Library, Wednesday [November 18]

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Her conversation with Mat yesterday was still on her mind, so Gabrielle was perusing a book on pressure points behind the desk. That would explain the random poking at the air she seemed to be doing from time to time, at various points in a vaguely human-sized space.

If you knew what she was doing, anyway, which meant that she basically looked like she was poking at empty air.

In the name of self-defense practice.

This would go so well.

[OOC: The OCD fled when she tried to practice on it.]

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"Well, I think that would depend on what you want to learn about it first," she opined, tapping a finger against her chin. "History is always a good start, if you want to understand how a place got to be the way it is. But that can be a little dense, too."

[OOC: So very sorry about the slowness. Crazier than expected today.]

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"Admittedly, most everything is dense to me," he said, laughing ruefully. "If the writing in a book is easy enough to understand, I can manage to piece together concepts and ideas if the words aren't incredibly difficult to understand."

Jonas wouldn't have thought vocabulary would be a huge roadblock but it was proving so. If he knew the words, he was able to find situations where he'd used the word and could put things together fairly well from there.

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Gabrielle nodded again in understanding. "I've noticed, sometimes, that people tend to respond better to stories than to more scholarly types of writing. If you give them characters they can relate to, and situations to take an interest in, they get more engaged in what they're reading." She grinned quickly. "We might want to take a look at the fiction section."

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"Fiction is...something that's not true, right?" Jonas asked, curious but fairly confident that he had it right. "Something that someone makes up but doesn't have much truth to it?"