Fandom Library, Wednesday, January 14th

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

The library wasn't as weirdly quiet as it had been last week, for which Arden was grateful for. She didn't know if whatever it had been had run its course, or been thwarted, or something else had happened, but it hadn't happened on her shift, and for that, she was grateful.

As for this week, the castle made of books she passed on her way to the circulation desk? Didn't even rate a mention on the weirdness scale.

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Ah yes, that dangerous behavior: cheer. It was a good thing he was meeting her in the library, otherwise she might have moved up to the terrifying aspect of chipper.

"Okay, so all these little pictures here are icons, and they all represent a different application on you phone, and do different things. This one is what you press to make a phone call, which means you speak to another person in real time, no matter how distant the two of you are now. Whether on the other side of the ocean or the world, you can have a conversation much like we are now. Normally, with a phone call, you just get their voice, but you can also choose to make video calls, where you can see and hear them."

She went over phone numbers and how they were needed to reach other people's phones, and then swiped away from the phone app and pulled up the one for texting. "Instead of a conversation, this is like leaving quick, informal notes to one another, but again, they're sent and received from anywhere." Then to his camera apps, his calendar app, and hey! Google Chrome. "This brings you to the internet," she said. "The sum of pretty much all human human knowledge and, unfortunately, a whole bunch of its stupidity as well. Have you learned about the internet?"

[sairis]

Look, it was weird when people were nice! Sairis hadn't ever seen it and didn't know what to do with it!

"So far, I have learned it's the sum of pretty much all human knowledge and, unfortunately, a whole bunch of its stupidity as well," Sairis quoted wryly back at her.

So, no.

This was all pretty amazing already, though.

"So the texting is like sending mail back and forth, and the phone is like mirror-spying, only two-way, and the internet is like...a really large library and archive?"