❁ 002
[After a moment, she leans back, sets the book down in her lap and sighs. A set of hands bloom almost absently from the ground up and take the book, replacing it neatly on the shelf beside her, as she turns to another one in the stack herself. The results here aren't much more promising already.]
Strange that there are no traces of anything to be found here. No single mention of this world's roots, of it's true culture, or any historical records. It's the same in the other library, as far as I could tell.
[Hmmmmmmmmm.]
Was it all destroyed?
[She continues turning pages slowly, almost frowning.] No. Even such efforts would leave signs behind. It's difficult for me to think it could have not existed in the first place, but perhaps...
[--And then as she reached for her cup of coffee, the blinking light becomes apparent at last, so she looks surprised and then smiles a little, chuckling under her breath.] Oh... Well, hello.
Maybe that's a reminder I've spent too long indoors today, hm? [Sup Kiseki, how are you all doing today, nothing to see here.]