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Sholeh was doing her best to maintain a calm facade for the patrons of the library. No one was going to benefit from a panicky library aide. No, she needed to be composed, collected, and helpful. The library was where people came to figure out solutions, not see a ninny hiding under her desk with her pinafore over her head.

So Sholeh set to work, straightening the research tables and tidying the books. The ones that had been deemed useless were put away, the ones that had seemed useful were set to the side, and another armload were brought down for people to look through for clues. She taped a few sheets of paper to the circulation desk for people to make notes that everyone could read. It was all well and good for someone to have the answer written down somewhere, but it wouldn't do anyone else any good if it wasn't disseminated properly.

The flying creature that was roosting on the bookcase squawked at her several times, but a few dark glares from Evan had it quieting down. He'd been sticking to her closer than her own shadow for the past several days and with all the sharp-toothed creatures lumbering about, Sholeh couldn't quite say she minded.

And--rats! Now her nose was bleeding again. There really was no rest for the weary.

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Jeff jerked his head off the table and stared at the book. "DUDE!!!"

He blinked a few more times, a grin slowly spreading across his face. "Duuuuuuuuude!!! Cosette, you beautiful, beautiful girl! I could kiss you! You are magical and special and wonderful and... and pie!"

Cosette, under normal, non-AU circumstances, would have been blushing half to death. As it was, she only laughed and said playfully, "That's a bit forward of you, but perhaps later."

So much mortification later. So much. But she was nothing if not practical either way, so first things first.

"You got a closer look at it, didn't you? This is the same machine, isn't it?"

[OOC: Aaaaaaaack sorry I didn't realize I'd missed this!]

Jeff gestured at the image of the machine spinning in the air above him. "Well, technically, it could be a remarkable coincidence. Or an alternate-universe version of the machine that doesn't do the same thing. But... my money's on hell yes."

He got up and closed the distance between them, so she could get a better view of his holo while he peered at the book. "So... Huh. This guy stole the weather machine from ancient Fandom?"

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"Seems like," said Cosette with a deliberately casual shrug; there were a lot of unfamiliar words in the book and she couldn't be sure she understood everything perfectly. "I don't know why, though. It seems an odd reaction to a sick child, unless he hoped to sell it for medicine."

Her skeptical tone suggested she doubted that.

"Well, the machine's causing all our mess," Jeff mused. "If he knew how to actually control it... he could swap her out for a version who never got sick."

And that was a machine her "caretakers" never ought to get a hold of. Good thing they most likely wouldn't.

Cosette chewed on her lower lip for a few moments, considering, then huffed. "And leave us with a fine old mess to deal with! I'm not so sure he knows how to control it, if all this is any indication."

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