8th Song [Open Commentlog]

[onlylipstouch]

[She's found her way to the library, a happy spring in her step, hymns and lyricless tunes hum from her lips. What has her in such a good mood? You might need to ask and find out. But if one were to come across her, they'd find the chipper redhead waltzing the aisles, book in hand, lazily flipping pages. Occasionally she'd pause her movements to

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[alien_judas]

[Klet has mostly been skulking about the ship, taking in his surroundings and getting accustomed to things. His opinion? It's boring here.

Currently he's curled up in a beam of sunlight filtering into the library, though his keen hearing picks up her footsteps and wakes him up quickly.]

Who's there?

[onlylipstouch]

[The voice catches her just a little off guard, but she doesn't startle too easy. After finding just where the voice is coming from-- well she feels a little bad. Had he been napping?]

Giselle is here. [Grin] I'm sorry... Did I wake you?

[alien_judas]

[Klet lifts his head up on his serpentine neck, his one red eye widening a bit. This human isn't afraid of him; odd.]

Yeah, you did. You humans all step loudly. What is this place, anyways? Lots of people have been coming in and out.

[onlylipstouch]

[Giselle isn't afraid of much. Especially if she's not given a reason to be.]

I'm terribly sorry... I can step lighter, if you like? I'm almost done in here anyway.

Oh! This is a library. Many people come here to read the books and such. It's a popular place to visit, so... Perhaps not the best place to take a nap, I'm afraid.

[alien_judas]

You can try, but I'll probably still hear it.

[Sorry, he's a grump.]

Oh. So it's like a crude information bank. Weird that all the books are just kept on shelves-- wouldn't it be easy to steal them?

[onlylipstouch]

[Blink]

Why would you want to steal them? They're all here for free. You simply rent them out, and return them when you're done with them.

[Obviously the concept of 'this is too easy' evades her.]

[alien_judas]

I don't want to steal 'em. Don't give a Destronan's aft about human history. I'm just saying, if you keep valuable information in here... seems like someone would want to take advantage of it. Or is the classified stuff kept elsewhere?

[onlylipstouch]

Well, I'm not sure what a Destronan's aft is, but I'm fairly sure that if there are Classifieds, they would be kept safe. Most libraries do that. The books on display are more for entertainment and information.

Nothing... Extremely valuable, I suppose?

[alien_judas]

Destronan? You don't know what that is?

[Klet sneers, then laughs a bit.]

You're lucky, woman. They're walking nightmares. Anyways, makes sense that they wouldn't put the valuable stuff on display just like that.

[The Geno sits back on his haunches until curiosity gets the better of him.]

So, uh... what did you come down here to look for?

[onlylipstouch]

[Well, if he's getting comfortable, she'll do the same and lean up against one of the shelves.]

A walking Nightmare sounds.. awfully terrible. [Her face twists just a little.]

Oh. I was curious about how the boat was moving. I've never seen a boat this large and.. Well I don't think any oars could reach the water from the top deck, so...

[She shows him the title of the book she'd been carrying. 'Big Boats and How They Work']

[alien_judas]

[Klet peers down at the book.]

Oars? You're from a time when people still use oars?

[onlylipstouch]

Well, we have other things, and I've seen boats that have motors... But primarily, yes. We still have castles, and ride horses, and use oars.

[She's been reading a lot.]

[alien_judas]

Huh.

[Klet's not as surprised about this as he was a few days ago, when he first found out about the whole "different worlds, different times" thing from reading on the network.]

I'm from pretty far in the future, apparently. Even this ship is old-grade to me.

[onlylipstouch]

It is? What sort of boats do you have, then? [Curiosity meter rising.]

[alien_judas]

Well. I wouldn't really call them "boats". A bunch of races use space-faring ships to get where they need to go. My kind... we either hitch a ride on said ships or travel through space ourselves.