somewhat beaming, gnimaeb tah wemos. "Of course I am," she wrote. She really had to be...

That was nice to be able to see. "I shall have to learn from you, oh talented one."

And then there was a bow. Oh yes.

The bow was absolutely not helping with the symptoms of malaria, either. Adah shook her head slightly, mostly to prevent herself from laughing out loud. Channeling that energy into the quick, jerking movements. Her brain scrambled for a quote, lightly tucking her lower lip under her teeth timidly as she wrote it out, trying to pass it off as concentration.

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

He read the quote a few times, processing the words before responding.

"I need to want to learn and I need to keep learning, right?" His interpretation skills weren't always the best. "I'd like to read out loud to you again sometime."

That was...random. And didn't really match with the conversation but it'd been in his head and had just come out.

It hadn't been quite the interpretation Adah was leaning for. It worked, in a way, but it was also a bit of a lean in the opposite direction, but that was probably better. Yes. Better.

"Well, you know where to find me, and you know I like to listen."

"I'll find an interesting book," he wrote even though he didn't know how he'd do that. "And sometime soon, you can tell me how you liked my book."

[And watch as I crash like a crashing thing omg *stabs work* Night!]

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