[Open Post] Titus Langourous

[77th_earl]

Most days, when rehearsals for Cyrano's play aren't keeping him busy, Titus is out riding the trails in the garden or the more-traveled ones in the woods, but on especially warm days, he retreats to the coolness of the library where he's been curling up with the stack of books that the Doctor helped him to find, or with a few odd books of poetry he

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[genial_umbrella]

Genevieve recovered from her wolf-induced fright, and is daring come out again!

And she's going to wander nearby with a book of her own, a romance novel of sorts, and will be reading quietly.

[77th_earl]

"I see... Then I hope that your lover would not mind another young man speaking with you. I would not wish to arouse his jealousy or concern," he replies, edgy.

[genial_umbrella]

Genevieve smiles a little. "Warren knows better - besides, he trusts me."

With due reason.

[77th_earl]

He breathes easier at this announcement. "So... are you a scholar?" he asks, glancing at her book.

[genial_umbrella]

Genevieve chuckles, and waves the romance novel at him (the cover is one of Fabio's.)

"Oh, hardly," she replies. "Though here, I guess everyone is, a little. And yourself?"

[77th_earl]

"I hardly was one myself, and to tell the truth, I despised books," he admits. "But in a place like this, one finds ways to amuse oneself that one might not have thought pleasant before."

[genial_umbrella]

"I suppose," Genie replies. "Why did you despise books so much?"

[77th_earl]

"I think it was because the most that I read was when I was in school, which I did not care much for," he admits. "And perhaps because I was accustomed to hearing my sister Fuschia reading aloud and bringing a tale to life."

[genial_umbrella]

"Maybe it depends also on how it was taught to you - were you made to learn a lot of things by heart?"

Genevieve is familiar with that particular system, alas.

[77th_earl]

"Sadly, yes," he replies. "Shutting up a young person in a classroom alone is no way to help them to learn."

[genial_umbrella]

"Well, if they're talking all the time, there has to be some discipline," Genevieve ponders. "But it's important to hear them out, too."

[77th_earl]

"Indeed. I think I would have rather learned to be a poet or perhaps an artist," he replies.

[genial_umbrella]

"Is there anything stopping you now?" Genevieve asks patiently.

[77th_earl]

"Only my own uncertainty, it would seem," he admits.

[genial_umbrella]

Genevieve smiles a little. "Well," she says, "that can be fixed, can't it?"

Ready to wrap it up?

[77th_earl]

"And I can remedy that by making my own decisions for myself and letting the consequences be what they will," he replies, smiling a bit.

Ready when you are!