A puzzling development

[charming_cecy]

A young woman enters, dressed fashionably in the style of 1817. She doesn't seem to notice where she is at first due to the book she is busy reading. Those who can sense such things would most likely notice the substantial amount of magic surrounding her.

She walks halfway across the main room without once looking up from her book, deftly

Comments

[which_hat]

*wave* Hello! What are you reading? -oh, and what a lovely hat you have!

[charming_cecy]

"Thank you. It's called A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences by Ebenezer Sibly. It is also dry as toast."

[which_hat]

Oooooh, I've never read that one! May I look?

[charming_cecy]

"Of course."

[which_hat]

*takes it and flips through it* It looks very interesting, but I can't understand it! *tries another chapter*

[charming_cecy]

"Mr. Sibly does have a horrible tedious way of writing."

[which_hat]

I prefer novels. Or books with pictures.

[charming_cecy]

"Novels are nice. Do you have a favorite author?"

[which_hat]

Oh, I can't decide. There are so many!

[charming_cecy]

Cecy smiles. "That is a problem."

[which_hat]

Do you think so? But then there's always so much to choose from.