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Library; Wednesday [ 01/23 ]

Open the library. Y'rar, bileht nepo. Something weren't as good backward, but Y'rar, bileht desolc wasn't much better and it might be too early in the day for her to effectively get away with that, anyway. She had books, though, and she had a relatively comfortable chair at a nice, big desk. There were no bottles of prescriptions, though, that she could make lists out of horrible side effects from, and then write backwards, which just meant that she'd have to make up her own horrible side effects, list them neatly, and then slide them into the books before putting them in the pile of books to be put away. It was only her duty, as a doctor, to warn people that excessive readings of King of the Bracelets may cause frequent, contagious bouts of being hopelessly ostracized, and that these books on religions are likely to get you an unscratchable, burnable rash; if untreated, it could be crippling, much like a leper.

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"Oh, thank you," he said. "I could twirl for you and you could imagine the cape?"

Adah gave a firm nod in support of this idea. "You are the premiere model, are you not? You, if anyone, should be able to make it work."

With a small, shy smile, Lee stepped away from the counter and twirled.

Three times.

They weren't the best twirls but they were twirls and he managed to do them without getting dizzy.

Chuckling with a light, quiet cheer, Adah applauded the Eel in a fashion suited to nineteen century medical lecturers and people without a second hand to clap on, by knocking lightly on the surface of the desk. They were nice twirls, not perfect, but nice, and watching them didn't make her head spin as a result, so she beamed at him. "You know, the chief of our village had a cape, made from the skin of a lion, so that the head was resting right on his shoulder, like it was trying to eat him. It wasn't as ugly as that, was it?"

"My cape did not have an animal head on it," he said and made a face at her. "It wasn't that ugly. It was just...tacky."

"So we've moved from ugly to tacky," Adah observed. "If I'm not mistaken, that's one step toward actually liking this cape. Perhaps you did all along, and we're slowly uncovering your secret adoration of flowing, twirling, ugly capes..."

"The cape and me weren't friends," he said quickly. "I would never ever wear it while I was myself. It might get caught in doors!"

Adah gave him a warning look, eyebrows lifting with the corner of her mouth, wondering if the Eel realized that speaking those words were just begging for it to happen. "See," Adah argued lightly, still smirking, "the problem is that you just didn't give it enough time. You can't rush some things, you know; you needed to give you and your cape time to grow and develop to learn to love each other..."

"I'm buying you a cape for your birthday," he decided.

"I'll make you wear it," Adah warned and, leaning forward somewhat conspiratorially, added, "And you don't know when my birthday is."

"I'm sure I could find out," he said and winked. "I'm tricky."

Adah made silent note of the fact that the Eel didn't argue the part about her making him wear it. She grinned back, ducked her head in a sort of approving nod. "Well, good luck with that."

"You don't think I could, do you?" Lee asked, smiling.

Adah's head tilted for a moment as she contemplated how best to answer that. "I would be impressed," she said, distinctly coming around to a suitable answer, "if you did. I wouldn't completely discredit it from the realm of possibility. I'm leaning heavily on the thought that you'll forget."

"Why don't you just tell me?" Lee asked, leaning across the counter.

"Because there's no fun in that," Adah said simply, with a smile that wondered if he really, honestly thought that she'd just up and tell him.

"But I'm cute," he said and smiled at her. "And I'd get you a present."

"You'll get me a cape," Adah corrected, giggling just slightly and shaking her head. "Don't be lazy. You said you'd have ways to find out, so, stick by your word. Find out yourself."

"I would get you flowers," he countered. "And a cape."

"Oh, boy, flowers!" Adah said dryly, eyes widening in a mock expression of excitement before she wilted, slightly, not in a swoon, but in a wry look his ways to ask if he really expected her to be convinced by that, really. Her dedication to the expression was a nice way to help her ignore a small voice in the back of her head telling her that she really would like that, too.

Lee tried to put on his best 'woe, sad' face and pouted at her. "They were going to be nice flowers."

Like she was going to let a face like that get to her. It tried, of course, but she wouldn't allow such a thing. "Which is why you wanted them to be cut up and then placed unnaturally in a vase, where they will slowly die over the course of a week?"

"You're a hard sell," he remarked. "Hard sell. They'd be pretty and smell good!"

"I can't argue those fact," Adah admitted, with a small, congenial smile. "But you don't honestly expect me to make it easy for you, do you?"

"I thought you'd take some pity on me," he said and grinned as charmingly as he could.

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