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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
2014-11-20 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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