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 ]

[herotypical]

I'm guessing the book of the month club doesn't reach the high seas.

[ written ]

[simplestgift]

There's a lot of off-key singing and drunken stories, but it's not much of a substitute.

[ written ]

[herotypical]

Speaking of drunken stories -- how was your morning after?

[written]

[simplestgift]

My afternoon after, you mean? Hell. I visited Doctor McCoy and he gave me a cup of coffee. Though I believe the kitten must have had as many healing powers as the coffee. Where did you get it?

[written]

[herotypical]

Not from a poker game, if that's what you're wondering.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Thank you for clarifying. At any rate, it's nearly as adorable as little Elicia. On that subject: I did not know they brought children here.

[written]

[herotypical]

It's one of those less-than-nice aspects of the place, yeah.

[written]

[simplestgift]

You can't tell me they perform these experiments on children.

[written]

[herotypical]

[ she draws two heavy dashes. she won't tell you if you don't want to know. ]

[written]

[simplestgift]

[He gets the idea, though.]

There's nothing that can be done?

[written]

[herotypical]

If there was, we would have done it.

[written]

[simplestgift]

[It takes a long time for this note to come.]

I see.

[written]

[herotypical]

That's why I try and volunteer as much as possible for things -- so they don't have to voluntell anyone.

[written]

[simplestgift]

I understand. Buffy, I'd like to take you up on your offer. The school.

[written]

[herotypical]

I'm really glad to hear that, Archie.

[written]

[simplestgift]

What else can I do?

[It's a helpless, rhetorical question, but she's free to answer anyway.]

[written]

[herotypical]

There are lots of organizations around the village -- to help newcomers or to protect the village when it comes to that.

[written]

[simplestgift]

I don't know, Buffy. I died because someone wanted to protect the good name of a mad captain. Now that I have it all back, I'm not sure I want to lose it in the same way by joining a force. I did speak with the captain of the Blue Rogues, and he seemed a decent man, but many of them do at first.

[written]

[herotypical]

Well, you haven't been here for even a month yet. No need to jump.

[written]

[simplestgift]

[A pause as it occurs to him that jumping was one of those things Horatio was always around to keep him from doing.]

You're right. Let me know what you need.

[written]

[herotypical]

Be careful. Give a girl an inch and she'll take a mile -- next I'll be calling you up and begging you to change a lightbulb for me.

[ says the girl with the superpowers and the familiarity with electricity. ]

[written]

[simplestgift]

[Again, the response doesn't come immediately.]

Light bulbs need to be changed?

[This is clearly worrying news.]

[written]

[herotypical]

They only last so long before they burn out.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Then I think it more likely that I will be begging you to change a lightbulb for me.

[He's a veteran of the French Revolutionary Wars and an ex-POW, but this...this...is intimidating.]

[written]

[herotypical]

And I just might give in as long as you promise to make no funny remarks about my height.