Library, Tuesday

[angelo_wings]

Rinoa was still working on Roaring Hills. She was normally a much faster reader than this, but with all the excitement lately -- break week! Squall's birthday! new students! heading home, then back again in as many days! -- she hadn't had time to herself. Not great big pockets of time, where you could pull out a book and fall into it. More stolen moments here and there, which were fine for frivolous books or short stories, but Gothic epics, you'd just settle into them once you were pulled out again.

Today, Rinoa was going to curl up at the aide's desk and read. Unless anyone needed her, naturally. Other book-lovers were free to interrupt her at will.

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Re: Talk to Rinoa!

[angelo_wings]

"It's more him than her," Rinoa said, eager to dish about the book she was in the middle of. "See, Byron and Emily were in love, but she threw him off to marry Alfred, because Alfred has money and status and Byron is poor. So Byron gets angry and bitter and storms out and has now come back set on wrecking everyone's lives, especially Alfred and Emily. Then he marries Alfred's sister and is just downright mean to her. It's all very romantic, but there's no cause for that. It's not her fault."

Re: Talk to Rinoa!

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

By the time Rinoa had finished her synopsis, Alexander was frowning gravely. "That is a rather terrible turn of events," he agreed. "If I were Alfred," and he certainly hoped he'd never have to be; it would be so upsetting if Cassima wound up only marrying him because he was a prince!, "I would certainly give Byron a piece of my mind for incurring such a thing upon my sister. Then again, if it were my sister, I'm sure Rosella would give him quite an earful herself."

An image that, no doubt, turn his frown upside down.

Re: Talk to Rinoa!

[angelo_wings]

"I think you're supposed to feel bad for him," Rinoa frowned. "He was wronged, and now he's suffering, and lashing out. But there's no call for being mean to his wife. And it's hardly Alfred's fault he's rich, either. This should be between Byron and Emily, that's all."

Re: Talk to Rinoa!

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"Exactly," said Alexander with a firm, passionate nod. "If anything, I daresay the blame should be placed on Emily, for not following her heart. It is true that it is not easy to do so, but love should be able to conquer all adversity! I would give up the world to be it the one I truly love..."

Clearly, this was a subject that Alexander cared quite a bit about. Perhaps a bit too much. But, after all, wasn't true love the whole reason he was even in this library to begin with?

Re: Talk to Rinoa!

[angelo_wings]

"She must have been suffering enough already," Rinoa mused. "Forever apart from her love, pining, longing, suffering in silence. She should have had more faith."

Love was, after all, the end point, the starting point, the reason for all of the rest of it.

Re: Talk to Rinoa!

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"I know how she feels," Alexander found himself admitting quietly, and then a blush filled his face. He couldn't believe he was getting so worked up over a fictional story that he was only hearing about second hand! He cleared his throat. "And you're right. She should have. Especially if faith is...all you have."

Re: Talk to Rinoa!

[angelo_wings]

"Sometimes, faith is all you need," Rinoa said loyally.

If she believed hard enough that everything would work out, maybe it would. So what if that sounded ridiculous to everyone else? Love and faith were stronger than logic.