The library wasn't as quiet as it could have been. There was the undercurrent thumping of drums coming from within the librarian's office. And with it, male voices chanting in latin, and with that the cat wail sounds of some eye-liner wearing lead singer that Blair Sandburg, current librarian at Hogwarts, had never heard of, but which he was
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Sticking his head around the door, Adam grinned and said, "Hullo!"
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He reached over to lower the volume.
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He wanted to talk to Sandburg some more about that, and about the music he was listening to, and also wanted to know if he was going to be punished somehow for the overdue genetics textbook he'd loaned to Stephen. Black probably would've suggested castration or branding; hopefully Sandburg would be a little more laid-back.
He knocked lightly on the office door. "Hello? Am I interrupting anything?"
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"Lupin. Good to see you. No, come in, interrupt away, man."
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When she reached the library, there was some fairly odd, but rather catchy, music playing. She found what appeared to be the reference desk and waited for the librarian.
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So we do have a librarian these days, she thought. Maybe he'll have some idea if this place has anything on American Indian shamans.
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"Pardoning, sir." There was a look in the eyes, that wouldn't have been out of place behind a prim demeanour and pince-nez. "But there's another student in the stacks who seems to be lost. Shall I direct her here?"
"If that's where she wants to be man, sure."
The House Elf gave Blair another look, which might have been fond, or exasperated. Blair was good with books and good with organization, no matter what his quirks and on top of it all, he taught and liked teaching. Tally appeared before Laura.
"Please Miss, if you'll be coming this way to the librarian. You should not be mindless in the stacks."
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"Um, hi. I wasn't actually lost, exactly. More like looking for something that doesn't want to be found."
She grinned. "God, that sounds ridiculous. Are you the new librarian? I'm Laura."
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Blair motioned for her to sit, knowing that taking her seriously and not bringing up that she didn't sound ridiculous would do more than actually saying it.
"Tea? Juice? Cookie ?"
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He poked his head in the door of the librarian's office. "May I come in?"
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"I've got sherry and whiskey and some cookies left. Been a busy day, Dr. Maturin." The name he wanted had finally come to mind. Blair gestured for the man to take a seat.
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"It's a recording of a Peruvian tribe I spent time with briefly. Very briefly. And I'm mixing it with Gregorian Monk Chants and this wizarding band I found in the music stacks."
Blair shrugged. "Sometimes I like my music more complex than what comes straight from the industry. It's all well and good and popular, no doubt man. But not everyone minds the challenge of a difficult composition. Besides, I dig ancient rhythms."
He snagged a cookie for himself.
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