Library (12/20/05)

[janet_fraiser]

Janet ran towards the library. She'd overslept, and it looked like no one else had gotten it open yet. She flipped on the lights, unloaded the food from last night's shopping trip with Parker, made sure that no one but library staff could get to the food, and sat down to start eating while she finished up her Classics project.


Assortment of four French cheeses - Epoisses, Buche Chevre,
Chaource and Gruyere de Comte
4 pounds of Jumbo Shrimp with cocktail sauce
Mousse of Goose Liver pate', with black truffle mushrooms mixed in
Maine Lobster tails, with garlic butter
Russian Beluga, Sevruga, and Osetra caviar, with mini blinis and
creme fraiche
Blinis with raspberry preserves
French bread
Grapes
Pears
Granny Smith and Tulip apples
Belgian Chocolate truffles
Chocolate Marble Cheesecake
Maple Walnut fudge
Wine and champagne (hidden)

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Re: At the Library check-in desk - a few hours later

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"The books from you, mostly. Although it does work both ways," Parker said sardonically, then turned around and headed for the door. "I'm going back to the party. Come get one of us if you can't find something for your 'art project.'"

The glass door swung shut behind her.

In the stacks

[fh_jackass]

"Well." Logan raised his eyebrows at Xander and started walking through the stacks. The first books he spotted were what he'd expected to see - old, worn leather volumes of varying sizes and colors. Further along, the books changed. Different shapes, different colors, and some things that Logan wouldn't have classified as books at all.

One book had an odd shimmer about it. The binding was so black it was nearly invisible and no markings were visible. Logan lifted his hand to touch it, and the shimmer flared up. Logan pulled his hand back quickly. He didn't need to be a bunny again, or worse.

Re: In the stacks

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander, about to run his fingers along the spines of the row whose numbers he was checking, drew his own hand back. "Do I even wanna know what you had to do to get that note, by the way?" he asked.

Re: In the stacks

[fh_jackass]

"Sometimes, grasshopper, the shortest distance between two points really is a straight line," Logan said.

Re: In the stacks

[soldtoarmenians]

"You did lines with Coach Ash? Way to take one for the team."

Re: In the stacks

[fh_jackass]

Logan rolled his eyes. "I asked," he said. He spotted movement and peered at the binding of a book, only to spot two tiny yellow eyes staring back at him. "Whoa." He backed away.

Re: In the stacks

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander reached out without thinking, to run his gloved finger over the spine of a book that seemed to be bound in soft, glossy brown fur.

It thrummed under his hand.

"I... think possibly we're getting closer," he said, gingerly removing his hand and reflexively wiping it on his jeans.

Re: In the stacks

[spec-collection.livejournal.com]

A sound carried from down the rows.

A low, throaty, "MmmmMMmmmmmmm...." trailing off into giggles.

Re: In the stacks

[fh_jackass]

Logan looked at the book. "I think it liked it," he said.

Re: In the stacks

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander peered off into the stacks, looked down at the book, then at his hand. "Also I may need new gloves."

Re: In the stacks

[spec-collection.livejournal.com]

The dragon opened one eye. "You don't need to do that," he says. "Too dangerous by far. Where are you going? I might be able to hhelp you find it."

Re: In the stacks

[fh_jackass]

"Um. Hello," Logan said, regaining his foothold. "We were just looking - ah, here it is." He grabbed a book at random from the shelf.

Re: In the stacks

[spec-collection.livejournal.com]

"Excellent," the dragon says, closing his eyes again. Then: "I think all the school libraries are to your left. Do be careful, injured humans scream so."

And, indeed, the lamps are flaring on that side of the path, seeming to point them that way.

Re: In the stacks

[soldtoarmenians]

The bookshelves receded to form an open corridor beneath the lights, and Xander didn't waste any time scrambling down from the shelves and moving away from the not-so-sleepy dragon. Just because it sounded friendly didn't mean that it was going to stay that way. "Er, thanks..." he called back, when he was - hopefully - out of barbecue range.

Re: In the stacks

[fh_jackass]

Logan followed Xander, still clutching the book he'd grabbed. "Later, dude!" he called to the dragon.

Re: In the stacks

[spec-collection.livejournal.com]

The library seems to spin around them, settling into a configuration that might be familiar to Xander; they're standing next to a long, dark table, with bookshelves on terraces to all sides. An office and a bookcage are also on their level.

The smell of chalkdust and cafeteria food hangs in the air. This is clearly a school library.

But not a quiet one; some shelves are in disorder or have even been tipped over, and a girl lies near the library desk, unmoving.

Re: In the stacks

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander didn't need more than a glance to recognise the figure on the floor by the desk, and only two heartbeats worth of memory to know there wasn't any point in walking over to her.

"Shit. Is this supposed to be real?" he asked, moving forward to the nearest fallen shelf even as he spoke. He braced his shoulder against it, not even sure who had ended up beneath it, but positive there was more chance to help whoever it was than the still, dark girl who lay near the desk.

Re: In the stacks

[fh_jackass]

Logan helped Xander move the shelf. "No idea. You know this place?"

Re: In the stacks

[fh_jackass]

Logan crouched against a bookshelf, holding a book called "Forty-Two Uses for Gillyweed (Illustrated)" over his head to keep the flying objects off. He looked over at Xander, crouched beside him. "Well, they're not here yet. Any other ideas?"

Re: In the stacks

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander glanced around. "Build a book-fort?"

Re: In the stacks

[swerval_zero]

Then a voice could be heard. "TELL ME where they are! This is really not funny."

Re: In the stacks

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Does it talk back?" another voice wondered, considerably less angrily. "Logan? Xander? Can you guys hear us?"

Re: In the stacks

[swerval_zero]

"Sometimes. Apparently not today. It's like it's in a snit, which I think means they must be close. Logan? Xander, are you there?"

Re: In the stacks

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander heard a female voice off in the distance, though it was hard to tell what direction it was coming from. He certainly recognised his own name, though. "We're over here," he called back. "Um, wherever here is!"

Re: In the stacks

[swerval_zero]

Zero heads in the direction of 'here.' She hopes.