This is her haven. Mahogany bookshelves tower over everything else, reaching from floor to ceiling with sturdy ladders every so often to reach the top rows. Well-padded couches and chairs sit near low tables, all kept immaculately free of dust by the palace maids. This is the place she feels the most at home, and Mercury gives a smile and a
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She's oblivious to the blush for now. Be happy, Mercury. "Ami-chan-- Ah, no, Mer-- Other-time-Ami-chan! Hi! What are you doing?" Gone is the peace and quiet in this library.
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"Princess! I was-" Wait. Not the princess. Her reincarnation. "I was reading," Mercury finishes lamely.
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"Do you want to borrow it?" Mercury asks, because of course Usagi would love a textbook to study and doesn't get enough of them at school or have enough homework.
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She approaches the other, casually looking at the book she's holding. Trust Mercury to be able to read such a thick book and not be bored in within five minutes; "Am I intruding your time to study?"
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Ami knows that look from anywhere; the untold amounts of lifetimes that constituted the length of her existance had had its shares of such provocative and revealing moments of budding sensuality. And, of course, the after effects of sex, the gifts that kept on giving after the frienzied, brief encounters. Syphillis, gonorrhea, AIDS, herpes - just the tip of the iceberg, and those were only the ones she created for humans on the world currently inhabited by life. Aah, the memories.
She walks over, picking a book of her own, and she sits down, waiting for the double to notice her.
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"Ah- I apologize; I would have greeted you sooner." Mercury manages a smile. "I was caught up in this book." She feels somewhat rude now. The book, of course, is held just right not to show the other book.
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"Oh, it's no trouble." Ami eyes the book that Mercury is using to hide the other book reading. "So, what are you reading?"
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"Reading? Ah- A science book. I wanted to..." Think, Ami, think. "...research some of the new developments in shielding technology for the castle dome." This is actually true... if she were reading that book.
(ooc: with apologies to imtotallynormal: this and this and this.)
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"It was interesting," she says truthfully, preparing for the lie: "I was researching certain shielding technologies." She was. If that book had been the one she'd actually been reading.
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"I was uninformed of your arrival," she says. "Is it urgent?"
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