Library [06/21]

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Rory curled up behind the desk, alternating her attention between a copy of the summer newsletter and a list of things to remember for the shower that evening.

['Tis summer, so no OCD]

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"Oh!" Rory said, realizing. "Right, because Tyler might blow up the books."

She paused. "Are there any tranq guns around?"

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"No blowing up books!" Willow said. She looked like she might rip somebody's arms off with her bare hands if that happened. "Though I don't know about here. My old library came equipped with one, but that's where we kept the weapons anyway."

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"Hmm. The weapons locker is...you know, I have no idea where it is," Rory said thoughtfully. "But it's not here. Though that'd be handy, considering SC and all."

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"Near the gun range," Willow said. "Peter keeps his sword there. He's going to make a place for people to play with their swords and not worry about stabbing people. Assuming they don't want to stab people, I guess. Not really sure why you'd have the sword unless stabbing was somehow in your future."

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"I used to fence and I'm trying to get back into it, so maybe I'll talk to him about it," Rory considered. "Though all the stuff I use has rounded tips so I can't stab people. Well, I can, but it wouldn't do a whole lot except poke at them."

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"Which would hurt if you got them in the eye," Willow pointed out, a bit cheerfully.

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"And it does," Rory replied, just as cheerfully. "Which is why most people wear the masks. Though they're fun anyway because you can pretend you're a beekeeper."

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"I always thought it'd be fun to walk around with one of those smoke containers," Willow said, miming it. "Not necessarily to try to wrangle bees, but just because it looked very soothing."

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"I don't like bees much," Rory said, "but yeah, very soothing. Like incense or something."

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"I just like watching the smoke," Willow said. "The smell I could take or leave, but I've been trying to improve my spellwork in that area. No reason why every form of magic has to stink like eye of newt. No offense to the newts."

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"I would imagine that eye of pretty much anything would smell bad," Rory said sagely.

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"Eye of mint would probably smell very nice, but then you've got herbs staring at you and you'd feel so much more guilty for making ice cream out of them," Willow said.

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"Well, and mint doesn't have eyes, so that would be weird. I bet there's a dimension where mint has eyes," Rory speculated.

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"There's probably a dimension where mint has taken over the world," Willow said. "Like kudzu, only not as vicious."

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"I'd like to visit that dimension. I bet mint would be a good world leader," Rory decided.

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"Very soothing," Willow agreed. "And in a world with few headaches. Say, long as I'm here, do you have any books about learning how to use a sword? I'm trying to study."

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"We should!" Rory said cheerfully, rolling her chair over to the computer. "Yup - over in the 400's." She pointed helpfully.

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"Perfect!" Willow said. She went over to browse. "I assume we can hold on to these longer than the ones from Special Collections?"

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"For a week, yup," Rory said. "You have a card, right? Because if not, I can hook you up pretty quickly."

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Willow came back with three books that looked promising. "Nope, no card. Got kicked out by the genie too fast last time. What do I need to do? Oh! Can I practice singing my name really small so it fits onto the back? I loved doing that."

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"You can definitely do that," Rory said, pulling out a form. "Okay, name, room number, class, and if you want to put if you're a Chosen One, that's okay. It used to a rule that you can't, but it ended up being helpful to know awhile ago, so I'm telling people to go ahead and put it."

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Willow started to fill it out. "Willow Rosenberg, room 509, junior, non-Chosen One. There! Where do I do my little signature?"

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Rory took the form, quickly processed it, and in under a minute presented a card. "Right there," she said, pointing to a strip on the back.

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Willow signed her name with a flourish. If by flourish you meant moving very carefully because if she got a single spot of ink outisde of the signature strip she would probably set the card on fire and beg Rory to never tell anyone the mistake had happened.

"There! All done!"

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"Perfect!" Rory declared, and checked out the books to Willow.

In under ten seconds. New personal record. Go Rory.