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Library, Saturday

You know what was really fun when the island started thumping and shaking? Having sensory organs that were highly sensitive to vibrations.

Ahsoka was not a happy little Togruta when she opened the library today.

She also set up the tables in the middle and broke into that stash of library caf in the hopes it would summon people trying to fix this.

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On Tip's first trip outside today, she'd learned about the enormous rabbits. On her second, she'd learned that enormous rabbits were just close enough to Boov to be affected by the "comasleep" setting on her gun, though not for very long. ("Tummy trouble" did nothing, and she wasn't about to set it to "erase" without much more of a reason for it.)

On her third, she headed for the library. And went looking for books on Leporidae. She seemed to remember "lepus" as a name for giant bunny rabbits. . . .

Kenzi was talking on her phone (http://nookiepowered.livejournal.com/707.html?thread=486083#t486083), then hanging up with a disgruntled sigh. "Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies," she said, like it was a curse. "Was anyone expecting this?" She kind of felt like they'd deserved more warning than this.

"If they did, they kept it real close to their chest," Tip grumbled. "I'm guessing this isn't a regular Easter thing?"

"If it is, I slept through it the last whatever-many years." Which, not impossible if she'd been hungover, but man. "I think there were cute tiny bunnies that gave you hugs one year, but nothing like this. Ugh." She frowned at the girl and said, "I'm Kenzi, I don't think I've run into you before."

"Gratuity," Tip said, offering her hand. "I spend most of my time at the school. Or the post office, I guess."

Kenzi snapped her fingers at that, and reached out to shake her hand. "Yeah, that's it, I think I saw you one time when I went in for stamps or something. I work at Caritas on Mondays. And Luke's on Wednesdays. Makes sense I haven't seen you around before." She sighed and looked at Gratuity's book contemplatively. "No luck in the books yet, hunh?"

"I've learned a lot more about the life style of the snowshoe hare than I ever knew before," Tip said. "And found something about a 'prince of a thousand enemies'. But no."

"Prince of a thousand.. oh. Right. Everything wants to eat it." Kenzi considered that then observed, "Bringing in giant wolves does not seem like a good answer here. Or giant foxes. Or giant-any-other-predators."

"The island's a little full of mega-fauna as it is," Tip agreed. "You've been here awhile, right? I mean, in Fandom."

"Graduate of the class of '13," Kenzi confirmed, then clarified, "2013. So yeah. I mean, I've seen lots worse than this, but still. Would be nice if we knew what to do, other than go out there with swords and bazookas." She smiled a little. "Were you around last semester? Or is this your first encounter with random stuff showing up?"

"You mean for the evil creepy non-doubles?" Tip asked. "Yeah, I was here for that. And got turned into a pony this summer. I have a gun -- sort of a raygun kind of thing? It can knock them out for a few seconds, but I don't want to use the more powerful setting on them unless I really have to. That . . . tends to do a lot of damage. And it'd be really bad if I missed."

"Preach," Kenzi said fervently. She gave the books a look of non-enthusiasm, then admitted, "Finding a way to stop it is probably better. And the answers have just about always turned up here, at least partly." She picked up one of the books in resignation. "If you see any in Russian, shoot them over to me."

"You read Russian?" Tip asked. "Cool."

"Yeah, my family emigrated from there to Canada when I was five." She looked up from the book she had, smiling a little. And putting off the evil moment of Research. "You're from around now, right? Is your world more magic-ky or science-y?"

"Um," said Tip. "Sciencey, I guess? My world got colonized by aliens about four years ago."

"Thaaaat would explain your special gun, yeah." Duh, Kenzi. She felt like smacking herself with the book. "Wait, colonized? Tell me they wanted the oceans and not the surface. Lie if you have to."

"The Boov are amphibious," Tip said, smiling faintly. "But no. We had to talk them into a deal so they'd take over Titan instead of Earth."

Kenzi gave her a dismayed look. "I don't know whether to be glad they're not still taking over your world or freaked out that it was that close. As well as disappointed we won't be building roller-coasters on Titan. Things are better now, though? Yes? And you got a space gun out of it, I guess."

"And a space car," Tip said. "And a space best friend." Bill lifted off of her hair and made bubble designs above her head. "And a space billboard," she added, looking up at him with a smile. "And humans won't, but the Boov tube system is basically the same thing. Only there are no cars or safety bars or anything. . . ."

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