Library, Thursday

[genesishero]

Yes, Evan knew that there still weren't any classes this week. Evan was also really pretty ready to get back to classes, and knowing that there would be new students -and a new librarian- here the day after tomorrow had him pretty excited for the coming semester. And that was why he'd stopped by for his usual shift today, to make certain that everything was in order for the start of the spring semester and any new kids that might want to wander through, and to make the transition into working in this particular library as smooth as possible for the new librarian.

Mostly, since the island had been so quiet over the break, this meant watching the books in the children's section play leapfrog over one another, just to be sure they didn't wander too far away for him to put back on the shelf before the end of his shift.

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Re: Talk to Evan

[genesishero]

"Hello, Yeul," Evan replied, smiling up from the leapfrogging books just as he was about to ask them if maybe they wanted to play ring-around-the-rosie next, just to mix things up. "The journey wasn't to come and see if the books were playing games, was it?"

He wasn't always the best at guessing games.

Re: Talk to Evan

[pulseof_life]

"It wasn't!" she laughed. "That would have been quite a guess to make though. How would someone know?"

Re: Talk to Evan

[genesishero]

"Maybe they're just really lucky," Evan suggested, looking thoughtful for a moment. "But it really isn't much of a stretch, in here. They seem to like doing things that books don't normally do, after all."

Re: Talk to Evan

[pulseof_life]

"That might make it harder," Yeul offered. "Because there are more things that they could be doing than just being books."

All book-like and such.

"But my question did not revolve around books." She shrugged slightly, looking amused. "All I had to do was wonder where I might find Evan on a Thursday and the question formed just like that. 'Would he be in the library?' which while likely, still had the chance of being wrong."

Seeing as school was out and all.

Re: Talk to Evan

[genesishero]

"Well, I really don't have many other places to be on a Thursday," Evan noted with a little smile. "School is out, but the library is the only job I've got, and while there's plenty of outside out there, there's not really much catch to be played or anything while it's still winter out there."

He tilted his head for a moment, thinking.

"I guess I could make a snowman or something. But the books are pretty interesting all on their own, even when they aren't playing games."

Re: Talk to Evan

[pulseof_life]

"There's a bookstore in town," she said lightly. "You could have been there. I thought of checking so that I could stop by the Perk for a drink but, on reflection, thought here was more likely."

It had been, so Yeul felt like that counted as a victory of some sort.

"Have the books been playing all day?"

Re: Talk to Evan

[genesishero]

"Most of it!" And what a day it had been. So, so much leapfrog. "I think they've been bored too, with everyone on vacation. And... you know, I haven't actually been to the bookstore yet? I mean, I know it's there, but the library has so many books for me to work through already, and they're all free!"

Free was a much more affordable price for a kid whose part-time job involved giving pep-talks to self-help books.