Library, Wednesday

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The books themselves seemed to be fairly well-behaved today in the library. It was the Gem who was acting a bit oddly. One minute she'd be following something around curiously, and then, at the drop of a hat, she'd turn on it and start terrorising it with her teeth.

The books were hiding from her, honestly. Which was an interesting feat in a room that was more book than anything else. But the way she was just hunkering behind the desk come early afternoon, ominously bathed in shadows, was just too much for any one library to deal with today. So the books were noping out on this one and not a single person could blame them.

Give her ten minutes and she'd be up on the desk and singing or something.

[OOC: This event is the event that I have always needed in my heart of hearts. Open, OCD-free, and spamming that random icon button for all it's worth today!]

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Did Summer suddenly have, like, mega-muscles? It looked like Summer suddenly had mega-muscles. And she was definitely totally pumped up.

"I'll tell you what I'm gonna do," she said, her voice suddenly a bit lower and rougher than two seconds ago. She balled up one hand into a fist and pounded into the palm of her other hand. "I'm gonna take those books, and I'm gonna wrangle them into submission. I'll put 'em in a headlock, a choke slam, and knock out if I have to. I don't know what I'll have to resort to. That's up to the books. But you better believe they're gonna know who's boss."

She felt particularly inclined to beat up anything about Hitler, right-wing conservative religious values, playground bullies, and people who were mean to dogs.

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"That'll--"

Peridot would have said more, but she immediately tripped over her own feet on her way around the desk and mostly just wound up planting her face into the floor.

She was totally graceful like that.

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"Peridot?"

Overwhelmed by the sudden fall of her friend, Summer suddenly couldn't stop leaking tears, her mascara running all down her face, as she was overwhelmed with a sense of hopelessness and loss. She should have tried to catch her or something, but she was just so helpless.

"Ohmygod, are you okay? Peridot?"

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Not unlike a cat, Peridot rolled over again, pulled herself to her feet, and gave a sly grin in Summer's direction.

"Absolutely. I meant to do that."

She really hadn't, but she couldn't help but feel proud of that unbelievable faceplant that she just totally rocked right into the floor like a champ.

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"Oh, good," said Summer, relieved. "Because that looked bad. Like, real bad--"

Anything else Summer might have said was put on hold, as a musical little voice seemed to call her name from above, and suddenly, Tinkles, the fluffy little lamb fairy that existed as a manifestation of Summer's imagination from a mind-manipulating alien parasite, floated down from the ceiling, leaving a sprinkle of stars and rainbows and glitter.

"Suuuummmer," she called, sing-song and giggling, floating down to grab Summer's hand and try to pull her up with her. "Let's go play, Summer!"

"Not now, Tinkles! I have to return this book to Peridot first!"

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"What, so that it can just run off and join all of the other books?" Peridot scoffed, her lip curling a little at the scene set out before her. "Do you have any idea how pointless that is? And you're getting glitter and stars on the floor. Who do you think has to clean all of that up, you clods?"

It didn't even occur to her to ask what the flying thing was or why it was here. She was just hell-bent on being absolutely disgusted by it.

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As you should be, Peridot. As you should.

Thankfully, Tinkles just kind of...disappeared (although it seemed she left the glitter and stars behind), and Summer just scoffed, folding her arms in front of her and responding to Peridot in kind. "Oh, because it'll be so hard to clean up. If it's really that much of a problem, Peridot, I can help you out. Clearly, you're going to need it, considering you can't even keep books on the shelves at a library."

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"Well, maybe I don't want the books to be on the shelves," Peridot shot back. "Do you see how high up they go? Look at me, Summer! I can barely even push a ladder!"

Tall people were THE WORST.

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It's true. Peridot was short, which might have been a little sad at that moment if it wasn't just so damn adorable. Summer went all soft inside.

"You're right," she said, "you're just so tiny and cute, and, ohmygod, come here."

She opened her arms and moved in for something Peridot was sure to love, a hug. A nice, big, somewhat cuddly hug.

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Well... that was... unexpected. Unexpected and new and not entirely unwelcome, if Peridot was being completely honest with herself. She let Summer pull her into that hug, and kind of found herself clinging right back, actually quivering a little with pent-up emotion.

"It's just so hard," she said, holding on for dear life, "when it's so obvious that nothing is for you."


[ooc: I SWEAR TO GOD THIS IS ACTUALLY WHAT THE ICON SELECTOR PICKED.]

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"Nothing?" Summer pulled back a little, somewhat shocked to hear such things, her big wide eyes trying to implore poor little Peridot, even if she had to then bend her knees a little to do it better. "How can you say that? That can't be true!"

