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Library, Thursday 9/19

There were so many pirate books set out in the library today.

That was fine. Belle was happy to peruse some adventures on the high seas!

There was also a gremlin throwing a football.

"Absolutely not," Belle said firmly. "We do not play ball in the library. Because it is a library!"

The gremlin looked shocked. Belle just glared it into submission before picking up what looked like a thrilling (and perhaps spicy) pirate novel.

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In a pirate-y fashion maybe?

Eleanor wasn't really here for pirates, and she didn't really need much help since she was pretty familiar with perusing the poetry sections of the library already, but she did figure she would at least offer today's library assistant a small smile and a wave.

"Hi, Belle," she said. "How are you today?"

The pirates were here for Eleanor if she needed them though!

"Glad the ball throwing has stopped," Belle said with a roll of her eyes. "And not entirely certain why there are so many pirate books today but they seem fun. And you, Eleanor?"

Which didn't exactly sound very pirate-like of them, but she may be suckered into a book or two if there were any good deep sea monsters or sirens in any of them...

"Really good, actually," Eleanor responded, with a wistful sort of wonderment over just how true that was. She smiled and held up a neat list of names from some of the preliminary research she'd done on her phone. "Just coming in to look for a few poets. Was someone really throwing a ball in here?"

She'd encountered a lot of crazy stuff in her life, sure, but this was a library!

"A gremlin was throwing a ball," Belle said with a sigh.

It probably jumped on some shelves too. They were just like that for unknown reasons.

"I'm glad you're doing well. Did you need help looking for anything? I don't think the poetry section has moved itself recently." But you never knew.

Eleanor was now sending a worried glance toward the poetry section, at least where it had always been any time she'd been in.

"I'll come and ask for help if I need it," she assured Belle with a nod, "but I hope it won't be difficult to find them. I might need to dig up some translation dictionaries, too, if they're not in English, but I feel like this place almost always has those bases covered."

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Sometimes the library liked to rearrange things for funsies. The library was weird.

"Is this for a project?" Belle asked. "Or just to find something new to read? I don't read poetry very often but I do enjoy it when I do."

"I guess you could call it a personal project," Eleanor said, her smile just a touch sheepish, a little mottled green in her skin with her blush. "I wanted to see if we had some works by Pakistani poets. But they're mostly written in Urdu, I think, so if we don't have English translations...or French, maybe...I'll have to translate them myself."

After a brief spark of a thought, she add, "Maybe will get the language books, too, anyway. It probably wouldn't hurt to try and learn."

How impressed would Kamala's parents be if the next thank you note was even written in Urdu? Eleanor was pretty sure she'd be set for life with them, at that point.

Aww, Eleanor, that was adorable!

Belle smiled brightly.

"Oh, I'm sure we must have some," Belle said. "This library always seems to have everything we could want."

Imagine how big their purchasing budget must be!

"The language books ought to be that way," she said, pointing. "And I know there are ways to practice new languages on phones as well."

Eleanor nodded a little. "I was planning on my phone being able to help me out with pronunciation a lot," she admitted. "It's amazing, isn't it? Everything we can do on such tiny little things? I wouldn't even know where to start if I couldn't just look up some stuff on my phone like this."

"We had nothing like it where I'm from."

But they did have magic beans that made portals. Weird place.

"But it's so wonderful having so much information avaliable!"

Nerd.

"I don't know how I could possibly have managed here without one."

"I don't even think anyone back home would be able to think something like them could ever actually exist."

Back home being the 1970s, and not the 1960s, it was totally the '70s this whole time, someone absolutely did not realize how much they messed up the math literally the other day, perish the thought, doo doo doo.

"And I know things would be a lot different for me without one now, too."

Not even just for information! The mere existence of texted messages had sent her social life into an unexpected trajectory that might have never been reached if not for them!

"I'm not certain anyone at home would believe me about many things that exist here."

Mostly technology, really. Possibly aliens?

"The phones are truly wonderful though. I'd hate to have to give one up to go home."

The home she hadn't visited even once since getting here. Don't worry about it.

Do NOT throw a football.

If he's about. Maybe he's got rum?

Football RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES yesterday. The shocked Pikachu faces I got when I told them no.

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