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Library [04/25]

Children, children everywhere.

Again. Only, this time it seemed to be other residents of the island, instead of their possible future offspring, which somehow made Jono quite thrilled that it hadn't touched him. The last thing he needed was to be five years old again. He hadn't been much of a fan of it the first time around.

That said, it was entirely possible that he was going to entertain himself today by pulling out the children's books once again.

... And possibly flipping through a few that he vaguely remembered from his own childhood. Shut up.

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Who is likely to eye you warily and attempt to shoo you off. Probably not terribly convincingly.

A wee black-haired girl with a red gem stuck to her forehead -- no doubt giving away her identity immediately -- silently appeared in the library. "Hello," she said, peering up at Jono.

Jono blinked. And then blinked some more.

Well, at least she was cute when she was tiny.

//Hullo, gel,// he replied, reaching up and scratching the back of his head awkwardly. //Can I help yer with anything, Raven?//

"I need a book," Raven said, Quite Solemnly. "This library does not work like the Library of Azarath. I cannot think of what book I want and find it."

//I can imagine how that would be a bit on the inconvenient side,// Jono allowed, taking a moment to look amused at the girl's predicament.

You had to take amusement where you could find it, when you were Jono.

//What book would that be, luv?//

"A book on human culture and slang," Raven said. "Someone used words I do not understand." She glanced over at the shelves. "And if it is up high I will need assistance retrieving it."

Jono considered this situation for a moment, and then he gave his shoulders a shrug and set down the book that he was reading. The one about the boy who ran away and became the king of the monsters.

No, he'd never wished he could do the same as a child, why?

//Follow me, then,// he replied, making his way down an aisle that looked somewhat promising. //Dare I ask what words they were usin', gel?//

Raven followed after Jono. "Fucking," she said. "And shit."

Those words should never come out of her mouth. It was wrong.

Jono stopped dead in his tracks and just gaped at her. As best as a boy with now lower jaw possibly could gape.

//Er...//

And now he was going to facepalm. It was an epic facepalm, indeed.

"I do not like to be ignorant," Raven said. "He would not tell me what the words meant, so I told him I would ask another or look in a book."

//There's a saying,// Jono hedged, //about ignorance being bliss, luv. Perhaps in this one circumstance, yer might want to take that to heart?//

Look, it was worth a shot.

"There is also a saying," Raven countered, "that knowledge is power."

//Bloody hell.//

She had him there, didn't she?

//Both words are more than a little rude, gel.//

And now he could hope and pray that she'd settle for that? Maybe?

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Oh, look. Another friend for Jono. "Hello," Sookie said softly when she wandered in, her eyes large as she looked around the library. "Do you got any books 'bout how to not sleep?"

She knew she was supposed to go to the library when she wanted to know something! It was a start, anyway.

//Books on...// Jono blinked.

There was plenty of blinking to be done, today.

//Are yer havin' troubles at night, gel?//

Everybody was 'gel' or 'mate' today until he could figure out who they were. And then they tended to remain as such by default regardless, because who needed names when 'gel' and 'mate' covered it so very nicely?

Hey, he answered in her head! She wasn't sure how to talk in other people's heads yet, but that was kinda cool. "Nuh-uh. But Bobby an' me aren't gonna sleep anymore 'cause sleep's for babies," she assured him before trying to look in his head and see if he knew other answers he wasn't sharing.

Jono made a bit of a face at the tingle in the back of his mind that felt suspiciously like another telepath trying to poke around where they didn't belong, and he gave the girl a scrutinizing sort of look that suggested that he didn't exactly approve, even if he didn't know how to get her to stop.

//Have yer tried sugar?//

Which would at least keep them up for a while before the sudden but inevitable crash afterwards.

"Yeah! Sugar's the best!" Sookie declared, though she did have the grace to look abashed at getting caught. "I had gummi pengis and worms for breffast yesterday and cookies and they had pro-teens. So if we eat just reg-lar sugar we'll stay up forevers?"

//Well, it's a good start,// Jono replied, crossing his arms over his chest. //But yer know, sleepin' isn't all that bad. All my best dreams happen when I'm sleeping, after all.//

Actually, they didn't. Jono didn't have happy dreams. Jono had nightmares.

And issues.

"Yeah but babies an' old people gotta sleep," she said. "An' I'm old but not a old person."

There was a long, long pause there, and then Jono was squinting a little again, trying to figure out what to make of that.

//Are yer callin' me an old person, luv?//

He just had to make sure.

"Only kinna," she said, offering a smile because she didn't want him to feel bad. "You're a grownup! But not old like Gran or anything."

And now he was trying to picture himself in fifty years. The mental image made his brain ache a bit.

//Good to know...// Sigh. //I think there are some books about sleep down that aisle there,// he added, waving in that general direction. //Mostly, they're about how yer can get sick if yer don't get enough of it, though.//

"I won't get sick! I stayed up late late last night doing radios and I'm not sickies," she told him happily. "But then I fell asleeps so I gotta figure out what to do."

//Sugar, loud music, exercise, videogames,// Jono replied, ticking off a few ideas on his fingers. //Cold weather, though I imagine that wouldn't work so much for Bobby...//

Children would be children. Who was he to attempt to speak sense to them when they'd just crash out on their own anyhow?

//Yer might need help reachin' those books, I think. C'mon, I'll show yer to 'em.//