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Library - Sunday

After yesterday's detention, all Lee really wants to do today sit, read and avoid any needles or robot guts or running. So, he's got a stack of books (randomly selected from the shelves), a bottle of water and a banana.

He hasn't started reading anything yet. Instead, he's scribbling some notes about something he had been reading before starting on anything new.

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Lee's mostly awake, head in his hand and propped up at the desk.

The library's closed for lunch except for the librarian and fellow aides.

Lee's reading now, half eaten banana in one hand.

Around all day!

Ed wandered into the library, his nose half-buried in a book as he made his way over to the library desk.

"Afternoon," Lee said when he noticed Ed. "Good book?"

He made a face. "No, it's basically full of crap."

"So, why read it?" Lee asked.

"Because if I don't then I can't say for sure it's full of crap?" Ed replied.

"Okay," Lee laughed. "Not something I'd think to do but it makes sense in a...weird sort of way."

Still seemed like a waste of time, though.

It probably was. But it helped smudge the fact he was getting nowhere fast.

He shrugged. "I'm hoping that if I can prove all the alchemy books here are full of crap, we can get new ones that aren't?"

There were two choices laid out in front of Adah for today. It was a nice morning, a bit chill for her newly acquired tastes, but there was a whole preserve that was waiting for her to limp around and explore. However, she knew that today would be a good day to go to the library, to crack some things open and let the information pour out into her brain, entertainment, stories, contentment.

Oh, and she could get some books, too. But those, as she'd admit to only herself, were secondary. Adah limped in and leaned heavily on the desk when she reached it, leaning over half in expectation, half merely for balance. She looked at the Eel and smiled a light hello, blinked a what are you doing?

"Alchemy?" Lee asked, shutting his book. "That a science?"

Edward grinned. "Yeah. Science of turning one thing into something else. But most people around here seem to think it's either magic or some other sort of hocus pocus."

"Turning something into something else?" Lee asked. "Like turning a rock into...a shoe or something?"

"Sure, if you had a reason to," Ed said. "You have to understand the substance that you want to change then you can break it down and rebuild it as something else."

"How do you do that scientifically?" Lee asked, book nearly forgotten now. "Break it down and then use the broken down parts to build something completely new."

"You have to hold both structures in your mind," Edward explained. "It's not a physical breaking down with your hands. It's an equation. The output has to be the same mass as what you start with. It's called the law of equivalent exchange."

"Morning," he said, giving her a smile in return. He changed positions, standing up a little straighter. "I'm still waking up, I think. Couldn't sleep much last night. How are you? It's good to see you."

[*can totally read pings omg for realz* *facepalms*]

"Huh." He'd never heard of anything like this before and the concept intrigued him. "All you need is an equation to do alchemy?"

Anathema lasted all of half a day before deciding that a library was a much better place to spend her Sunday than her room.

Adah's head bobbed, slightly jerkily, in a response. Good, well, fine and swell, although it was a little surreal, this set-up, reversal of roles. She realized it was her first time in the library at all when she wasn't the one sitting behind the desk. Her head tilted at him, a silent question for the restless night before her own restlessness had her scanning the titles of books set out on the desk.

"Hey," Lee said when he noticed someone walk into the library. "How's it going?"

Anathema did a detour by the front desk. "Very well. And yourself?"

He grinned. "That and an array to channel the energy needed for the transmutation."

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