Her brain tried to do a little quick work. "What about, uh, miniature ponies? Or, um, step stools. Step stools are one-hundred percent made for you."

[[DW SHIPS IT]]

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"Well..." Peridot squinted a little, considering Summer's logic. "The step stools are, yes. I've used them in a few classes when the desks are far too high up. But miniature ponies?"

Out of nowhere, one of her old flask robonoids crawled up to perch on her shoulder. She paid it no attention, even though all of her robonoids had been destroyed months ago. Poor little miracle robonoid, getting so sadly ignored.

"I don't even know what those are."

Ponies: Way more interesting than ronoboids.

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And now this is where things got really weird. Because magical lamb fairies and miracle robonoids were one thing, but now Summer randomly had a blanket she was clinging to as if terrified. Of horses. Of ponies. Of miniature ponies.

What fresh hell was this?

"Ohmygod," Summer whispered, in tones of horror that should have been tones of squealing and excitement. "Miniature ponies are these little, tiny horses. They'd be like a regular horse, but Peridot size. With their little hooves and their little legs, and sometimes they have really long manes that fall over their big, beautiful eyes..."

She could barely suppress a shudder.

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And at that, Peridot was utterly enraptured. A little stunned, perhaps, mostly about the sudden blanket, but enraptured all the same.

"I don't know what a regular horse is, either," she replied, her voice a hushed whisper, "but I do like things with big eyes."

So expressive. So... big.

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Me, too," Summer agreed, contradicting her horse-phobic self if two seconds ago. "But do you know what else I love?"

Inexpicably, there was a table with a clouche in front of her, and she pulled up the dome to reveal....

"Tacos! I made them myself."

Okay, what. The. HELL. A small part of Summer's brain was starting to think something seriously weird was up, because now things were just getting silly.

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Peridot flinched a little, crouched down a bit, and looked generally overwhelmed by the whole situation.

"I don't know what tacos are, either!"

And this was a disaster!

Not that she couldn't just look at the tacos to find out, true enough, but at the moment she was just so stressed out by her ignorance that she really couldn't even muster that much.

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"It's just tacos, Peridot, calm down," said Summer, having a seat st the table
"Meat and cheese and salsa wrapped deliciously in a tortilla. Just try some."

Only when Summer went to try some herself, she found the tacos had become something else.

"Uh, never mind. This is actually breakfast. And not breakfast tacos, though those are also delicious."

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"I don't want to try breakfast," Peridot replied, brow furrowing stubbornly as she looked up from her little panic-crouch. "I'm a Gem! Gems don't eat!"

Well. Some could. Generally the ones who could shapeshift a digestive system for themselves.

Peridot was not one of those Gems.

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"God," Summer frowned, "sorry. Forget I even asked."

She wasn't going to let cranky pants over here ruin her very persistent random breakfast, though.

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"Okay then, I--"

Please hold, Summer. Apparently Peridot was on a spaceship and was in pilot mode, now.

"I--"

Why there was a spaceship in the library was anybody's best guess. Unless they were both out in space somewhere. Peridot paused for a moment, mentally re-adjusting to check the controls.

"... I guess I'm driving the library. You go ahead and eat your breakfast."

Fandom, why did you have to be like this?

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"Awww, I didn't know you could drive a spaceship," said Summer, with a bit of an adoring smile to match. A spaceship that was also a library, but her belly was full of tasty breakfast, which apparently put her in a happy mood.

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"Of course I can," Peridot replied as the library returned to normal around them, freeing up her hands again. She looked at one, perplexed. "I'm a Peridot."

She hesitated before kind of hedging, "That was weird, right?"

Pick any part of it, Summer. Go on.

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"Yeah." Oh, no. Summer had gone all melty again,her adoring smile sharpening in one corner to a smirk. She didn't have a book to fondle, she definitely didn't have a breakfast to play with, so she had to resort to shyly tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. She was about two seconds away from a giggle, too. A giggle! "Super weird. Man, things are always just so interesting with you, Peridot...I kinda like it."

Where those fluttering eyelashes? MAAAYBE.

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Yeah, DW was apparently super shipping it.

Peridot looked up at Summer at that, eyes wide.

"They are?" She paused, and then added, hesitantly, "You do?"

Was... was the human flirting with her?

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"Well, duh." Grunting slightly, Summer went through another breakneck shift and rolled her eyes, popping a hip as one of her hands met it. "Of course I do. You're only, like, one of the most unique people on this island. Like, I've been to a bunch of different planets and universes and dimensions, and you still manage to be super fascinating and adorable. Obviously."