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Library, Thursday 1/23

The library was a perfectly reasonable temperature today. Belle was thrilled about this. No need for several layers and there were no tiny swimming pools in sight.

There was, however, a group of gremlins playing cards at several tables that seemed to have been hastily covered in green felt.

If it was casino night (during the day) nobody had bothered to inform Belle!

She turned down an offer to join a game of blackjack and settled in at the desk to keep an eye on the proceedings.

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She's here and not gambling.

Did Graham need a book right now? Who knew! He might! Maybe he didn't know that he needed one until he saw one! But he did know that he had some time today and that Belle was working the library, and so there he was, sweeping in with a jaunt step and a flourish of his cape as he bowed and lifted his hat upon approaching the desk.

"Lovely Lady Librarian Belle," he greeted. "How fares the fair Bastion of Books this week?"

"Sir Knight!" Belle stood to greet him, of course.

"We have a cadre of card-playing cads," she said with a smile and nod in the direction of the gremlins. "But they've yet to cause consternation or calamity. How is my favorite knight?"

The proud grin and the blush across Graham's cheeks were immediate; he didn't think he would ever not be completely and utterly chuffed at being anyone's favorite anything, much less Belle's favorite something, and to have that favorite something be a knight.

"Well, if they do cause any trouble," he informed her valiantly, "I'm sure I can show them how to really shuffle a deck! Only the finest manner will suit this situation!"

He beamed at her then as he added, "And I'm good! Feeling a little restless, and so I figured I'd come see you here at the library! See if you've read any good stories or see what those garrulous gremlins are up to this time! Or just to see how you were doing and to see if you wanted to break or some company for a bit!"

Graham would always be Belle's favorite knight!

"My hero," she told him with a little bow of her head. "I would love company, thank you. I'm always happy to have your company. There may be other decks of cards around here if you'd like to play or we can simply enjoy each other's company."

Not like that! Not in the library, omg.

Graham would never even think such a thing! Well, not on his own, anyway, because he was sweet and pure like a....well, a graham cracker, really.

"Do you know any good card games?" he asked. "I know we have a ton of really interesting and cool ones at the ~Maaaaagpie Empooor~rium," really, the saddest thing about radio was that the full effect of saying it like that, with the wiggling fingers and everything, was really lost over an audio medium, but Belle was getting the full effect of it now, "but I know there's plenty of different variations on your standard deck, too! What kind of card cames did you play back home?"

A cinnamon roll. Too good for this world. Too pure.

"I played a lot of solitaire," Belle admitted. "When I needed a break from reading." Sometimes her eyes got tired, okay? "Do you know good games for two? Or we could chat today and tomorrow I could come to the Magpiiiie Empoorium?"

Aw, Belle, you tried.

"And you could teach me a new game there?"

"Aww," Graham's beam maintained its brightness, "I'd love to have you swing by the Maaaaagpie Empooor~rium," see, Belle? The wiggling fingers made all the difference!, "and we can pick out a fun one to play together there! Great idea, Belle! So I guess that leaves chatting! What should we chat about? How are your classes? Did you do anything interesting last week? What are your thoughts on popcorn and/or jellybean flavor ice cream?"

"Popcorn ice cream?" Belle said. "That doesn't sound terribly appealing to me but I would be willing to taste it."

Belle, where were you last week for Supper Club at the ice cream parlor? Tsk.

"Jellybean though...would that have little jellybeans in the ice cream? That sounds delightful as long as they don't get too hard from being frozen." Breaking a tooth on a jellybean would be so sad and it wasn't like Fandom had a dentist.

"Would it be all flavors? Or just a few? Or just one? What would be the prototypical flavor of jellybean if there were only one?"

Hey, Graham had some dentistry in his bloodline! Maybe he could help!

"It would seem to me," said Graham, delighted that Belle had took his rambling questions and run with them, tapping his chin with his fingers as he thought, "that you wouldn't want to do all the flavors at once, you would need to do them separately, really let them shine on their own! I wonder what goes into something like making ice cream? Zounds, I bet there's a book on it! We should check! And then maybe try to make some this weekend!"

"There must be a book on it," Belle said. "You're right! This library has books on everything."

And an ice cream book was unlikely to be kept in special collections. Probably.

"Cookbooks ought to be this way," she said, pointing. "Let's see what we can find out!"

And if they couldn't find a recipe in a book they had the whole internet to look at. What could possibly go wrong there?

Well, sure, yeah, they could just check the internet, but it was so much more of an adventure looking for a book! And just think of all the other books to ~~totally get distracted by~~ discover along the way!

"Yes!" Graham pumped his fist on excitement. "Let's go! Lead the way," he bowed again, sweeping and arm in a gesture toward where she pointed, "O Libriary Assistance of Great Guidance!"

And as they began to make their way ~~downtown~~, his brain buzzing with ideas, he asked, "If you could make an ice cream out of any flavor ever, what would you make?"

Edited 2025-01-24 02:49 (UTC)

Book adventures were some of the very best adventures!

Belle headed in what was hopefully the direction of cookbooks unless the library stacks had rearranged themselves for unknown reasons.

"I wonder if pancakes and syrup would make a good ice cream?" she mused, running her hand along the spines of some books as she walked down a row. "Perhaps maple flavored with some pancake bits? Although waffle might hold up better..."

Graham had to chuckle a little at that. "Don't let Gray hear you mention affle-ways, or else he might just come bursting through the shelves! But that does sounds really good, Belle! Me, I'm more partial to choco-chip pancakes, as I'm sure you erll know, so I'd throw some choco-chips in there, too, I think!"

"Gray would be welcome to join in our ice cream making adventure! Or in our book finding adventure."

The more the merrier and there were probably blankets somewhere around here if needed.

"And choco-chips sound like a fine idea! Perhaps we could try some with and some without." For science, of course.

If you gamble with gremlins you are taking your life into your own hands.

If he's about.

My kids have taken to playing VERY LOUD games of blackjack in the library and building admin was all "are they allowed to play cards?" And we're going "Yes? They shouldn't be yelling but that's never stopped them before, so."

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