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Library [10/02]

Jono understood that, as today was the day where people had family and friends and who only knew what else arriving on the island, he was probably going to have to make certain that the library looked presentable. More or less presentable.

Like a library.

Jono had no idea what a 'presentable library' was supposed to look like, and so he was going to just make sure that the books were more or less shelved in the right places, and then he'd cross his fingers.

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Jono watched her leave, and then turned back toward Eliot. He was no good with this 'small talk' thing, really.

//How are yer enjoyin' the island so far, mate?//

See?

"I've been here once before," he admitted, glancing around the library. Then he corrected.

"The island, not the library. It's nice. Different from the school I'm going to.

"I came for a convention of musicians a couple of months ago. So did our dad, but he couldn't come this time."

With Dallas and Aaron around, it would have been suicide for all involved.

//So, yer father's a musician too, then. Yer get it from him?// Curious Jono was curious. //Or was he here as support, instead?//

Eliot kind of struck Jono as the sort that needed someone to keep an eye out for him.

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"Dad's a musician," he said as he put his bag down, "in fact, he's the one who gave me my violin. It used to be his."

He reached into the bag and pulled out a violin case.

"Have you ever heard of the Pied Piper of Hamelin?"

//Played the rats right out of town?// Jono looked somewhat bemused at that. //And then the children after them, I believe. Yes, I've heard the stories, mate.//

Eliot's smiles came much easier than his sisters, and lasted longer.

"Something like that."

//Well, if there are any details I'm missing, then by all means, set the story straight.//

Jono knew better by now than to question someone who seemed as though they possibly knew better, between here and the Academy back in Massachusetts.

"Well," he said thoughtfully, "I don't know much more than what was in the Mythica, but I know how it was done. I had to do something similar a few months ago."

There was a pause while Jono let that sink in.

... Nope. Still not the strangest thing he'd heard. Actually, it was downright normal compared to most of it, lately.

//With the violin?//

He nodded as he settled the case and undid the clasps.

"It was that, or be rat chow. Or crocodile chow. Homicidal maniac chow. Uh... US army chow?"

He opened the case and ran his hand over the lacquer.

"Her name is the Lady Dawn."

And as the sheen of the wood glowed with gold and turquoise highlights and the still air strummed through the strings in a half-remembered melody... the name certainly seemed fitting.

And how. Jono had difficulty taking his eyes from the violin. He couldn't play one to save his life, but he could recognize quality when he'd seen it, too.

Or possibly something one step above quality. Maybe there wasn't a word for it that summed it up quite right.

//Seems to me,// he mused, bent on staying on the conversation at hand even while his gaze drifted elsewhere, //there were a lot of factors out to... eat yer.//

Figuratively, partially. Hopefully. Unless the US army was a little more terrifying than even he expected it to be.

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