[Open Post] Lo, the summer is soon dead

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At times Genkai really doesn't like going outside much during the summer months, it's often too loud in her brain and the usual compliant: too hot. But Autumn is nearly here, both the living things and the sun, those conspirators in summer sometimes unbearable for her are mellowing out a bit

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[regency_twihard]

Should Genkai venture up to the house, she might find Cathy at work at a table in the main room, needle and thread in hand as she sews inside the fold that runs along the middle of several pieces of paper. She's binding a signature of pages for her next book, and given the level of technology, she's accustomed to hand-binding. One time that she's glad her mother taught her to sew.

[gettin2old4this]

Well, books do catch her attention, let alone one being hand bound. So Genkai asks: "Pardon, what is it that your working on?"

[regency_twihard]

The young lady's hands pause as she works the needle through the papers, and she looks up. "I am binding the pages of a new book which I wrote recently," she replies. "It shall be the third that I wrote since my arrival in this place.

"I am Miss Catherine Morland, formerly of Fullerton," she adds. "Perhaps you have read one of my previous efforts, Madame...?"

[gettin2old4this]

"Genkai. And no, I believe I haven't. Mind if you can give an explanation of what sort of books do you write?"

What if she reads them and gives caustic criticism?

[regency_twihard]

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mrs. Genkai," she replies, curtseying, and rather clueless about the proper titles.

"Oh, I write mostly tales of romance and the fantastical, though my newest book is a tale of a young hero seeking to reclaim a legacy stolen from him," she replies, innocently.

[gettin2old4this]

"Just Genkai would fine, thank you." She states curtly.

"Really? Do you have any copies of your old books so I can read them?"

[regency_twihard]

"Oh, I do not have them with me, but they can be found in the library," she says. "I don't much recommend my first book, 'The Mansion of the Mysteries'. For one thing, I hand wrote it into a journal, and for another, the story is a decidedly wretched affair. But my second, 'Between Light and Shadow' is a stronger and better crafted tale."

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Genkai puzzles for a bit.

"Do you mind giving me a summary of the better book?"

[regency_twihard]

"Oh, why yes, indeed," Cathy replies. "It is a tale of romance, in which a titled lady must choose between two loves, the one an Elven lord who can bring the wealth of his fantastical kingdom to enrich her domain, and the other a vampire poet who can give her the gift of an immortal life." She sounds quite proud of it.