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Fandom High Library, Wednesday, 9/6

Angela came in a little late, clutching a mug of chai and a bagel like lifelines. She loaded a copy of the Sims into her "new" laptop and started trying to keep a very whiny miniature couple alive.

The library was open.

After Ms. Readman came in, Angela put a stack of applications on the counter and waited to see who would appply.

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It's not that Door didn't realize there was a library here earlier - it's that it's taken her this long to twig that it's actually for use by the students. That in theory she can check books out and take them away with her. It's sort of like having free run of a pie shop, only less sticky.

She does wander up to the counter after a moment, though, as a bit of browsing confirms that she doens't entirely understand how everything's arranged here. Which would be when she spots the library aide applications.

"Excuse me," Door asks the girl behind the counter, "but what's the ...Dewey Decimal System? I know decimals are counting by tens, but after that I'm lost."

"It's a way to organize books," Angela said. "It sorts the nonfiction by topic areas. I think we have a handout about it somewhere."

She rummaged around under the desk before coming up with a slightly crumpled piece of paper. "Here it is. And the signs on the shelves show which books are where."

"Thank you." Door studies the sheet, and nods slowly. "My father did that with his library, but it was much less detailed." She looks at the stacks with a combination of awe and covetousness. "Then again we had fewer books."

"Was your father a librarian?," Angela asked. "We prettty much have every book ever, here, in Special Collections even if it's not on the shelves."

"No, just a...scholar, I suppose you could say." Door's eyes widen. "Every book ever?"

"As far as I know," Angela said. "Or at least, everything anyone's ever looked for while I've been here. Which I guess isn't quite the same thing."

"Possibly not," Door agrees, though already she's wondering if the books and maps her father spent much of his life collecting are all somewhere on the shelves in this place, neatly arranged in numerical order. She glances again at the list of categories, looking rather like, well. Pie shop. "There's more types of book here than I've ever heard of, though. It should last me a while."

"Enough to last anyone a long time," Angela agreed. "Do you want to start with anything specific, or just look aroound and get your bearings?"

"Well..." Much as Door plans to wander among the books until she either gets lost or gets found, there is something specific she'd like to know. "I expect I can look it up myself, but I could use a push towards the right subject area." She pulls the library aide application out from under the Dewey Decimal handout, and points towards the bottom.

"What's a sweater?"

"Knitted thing, fuzzy, you wear it over your shirt when it's cold?," Angela said, a litle suurprised. The girl's clothing didn't look that odd. "Does it have a different name in England?"

"Oh, a jumper!" Door nods. "I thought it might be some sort of clothing, but I wasn't sure."

"A jumper," Angela said, recognizing the word. "Have you been to the States before?"

Door shakes her head. "I've never been out of London before."

"Hey," Bridge smiles as he spots Door, giving her a fingerwiggle in greeting.

Door wiggles her fingers back, then asks, "Does that actually mean you want toast? Or that you're offering me some? Cally wasn't entirely clear about that."

Bridge shrugs. "Apparently I can't help saying it when I say the word 'buttery'," fingerwiggle, "which explains the toast connection. But it also works well as a general kind of wave-hello-type thing."

"That's what I thought as well!" Door smiles.

Bridge nods approvingly and grins back at her. "So, d'you like it here so far, then?"

"It's... " Door looks around at the library. "It's amazing. And a bit frightening, at the same time."

"The library, or the school in general?"

"Both, a bit? There's so much of it all." She glances down. "And... I don't know. It all seems too good to be true, maybe."

"If it were too good to be true, we probably wouldn't have gremlins," Bridge points out. Not that he has any idea whether Door even knows about the gremlins yet.

"Gremlins?"

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