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Library, Saturday

When the portal had opened up on the way to Zhahar's work, the sisters hadn't even paused to discuss it. Zhahar was diving through as Zeela and Sholeh cheered inside her head, Zeela effortlessly taking the body as they rolled out onto the warm expanse of Fandom lawn. As soon as she ascertained that there was no danger (always a possibility with Fandom), she'd given the body to Sholeh who was practically vibrating with excitement. There was really only one place for Sholeh to go. The library had been her favorite place in Fandom, even more 'hers' than their dorm room had been. It just felt right to head back there.

And when the books clustered around her and greeted her like an old friend, she knew she'd made the right choice.

Oh, it felt so lovely to be back!

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"Making yourself at home in a place where... I'm guessing you spent a fair bit of time?" Elsa's answering smile was gentle, and she waved off the gesture easily. "I understand how it is. I've missed the library, myself, but I'm going to be here to open it for the foreseeable future. You can keep the seat, if you like."

Elsa was generous that way! She looked around for a moment, and then reached to pull a second chair over to the desk.

"This really is the best spot on the island, anyway."

"It really is, isn't it?" Sholeh said, giving Elsa a happy smile. "We're here for the--well, I'm certain something's happening this weekend. They generally don't send portals out for nothing, right?"

*Why don't you introduce us?* Zhahar prodded. *Since she's letting you stay and all.*

::Oh, right!::

"I'm sorry, you must be wondering if we left our manners back on the other side of the portal! I'm Sholeh. Sholeh Zeela a Zhahar. It's very nice to meet another book-lover! And even moreso one who is willing to share her shift!"

The 'we' was an interesting choice of words, though Elsa mostly just figured it was some sort of quirk that was possibly regional. 'Sholeh' wasn't any sort of name that she was familiar with, after all.

"It's a pleasure," Elsa replied, giving a polite little curtsy. "I'm Elsa, of Arendelle. And the fact that the books can't seem to leave you alone is really quite the endorsement, I think."

A few were gathering around Elsa, too. She'd been gone for a while, and they had started to wonder if she was ever going to come back. THEIR LADIES WERE HERE AGAIN.

Sholeh leaned down and picked one up, putting it in her lap and stroking its spine much like she would a kitten. "I miss them all dreadfully," Sholeh admitted. "The books back home don't have such personality! At least, not that you can find outside the pages."

"Where I'm from, the books at least need me to be the one to pick them up before we can curl up to spend some time together," Elsa laughed, softly. "This is a pleasant change of pace. It's always nice when a book can show that it appreciates you as much as you appreciate it."

"Exactly," Sholeh said, smile growing bigger. "It makes you forget how big this library is because it feels so warm and welcoming. The school I'm at now has a library, too; much smaller but so imposing. We always feel as if we're intruding when we step inside."

"My family has a library," Elsa replied, nodding her agreement. "It's got a very different feel to it than the one here. And the books there are... far less varied. There are topics here that I hadn't even dreamed could exist."

"I know," Sholeh agreed with a nod so enthusiastic her curls bounced. "I tried to read as many different books as I could and barely made a dent! And that doesn't even include all the books I couldn't make heads or tails of and so didn't even try. Fandom is so much...more than where we're from! It has books on concepts that I doubt ever will exist back there."

"And there's not nearly enough time to catch up on it all," Elsa enthused. "I would love to bring copies of all of this home with me, but I really don't think we have that kind of room."

The whole castle couldn't hold a hope of even containing a fraction of special collections alone, really.

"And it doesn't matter how much you read or how quickly, because just as soon as you've finished one stack, there are two stacks of new books to be cataloged and shelved!" Ahh, a kindred spirit! Though Sholeh didn't understand why anyone would work here if they weren't. "It's both inspiring and disheartening at the same time."

"It is a bit of both, isn't it? And some people might say that it would be easier if we just narrowed down what it is we want to read about, but how in the world are we supposed to do that when everything is just so.... so..."

Elsa waved her fingers around a bit. Eloquence was failing her on this particular topic.

"So interesting?" Sholeh supplied. "I mean, if we limited it to only what we wanted to read, then we'd be limiting ourselves to what we already know! And that's the wonder of the library! You get to discover new things to love that you never knew existed before!"

"I sometimes," Elsa shared, leaning in and dropping her voice down low and conspiratorial, "start walking down a random aisle and close my eyes to pick a book. Or decide to read whatever the first thing is to come through the return slot that day."

"Ooooh, that's brilliant!" Sholeh said, all approval. "I used pick out random letters and then choose a topic that started with that letter and find a book like that." She smiled conspiratorially at Elsa. "I was the worst at shelving books once they were returned. I could always be found in the corner somewhere, a stack of books by my feet, reading through them!"

"Well, they're meant to be read," Elsa reasoned. "I personally don't see anything the matter with doing just that."

These two would have been wonderful, terrible friends, had they existed on the island at the same time.

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