*slips into the room with a soft rustle of silk* ¿Buenos días, señores y señoritas, cómo estan? Potete domandarsi perchè continuo a le lingue intermediario. Solum te experio. Wo ker yi jian yin wen de, ker shi zher yian hen hao wan
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Welcome, Aria. *takes the hand and shakes it formally* I am Náriel Rainafinwen. There is a library, if you take a left down the second hallway. It tends to be well supplied with whatever is needed; I know many of our University students use it. *--typist totally just made this room exist, yo*
*smiles brightly* Thank you. Have you any favourite books, Náriel? I find that one can ascertain someone's personality simply from the books that they read.
A proper enough way to decide. I read histories, occasionally, and poetry; I have inherited my father's love for Shakespeare. Mainly, though, the books I read deal with the trades I am pursuing.
Shakespeare is marvelous ... even if he is English. *lets out a small laugh, to show that she's joking* Papa tends to promote the Italian writers (such as Dante, mostly), while to simply antagonize him, I recite the poems of Byron, Shelley, and the like, as often as I can.
*smiles, quite cheerfully, and executes a crisp salute instead of taking Aria's hand* Hi there. So you're planning on building an entire library in your mind? How's that going to work?
-- Oh, and I'm Xathanael Hades. Nice to meet you and so on and so forth. *grins broadly*
*smiles back* Papa and Mama both have mansions built in their minds; it stores all the excess knowledge they gather throughout their life, so at a later time they are able to go back and peruse everything. Papa has a grand library in his, but my building is only a mere cottage at the moment, since I am still young.
*adds, as an afterthought* I like your name; it's original.
*wrinkles his nose* I don't know if Dad ever actually forgets anything. And -- Father, I know he does, but he'll pretend he knows it anyway, so I wouldn't be able to tell. *shrugs* That's pretty ambitious of you, though, so, er, good luck and all that.
*smiles faintly* Thanks. I'm named after one of the more obscure angels.
*studies her curiously, as the typist is driving on the assumption that divine beings understand all languages, but offers a cheerful grin and shakes her hand* Hi there. 'm Michael. I like your name.
*tilts her head curiously, studying her with the grave, straightforward, innocent air of someone half her age* *then, suddenly* Vous avez oublié le français. *smiles* There's better things to debate than the death penalty.
*shrugs* Papa says that all of America's government workers are bastards, so it is better to beat them at their own game, than to be -- how did he put it? -- "caught and cornered by complete idiots". It is all a part of my education.
*raises an eyebrow, then, thoughtfully* Nos experitne? Cong ming de.
Mental libraries sound interesting. Planning on a mental computer-based cataloguing system as well? * -- says it lightly, but is in fact entirely serious* Brynne Sedgewick, in any case. *shakes her hand*
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*curiously* What trades are you pursuing?
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-- Oh, and I'm Xathanael Hades. Nice to meet you and so on and so forth. *grins broadly*
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*adds, as an afterthought* I like your name; it's original.
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*smiles faintly* Thanks. I'm named after one of the more obscure angels.
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*shrugs* Papa says that all of America's government workers are bastards, so it is better to beat them at their own game, than to be -- how did he put it? -- "caught and cornered by complete idiots". It is all a part of my education.
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I wouldn't know, really. And I'm not allowed to be for or against it.
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Mental libraries sound interesting. Planning on a mental computer-based cataloguing system as well? * -- says it lightly, but is in fact entirely serious* Brynne Sedgewick, in any case. *shakes her hand*
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