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Library, Sunday 12/04

Raven was at the library early today, anxious to begin looking through the books for any mention of the "Auditors" Zoe had spoken of on the radio. She clung to what little optimism she had left that they would find a way to stop whatever it was devouring worlds and people, and reverse it for their safe returns. But if a place as powerful with magic as Kaeleer had fallen, she wasn't sure how long Fandom could stand. And the Netherverse was almost gone.

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"The part where one of my closest friends is dead, or the part where my girlfriend screamed 'I hate you I hate you' and called me a coward after I kept her from stepping through the last portal back to Kaeleer?"

It had been a red letter day!

He could relate to the best friend thing with Rhodey being--very gone now. But the rest...

"...what?"

Warren's jaw clenched a little.

"She was trying to catch a portal back to Kaeleer," he muttered, softly. "So that she could... be with her people at the end. Instead of, I don't know, helping us in stopping the end from coming. I... grabbed on and didn't let her through."

"She called you a coward," Tony replied slowly. "I'm not sure I'm following that part."

"I'm... not sure if I do," Warren admitted, shrugging his shoulders and looking down at the table. "I wasn't really asking her too clarify by that point. I guess... I guess she figured that I stopped her for my sake, or something."

Instead of, oh, hers.

Okay, so Karla had gone completely insane. That was helpful. Really.

Tony rubbed his eyes, willing things to make sense again. But he wasn't Wanda Maximoff and could not alter reality like that, so... he was stuck with this. "Okay, we're getting you food and some of that sanity I needed too."

"Sanity sounds kind of great," Warren admitted, staring down at the cover of the book that he'd been going through.

He'd be done looking into a mutant's genetic limitations by now if he had access to his father's research. Mostly, by this point, he was just flipping through in an attempt to confirm things he already knew as they applied to beings in other realities.

"So long as we're not off hunting it down for too long, I guess. Sanity is easier to appreciate while you still exist."

"They just let you take the books with you," Tony replied like this was weird and confusing to him. "So, we can eat and research."

Why did they just give people books? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, LIBRARY?

And it wasn't even piracy! LIBRARIES WERE CONFUSING.

"... Good point," Warren allowed, biting his lip for a moment before starting to pack up the rest of the books that were heaped up around him. "What were you looking into?"

"Some papers written by a scientist from back home," Tony replied, holding up something with a title that was possibly more technobabble than anyone ever needed in their life. Author: R. Richards. "Some version of him taught here over the summer."

Yes, that was a braincrush Tony had.

Well, it was a pretty fantastic brain, really. If anyone could stretch the limits of scientific research, it was Reed.

"Anything useful so far?"

"I'm--ah--struggling a little to follow him," he admitted.

"... Oh."

Well, dammit.

"Is there anyone else around that you can run his stuff past? I mean, if any of the other science-minded people are still around... maybe a few heads are better than one?"

"I'll see if Ender can work on it too. But this guy... some of the things he talks about is just way past me."

"Well, he's been doing it longer, right?" Warren's answering attempt at a smile was a little week, but so help him, he was trying. "So... naturally it's just going to take a little longer to crack what he's saying. You'll get it."

Yes. He had to... right?

Tony nodded firmly. Because clearly he could. He gained abilities as the plot dictated!

"C'mon," he said, grabbing the most promising couple of books. "Food that isn't stale or from a microwave beckons."

"That sounds like such an amazing plan right now," Warren informed him as he reached for his own stack of books. "Lead on, Tony."

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