Um, novels are my favorites, and sometimes poetry. We're meant to be able to translate books that wash up on the shores from other countries, so I end up reading plenty of things, but... I think I enjoy fiction the most.
Very. The seas around the island are rough, a-and we aren't able to leave... we've only ever had one person from the outside reach us, a long time ago.
They're... where we get all of our information about the outside world.
[so, like, kinda. yeah.]
Any books that are found are evaluated for their contents, and kept by the Institute if they contain potentially helpful information... um, but if they're determined not to have that sort of value, then they can be kept by the person who found them. I-I've bought books like that before, when they decided to sell them off.
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You're into books too, right? What kind?
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[he'd love to do that... man...]
Um, novels are my favorites, and sometimes poetry. We're meant to be able to translate books that wash up on the shores from other countries, so I end up reading plenty of things, but... I think I enjoy fiction the most.
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Other shores? ...So it's not that it's forbidden, just hard to get? How isolated is your country from everyone else?
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That makes me wanna check it out...
[he's interested.......... he wants to go see..... which is a terrible idea but lavi doesn't know that yet]
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[LAVI NO.]
We don't actually have a record of what ever happened to him... whether he settled there, or managed to leave, or... if he died to the curse, too.
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[CURSE?]
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all he needs is a brief pause to map out the numbers, twenty three minus seventeen is a very simple equation after all?]
...Is it a spell? Or a sickness?
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We don't know. No one has been able to find the cause, before...
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Is that why you translate books?
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[so, like, kinda. yeah.]
Any books that are found are evaluated for their contents, and kept by the Institute if they contain potentially helpful information... um, but if they're determined not to have that sort of value, then they can be kept by the person who found them. I-I've bought books like that before, when they decided to sell them off.
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So is your whole family translators? Or just you?
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Do you have kids?
[he is making so many assumptions here]
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[BRIGHT PINK AT THE VERY THOUGHT.]