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

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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.]

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[If she could read minds, she'd know he's met quite a lot of girls. On shore leave. Who weren't always reputable. He starts to relax at the now-familiar pattern of her geeking out.] Someone recommended Tennyson. [He gathers up his jacket and coat and proceeds with her deeper into the library.] He's a bit fanciful, but I like him. I should probably stick with the one book, though. I don't think I ever gave Horatio back his copy of Don Quixote de la Mancha.

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[ there is that. although the insecurity issues would crop up anyway, because who needs facts when you can just worry instead? but dawn relaxes too, as the conversation shifts. this is what she knows, where she's comfortable. it's easier to forget archie is cute when she's talking about books. ] Tennyson's good, but not my favorite. I should grab some stuff too, now that I can eat up all my reading time with anything I want instead of dusty books in languages pretty much no one else speaks.

[ she nudges archie's shoulder with her own, shaking her head. ] Good thing about libraries? You can keep going until your arms are full. Get.... four. At least.

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[It's one thing to accidentally bump shoulders while brushing past someone, but this was a clearly familiar gesture. He straightens at first, then relaxes very suddenly and grins. He hasn't had many female friends until arriving in Luceti, and now he has to reach this point with any of them where he remembers she's not too different from one of the guys.]

I'll never return them. I swear to you, this is the first chance my friend has had to reclaim that damned book. I'll be depriving all of Luceti and when they come to complain, I'll have to tell them it was your fault.

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[ once she feels back on safe ground, dawn is a casual toucher. hugs and poking and flicking and occasionally kicks in the shin at the drop of a hat are all commonplace with the people she spends her time with. ]

I think I can take the blame on this one. It's for a good cause, right?

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[Far from against casual touching, Archie is still getting used to women behaving this way. It's not that he thinks it's improper in and of itself--there were a lot of social norms and taboos he thought were ridiculous back home--but he has to take a moment to remember what it doesn't say about her. So for now, he's going to react the same way as if it had been his sister. Which is to attempt a playful, half-hearted shove with his fingertips against her shoulder.]

Your fault. Remember.

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[ that shove-- despite coming from someone who might be called a hottie, if dawn felt like embarrassing herself forever-- paradoxically sets her even more at ease. these are patterns she knows, because back home she's everyone's surrogate little sister. ]

I, Dawn Summers, hereby take the advance blame for your book thievery.

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Very good, then! Now. Since Shakespearing is our primary objective, comedy or tragedy?

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Comedy. [ that was... unusually decisive, but it's been that kind of week. ]

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Cleared for action. [They arrive in the correct section and he peers at spines of the books.] Twelfth Night? Or Comedy of Errors? I play a mean set of twins.