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Library; Wednesday [ 01/09 ]

There was an almost ceremonial feeling in the air as Adah limped into the library; it hadn't been a while since she'd been there, no, of course not, but it had felt like it had been a while since she'd opened it. Not that she ever did an exceptional amount of work while she was there, but she limped in, found the desk, carefully pulling out her chair. She had a seat, centered it carefully, and then settled her bag on one corner. She then meticulously angled the books so that they were balanced with everything else on the desk. She brushed a hand over the surface, leaned in close, and blew a stream of air over imaginary dust. And then she was prepared to start the day, after a theatrical, though extremely quiet, mouse-like cough at the imaginary disturbance of her lungs.

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"Oh." He'd noticed, of course, but hadn't thought of it so much as just enjoying it. "Well, good. Your smile looks good on you."

"I would hope so," Adah responded. "I'm sure anyone else's smile would most likely look unsettling."

"Smartass," he quipped warmly. "You know what I meant."

Adah wrinkled her nose at the Eel, smirking back. "Of course, but you're just so easy to tease."

"And you tease me at every opportunity," he added. "Not that I mind. At all."

"It's definitely admirable teasing, I promise," Adah said, biting her lip against the persistent smile as she looked over at him. Crazy little feeling that it was, just feeling excited to sit there, talk to him about nothing consequential.

Although perhaps there was something consequential to talk about. Adah's grin suddenly took on a new sharpening. "It's been an interesting day, you know. Guess what I got to see earlier."

She bit her lip, looking up at him with an excited anticipation. She was pretty sure he'd get a kick out of this.

"What'd you get to see earlier?" he asked curiously. "Something good?"

"Very good," Adah nodded assuringly, and then confided, proudly, "I got to see the principal punch the librarian in the face."

Adah was feeling pretty confident that today would go down as one of her most favorite days ever.

That was not what Lee expected to hear and he blinked and his mouth fell open.

"Really?" He started to laugh. "She...really?"

"It was a good punch, too," Adah said with as firm a nod as she could manage. "Didn't even say anything to him, just, pow, right in the kisser. It was....impressive. I'm getting the impression that he's actually not very popular with some of the people around here."

"Huh." Lee hadn't found him so bad. "He thought I was someone else when I met him but otherwise, I didn't find anything wrong with him. What'd you think?"

"I didn't really talk to him," Adah said, with a slight shrug. Then again, she figured that probably went without saying. "After everything I noticed today, though," she added lightly, because there were plenty more things to glean an opinion from other than words, "the only word I can think to use is 'intriguing.' There was something with River, too, on her way out, and I definitely plan on asking."

"Yeah, intriguing is a good word for him," Lee agreed, nodding. "He asked a little about my home but otherwise, just asked about the school. I told him not to take off his shirt."

Adah blinked. "...did that come up as an issue?"

"No," he said, laughing at her reaction. "I was teasing him. He asked me about the school and I told him people like shirts coming off and told him not to just to see him react. He barely reacted at all."

Adah made a thoughtful sound in her throat. That wasn't too terribly surprising; the man seemed pretty impervious to reactions; she could see herself very shortly either coming to admire him for it or getting annoyed by it. "Are you sure," she asked, tilting her head, "that it's that people like shirts coming off, or just that people like yours coming off?"

"I...haven't really thought too much about it," he said, frowning. "Maybe people like mine coming off? I don't know."

"Well, you know my opinion," Adah offered, almost as if her opinion pretty much closed the deal, "and I can't exactly say anyone's ever asked me to remove mine, so based on that evidence..."

"I'd ask you to remove yours," he said and grinned slyly.

"Oh, I'm sure you would," Adah stated with a light laugh. "But have you?" She ruefully shook her head. Of course, the point was usually moot because those few occasions, it took care of it on its own volition.

"Not yet," he teased. "Maybe I was waiting for the right time."

Adah maintained a doubtful look of challenge in response to that for a long moment before, with an overly heavy sigh, she shook her head and allowed, "I suppose it would be a bit more difficult to get away with that than the reverse. So much for gender equality."

"Well, I'd shield you from prying eyes," he offered. "Make sure no one checked you out if you didn't want them to."

"If I didn't want them to?" Adah asked, with a teasing glint in her eye. "Or if you didn't want them to?"

He coughed and cleared his throat. "Well. The second one," he admitted. "I'm selfish sometimes."

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