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[thehonourable]

Characters: Algy Lacey and YOUUUU. Open.
Location: The library.
Time: Late afternoon, around 4:30PM
Content: Algernon has been researching modern planes. He hasn't done any respectable form of reading beyond his mother's letters to him for almost a year, and the process of pouring through books is terribly overwhelming.
Format: I'm starting off in

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[friendscallme]

[thwaps him in the back of the head with a book on significant aviators]

[thehonourable]

[ dghjdlkfgdf SITS UP VERY SHARPLY, WITH A YELP. BOOKS PROMPTLY GO FLYING. ]

Good- good heavens, what's happening?! Are we under fire, is ther-- [ ..................... ] Biggles? What the dickens was that for?! [ LOOKS VERY PUT UPON 8( ]

[friendscallme]

[chuckles from where he is presumably crouched next to Algy] Sorry about that, old son, but you could have picked somewhere better for a kip!

[thehonourable]

And you could have picked a kinder way of waking me. [ Juts his lower lip out somewhat, frowning. ] It's not as though I intentionally fell asleep here!

[kesselrunner]

It wasn't very often that Han had a reason to go to the library. Most of his reading was magazines and various technical manuals, he just wasn't a book kind of guy by and large. But he was there now, looking up a specific book or two about flight history. He nearly tripped over the stack of books that Algy had around him, looking at the kid on the floor with a book over his face. He couldn't blame him for catching some sleep in here, he'd slept in libraries a couple of times when he needed to, they were quiet and warm after all, good places to sleep for a bit. He would have gone for one of the chairs though, they were softer than a book. But the book he needed happened to be spread over his face, so he nudged one of the kid's shoes with a boot, he'd long since learned that it wasn't a good idea to startle someone awake, you never knew who was liable to wake up swinging and who wasn't. "Hey kid, wake up."

[thehonourable]

Being quite used to having to wake suddenly at the slightest of movements, the contact between a stranger's foot and his own woke Algy quite suddenly. He stirred with a slight jolt, reluctant to remove himself from such a pleasant slumber, so lacking in traumatic recollections, the book slipping awkwardly off of his face as he absently looked up at the person who woke him. "I say- oh, Mr. Solo. Is something the matter?" He asked in a perfectly jovial, if not somewhat fuzzy manner, as if he was completely unaware of the fact that he was asleep in the middle of a library.

[kesselrunner]

Han couldn't resist a bit of a lop-sided smile, there weren't many teens who would be so amiable about getting woken up from a nice nap, he had been (and still was) a bear to get up in the mornings. He crouched down next to the boy and looked at the books stacked around him. "Nah Algy, though I don't think you want the librarian to catch you napping in here, I've heard he can be territorial. I also need that book you were using for a sleep mask." He looked around at the other titles around him "Doing a bit of catching up?"

[thehonourable]

"Oh, gosh." Algy looked slightly alarmed at the mentions of a librarian, immediately calling to mind the old crone from his previous school. She had epitomised the image of an angry, aged woman and had frightened Algy like nothing else on her - certainly no Hun had anything on her. He sat up properly, reaching around to take up the book that had been on his face. "I don't think I'll be able to manage reading that much more, so here you go." He held out the book to Han, smiling wryly. "I thought it might be something to learn more about your kites nowadays. This school certainly isn't home to any that I'm used to, I'm quite sure."

[blowinguup]

[Iggy was just going to check his email, but then he heard sleepy breathing]

[goes over to where Algy is napping and pokes him in the side with his cane]

You're not supposed to sleep in here, dude.

[thehonourable]

[ FROWNS at the poking, squirming slightly and knocking over a few books. He absently lifts the book from his face, squinting up at Iggy. Upon seeing yet another someone with WINGS, he finds himself fairly incoherent. Also he looks like Maxxie. ]

Oh- good gosh, I'm- by jove- am I dreaming or do you have wings all of a sudden? [ SQUINTING LIKE MAD ]

[blowinguup]

[frowns and resettles his wings]

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure they've been attached to me for like. Ever.

[takes the seat across from Algy]

[thehonourable]

[ Somewhat wearily sits up, rubbing at the corners of his eyes and then STARING at the wings, about to say that those wings certainly hadn't been there the other night, when he takes a moment to pay attention to this boy's voice. ]

Ah- by James, that makes sense! I'm sorry, I think I have you mixed up with someone else. It would, err, explain your. Wings. [ ........ yeah still gawking ]

[feltnothing]

Maxxie didn't make a habit of going into the library, but when you had homework and you needed at least one book reference, you had to do what you had to do. He always managed to get lost, however; the Dewey decimal system only served to confuse him, even when the sections were clearly labeled. But just like his knack for finding bars and alcohol, Maxxie had a knack for finding exactly what he wanted in a library even if he wasn't totally sure he'd be able to find his way back to the door when he found it.

As he turned the corner of one row of books and started down another, he found something very unexpected but something he definitely didn't mind tripping across.

Not literally tripping, of course.

When he saw Algy sleeping peacefully on the floor surrounded by books, he couldn't help but smile. Even if he had left him hanging when they went out, he was still adorable and Maxxie couldn't hold a grudge against someone that adorable. Taking a deep breath, he crouched down at the edge of Algy's makeshift nest. He didn't want to

[thehonourable]

Being a light sleeper, Algy stirred immediately at the contact, face automatically falling into a frown. He wasn't quite used to being woken by touch - even his mother had taken to simply standing in his doorway, at home, and just sternly telling him to get up, or else his father would have shouted up the stairs. Yet upon opening his eyes and seeing Maxxie hovering above him, he broke into an affable grin, pulling the book off of his face and simply resting it on his chest.

"Maxxie! Good heavens, I thought I might have lost you somewhere in this school, I haven't seen you since the other night." Naturally Algy was entirely unaware of the fact that he had ... excited Maxxie to a certain extent only to suddenly abandon him, but greeted the other boy with such enthusiasm that he hardly seemed anything but extensively happy to see him.

[feltnothing]

The speech that made Algy so genuinely straight-from-1918 did nothing but make Maxxie smile, and he didn't bother hiding his amusement. "Yeah, sorry about that," he said, setting his book bag down on the ground beside him as he sat down. "I've had a lot of homework to do."

Finding Algy hadn't been a priority, particularly because he had felt so abandoned, but there was no way he could hold it against him now. "What are you doing here? Learning about the twenty-first century?"

[thehonourable]

He scrunched up his face at the sound of homework, something that he was not yet acqauinted with having only bothered to attend one class since arriving here, but understood the disappearance nonetheless. Giving Maxxie a slightly crooked smile, shrugging - or at least, shuffling somewhat on the floor in a manner that was only a little shrug-like. "I thought it might be a good idea to acquaint myself with various differences, so yes. Incidentally I don't believe your school gives specific history lessons for displaced RFC pilots," he added, wryly.

[huogongzhu]

[Looking for a book.]

[Instead finds a boy on the floor.]

[So very unimpressed.]

You're not supposed to sleep in here.

[thehonourable]

[ ....... vaguely wakes at the sound of her voice. ]

Hmm? I'm sorry - come again?

[huogongzhu]

[crossed arms]

You're not supposed to sleep in here. It's a library.

[thehonourable]

Oh, am I in your way? I'm awfully sorry, I drifted away without even noticing.

[ hrhngrhg sitting up ]