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Lissa Dragomir (littlequeen) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2014-10-29 16:42:00

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belle, lissa dragomir

Who: Belle & Lissa
What: Making possible new friends!
Where: BLANK Bookstore
When: Wednesday Afternoon
Rating/Status: I imagine low | Ongoing.

If she were honest she just really missed a lot of what home had to offer. Sure, it was really nice to be at a much bigger University, but she actually missed being the Queen and working for her people, she felt like she really was struggling with what to do with herself. She tried to keep herself as busy as possible, but the truth was, was that Lissa was just struggling here. She missed Christian A LOT, she missed him a lot, she knew Rose missed Dimitri too so she never brought up how much she missed Christian. In fact she normally just acted as though she was okay.

It was rare that Lissa did much without Rose lately, but she needed to duck into a bookstore to try and find something for one of her classes. Of course Lissa could have gone to the campus bookstore, but the truth was, was that she kind of wanted to get that real bookstore feel and let herself get lost for a moment in the smell of pages and literature.

It was mid afternoon as she ducked into the store and found the non-fiction area as she looked at the recent titles trying to get a good feel of what was happening in the world now. She picked one down written by Kirsten Gillibrand. She was curious as it had been brought up in a few of her classes. She pulled it down and read the back before tucking it under her arm and heading to another section. As she rounded the corner she found herself nearly walking straight into someone. Jumping backwards Lissa’s very pale cheeks started to turn a light red. “I am so sorry.” She said with an embarrassed smile. “I think I should probably watch where I’m going instead of trying to read every title.”

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loveishope
2014-10-30 11:31 am UTC (link)

Belle had, if she admitted it to herself, gotten horribly lost in another Shakespeare. She'd started them in Storybrooke. Gotten a little bit waylaid by Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre in the middle but was right back into it with Much Ado about Nothing. She had decided it might just be her very favourite. It was happier than some of the first ones she'd been reading. She liked Othello though, in spite of how it played out. She'd been dreamily reading one of Beatrice's monologues when she was collided with by a blonde girl she recognised as one of the displaced.

The girl apologised, seemingly embarassed and Belle couldn't help but giggle at the idea.

"Oh no, no its fine! I don't mind telling you I have already bumped into two people since coming here. And I think I'm only here about an hour. Of course it could be longer. I sort of got immersed. Do you read Shakespeare?" she asked, "He's amazing. Possibly my favourite author. Took me a little while to get used to the language, the...what it is pentameter, but its wonderful. It flows really well, there's parts where it doesn't but that's only because of the changes in pronunciations and accents since his time." She talked and talked before thinking maybe she should probably do the introduction thing before babbling.

"And I'm Belle, by the way. I figure if I'm going to babble at you, you should at least know who I am first."

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littlequeen
2014-10-30 03:55 pm UTC (link)

At first Lissa was a little bit surprised when the girl started to giggle, she was pretty sure she was one of the displaced, but Lissa still sometimes wasn't 100% sure on all of that, but that was partly because she didn't spend enough time on the network, she knew she really should. However the displaced always had a different look to them, she couldn't explain it, but it was just... different somehow, or maybe it was a feeling Lissa got, or as simple as she'd seen them on the network and that was that. She was probably over thinking it.

Lissa nodded and nearly got out that she had read a good deal of Shakespeare but didn't get much other than a "yes" out as Belle went on about it. It actually relaxed Lissa as her eyes got brighter and she smiled. "t's really nice to meet you Belle, I'm Lissa." She said smiling, but hiding her fangs like always.

"I do read Shakespeare sometimes. I admit it's been a little while, I've kind of been more focused on diplomacy books, and foreign politics lately..." Lissa admitted. "Although I really do want to get back into some fiction and literature."

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loveishope
2014-11-09 08:28 pm UTC (link)

At least the girl, Lissa, hadn't decided she was completely off the wall crazy with her babbling. She even engaged in conversation about her book. Which really only happened part of the time, the other part was forced smiles or being called odd for having her nose stuck in a book for so much of the time. Though what Lissa was saying was facinating. "Politics and diplomacy? Do you study it? I suppose I kind of practice it without study in my own life. There have been wars where I'm from. And we always had to do what we needed to do. There was just never schooling in it."

It was a complicated business, war. And frankly she prefered and always would prefer the stories she read, where true love prevailed, where the villians were defeated and everything worked out well. Of course she was the girl that had fallen in love with the villian.

"I could probably help you find something. What kinds of things do you like to read?"

