Re: FILL: the fine print (2b/?)
anonymous
June 16 2011, 16:21:20 UTC
She blinked, thinking. "Oh, you mean the one that preachy -" she stopped when Charles gave her a look, the corner of her mouth tilting up and her eyes rolling almost imperceptibly, "that woman brought in the other day? I think you probably put that one in 'rare and fixed' pile in the storage closet."
Huh. That would make sense. Smirking, Raven tweaked his nose gently and returned to the shop floor.
It didn't take him long to ascertain that he did, in fact, still have the edition he was after, and locate it beneath Déscartes; after which, it was heading towards ten o'clock and he hadn't done any work with Scott yet.
The boy was sitting in the kitchen, watching Hank cook and answering his gentle questions on what he had learned the week before in a serious tone. Sometimes, Charles couldn't get over how different the brothers were: Alex, who was brash and loud and over-defensive, and who was easily bright enough to get good grades but couldn't see the point; and Scott, who followed in Alex's shadow like a puppy and who would listen to
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Huh. That would make sense. Smirking, Raven tweaked his nose gently and returned to the shop floor.
It didn't take him long to ascertain that he did, in fact, still have the edition he was after, and locate it beneath Déscartes; after which, it was heading towards ten o'clock and he hadn't done any work with Scott yet.
The boy was sitting in the kitchen, watching Hank cook and answering his gentle questions on what he had learned the week before in a serious tone. Sometimes, Charles couldn't get over how different the brothers were: Alex, who was brash and loud and over-defensive, and who was easily bright enough to get good grades but couldn't see the point; and Scott, who followed in Alex's shadow like a puppy and who would listen to ( ... )
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