Three Bells: [WRITTEN] - New Horizons in Lit Appreciation

[simplestgift]

They have everything Shakespeare ever wrote in the library.  Everything!  It's a fountain of gold.  I could spend days here.  I'd sleep here if they'd let me.  I don't think I've ever been happier.  And there's no theatre group here?  None?  Do people here not realize what they have?  What kind of a world is this?

In case anyone asks, I'll be in the library for the rest of my life.

[Or really just the rest of the day.   At some point he'll have to come up for air and grab something to eat at the 7th Heaven, where he'll be buried in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.  It'll be dark before he goes home, carrying only a single book.]

Comments

[written]

[simplestgift]

Fearless, are we?

[It doesn't matter that he's known men who weren't a lot taller than that.]

[written]

[herotypical]

More like I find my relative lack of height catches the baddies off guard.

[written]

[simplestgift]

That is a more optimistic way of looking at it than I was thinking of. Are you working at Good Spirits tonight?

[He's avoiding calling it a "bar" because it feels awkward or an "alehouse" because he knows no one else calls it that, so he'll just refer to it by its proper name.]

[written]

[herotypical]

I've got the evening off. The perks of returning from my birthday bash a little sooner than expected.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Oh! Are you and Dawn returning soon, then?

[Dawn said as much, but still...]

[written]

[herotypical]

[ buffy had waited until getting back home to reply, so: ] Just got in.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Then I presume she'll be along shortly.

[Unless she forgot. Or decided not to come and didn't tell him. Oy.]

[written]

[herotypical]

We did just hike back from the lake. She'll want to powder her nose.

[written]

[simplestgift]

She lives with a vampire, you say?

[written]

[herotypical]

One of the very few who aren't out to tear throats and drink the human juice.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Good to know. Her curfew's at 11:30, you say?

[written]

[herotypical]

Oh. Archie -- I just threw the curfew out there to ping Dawn's delicate social radar. Big sister obligation to embarrass her and all that.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Oh, well. I suppose some things don't change over the years.

[written]

[herotypical]

So does that make you an older or a younger sibling?

[written]

[simplestgift]

Younger.

[written]

[herotypical]

Guess this means I should stop spilling my older sib secrets.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Trust me: we know them already, as many times as you repeatedly exercise them upon us.

[written]

[herotypical]

Come one -- younger siblings are way, way more bratty.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Perhaps some things have changed, then. I remember my brothers being fairly merciless. At any rate, up until a few weeks ago, I spent all day knee-deep in powder monkeys, so you could say they had their revenge tenfold.

[written]

[herotypical]

You don't mean literal monkeys, right?

[written]

[simplestgift]

[If only you could hear him laughing.]

Some of them tried to be, but in the end, unfortunately, they remained boys. They ran powder to the guns.

[written]

[herotypical]

Boys? What were they doing in the navy? Isn't that supposed to be illegal?

[written]

[simplestgift]

Goodness, no! I've been on a ship since I was eleven. It's a bad idea to start much later than that if you want to be an officer. It's a bit like an apprenticeship, that way--the boys do odd jobs and learn the ins and outs as they go.

[written]

[herotypical]

That's...young.

[written]

[simplestgift]

They don't exactly hand out commissions like candy. Getting a head start can make all the difference. Is something wrong?