Library, Wednesday, All Day

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Sholeh was thrilled to be back in the library, back to classes, and, best of all, back to human shape again. She was also secretly thrilled not to have been the sister who woke up naked in front of Sparkle and Ulrik (and hadn't yet figured out a way to talk to them and explain anything), though she felt bad that Zhahar had gotten stuck with that instead.

But enough of that. The library had decided to welcome her back by sending out groups of fantasy novels to bother various other parts of the library. Each group had fourteen books at a time in them (which made it hard to get all of them when they scattered) and they kept invading the geology section, the travel section that dealt with famous mountain ranges, and the hobby section--particularly the mountaineering, hiking, and spelunking books.

Sholeh decided it was just better not to even know.

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Mod Your Library

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

Beware wandering fantasy novels!

Talk to Sholeh

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

She can use words again! Yay!

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[reven8e.livejournal.com]

"Hey."

Emily approached the...aide, she supposed, although a really young librarian wouldn't be the weirdest thing she had seen in the island.

"We do have history books in here, right? Of this world." Emily was going to play it as safe as possible.

Re: Talk to Sholeh

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"Hi," Sholeh said, all smiles. Someone to help at the library! Exciting! "We have this Earth's history and many others. They're all in one area, broken down by which reality and then by historical time," she explained, coming out from behind the circulation desk to guide Emily to the history area.

It was totally normal for a library aide to be dressed in Victorian fashions, right?

"Do you have a time period in mind?"

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[reven8e.livejournal.com]

Emily had no time to reply that she had no interest in any other world because hey, she wasn't only young but...very well dressed. A bit too frilly for Emily's taste, but she wore it well. So Emily would just ignore that.

"The last fifteen years of the history of the United States of America. This world only."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Okay, so all modern stuff," Sholeh said with a nod. "That's useful, because it's all the closest books. Oops, watch out!" She pointed to another group of fourteen fantasy novels trundling towards the same section they were. "The books are really fond of some mountain with faces on it. I've had to shoo them out of this one area like three times already."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

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"The books. The books are fans of other books." Were Emily a person with something of a nice sense of humor, she would've let a psychotic laugh right there. But she wasn't, so she just made a mental note on the subject. "And they said libraries are boring."

But to answer Sholeh, who was being nice enough to guide her. "That's probably Mount Rushmore. Should be, at least."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[talentforlying]

"Which one are you?" John asked as he breezed in, shrugging off his trenchcoat. "And do you want to keep your job?"

Meet your new boss, Sholeh. Sorry.

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

Sholeh immediately jumped to attention. "I'm Sho--of course I do!" Sorry, Constantine, but one of those questions was far more important than the other. "Is this about the time I missed because I was a fawn?" she asked, wringing her hands and following him. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be an animal!"

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[talentforlying]

"Bloody hell, girl, don't twitch, you're too young for me to bite," John said, shaking his head as he headed for his office. "A fawn... nine hells, this place is mad."

"Just checking... Sho, you said? I need to make sure the schedule is covered, an' don't want anyone here that hates it so badly they're setting fires or nonsense like that."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Sholeh," she finished, stopping the hand-wringing and playing with some of the ornamentation on her bodice instead. "No, I love working here. It's the best job on the whole island!"

Because Sholeh had clearly experienced so many of those!

"You're not planning on firing me for missing shifts?"

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[talentforlying]

"Can't fire you for shifts you missed when I wasn't in charge, now can I?" John asked, opening his office and tossing his coat on his chair. "'S long as you show up regularly, pet, it's fine. You want to stay on Wednesdays?"

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[myownface]

"Sholeh." Why, was that a somewhat stressed-out Sparkle, making his way into the library with an un-lit cigarette hanging from his mouth and a half-wild look in his eye. "Sholeh! That's you, right? Like, I'm not losing my fucking mind, you're here, you're in one piece, you weren't eaten by like a badger or that weird naked chick or... Where the hell were you?"

Really, she was just lucky that he hadn't grabbed her by the shoulders and started to shake.

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

Honestly, Sholeh had been preparing for that, keeping her shoulders tensed for that eventuality.

"I really don't think I could have been eaten by the badger," she offered, because that was the easiest thing she could answer. "And I haven't seen any weird naked chicks at all."

Nope! Just perfectly normal ones!

She held her arms out for a hug. "But thank you so much for taking care of me."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[myownface]

Sparkle was not a huggy person. He wasn't. Not by any stretch of the imagination. So when he wrapped his arms around Sholeh and clung for a moment for dear life, that was kind of a big deal.

"Of course I took care of you, girlie. Someone had to."

Look, he was maybe a bit protective of her. Even with all of the turning into a badger and threatening to maul him. She was like a kid sister or something.

Re: Talk to Sholeh

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It came from being the youngest of three!

"I'm sorry for all the trouble I caused," she added, face buried in his shoulder. "I didn't mean to be."

That was a nice catch-all, huh?

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[myownface]

"You didn't cause all that much," Sparkle decided, giving her a quick squeeze before easing back. "I mean, I worried. Didn't think I had any reason to worry until the dog turned into that chick in my room."

He wrinkled his nose a little. Whoever that Zhari person was, he still wasn't sorry for punting her out naked into the hall, no.

"Where were you, anyhow?"

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[nomelancholy.livejournal.com]

And right on cue, there was a prince in the library- with hamburgers and fries from the cafe, today, because as worried as he was, he also wasn't one to mess with tradition.

Still, the takeout bag was tossed rather carelessly on the counter once Ulrik actually spotted Sholeh. Marching determinedly over, he took hold of her by the shoulders assuming such dirty moddery is okay and gave her a once-over from head to toe, as if to make sure that all of her was there.

"I brought lunch," he said, trying to sound flippant as he took a step back.

Re: Talk to Sholeh

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Tradition was important.

Sholeh squeaked as his hands clasped over her shoulders because modding is always okay with them, bb, eyes wide. "I'm right here!" she squeaked, since that was what Sparkle had wanted to know. "And okay!"

And then he was releasing her. "And hungry," she assured him. "Hi, Ulrik. Uhh, I'm sorry? For being such a bother."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[nomelancholy.livejournal.com]

"You could never be a bother," he told her firmly, dropping the unconcerned air. "I just needed to be sure for myself that you were all right," he smiled. "Hence the lunch, because if you refused food, well. Something would be very wrong were that the case."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

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"It would!" Sholeh agreed, hand already fishing for a burger. "Growing up, it took my mothers awhile to realize that I needed to eat a lot of little meals throughout the day or else I'd get faint. It was hard to see with my sisters running around, you know? But it would really scare my sisters a lot, so they eventually figured it out."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[nomelancholy.livejournal.com]

"It can be scary," Ulrik agreed, "when you don't understand why something is happening."

Was he talking about Sholeh's metabolism? Or something else entirely?

Talk to the Librarian

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

If he's in!

Re: Talk to the Librarian

[talentforlying]

Of course he was in, he couldn't very well check the wards on the place from home, now could he?

OOC

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