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Library [08/22]

Jonothon had been... a little lax on his library duties over the summer, he realized. He'd missed a couple of shifts here and there (the fact that Silent Hill was a factor in this meant little to him, no), and today he was looking to make up for lost time with a bit of a vengeance. By noon, he'd managed to shelve the books on the cart, and as the day pressed on, he was going to even pull out a rag and start dusting things.

Because he could, damn it. It didn't matter that it was technically break week, now. He had a bloody job to do.

Ah, productivity.

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Didi gave him a look that suggested he was totally insane. "You realize you're measuring yourself against the writers you think are the best ever," she pointed out. (Gaiman made her nervous -- he had an irritating habit of getting too close to things humans weren't supposed to know -- but that was a separate issue.) "Why not just be smug that the half-assed book you dreamed is probably still better than Dan Brown?"

//Yer goldfish could write better than Dan Brown, luv. It's not that much of an accomplishment.//

"Hey, it was a trick getting Wandsworth to hold the pen in his mouth," Didi cracked. "And I won't talk about Slim's spelling. He has issues."

//Well, that's what editors are for,// Jono pointed out, bemused. //My brain doesn't come with one of those. I'm apparently not paying the other telepaths enough to be dream-book beta readers.//

Slim and Wadsworth, meanwhile, would need betta readers.

~~groan~~

Didi laughed. "Don't ask Emma," she said. "Somehow I think she'd be a pretty harsh editor."

She squinted, studying him. "You don't usually call yourself a telepath, you know."

Jono took a moment to pause and pick apart what it was that he'd just said, there. And then he... shrugged, maybe a little.

//Not that I'm any good at it,// he allowed, //but I suppose I am, aren't I? There doesn't seem to be any point in denying that much, when it's fairly obvious...//

Obvious, at least, that he could only speak if it was directly into somebody else's mind, yes.

"Not really, but things get more real when you put names on them," Didi said. "And hey, making yourself heard is a pretty neat trick. I've gotten used to your voice in my mind."

//And for some people around here, this has been normal all along,// noted Jonothon, though his tone was... wary, almost. It was still a weird topic of conversation for him. //If they have a word for th'same thing, I might as well appropriate it. Having a word for it... doesn't really hurt anything.//

Even though about this time last year, the last thing he wanted was to be given yet another label that had anything to do with his powers, yes.

"It usually doesn't, as long as it's a polite word," Didi agreed. "Makes it easier to talk about, right?"

Even if it was a label.

//Makes it easier to explain,// Jono corrected, mildly. //I still would rather avoid talking about it in most cases, I think.//

His powers would never not be an awkward subject.

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