Papercuts Are Inevitable | The Library | Days 8-10 [OPEN]

[wingedapostle]

[ooc: this search is going to take place over three in-game days (days 8, 9, and 10), so please state in the post subject which day you want to go for!]

Answers have come, but not enough. She's remembered two more things since she awoke: the poisonous forest surrounding the pure land, and herself preaching peace to a crowd of people. Neither memory gives answers regarding the other, which leads her to the library's fourth wing. If in her memories she cannot find answers to her questions – Who is she? Who were those people? Why is the forest purifying the world? Why that urgent plea for peace? – then perhaps she'll find them in books.

That is, if she can find any that she can read. She's been here before, more than once, but she has never found a book in a language that she could understand. The languages in the many books she's looked over have all been beautiful-looking, but that doesn't help much when she doesn't know what they say.

She picks a bookshelf at random, and slides a book out of its place. Its cover is colorful and ornate, but a look inside reminds her that she's likely not going to have much luck on this search, at least not anytime soon. She puts it back with a sigh and takes another one out. This is going to take a while.

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[wingedapostle]

Angel considers the theory. It makes sense, if one assumes certain things, but the scientist in her takes over. "I don't think we have enough information yet to say that concretely...we would need to gather more data. Who can't read this? Am I the only one who can? What if others try closing and reopening the book? Are there other books that only specific people can read? This deserves a thorough investigation."

The comment about not recognizing a land like what Angel remembers doesn't slip past her either. It reminds her of Brimstone's theory regarding multiple worlds. She's still not sure if it's true, though; she'll need more data to decide that as well.

[creased]

The book would like to know the answers as much as Angel, though it seems an awful lot of work to get them. She'd rather accept a theory and reconsider it should it get proven wrong.

But there's at least one thing she can try now, if it'll help but Angel's mind to rest. She takes the book - slowly, carefully - from the other girl's hands, closing and reopening it to find some familiar-looking nonsense. "Looks like it's staying the same for now." She frowns, "Maybe you should read it before trying that again. In case it does work."

[wingedapostle]

Angel watches the girl close and reopen the book, and the results make her frown. It's not really a bad thing, and it mostly eliminates one of the possibilities, but by doing so it tells her that the more complicated possibility is the one more likely to be true.

"I will," she says, eager to learn more about the plants the book describes. She carefully slides the book back into her hands. "Perhaps I should do that now, so I don't close it by accident. I can read its contents to you if you like, but I won't try to keep you if you've tired of all these books, or if you have your own search to continue."

[creased]

She shakes her head, not finding the idea of sitting and listening for the length of a book appealing, no matter how pleasant Angel's voice may be. "I'll leave you to it. But you've got to let me know if you find anything interesting."

[wingedapostle]

"You'll be the first person I talk to," she says. She smiles, grateful that she met the girl today. If she hadn't, she likely wouldn't have found this book. "Again, thank you for helping me with my search. You've been very kind. I wish you the best of luck with your own endeavors, and I hope to see you again soon!"

[creased]

"I'll be around!" She leaves with a smile and a wave, off to find her meal or another distraction, whichever comes first.