Library [03/28]

[furnaceface]

Jono's trip to the library today had been, fortunately, rather uneventful. He'd found himself growing a little more thankful over the course of the week for his inability to breathe... It kept things far simpler.

The fact that he could cook alive any curious monsters that wandered too close for comfort helped, too.

After he straightened his bandages over his face, he set to work, reading the notes on the whiteboard and rifling through the shelves, pulling out stacks of whatever books looked as though they might be relevant for people to poke at and then flicking on the computers so that they'd be booted up (or whatever it was) for the researchers today.

[Open!]

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Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

Jono nodded, and then he was making his way around the desk, because right about now, she seemed like she was in need of a hug.

//I feel like I ought t'be out there, myself,// he noted. //But somebody had t'open th'library.//

... Because the librarian wouldn't have, Jono?

Re: Talk to Jono!

[living_endless]

"You could ask Mr. DeTamble to do it," Didi observed, hugging him back. "It's okay. You're keeping the books safe, right?"

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

//Somebody's got to,// Jono decided. It was a well-known fact that monkeyponies were avid readers, after all. //After th'gremlins last time, I don't think I could get away with letting anything else happen to them, yer know?//

It was possible that Sundays just hated libraries.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[living_endless]

"You'd have to start paying damages out of your salary," Didi nodded.

The salary he probably didn't get, but nevermind that.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

//They'd have to bill me,// Jono replied with a roll of his eyes. //But yes, I suppose I would be held accountable for th'damage, sooner or later.//

The gremlin guts had kinda been his fault.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[living_endless]

"No fair," Didi decided, with a slight pout. "Hopefully the fight'll stay clear and it won't come up."

"So I have, like, nothing to talk about," she added. "Uh ... my side of the room is actually clean of once. Clean-ish. Organized."

There'd been a whole lot of nothing to do.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

//And my side of th'room seemed t'get progressively worse over th'course of the week,// Jono sighed. //At least people aren't all runnin' about in that fog without masks on, anymore. I can handle life without th'headache, myself.//

When being a psychic sucked, it sucked hard. Try taking an Advil for the resonant paranoia of the entire population of an island when you didn't have a mouth.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[living_endless]

"I don't understand why anybody went out after Tuesday," Didi said. Sighed, really, because she didn't like the idea of Jono with a headache any better than she liked the idea of people getting hurt in the fog. "Is Jak out killing things? I think Jaime was."

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

Jono nodded a little.

//He is. I had to keep him and Tahiri from killin' one another, a few days back. But I think he knows better'n to go out there breathing it in.//

... He hoped.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[living_endless]

"They got hit the same way I did?" Didi was trying not to wince. "Oh, man. Bad week to be Jono. Lucky for us, but ... has to have been hard on you."

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

Jonothon gave his shoulders a shrug.

//Not that bad,// he noted. //Whatever's in that fog, I'm immune.//

To the fog. There was still the headache. He was coping with that.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[living_endless]

"So you just get to watch other people go totally insane," Didi pointed out. "I'm not surprised, though. I was pretty sure it's in the fog and, well..."

This was where the Jono-doesn't-breathe part helped.

Re: Talk to Jono!

[furnaceface]

//And I'm British, and I know how to deal with a little fog,// Jono replied, filling in the blank in completely the wrong manner, entirely on purpose. //Mostly, I've been tryin' t'stay out of it regardless. Monkeys have a wonderful way of dirtying yer clothing, after all.//

Bandages didn't tend to handle washing machines well when you wanted to rid them of monkey poo.