[OPEN]

[pure_lineage]

Characters: pure-lineage + YOU
Location: Library
Rating: PG
Time: 11th Sept, mid-morning
Description: A few days prior, he made a promise to Cloud, but he hasn't got the slightest clue as to how to go about it. Sephiroth heads to the library in an attempt to further his knowledge. Also, this is before he sees Roy's Network post!

Comments

I haven't been able to tap Tassie with Raidou... would you like me to? owo

[karmafree]

Mukuro happened to be wandering around at that moment, humming a quiet little tune as he moved along with a few books under his arm. He had taken to reading as of late, filling his idle time with words and words and words.

Suffice to say, the sight of Sephiroth of all people in the one section of the library that he couldn't have ever imagined the man being in was surprising.

"Oya? What's this?"

The dark-haired man peered at the other curiously, with a tiny little smile.

You know I'm always up for more Tassie/Raidou <3!

[pure_lineage]

Plans never seemed to work the way that they were designed to. That was something Sephiroth had learnt many years ago, and it appeared as though it was a continuing trend. The one thing Sephiroth had been hoping to avoid was an encounter with one he knew, but it seemed as though fate would not be kind.

The familiar voice caused his muscles to instantly tense. While his thoughts on the meister were slowly improving, Mukuro was hardly one he desired to find him in such a situation.

"Mukuro," Sephiroth greeted while outright ignoring the question and smile aimed at him. He didn't miss the few books the meister held, and inwardly decided that if he needed further information, that searching elsewhere might be best.

Uuuuh where's the log again? Link?

[karmafree]

"In search of new reading material, are we?"

Have a Mukuro walking right over to stand beside him and join him.

Teehee! /goes to get link

[pure_lineage]

The question he received drew a subtle frown to his brow, and after a dismissive glance away, Sephiroth muttered, "What I am doing is of no importance."

It was only fortunate that the topic he'd been researching wouldn't be obvious, given the section he was in. Still, that hardly made the ex-General feel any more positive over this situation.

[ooc: here ♥]

[karmafree]

And Mukuro hadn't missed the other's discomfort, of course. He was particularly good at sniffing such sentiments out.

"Come now, Sephiroth, there's no need to grumpy. I merely find it interesting, seeing you here."

In that section of the library, of all places. Looking almost... lost.

[pure_lineage]

Interesting? It was a thought that left him less than pleased to consider. When was it ever any different when it came to him? Loath as he was to admit it, regardless of what he did or didn't do, such attention always seemed to follow.

"This is hardly the first time I've spent time in a library before, Mukuro." Sephiroth simply said, before he gave a small shrug of his shoulders, "I hardly see what's so interesting over that."

[karmafree]

"Maybe so, but the section you're in doesn't seem like the kind of place a man like you would need."

Mukuro paused, leaning against one of the bookshelves and positively beaming at the other.

[pure_lineage]

There was a quick glance over his shoulder towards the section they were in. He wasn't foolish to believe that Mukuro hadn't taken note of it, and Sephiroth saw little point in denying it. That didn't mean that he was about to admit to exactly what he'd been looking at either, however.

"Call it morbid curiosity," Sephiroth murmured. Turning his attention back to Mukuro, he said, "I have read enough scientific journals and data to last me ten life-times that I felt the need for something different."

[karmafree]

"Knowledge is power, is it."

On Mukuro's end, the written word was often of very little interest to him. He secured his knowledge of the world by engaging with it.

[pure_lineage]

While his mind was partially focused on the books and magazines behind him, Sephiroth couldn't help but find his attention drawn to Mukuro's words. There was no doubt to just how correct those words were, and yet a near-bitter smile curved on Sephiroth's lips.

"Yes, but not everything in books and journals is correct," he murmured. Sephiroth's gaze never once left Mukuro as he added, "Sometimes something is created to appear as truth, but it is purposefully written with nothing but lies within the text."

[karmafree]

"How philosophical."

Now if Mukuro had just complimented Sephiroth or if he was saying something entirely was left to the other's imagination.

[pure_lineage]

"Hn, if you believe so." He hardly found it philosophical in the slightest, but Sephiroth wasn't about to admit one way or another to if his knowledge came from personal experience. He'd allow for the meister to come to his own conclusions.

Glancing down to the books within Mukuro's grasp, he asked, "And just what might you be borrowing to keep yourself entertained?"

[karmafree]

"Western classics. I have found the Russians particularly fascinating, as of late."

Mukuro was about to ask Sephiroth which writers he favored, but then he remembered the differences in their worlds.

"What counts as a classic in your world?"

[pure_lineage]

What he knew of this world was still limited, and Sephiroth had made it a point to remain at a distance from gaining further understanding. His faith in the written word had been destroyed well over seven years prior, and he felt no desire to tempt fate again.

"I was not in a position to read such frivolous material," Sephiroth murmured after a moment of silence. Glancing away subtly, the ex-General said, "There was well known, but that was only due to it being favoured by-" him "-senseless romantics."

[karmafree]

"Hum, I see. Was there any reading material that interested you, then?"

Now Mukuro was moving along, picking up books on a whim, flipping through them, mixing up their order on the shelf on purpose.

[pure_lineage]

Had there ever been any reading material that he'd been interested in? Genesis had quoted Loveless so many times in the past, that he knew the story word by word, but that had been the other SOLDIER's obsession and not his own.

"No," Sephiroth admitted after a moment of thought. Turning his attention back over to Mukuro, the ex-General said, "All that had interested me in the past was completing my missions... and all that I ever truly read were mission reports."