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USERNAME: librarian Angela Library of Ruina TEXT • AUDIO • VIDEO • ACTION • OVERFLOW

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[icanfixer]

Pardon the terminology, for it was their own.

[ they got "sucked in" and "wrapped up" in receptions, which makes their hesitation to say the word funny to her. still, where angela has little appetite left, don seems to have room aplenty.

good that it may ease their minds a little though. she rather likes the librarians, after all. ]

I do not mind. What is it?

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How long have you been employed by your company?

( an innocent question. )

[icanfixer]

[ oh shit. ummmmmm uhhhhhhhh. ]

Let me think... Perhaps only a few months?

[ ... no, actually, thinking on it -- ]

Since the first month of the year. That was when we came upon our Manager Esquire to be, though each of us was acquired before that. I was one of the first to be contracted by Sir Vergilius, in fact! But I would not say we were truly a Company until that point.

[ honestly

at this point she might be at her first year in the company, month wise. who can say. ]

Um... That would mean, at the point of meeting the Molar Boatwork... Four months, closer to five? But here, it would be eight.

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( four, closer to five... she sees. the thing with tomerry must've happened prior to that too, so accounting for time... )

Mm... Six months, perhaps... ( softly said, and then she raises her voice again. ) Thank you. I've learned some interesting information since last we spoke, so you could say I'm attempting to construct a sort of timeline for myself.

[icanfixer]

[ oh, okay. ]

I am certain it is alarming to hear that thy Library is nothing more than an "incident" now, after it seemed to tower so high above everything... [ star of the city, as it was. something that the hana association took note of. every citizen knew of it at least by name, if not what happened within.

... perhaps something don should take more caution with, too. or should've. after meeting olga and them, however, it doesn't seem so bad. ] I do not have any information outside of that, however, so I am sorry I cannot help more.

[ especially at the risk of talking about things she Knows she cannot talk about. ]

Are thee pleased? Thou hath mentioned the others, but does it comfort thee any to know that those who had accepted thine invitation are not truly dead?

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( well, they were never dead in the first place.




but that's a company secret she isn't telling anyone who isn't a librarian. hell, until very recently, none of them even knew. the only person who managed to think it through was hokma, and she expected that of benja... of him. )

I don't know how to feel. ( that's HER LIGHT... her light, so carefully collected, labor after labor... ) They were invited for a very specific reason, so to hear they're starting to reappear, and that my Library is banished...

( ... )

I wonder if I'm dead.

( waow )

[icanfixer]

[ waow ]

Was thy Library the sort of thing that would remain standing if so?

[ if it's just banished, as she said, then isn't it still... out there... somewhere... also, if people are "starting to reappear", then it's surely still there. ]

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I'm not... ( she takes a napkin and carefully cleans cake off of her fingers. ) I don't know. I built it myself—it might not be so far-fetched to say that it's just an extension of me.

( like an e.g.o., or something. she hadn't really considered it before. but for it to be her telling her how to find her book, what she had to do... maybe it's closer to one than she thinks. )

So perhaps not. ( yet not a possibility that can be discarded without proof...? ) You'd have to meet me in the future and come back to let me know.

[icanfixer]

I shall gladly do so, though I do not think a structure that houses the lives of many would disappear before seeing them all safely returned.

[ so. even if she is, maybe the library itself is still there. nonetheless, she takes another cake and stuffs it in her mouth. mmmmm. strawberry short. mmm. ]

... If thou'rt banished, then are the others as well?

[ will she 🥺 never meet mistress gebura 🥺 for real ]

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( no the others are dead, don quixote.




















she can't tell her that. )

...Yes, more than likely.

[icanfixer]

Hmhm, then I shall endeavor to do all that I can so that I may meet everyone there as well! I would so like to see the rest of the Librarians, after all, and to get to know them too...

[ ... not that the information she's gained here will be any use in the city. ]

Speaking of getting to know, Angela, which of these cakes has been thy favorite to eat?

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( ... )

Is this your way of attempting to suss out a favorite of mine to gift me?

[icanfixer]

That it is!

[ she's forthright, anyway. ]

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( simpleminded. )

They're all fine.

( not making it easy. bc she hasnt eaten any she just keeps pinching them )

[icanfixer]

[ please eat one. she's going to spear one with her fork and lift it. chocolate. ]

A~h...

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Put that down.

[icanfixer]

Only if thee promise to eat it, rather than being fed it.

[ cmon who watches their weight in the city ]

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I just lost my appetite.

( that's all. )

[icanfixer]

[ hmmmmmmm.

fine, into her own mouth it goes. ]

At which part did thee lose it?

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The start. ( a beat. ) Nothing you did, Don Quixote. I was just thinking of something...

( ...she'll try a little bit of cake. cinnamon. it's fine. )

Would you like me to tell you a little bit about the Librarians who aren't here?

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[ oh... okay. ]

Prithee, I should like to know!

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Let's see...

( ... ... ... )

History, Literature, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Religion, or Philosophy. Which floor's Patron would you like first?

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[ ........ that's so many. like she knew that before, since netzach had mentioned it too, but that's so many. ]

Ehm... Literature! I am fond of novels, so I should like to know more.

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The Patron Librarian of Literature is Hod—she's... ( ...how to describe her? ) She wants to be a good person, to herself and those around her.

( ...mmm. )

To her, the City's "Literature" are the lives of its inhabitants: every person has their own story, and thus that's what her floor specializes in. Apart from recently, she's been fairly polite and respectful—but I guess everyone has to learn how to stand up for themselves eventually. ( she'd learned that, too, hm? ) Hod gets along with her assistant librarians well, though she'd been quite an overbearing person both as a boss and as a coworker prior to the Library, and she hosts a book club with them every week. It doesn't get in the way of her work, so I don't mind it.

( she's never attended, but she lets it happen. )

She's the type of person to refer to you as "Mister" or "Miss" unless you tell her to cut it out. ( a beat. ) When we first met, she called me "Lady Angela", so I suppose she has that in her repertoire too.

[icanfixer]

[ a polite young lady who values the stories that people can share... who wants to be good to the people around her and herself, who's become comfortable and confident enough to speak to angela as an equal then; don thinks she rather likes the sound of her. ]

We would get along, I think! Next, um... I confess, I have little interest in the others topics, though I do wish to know their patrons. What is the difference between the sciences? Yesod is also one, no?

[ technology or something like that. ]