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Library [01/21]

Sam wasn't about to let a little power outage keep him out of the library. After all, without television or other entertaining electronics, the odds of someone coming in to get a book was a lot higher. At least, that was Sam's hope.

The windows in the library gave him enough light to get by, but he still had flashlights at the desk. A little extra light by which to read was never a bad thing.

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"Yeah, we usually don't have problems with the power," Sam admitted. "But I'm sure it'll get fixed soon. There's too many of us for them to just leave it and wait for it to fix itself."

Priestly considered this. "Maybe the power went on strike. Like the washing machines and coffee and shit."

"I haven't seen any fliers, but that's entirely possible," he said, smirking. "You sound like you're adjusting well to the weirdness."

"Well, it's either take it all in stride or decide I've gone insane. Either way, might as well enjoy it, right?"

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Sam laughed. "You might be going insane, but I doubt it would be because of the washing machines, unless you saw a few too many people in their underwear."

"Dude, no such thing." Priestly grinned. "But you never know, they could have put something . . . extra in the clothes they returned."

"Did you ever go through anything this weird at home?" Sam asked. "Some people have, and worse, so I never know."

"Santa Cruz is a whole different variety of weird. Mostly the human and completely non-magical kind."

"The kind of weird you fit into well?" Sam said, taking a pointed glance at Priestly's hair.

Priestly shrugged, grinning. "Well, there's still a pretty big khaki brigade, and most of the rest of 'em are hippies, but some people dig the style, yeah."

"Oh, hippies are a whole different kind of weird," Sam said. "One I'm glad I don't run into a lot."

". . . You don't like hippies?"

This did not quite compute.

"I don't mean the nice 'let's be friendly to everyone and save the world' kind of hippie," Sam said quickly. "But the scary 'let's do drugs and see what we can hallucinate today' kind? That's a different story."

". . . You know those are mostly the same thing, right? It's part of the whole 'free love, hug the world, expand your mind and embrace your karma' experience."

"Can't you expand your mind without the drugs?" Sam asked. God, he was such a nerd sometimes.

"Yeah, sure. I figure you mostly just gotta want to, you know? But the whole hippie theory is that the drugs allow you to look at the world from a completely different perspective and open you up to some . . . inexplicable source of spiritual knowledge or something. It's a tool."

Priestly wasn't so much a nerd as fascinated with Timothy Leary.

"I think I'm going to go ahead and take your word for that, since you sound like you know what you're talking about," Sam said. "And because I like my own perspective just fine."

"Nah, just friends with a hippie who likes to explain things," Priestly said brightly. "I'd be kinda interested to try LSD maybe once, though. You know, see what all the hype's about."

"You'd be safe about it though, right?" Sam asked. As safe as one could be with that kind of drug, at least.

Priestly smirked. "Well, I was thinking of buying it from a skeezy looking guy on the street, taking at least four times the recommended dosage along with several other unknown substances and then going for a walk along the wrong side of a bridge guardrail. . . ."

Sam narrowed his eyes and gave Priestly a mock glare. "I'm so glad you think you're funny."

Priestly's smirk made it's way into an actual smile. "Hey, man, ask a stupid question. . . ."

"Hey, I don't know, you could be even crazier than you look," Sam said. "And I kind of have this thing about people with your face not getting themselves hurt."

Priestly shrugged. "Fair enough."

"I won't tell you not to do it though, because it's your life," Sam said. "You'll just have to tell me how it goes."

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