007 || [Location:Taxon Library/Accidental Visual] || Seven For Avalon

[patternal]

Corwin has definitely learned his lesson in “be careful what you wish for,” and instead of wandering the city aimlessly and complaining about how dull it is here (or hacking at trees), he’s managed to find something to occupy himself with

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i see you came to visit, corwin

[numbersnfigures]

Spencer had been filing some books on the other side of the library, when the faint scent of something burning caught his attention. Following his nose, he happened upon Corwin sitting in the back with a cigarette in his hand. Spencer coughed as he inhaled the carbon monoxide smoke. He wanted to be straightforward and tell him to put the cigarette out, but these words came out of his mouth instead.

"Six minutes."

[OOC - Just FYI, I'm insanely busy during the week so tagging will be at molasses speed lol, but I couldn't not tag this post. XD]

Yes. Yes I did. Problem?

[patternal]

Something registered--someone talking--but he'd always had that problem: with a book, he was in another world, absorbed by what he was reading. Depending on who one was talking to about it, it was a problem--a shortcoming of his--but it just made reading that much more enjoyable.

Even so, it took a few seconds longer than it should have before he realized that he'd been spoken to, even if he didn't know what had been said.

"Hm?"

((No problem, bb~ <33 ))

[location: library]

[numbersnfigures]

Spencer sighed and gazed down at Corwin in the chair in front of him.

"Six minutes. Did you know that every cigarette you smoke takes an average of six minutes off of your life?"

[location: library]

[patternal]

Oh. So that's what that was all about. Corwin shrugged at the question, noting the page he'd left off in the book before closing it and turning to face Spencer.

"Nope. Thanks for the trivia."

[location: Taxon Library]

[iminmynightie]

"Pretty sure you shouldn't smoke around all this paper."

[location: Taxon Library]

[patternal]

"Tell you what. If it ignites, you can say 'I told you so' to your heart's content."

[location: Taxon Library]

[iminmynightie]

"Forget that," Amy said with a snort. "If it ignites, I'm smacking you in the face with a book and looking for the nearest fire extinguisher."

[location: Taxon Library]

[patternal]

"How charming." That look Corwin gave said otherwise. "Handily enough, I'm not planning on throwing it into a bookshelf. Believe it or not, sweetheart, I do care about books."

[location: Taxon Library]

[littlestcastle]

Denial was working wonders as motivation as far as Alexis Castle was concerned. In a few short weeks she'd already begun writing up her own curriculum based on what she remembered of her English syllabus and while the Taxon library's books were a hodgepodge, she'd found enough to occupy herself.

At least for a few days, and now she was back, her arms already full of books. There were only two more on the list that she needed, and there was one of them. On the shelf above her head.

Alexis eyed the shelf, the load in her arms, and the shelf again. She could probably manage without stopping to get the ladder. So intent was she on finishing her task that Alexis didn't even notice the presence of the cigarette smoking man not too far away who could probably help. Instead, she reached up on tiptoe, fingertips brushing the book. Another half inch or so... She strained for the last bit of length and overbalanced, books toppling out of her arms and onto the floor with a loud clatter.

[ooc: oh no this isn't going to be trippy and mood

[location: Taxon Library]

[patternal]

Denial may have been a miracle for the girl, but it was something that Corwin had never been able to afford. Aside from being stuck here, this wasn't all that odd anyway. Everything existed somewhere, he'd just had the misfortune of wandering his way through this one.

The sound of crashing pulled him out of his near-trance and he managed to catch himself before he rolled his eyes too obviously. He set his book down on the table laying open and came to loom behind the poor girl somewhat ominously on purpose.

"You could try not throwing things on the floor, kid."

((Nope, not at all~))

[location: Taxon Library]

[littlestcastle]

Alexis blanched as the man she hadn't noticed before approached, looming over her. While she'd had plenty of experience staring down her dad when he was being weird or unreasonable, Alexis had much less experience staring down strangers. "Sorry, I didn't mean to," she apologized, her voice squeaking a little. A blush began creeping up her cheeks. She waved to the shelf above her head. "I was just trying to get another one."

[location: Taxon Library]

[patternal]

"And you didn't think that maybe you'd better put a few of them down first?" Teenagers. And it had been long enough since he'd been one that he felt he had every right to think what he wanted about them. He'd never particularly enjoyed interacting with children, even if he and most of his siblings were just as self-centered and little better.