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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[bad!! very bad. the thought of it makes him shudder.]
A-at least it's quiet, in here. I'm not very used to... sleeping around this many people though.
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[he wants the hot goss...]
Like Cloud sleep walking, or Lucas grinding his teeth...
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[ten pm on the dot babey
it's about here that the cloth covering him fails to contain the effect, inky letters bleeding right through. what parts of me are even real?]
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Lavi pauses briefly, eye dipping down to read the words because of course he does, the he looks up at Mathis, considering.]
Maybe you're the sleep walker then...
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[right?? he'd have told him and not just carried him back to bed right...]
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Who's Jean?
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there's a brief pause, just momentary.]
Um, he's- he's my family's butler, but he's been... I felt like he's been more like a brother to me.
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[smiles with tears in my eyes]
It's the same with my Gramps -- not my butler, but we're not related either. But he still takes care of me.
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[even if his own 'family' is its own can of worms, it still feels... a little nice to talk to another who was taken care of by someone like that.]
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[it's also complicated... but NOT IN A VIRCHE WAY]
He took me in because I was qualified to be his apprentice. He's Bookman -- that's his name and title, so I'm training to take his place.
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Um, what kind of books...? O-or is it not so literal...
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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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