fandomhigh | Library [Sunday]

Lee's got his head in his hand and his eyes almost closed. Mmm, dozing in the library. Feel free to wake him up.

After ~~handwavily~~ finding out that quite a few people around here had no memories, Rodney, who didn't know he was Rodney, thought research was in order. After a little searching, he found the library and tentatively poked hi head in. "Um, hello? Anybody in here?"

Lee jumped, almost falling off his chair before catching himself and looking towards the sound of the voice.

"Over here," he called, waving a hand.

Rodney was pleased that he didn't seem to be the only one off his game today. He made his way over to the person who had spoken. "I was wondering if you could help me find something on mass amnesia? Specifically, what might have caused it and how it can be reversed." Nothing wrong with a little optimism.

"You can't remember who you are either?" Lee asked, frowning now. That meant it wasn't just one person. "At all?"

Rodney sighed. "I can do quadratic equations in my sleep, but the only reason I know my name is the fact that I found my own passport."

"Huh." That...didn't sound good. "Well, I'm guessing there'd be something in an encyclopedia for you? And I can go find some specialized books on amnesia if you want to wait here? So you don't get lost in the aisles?"

Not that Lee knew that amnesia didn't mean total loss of all knowledge.

"That's what I said," Rodney nodded. "I can start with the encyclopedia but you can just point me in the direction of the rest. I might be having some memory blockage, but that doesn't make me an idiot," he sneered. Seems like the positive attitude doesn't last very long with him.

"Need a map of the library?" All right, maybe he couldn't help that little poke.

"Hmph," Rodney snorted. "If you're going to be like that, I'll just find it all myself." And with that he turned and started to stomp off deeper into the library.

Lee watched him go and then hid a laugh behind his hand.

It's lunch time so the library is closed to everyone except the other aides and the librarian.

He's more awake now and is reading a book from the check in pile.

She had wandered, all morning, through the grounds, through the village, through the woods lying behind the school, and through the pages of the books in the room she supposed was her, trying to find a connection with the Adah of the Notebook. She felt she would owe it to her, after all, for the wandering she was doing now.

Which was more wandering than she had anticipated, as she didn't remember where the library was. Finally, she found it, though, opening the door and peeking in tentatively to make sure it was the right spot. There was an Eel at the desk, or, at the least, someone she could presume to be him, so it was close enough. She slipped into the room, closing the door behind her, and walked easily over to the desk to greet him with a small smile. "Hello."

Lee threw a quick glance up when the door opened, looked back down at the book and then back up when he realized who had just come in.

He closed the book, slid it aside and said, "Hey there. Found the library, I see. How's it going?"

"It was harder than I thought it would be," Adah admitted before she even realized it, and she regretted that it just sort of slipped out of her, gushing out as it wanted to get out past a usual barrier. She quickly amended it, though. "Things are going well; all things considered, I, of course, figured I should come here. To find books on memory loss; the Adah I was seems to have plenty of volumes on scientific subjects, but nothing like that. All viruses and biology and anatomy..."

She frowned slightly, remember some of the strange and sometimes troubling additions to the anatomy ones, but tried to shake it away.

"I'm sorry you had some trouble," Lee said, frowning slightly. "But, if you're looking for books, you've come to the right place. I've got books upon books. Not that they're all mine but, you know. But I'm glad to hear things are going well. Nothing come back to you yet?"

"Only marks left for me by the past Adah," she said quietly. "I've managed to memorize most of her poems; there was even a girl, earlier, who had read one and I knew it from something Adah had written, which was exciting, but, unfortunately, the other girl seems to have the same condition I have...Lots of people do. I find it interesting that you aren't affected."

"Yeah, I'm not sure why I missed out on the memory loss," Lee said and shrugged. "Someone else came in here earlier who wanted to look up the exact same stuff you're asking about."

He tapped his fingers against the desk without really noticing. "Doesn't hurt, does it?"

Smart person. Or else Adah was not as clever as she was feeling she was by coming up with that idea. However, because of that, she decided that, clearly, the other person just shared her certain intelligence.

Her head, however, tilted at the Eel's question. "What doesn't? Why should memory loss hurt? Besides, of course, the occasional pain in the head from all the thinking involved with trying to remember..."

"I'm --" He wasn't really sure what he was. "I don't know what memory loss feels like. I was concerned, I guess. Worried, maybe."

He turned the hand on the desk palm up, sheepish smile on his face. "I don't...know a lot about this world. I'm still learning. I ask a lot of dumb questions."

Adah's grin had a little sharp turn in it. "What kind of stupid questions? My world is currently built of jumbled, backwards sentences and a relentless jogger, so I don't imagine they could be any stupider than what I'm asking myself. Who am I? Where am I? What am I, but I'm slowly discovering that philosophers have actually been asking these questions for ages; maybe I am only just awakening..." The smile fell away slightly.

"Worried," she said, as if now just realizing that he had expressed that. "About what? I was feeling like I'm taking it in stride fairly well; I don't...feel like I should need to be worried about..."

In fact, she was feeling slightly like she really didn't want anyone worried about her, but she didn't quite know where that was coming from.

"Yeah. It's...yeah, never mind," he said and shook his head. "You've got a lot more questions than I do and they're more valid right now."

He shrugged a shoulder, looked down at his hands for a moment. "And worried about the whole situation, I think. About people--" and he was careful to use that word instead of just singling her out "--just randomly losing their memories. I'm not even from this planet and I've never seen that before. But, you're doing...you're smiling."

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