lux & livre | 2pm | rid/juli.
“I am certain they were,” Juliette said with a nod. Certainly mages seemed to spend more time in classrooms and libraries than fighters did – she had envied them that at various points, for she did so love to read - so such an event could not help but pique scholarly interest. “But… I understand the feeling.” They had touched on this briefly when they had lunched together some weeks ago, this shared tendency to avoid large groups. Such a convention, informative or not, would have utterly exhausted Juliette, introvert as she was. She had to assume that Ridley likely felt the same, and had thus sought solace among books.
“That is very kind,” she said, “but I am afraid I might not have been granted an excuse from my lessons, even had you mentioned it.” Her class exam was so close now – barely over half a year out. In fact, she thought with a small curl of panic in the pit of her stomach, she really ought to be training right now, instead of wandering around a bookshop. Which fact she hoped Ridley might not mention, now that she had foolishly brought it up.
Time for a subject change.
“Are you, perhaps, interested in vegetarian cuisine as well?” she asked, grasping at the first thing which came to mind, provided helpfully by the book Ridley had chosen, though she had not pulled it from the shelf. “I have a very good book on the subject, if you are interested. Perhaps the shop still has a copy. Or perhaps I might lend you mine?”