Library, Sunday

[genesishero]

If anyone needed Evan today, they would have a little bit of spelunking to do. He'd come in to the library and immediately made his way into the stacks. He was going to hunt down mis-shelved books, that was what he was going to spend his way doing. Just looking over books. Alphabetizing. Mindless busywork.

And maybe hiding. A little.

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Mod the Library!

[genesishero]

It might actually be easier than hunting down the aide today.

Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

He's in there somewhere!

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

So...apparently Evan didn't live in his room anymore. Sholeh had discovered that yesterday when she'd gone looking for him for...reasons. Three small reasons in one small body.

Fortunately, she knew where to find him today. Err. Generally. He seemed to be a little...not findable here, too. Was he avoiding her?

"Evan?" Sholeh called. "Hello? Are you here?"

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

Evan was completely not here, curled up somewhere in the back of the stacks with Ozzy, because it wasn't like he knew what was up with his room assignments right now - his first guess wouldn't even have been 'Fandom weirdness,' which was unfortunately the case - and so he really had nowhere else to put him.

Sholeh's voice did have him grudgingly looking up, though. And half-contemplating trying to make a break for it through Special Collections, though he was pretty sure Mr. Constantine wouldn't have appreciated that, though.

Unfortunately, there wasn't much of a chance to go for the grand escape, because there Ozzy went, tearing off through the shelves to say hello.

Traitor.

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3kidsalltrouble.livejournal.com]

"Ozzy!"

The child at Sholeh's side knew how to behave in libraries, of course. No child of Mom and Dad's possibly wouldn't (even though Ma and Pop liked to try to convince them otherwise, just to tweak Dad's nose). But some exceptions needed to be made when a much littler Ozzy came dashing through the library to play.

And so Merry was squealing in delight and running off to meet him. "Hi, Ozzy! Hi! You're so tiny!"

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

Ozzy totally hadn't gotten the rule about libraries, so please pardon the excited barking and wiggling that was happening while Evan contemplated trying to squeeze himself under one of the shelving units. A little kid? Sholeh came in here with a little kid?

Didn't she understand that he was doomed? And going to take everyone close to him out in a blaze of fire and horror and and and...

Evan wasn't having a great weekend.

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Why don't you play with Ozzy for a little while while I go find your, umm...papa?" Sholeh suggested.

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3kidsalltrouble.livejournal.com]

"No, Dad is Dad," Merry explained, Very Srs. "Pop used to be Papa, but only because we were little. Now he's Pop. And not Pa, cause he said that's a dumb name only backwoods hicks would use and what is this, the 30's?"

To Evan. Who had been advocating for Pa, obviously.

Re: Talk to Evan!

[pulseof_life]

"Evan?" Yeul called peering into the library. Two children peered in with her. "Evan, are you there?"

Not seeing him, Yeul shooed the children into the library and followed them.

"Evan?"

She was looking for Sholeh, really, but on a weekend like this... it was a simple guess to think that Sholeh might be where he was.

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3kidsalltrouble.livejournal.com]

"Hi-hi!" Merry said, snuggling a cheerful Ozzy in her arms. "Are you here to find my dad? Hi, I'm Merry!" Inspiration struck right then. "And I'm a junior librarian!"

Re: Talk to Evan!

[pulseof_life]

"Are you?" Yeul laughed softly, clapping her hands together. "I am sure you're a very good junior librarian. I'm Yeul. Have you seen your dad around?"

Re: Talk to Evan!

[fiery-cool.livejournal.com]

"We're really looking for Mom," Flicker said, giving the girl a doubtful look. "Have you seen our Mom? And are you really a librarian? Aren't you too small?"

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3kidsalltrouble.livejournal.com]

"Well, your mom's not here," Merry said, making a face. "The only people here are my mom and dad."

So take that, doubter face.

"And I'm no smaller'n you. Are you saying you couldn't be a librarian?"

Jackie might have taken after Ma the most, but Merry had flashes of her, too, when warranted.

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[fiery-cool.livejournal.com]

"I don't want to be one," Flicker said haughtily. "That's boring."

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

"Around here," Evan called, feeling slightly better and a little more up to dealing with other people, now that there were tiny children here who apparently didn't loathe him. "I'm in the... um..."

The stacks, with all the books. It was a good place to hidey-hole, was the thing.

"Cookbooks?"

Re: Talk to Evan!

[pulseof_life]

Yeul made her way over to the cookbooks, leaving the children to their own devices.

"Hello Evan," she said, once she'd found him. "This is not where you usually are during your shift. Have the children driven you to hiding?"

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

"Something like that," he murmured, nodding a little. "The one I met yesterday was really angry at me for something that... some future me did. In the future. In a future."

Possibly his. Most probably not.

Re: Talk to Evan!

[fiery-cool.livejournal.com]

Did you know serious conversations were hard to have with kids around, Evan? Because they were hard to have with kids around.

"Hi, Uncle Evan!" Shard said, having followed Mom. "You're so little right now! Are you feeling okay?"

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

An important lesson to learn! Evan blinked up at the boy and gave him a tiny smile.

"I've been better," he admitted. And he certainly felt small, right then. "But I'll... be fine."

He wasn't completely convinced. But he could smile for the tiny child. That, he could do.

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

Eventually, Sholeh found her way out of the stacks as well. "Yeul!" she said, smiling at her friend. "You're here, too? How lovely!" She noticed the children standing with her and gave a sympathetic smile. "You got some visitors, too?"

Re: Talk to Evan!

[fiery-cool.livejournal.com]

Oh Sholeh, Sholeh, Sholeh.

"MOM!" shrieked Flicker, who promptly flung herself in Sholeh's direction for a hug. "The mean girl said you weren't here!"

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

Sholeh caught the child more out of reflex than conscious design. 'Mom?' she mouthed over the little girl's head towards Yeul.

...She hadn't been expecting this. To be fair, she hadn't been expecting the a Wade Tryad, either, but at least that made sense in the grand scheme of things. These children? These children did not make sense!

But there was no denying this hug and the excited child who was giving it. "Mean girl? What mean girl?"

Had Jackie come out while Sholeh was in the stacks?

Re: Talk to Evan!

[fiery-cool.livejournal.com]

Yeul shrugged and smiled helplessly, raising her hands to say that she didn't know either. It wasn't possible in her world!

"I don't know," Flicker said, clinging a little. "She said she was a junior librarian and her name was something silly," pot, kettle, "and now Shard's talking to her because he's a traitor."

Talk to the Librarian!

[genesishero]

If he's around, he's likely easier to find than Evan, today.

OOC!

[genesishero]

The wind is trying to carry us awaaaay.