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Library, Friday

The library might have looked a little messy, but every researcher sort of had their own organizational system going now. Billy had stopped to get coffee, tea, and muffins on his way in, and was perfectly happy to make sure the "No Guns in the Library" sign and box were perfectly visible no matter how many books got put back onto the desk for re-shelving.

The researchers were all getting somewhere with their work, but Billy wasn't quite sure if that was going to be enough. Don't mind him if he looked a little stressed.

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"You'll get the joy of knowing you didn't ignore a task that could have saved your island from the clutches of Handsome Jack," Tannis replied just as bluntly. Who had time for decorum, anyway? "As to the second part of your query ––" She held up her own ECHO (http://i.imgur.com/wY88Lvb.jpg). "–– this is more or less what you'd be looking for."

Eh, decorum. It was all very well and good but you couldn't rely on it to get the job done most of the time. Anyway, that answer was just fine for Éponine, who wouldn't argue much with the chance to act in her own interests and do something good. Those two things didn't always line up.

She peered intently at the ECHO for a moment or two, then nodded once she had its appearance memorized to her satisfaction; all of a sudden she seemed much more enthusiastic about this whole proposal.

"Is that what this is about!" she exclaimed. "In that case, if it's things about town that you're looking for, then it's me you want for the job, all right. I know my way about, I do."

"Good." It was! Dr. Tannis hated having too argue with people over pointless things like why people should just do what she said. She fiddled with her own machines for a second, and the printer by the computer in the library began to print out a map of Fandom with the approximate locations of the ECHOs.

"There should be a map printing out for you as I speak," Tannis said. "It's as accurate as I could get it."

"There's a map?" Éponine barked a brief laugh of surprise. "Good lord, that's more than I get to go on most times when people ask me to do things, and isn't it a good thing I can read maps? Otherwise you'd look a bit silly for assuming it."

Someone had not yet learned to refrain from bragging a bit about her ability to read.

"All right, then, three more of your fancy little toys there, you leave that to me. I'll bring them back to --" She paused, considered the screen for a moment, then shrugged. "To you when I've got them, shall I?"

"Well, I do believe I am the person who's most likely to be able to interpret them." Oh Patricia, darling, no one was going to be able to interpret these ECHO recordings. "So yes, please bring them back to me. Although you may listen to them along the way, should you so wish."

Hey, for once they weren't her own private ECHOs she was sending someone out for, so she could actually say that!

It might be worth noting (or a given) that Éponine would have listened to them along the way regardless of permission. Almost subconsciously -- it was so much a habit by now -- she slipped a hand into her pocket and briefly touched the five-franc piece she always kept there.

"Very well, I'll be off now, shall I, and come back with them before you've a chance to get too bored in there," she declared.

Tannis waved her off with a hand.

"Very good, off you go."

So she could focus on making sense of her other readings again.

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