Day 60: Patient Library (Third Shift)

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After handling two conversations that had been difficult for completely different reasons, Castiel had to admit that he felt weary. It was not a sensation that was new to him; between Izaya showing far too much interest in his kind and Ruby simply being who she was, some peace and quiet was what he craved

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[hairraising]

Rapunzel hadn't gone through the bulletin board very thoroughly after speaking with Buffy. It had only taken one mention of someone having died in gruesome fashion for her to determine that last night had been as bad for everyone else as it had been for her, probably worse. She replied to messages from people she knew, but otherwise didn't post any messages of her own. The mass of information and long conversations just wasn't something she felt she could handle right now. If she was going to read something, she figured she would rather do it from a book than the board.

And so it was with some relief that Rapunzel headed to the library after the announcement of a free shift. Bagged lunch with cheese sandwich in hand, she made her way back to the shelves she had spent yesterday's shift in with Kairi. She had gotten some of A Little Princess read after their conversation, but not much, and was very keen to continue. The only problem? She couldn't for the life of her remember the name of the author. And so she found herself running her finger along the spines, trying to remember exactly where she had pulled that book from in the first place.

"Princess, Princess..." she murmured to herself as she searched. There was another patient looking for something next to her, a man with glasses. Maybe he knew his way around the books better than she did? "Hey, you don't happen to know who wrote A Little Princess, do you?" she asked the man quietly, not wanting to disturb others.

Sorry for the delay! ;A;

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At the sound of a female voice, Seishin looked up from his search. The owner of the voice was a girl with long, golden hair who appeared to be in her late teens. He blinked at the question, taking a moment to think before shaking his head. He had read a lot of books, but A Little Princess wasn't among them, unfortunately.

"My apologies, but I'm afraid I don't," he answered on a quiet tone, "I assume you're looking for this book, then?" A rather obvious statement, but there were few other reasons for requiring the name of the author, after all.

LIKEWISE BRAH ;A;

[hairraising]

Rapunzel nodded, a little disappointed, but not put out. "That's okay. I'm sure I'll find it eventually," she said with a quiet laugh.

Though, after a moment, she got curious, glancing back over to the man as he continued to peruse the shelves. He seemed to know his way around them, or at the very least be interested in them. Since coming out here, she was always curious to meet fellow bookworms. "Are you looking for something specific too?" she asked after a moment, offering another smile. "I've never read most of the things in this library. What's good?"

At least we're both slow? xD

[unpriest]

"Perhaps you could ask the nurses? At the very least, they might be able to give you some sort of book catalog," Seishin suggested, though he wasn't quite certain how a library within a mental hospital worked -- probably not necessarily in the same manner as normal libraries do. His gaze returned to bookshelf, scanning the names written upon their spines. MacGregor, Melville...Milton! He was just about to reach out for the book when the girl asked another question. He momentarily paused, before pulling out Paradise Lost.

"Well, what sort of books do you like?" Seishin asked, offering a smile of his own. This library wasn't very large, but there were still plenty of different books after all. Furthermore, not everyone would appreciate the sort of book he had just pulled from the shelf.

I AM THE SLOWEST, APPARENTLY. SOB. Would you like to backthread at least a couple more rounds?

[hairraising]

"I, dunno... All of them?" Rapunzel answered with a downright gleeful grin. She couldn't help it. They were talking books here! Books had never been anything but good to her. What wasn't to love about every single one of them? ...Aside from getting bored after reading them for the five-hundredth time, but that was besides the point! That's what all the new books were for: getting rid of boredom once and for all! "I've wanted to read a lot more for a long, long time now. Storybooks, geography books, plant care books, cookbooks, I don't care! Anything would be great!"

She laughed after a moment, reflecting on what she had just said. "I guess you can see why it's kind of hard for me to pick, huh?"

It's fine, I was on hiatus anyway. XD But sure!

[unpriest]

All of...? Seishin couldn't help but snort at that. He hadn't met many people who were so enthusiastic about books, other than maybe Sunako. "It makes it a little difficult for me to recommend something," he said, "Though, this library has only fiction for the most part. You truly have no preferences for a genre? It wouldn't quite do to recommend you a horror novel if you don't like any of that, would it?"

Seishin was aware that people might like the kind of stories he liked. It was the same with the novels he wrote; they were not among the happiest of stories. They weren't popular, but that was fine -- after all, writing had been but something to do on the side of priesthood.

But with things as they were, he guessed he wouldn't do much writing any more from now on.