OOM post: The magic library, Monday morning, Jadis, 'Suti and Teja
It is gardening season now, but that doesn't mean that Asar-Suti would neglect the library.
He is sitting there now, cataloguing bibles. Not magical? Of course bibles are magical -- to many, many worlds of witch- and vampire hunters.
And these are all very special, in that regard.
He is sitting there now, cataloguing bibles. Not magical? Of course bibles are magical -- to many, many worlds of witch- and vampire hunters.
And these are all very special, in that regard.
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"Oh, you're bringing Teja!" he adds, getting up and grinning. "Welcome -- I heard you read Greek and everything? Finally decided the books are worth falling in with the -- what did you call us? Nithings!"
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He turns the page with the fascination of a hunter handling a large, serious gun.
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"There were many shades of grey, in my world," he says, "but some things are plainly wrong, and catholic priests are among them."
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He shakes his head. "I'm a Dark God of Awesome Powers, or at least used to be; all the Cheysuli knew with the same certainty that my Ihlini and I were 'plainly wrong'. Let's not go there, shall we? You're here about books."
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She turns her smile on Asar-Suti when he speaks - for an 'evil being', the god is one of the more reasonable people she knows.
"Books - absolutely. Is there any reason Tekja cannot have a key to the library?"
Perhaps Asar-Suti would be good for him - as would some wider reading.
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He looks at Teja.
"The books of magic are the ones lying over there, chained to their shelves. Do you see the furry one? That's the Monster Book Of Monsters! If you want to not touch only one of those more than all others, it's that one! It bites, tears up other books, and is generally monstrous. Bit Guppy on the leg when it broke loose some years ago, and tore up nine other books of magic beyond recovery. I'm not regenerating your fingers if it bites them off! Other than that, yes, you can have a key and read books as much as you want."
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He looks at the purple one.
"Thank you!"
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"I can show you around, if you'd like," she offers. 'Suti had looked rather busy, and there's no point encouraging them to argue!
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His voice peters out as he broods over the book, dismissing the two others from his thoughts.
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"Thank you," Teja says to Jadis. "Yes, it would be good i you can show me around so I know which books would be interesting for me to browse through, and which would be useless to me, as I cannot make use of the magic."
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"Hell, of course," Asar-Suti says, looking up briefly. "Or at least some underworld. I used to live in one, a purple fiery one."
He turns back to his book.
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Pause.
"I will be careful."
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He looks around, and points at a shelf. "Are those safe?"
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"How To Travel With A Salmon?", he reads the title, incredulously.
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"Now. I shall leave you to browse. I'll be in the library for a few hours, and I doubt Asar-Suti will move from that table for the rest of the day, unless Gil comes and gets him."
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"Thank you," Teja says to Jadis. "I will do that, then, and see what this place has to offer."
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"Enjoy yourself," she tells him solemnly, and then makes her way to the table where she has her current reading set out - the other library users know not to go poking about and moving things, or she's liable to snap at them!
Now. Which page was that formula on, again?