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Joss Makepeace // scheherezade (thestoryweaver) wrote in musings,
@ 2010-09-19 20:57:00

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A book equally as old as the first but in better condition. There is a note tucked inside, on what used to be a catalogue card from a private collection -- clearly, Joss keeps her books in order. On the back, in neat handwriting 'this was about the globe'.

It's wrapped up in special wrapping paper too.

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cravened
2010-09-20 03:34 am UTC (link)

[When this book was left, Colt knew precisely who it was from: Joss, who always made him feel like a villain in a story. Joss, who made him feel like he barked too loud and fought too hard. Joss, who made him think of his father with every damn breath she took.

The book was expensive. Colt preferred books about war heroes, but he knew this one, even if he'd never seen it in print. Her handwriting was expressive, as he expected it to be, damn woman. He wondered what Erin would make of her, this girl on the wrong side of sane, and he dragged his laptop over.]

[Locked to J Makepeace]
Are you telling me this book about munchkins is about a globe, Joss? Come on now, even I know better.

You like books? Feel like a job, woman? Would that keep you from bombarding me with birthday wrapping paper?

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thestoryweaver
2010-09-20 03:44 am UTC (link)

[When the message comes, it's a little like dreaming. Sometimes the edges all blur like watercolors smearing, like the bitter kind of tea that they drink on the edge of deserts -- but there's surety in laptop keys under fingers and the velvet edge of a very old bedspread wound around her shoulders. Acknowledgment is unexpected, pleasant -- her smile is a bright and happy thing in an empty apartment, her laugh scatters against light colored walls. It's a pity she's been in a haze of stories all day; she struggles for sense]

You'd find the connection if you thought along the lines. It's only because you're not looking for the lines at all that you can't see them and that's no use at all. Besides, it's not all about Lilliput. There's more world than the first one. I don't think you've to learn the lesson Lilliput was about.

Some books I like more than others but we're not all friends with everybody. It's not birthday wrapping paper at all: it's not your birthday and there isn't a party.

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	cravened 2010-09-20 03:53 am UTC (link)
	[Her message gave him a headache, which he rubbed away with calloused fingers before responding] Woman, can you write anything plain? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thestoryweaver 2010-09-20 03:57 am UTC (link)
	[the look she gives the screen; head tipped sideways, knotted eyebrows, it's 'duh' given in aristocratic features that makes it all the more readable] It wasn't poetry. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cravened 2010-09-20 04:11 am UTC (link)
	Now, don't go complimenting yourself. I didn't go that far. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thestoryweaver 2010-09-20 04:13 am UTC (link)
	I don't write poetry so it wouldn't have been a compliment in the least. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cravened 2010-09-20 04:16 am UTC (link)
	Then what is it you write? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thestoryweaver 2010-09-20 04:18 am UTC (link)
	Books. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cravened 2010-09-20 04:22 am UTC (link)
	If you don't mind me saying so, that up there wasn't prose. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thestoryweaver 2010-09-20 04:24 am UTC (link)
	[She handwaves where no one can see; she almost spills her teacup] Define 'prose'. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cravened 2010-09-20 04:28 am UTC (link)
	Something normal men can read and make sense of, Joss. You're talking about books as friends and lines that don't make a lick of sense. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thestoryweaver 2010-09-20 04:30 am UTC (link)
	[a grin; butterfly fleeting] No one is normal. Especially not you. If books aren't friends, you haven't met the right ones yet. [a pause: Joss doesn't like not making sense. Then, carefully] What about it didn't? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cravened 2010-09-20 07:20 am UTC (link)
	I'm normal as they come, and books don't have feelings, Joss. And there aren't any lines to speak of. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thestoryweaver 2010-09-20 12:27 pm UTC (link)
	No one comes normal and just because you don't ask them about them doesn't mean books don't have feelings. Lines. Ways of thinking, ways to follow along, they're there. Don't you know anything at all? It doesn't matter, the books will still feel and the lines will still be. You don't need to know them, but I thought you might. You seemed like you might. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cravened 2010-09-20 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	Books are inanimate objects, Joss. Damn, woman. Just... damn. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thestoryweaver 2010-09-20 04:05 pm UTC (link)
	Books are paper and glue and stitchery and leather. Stories aren't. The books are unnecessary, like clothes. Damn what? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cravened 2010-09-21 04:58 am UTC (link)
	Quit being so complicated, that's what. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thestoryweaver 2010-09-21 05:04 am UTC (link)
	I don't do it on purpose. (Reply to this) (Parent)