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Day 56: The Bookworm (Morning)
Kibitoshin had never had a ‘haunt’ to know exactly what one was, but if he had to make a guess he would have supposed that the Bookworm was turning into one for him on their Doyleton trips. This was his third trip now, and yet again he’d returned to browse the shelves for books to browse through. He’d worked his way through a good portion of the romance section, skipping the less interesting-looking options and flipping through the rest out of curiosity; was that really how relationships were supposed to work? The books were in the fiction section, yes, but it wasn’t as though he had anything to compare them to on the scale of realism versus fantasy, what with the whole only-ever-living-with-four-other-people thing. And even then, they were-they had been (flinch) his siblings. It was hardly the same.
So, this time, the Kaioshin steered himself away from that particular area and towards the rest of the store. Maybe if he looked at a different genre he’d end up a little more savvy and be able to work it out for himself; as much as he wanted to know, he was also very aware of the fact that asking the nearest assistant whether or not romance novels were realistic came with the high risk of having said assistant laugh in his face. Or just make him look very, very odd indeed.
Where to look, then, if not there?
Pacing thoughtfully between the dark walls of books, he found himself drawn towards a section helpfully headed as “Self Help Books”. Did… that mean they’d be able to explain things to him, so that he could “help” him”self”? Because if that was the case, he had a lot of other questions that needed answering on top of that about Earth life in general. It was maybe too much to expect there to be information on other planets, but surely there would be something he could use in there.
With that settled, he ran his finger along the spines and pulled out the first promising title he came across: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, by 'John Gray'. Well, that wasn’t right at all, he’d seen Mars enough times to know that…
[For... um... whatshisname.]
So, this time, the Kaioshin steered himself away from that particular area and towards the rest of the store. Maybe if he looked at a different genre he’d end up a little more savvy and be able to work it out for himself; as much as he wanted to know, he was also very aware of the fact that asking the nearest assistant whether or not romance novels were realistic came with the high risk of having said assistant laugh in his face. Or just make him look very, very odd indeed.
Where to look, then, if not there?
Pacing thoughtfully between the dark walls of books, he found himself drawn towards a section helpfully headed as “Self Help Books”. Did… that mean they’d be able to explain things to him, so that he could “help” him”self”? Because if that was the case, he had a lot of other questions that needed answering on top of that about Earth life in general. It was maybe too much to expect there to be information on other planets, but surely there would be something he could use in there.
With that settled, he ran his finger along the spines and pulled out the first promising title he came across: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, by 'John Gray'. Well, that wasn’t right at all, he’d seen Mars enough times to know that…
[For... um... whatshisname.]