fandomhigh | Library, Thursday All Day

It was probably fair to guess that Evan was excited to be showing up for his first shift as a library aide, what with the way he'd made absolutely certain his hair was a little bit neater than usual before leaving his room. He was also wearing his fanciest clothing... which mostly consisted of his old Jean Grey School uniform, blazer and necktie and shorts and all. The important thing here was that he looked professional, right? His old school's crest wasn't emblazoned on the front or anything, so it would suffice.

Of course, the blazer and shorts combo meant that not ten minutes into his shift, some of the more recent periodicals were sneaking up to his desk and leaving themselves wide open on any section that prominently featured men's fashion. At first, Evan thought maybe somebody was teasing him and just hiding whenever he was looking, but then he actually caught a magazine in the act of scaling the desk, and he sighed.

"It's not that bad, guys."

The library is open! And the aide is wearing shorts whether the periodicals like it or not!

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"Happy to have helped," she said cheerfully. "Maybe it's the books' way of welcoming you as an aide? They want to see if you can handle some minor chaos."

"I'm totally fine with minor chaos," Eva laughed with a little shake of his head. "The books have nothing on the Bamfs, not really. But I guess Fandom is going to be Fandom, whether I'm used to the weirdness or not."

"That does sound like Fandom," she agreed. At least, it matched up with what everyone was telling her about Fandom.

"So," Yeul said lightly, "where should the grand tour of the library begin?"

"Well... was there anything besides animals you wanted to research? I think you had mentioned something about food, right?"

Cookbooks could be exciting, too!

"Yes," she said slowly, thinking about the question. "Though possibly also modes of transportation. They seem to be similar to my world but that just increases the odds of my making a mistake from assuming they really are."

Evan pursed his lips for a moment at that, and then broke into a little grin.

"I know we have something like that over with the picture books for little kids," he offered. "Which is kind of silly, but it would be the easiest way to get you familiarized with a bunch of vehicles around here. Especially since the island is so small and the most you'll really see in the streets of Fandom Town are rickshaws and the odd scooter."

"And bikes," she said helpfully, since he'd left that one out unless it was another term for scooter. "Ace told me that I could get a bike if I wanted."

As for his idea, it made her smile a bit ruefully. "I guess I am asking for the very basics. Books for children probably would be the easiest to follow."

Even if they would make her feel a bit ridiculous.

"I read kids books sometimes," he confided, nodding back toward the main area of the library so that he could guide her to the children's section. "There's not really any shame in it. I mean, not if you know you can read the heavy stuff, and you do, too, you know? Some of it's pretty fun."

Evan had never met a book he wasn't willing to finish!

... Evan had never been handed books with things that sparkled in them.

He was lucky that way!

She followed after him. "By the sounds of this," Yeul double-checked, "this is a step above just a picture book, right?"

That was preferable by far.

"It has pictures," Evan replied as they walked, "but it has write-ups on what the pictures are of, too. Planes and cars and scooters and bicycles and what they run on and when they were invented and stuff like that. I think there are even pages on skateboards and rollerskates and horses and wagons. It's simple stuff, but it is educational, I promise."

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