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[morethanwatcher]

Giles peers around the door as it opens, nodding once with something resembling smugness. Last time he left the Bar he had a long talk with it about where to establish a regular door, so he could stop misplacing his office all the time.

And now he walks in, sits down, and orders some tea. His expression is thoughtful, even a little perturbed, and

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[morethanwatcher]

Giles sighs a little. Honestly, young people.

"It's a vinyl record. Pink Floyd's first album. I did think that children of this decade at the least had some idea of what these were. They weren't from that long before your time." Giles raises an eyebrow. "...Are you lost?" His voice is a little kinder now.

He also feels just a little old.

[morethanwatcher]

". . ." Giles takes off his glasses and starts cleaning them. "Ah. Well, the vinyl is from 1967 or so. The books are from... various years. Several centuries worth."

He examines the young man. "Honestly, you look very much like any other young person of my period--the 1990s? Although if the Bar could provide a means, I would be happy to play the album for you." More than happy.

[gone_byebye]

Ray is not so great at the whole 'subtlety' thing, so when he spots an interesting looking book on a table as he returns from the Bar he stops to have a look. It's one of the closed ones, if that helps at all?

[morethanwatcher]

Well, he might be a little nonplussed by the two closed books, then: one of them has a title which clearly states its purpose is to banish demons, and the other... well, it's hard to see the cover, given that it is underneath the demon banishing book, but there seems to be a drawing of some beast-like thing on it.

Giles, however, does look up from his reading and carefully closes it a little. "Can I help you?"

[gone_byebye]

"I realize this is something of a long shot, but is the one on the bottom by any chance Unpleasant Things It Is Sometimes Necessary To Know?" Ray asks. "I recognize the other one, but I haven't seen a copy of Unpleasant Things in a dog's age."

[morethanwatcher]

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"Ah... no, actually, it's a book which used to contain Moloch," he answers almost absentmindedly as he looks up at Ray with a little shock. "...I'm sorry, you've seen this book before?" Giles picks it up--and now the cover of the other is visible, which has a drawing of this demon-looking-thing. "I wasn't aware that people outside the Watcher's Council and a few very rare demon hunters even had access to this particular tome."

He's referring to the demon banishing one, not the Moloch one. He's gesturing with it, so it should be fairly clear.

[glenview7537]

Definitely, he is not looking for Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. But Marlowe is there anyway, smiling a bit at finding Milliways at the end of the day. He takes off his hat and surveys the room before making his way to a table.

Philip is a man of about 6'1" in height, average weight and strong build. Right now he is wearing a dark gray suit, shirt and tie, on the best of professional 1930's fashion.

[morethanwatcher]

Well, Giles is sitting paging through a couple century old book and with several other old and odd looking books.

He's not going to look up immediately, sorry. He has books to investigate. If you want him, you'll have to poke him.

[glenview7537]

Thus is the issue: Marlowe does not know the man. He will make note of the book and the studying going, but his curiosity does not advance in the realm of rudeness.

He is not being paid to nose around, and Giles indeed looks more like someone who would not like to be disturbed, so the detective takes a seat at a table and orders dinner, along with the evening papers.