Book Haven, Tuesday

[genesishero]

What a drab, miserable day it was out there. Evan frowned out the window as he straightened out the books, watching the rain drizzle against the bookstore windows. It kind of set a mood, didn't it? People graduated on the weekend, and there were only a handful that Evan really knew well, but with weather like that, it was kind of like the island

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[3girls_1core]

Sholeh had been...mostly hiding herself away for the past week, actually. It made no sense, hiding away from everyone and everything she would miss when they left, but the thought of facing everyone with the knowledge that she'd be leaving hanging over her was more than she could bear.

But the deadline for leaving was drawing ever closer. Today, they'd been our looking for the bridge that would take them home. Because the link between Fandom and Tryadnea was weakening, the bridge had moved and this afternoon had been spent tromping through the rain in the park searching for it.

They couldn't stay much longer than another day or two before the link snapped, leaving them stranded in Fandom forever. Sholeh wasn't telling her sisters that the idea was tempting. They weren't telling her that they knew that already.

Soaked and shivering, Sholeh tromped passed Book Haven, too far gone in melancholy to look around.

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[genesishero]

And lo, the person he'd been worried most about slogged by the window of the shop, and Evan blinked a few times before dashing out the door after her.

"Sholeh! Sholeh, come in out of the rain. It's miserable out there!"

Why yes, he was already shrugging out of his jacket so that he could put it around her shoulders once she came inside. Because she was going to do that, right? Come inside?

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[3girls_1core]

There was probably nothing more pathetic in the world than a sodden bunny caught in headlights, which, interestingly enough, was exactly what Sholeh resembled at that moment.

Startled, she turned at Evan's voice and, eyes wide, almost tripped on her skirts as she tried to stay stock still and run away at the same time. She managed to keep her balance, mostly through an excessive amount of stumbling, and also tear a giant hole in her skirt, also as a result of said stumbling.

Sholeh was having a very hard day.

"Evan? I..."

She just wanted to go inside and get warm and dry and have cocoa and snuggle and cry.

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[genesishero]

Oh. Oh, hey, let's keep that stumble from turning directly into a fall, shall we? How fortunate that Evan had a pretty impressive reach with those noodly arms of his! The rest of him stepped up to join his arms, and he pulled her into a hug, soggy or not, before nodding back to the shop.

"Hey, hey, easy. It's okay. See? Everything's fine," though judging by the look on her face, Evan wasn't so certain that was true. He swallowed and smiled and barrelled on regardless. "We'll get you inside and cleaned up... I have a change of clothes in case I got caught in the weather, you can change into those while your dress dries, it'll be fine."

Honest. Just fine.