Who: Rina and OPEN
Where: Scarlet Oak Library
When: Midday
'I don't get why we have to come here.' No one asked you to come along. 'I can't let you just wander alone! When you do that you find your way right into demons and next time it might try to hurt you. I have to protect you!' Rina tried to hide the amusement that flittered up at the idea of her little, tiny cat familiar trying to protect her from anything but a particularly ferocious butterfly. It would be even more amusing to watch her struggle to get out of
the backpack she had borrowed from Darklis, mostly so that she had a place to put the cat. A hoodie pocket seemed to be her preferred mode of transport but as Rina was no vampire and actually felt the heat, she was not about to walk around in one of those when the air was all hot and sticky. There was something she had not missed at all bout this realm: the heat. It could be so oppressive and she had almost felt a flicker of jealousy earlier when she had realized that Darklis never had to deal with this.
'She has to deal with high school. I bet that's worse.' Rina would agree just because of how she remembered her nephews and niece reacting after they went to it.
'Ah! No! You're supposed to-' "Be calm, Trouble, I was just thinking about them, not what happened to them." She was allowed to do that. Just like she was allowed to go to the library when she wanted to get started on picking up the bits of history she had missed out on since her last time here.
At least libraries still smelled the same. Rina breathed in deeply, appreciating the change from too-hot to pleasantly cool as she walked in.
'Can I come out?' No. Like at the coffee shop, Rina was sure that animals were not actually allowed in this place even if they happened to be familiars. She had told Trouble that before they even came and the cat had still insisted on tagging along. "Excuse me," Rina asked the woman behind the desk with a polite smile. "Could you tell me where the history books are?" Instead of getting words she was greeted with a finger pointed in a vague direction before the woman turned her face back to what Rina had learned was a computer screen. Like a smaller TV that you could control. She did not really
understand those things, but Darklis had said something about them. Smaller TVs and larger phones, or something like that... she was confused. The sheer lack of
any emotion emanating from that woman did not help any. "Um, thank you?" When no response came, Rina readjusted the backpack straps and turned to look for the books she had wanted. "This could take awhile..."
'They're all just books. Pick one and read it, I don't see what the big deal is.' One could just not explain these things to cats. At least all the shelves had labels and a little past non-fiction she came across the history and... "Yeah, awhile."
'Don't you dare look at those World War Two books, Rina, I'll tell.' Rina's fingers twitched and settled instead on something about landing on the moon. She had not known that they had done that! "They went to the moon."
'I knew that!'