Library [1.26]

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone was actually sulking that all her little green friends seemed to have gone away. She'd been having fun!

She got the coffee going, like a good library minion, before tying her hair up and getting out the cleaning supplies. After over two years of cleaning up after invasions, Anemone was very good at getting the most stubborn scuff-marks and bloodstains out of the floor.

The Fandom High Library is open, and the library aide is off somewhere cleaning up gremlin-residue. You may need to ring the bell for service.

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Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

"So you don't really have any control over it?" Cindy asked. "That's got to be a bitch to deal with. Puts a lot of extra strain on things, I'm sure."

She tried to sound casual, though her eyes were sympathetic. But Henry was a man with pride and she didn't think he'd want a lot of hand-wringing and 'oh noes' over this. "So this guy at Hopkins...? Some kind of suppressive gene therapy maybe? Now that it's been isolated?"

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[one-who-goes.livejournal.com]

Henry shook his head. "I don't have any conscious control, but I think there has to be something subconscious? Otherwise, sheer luck would have put me in the middle of Lake Michigan by now. But yeah, gene therapy is the hope. Until that works, I'll have my vanishing act."

He smiled. "You're taking this pretty well, by the way."

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

"I could faint and demand a mint julep, but I've never been the fainting type," Cindy said with a grin. "Though you should have seen me after my first class. All the drinking and protestations of sanity you could have asked for. Like I said--still less weird than the talking frog. Made of felt."

She shrugged and gave him a bit of a wan smile. "I try to roll with things, you know? I mean, I watched you vanish. That adds a lot of credibility to your story."

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[one-who-goes.livejournal.com]

"We teach living puppets," Henry said, and had to boggle a bit. "Right. Moving on. And you'd be surprised -- some people are very good at denying what's right in front of them if it doesn't make sense. I appreciate an open mind."

Idly, and to take the focus off him for a moment, he asked, "What was the worst of it in your class?"

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

"Let's see, in addition to the frog who calls himself a muppet, I have Prince Arthur Pendragon, his sister Morgana, and Merlin all in my class," Cindy said, giving Henry a wry look. "And yes, they claim to be exactly who you think they are. There's Liir, who says he's from Oz, and my TA, Blysse, who can't really read or write, but her giant wolf friend will read things off the board for her."

Seriously, Henry. Second-string strange.

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[one-who-goes.livejournal.com]

"The worst I have in the library is the girl from ancient Greece who hangs out with Homer when she's at home," Henry offered. "And Jono. His 'medical condition' means he talks right into your head."

He rubbed his chin. "We seem to have stumbled into the strangest place on the planet, or else I've gone irrevocably insane."

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

"Oh, Gabrielle? She's in my class, too. I don't have this Jono, however. Maybe next semester." She sighed and shook her head. "I haven't entirely given up on irrevocably insane, you know."

That Fandom was even odder than Fabletown or the Farm was something that Cindy was having trouble accepting, honestly.

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[one-who-goes.livejournal.com]

"It probably helps that I know I'm not crazy about the time travel," Henry said. "If I accept that much is sane, it tells me that Gabrielle and Merlin and company and the frog probably aren't lying either. Though there is the theory this is all a very long hallucination."

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

"Or some kind of drug-trip flashback," Cindy said cheerfully. "I don't think I did any growing up, but I also think I'm teaching at a school that just got invaded by gremlins. I could, conceivably, be sitting in a corner, looking at my hands and whispering 'The colors!'"

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[one-who-goes.livejournal.com]

"Oh, god, if this is the revenge of some bad acid somebody slipped me in 1985, I'll cheerfully kill my dealer next time I go back there."

He couldn't (and wouldn't), but this was just a way of talking anyhow.

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

"Uh-oh, DeTamble," Cindy chided with a grin. "Were you all young and rebellious before you took up the librarian mantle and life of books and ease?"

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[one-who-goes.livejournal.com]

"I liked to enjoy myself," Henry admitted. "Not all of us got married right out of high school."

Also, he had an incurable and unbelievable medical condition, a drunk dad, and a dead mom. Something would have been wrong with him if he hadn't indulged himself in some way.

"I got through it on one piece."

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

Or, you know, technically in high school, had such a concept existed in her Homeworld. But details.

"I am hardly going to take someone up for having fun," Cindy said with a laugh. "There's too little of it going around. And what's the point of being young if you can't have a little stupid fun while you can still get away with it?"

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[one-who-goes.livejournal.com]

"That's true," Henry agreed. "I'm planning on moving into my second childhood so I have an excuse to start doing it again any day now."

Re: Librarian's Office - NFB

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

"Oh, that sounds like fun," Cindy said, clapping her hands. "Let me know when you do. I'm looking forward to pushing people into mud puddles and cutting in line for the swingsets."