gask/valli

Valli usually didn't believe in liquid courage. He barely drank--he dealt with enough patients to know the risks of alcohol--and didn't keep any around the house. Even so, liquid courage was what he needed. Something to be his mental excuse, to tip him over into just do it already. Because he...

Valli had, for better or worse, become fixated on the idea of the library. The library seemed to be the cure for all his problems, the answer to his prayers. The library would resolve all his awkward tensions, and would answer Gask's oh-so-obvious moral dilemma. The library was why he was...

Somewhere along the line, Valli probably should have thought about how it was a bad idea. There were a lot of parts about the idea that were unquestionably bad, and plenty more that were debatable. He was bringing something to life, an action which required actual paperwork to do, and yet he'd...