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littlequeen
2014-11-10 06:44 pm UTC (link)

Rose probably would have called Belle odd, but than again Rose gave Lissa crap for how much she read and how much she wanted to stay on top of college, even though they could have taken a break here. Lissa just wasn't going to do that, she just couldn't. "Yeah, I study it here, and sort of back home, but I more lived politics and diplomacy." She said with a small shrug. That was true, she did study it, but she also lived it, being Queen wasn't exactly easy. Politics and diplomacy were pretty much her every day life. "I haven't had to deal with out right wars, but there was a lot in my world that involves needing to practice diplomacy." Lissa said, although she had a sinking suspicion that war was a possibility given the state of things at home. She visibly shuddered a little with the thought.

"Yeah?" Lissa said thankful for the change of subject. "I'd really like that." She gave a thoughtful expression as she thought about what she actually liked to read, it felt like such a long time since she read for fun, for her, for no other reason than to escape. "I've always liked some level of mystery, something that makes me want to solve the riddle."

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loveishope
2014-11-11 04:20 pm UTC (link)

Living it was the best teacher one could have. It never made things easy, there was no easy in politics. Belle had learned that very quickly watching her parents govern Avonlea. And known it even more when she had first met Anna the girl from Arandelle, sister to their Queen. Life sometimes took strange turns one would never expect. It was perhaps that fact that Belle knew most of all. She didn't question the shudder, it wasn't her place to do so but she did nod just ever so slightly in sympathy with the girl. She understood how quickly things could turn for the worse.

But they ultimately had a shared love of books and that was more important than dragging the conversation down to war and darkness.

"Mysteries are really quite wonderful. I'm kind of partial to a good love story. I have to admit but sometimes they can be the same thing" Belle peered at the shelves for a few moments, mind working quickly to remember the author. "Oh!" she said finally "Have you read any Asimov? He's very good, really this world has so many books I'd never have known. I'm on a bit of a catch up if I'm honest"

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littlequeen
2014-11-11 09:53 pm UTC (link)

Lissa was perfectly content dropping the conversation on war, politics and diplomacy, sure that was a huge part of her life, and her studies, but there were other things to talk about, and books seemed like a good distraction from everything else. Escaping into them was always really nice. Lissa wasn't nearly as book happy as someone like Sydney was, but she still loved them.

Smiling she nodded a little bit at the comment on love stories. She wasn't really sure how she felt about reading love stories right now. The man she was in love with wasn't here, the man her best friend was in love wasn't either, so that just kind of felt depressing when she thought about it.

"No, I haven't, but given the last name I feel like I should have." It sounded Russian and so many of the names in her world were Russian she almost felt strange for not knowing it. "What are some of his books?" Lissa asked actually very curious.

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loveishope
2014-11-20 11:14 am UTC (link)

Belle immediately launched into a list of Asimov titles, "Oh, um, Foundation, I Robot, Caves of Steel, there are so many. He had quite the prolific career, so I'll point you at some of those if you are interested. He was quite the futurist too, a lot of his ideas seem to have merit. Though of course I was raised in the Enchanted Forest so a lot of this scientific stuff is entirely new to me, facinating to learn though."

Belle eventually put her hand to a copy of 'Foundation'. "Start there, see what you think of it and maybe it'll be a good start, You can go ahead and reccomend something for me if you'd like. It could be an interesting exercise in perspective."

Belle was always happy to share her love of books with any who would indulge her and it seemed Lissa was more than happy to do so.

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littlequeen
2014-11-21 10:19 pm UTC (link)

As her eyes started to get a little bit wide, Lissa just smiled. It was actually really nice to hear someone get so excited, it was just nice to talk about other things in the world too other than school, classes, how Lissa should have taken time off or one of the other million of strange things. Or food. If she was talking to Rose food would come up at some point pretty often actually. "Wow." Lissa said smiling. "Thank you." She said and nodded. "Yeah, I would be happy to read it, give me something else to focus on too!" She said blinking a little. "The enchanted forest?"

Lissa nodded ."Yeah, ummm… I kind of think you might be better read than I am! A lot better, but I um… Lissa paused feeling her head go mildly blank for a second. "While my best friend and I were… traveling." She said deciding not to talk about the whole running away thing and moving a lot and living like normal humans… "I read a lot of Gary Paulson books, they started for an English Class, Winter Dance was one of them. I mean if you like animals at all they're really interesting…" Lissa smiled as her eyes got a glassy look of thinking of the past for just a moment.

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loveishope
2014-11-23 01:58 pm UTC (link)

Ah that. Her home. "I said my name was Belle?. I believe in this world the story is called Beauty and the Beast. But I lived it, after a fashion. He wasn't so much a beast and some of the middle parts were kind of mixed up. And I did not know a talking clock. But yes. That's me. And the Enchanted forest is my home."

It wasn't that she was more well read than the other girl exactly. It was just the life she had built for herself.

"Back home I ran the town library. Loved it, probably spent more time with the books than with people for a few months there. So I really have had a lot of time to get caught up on the books and stories of this realm. But I'll have a look for his books, I do quite like animals, not so much as my friend Snow does, but we do alright. They just don't so much like living where I do."

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