Booklets [ReD]

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Aeon climbed the ladder and pulled an old tome from the top shelf, shaking off the spider webs and dust before slowly making her way down and finding an empty table on the library's second floor. It was her personal favorite table, designed to seat three tucked in a little alcove between a bookshelf and a big window, meaning it had tons of light and books within easy reach.

Of course, they were all books about things she wasn't personally interested in, but being pressed against a vintage copy of Gray's Anatomy was still pretty fun. She set the book down on the table and flipped it open to the first page, reading about the knowledge within.

It was a botanical book, an old one about the magical properties of fairly common plants. She didn't have class or anything given that is was the summer, but the library was still filled with students quietly talking or frantically studying for their summer courses. She felt bad for them. Or, she would.

A small smile wormed its way onto her features.

The unicorn turned a page sliding one of her twin tails off her shoulder and leaning over to pour over the book.

Her reason for choosing this corner was of course its sun and its solitude from the rest of the library, because Unicorns tended to have this little... quirk. Because every part of a unicorn was magic rich, they glistened sweetly in the sunlight, no matter their form. While it was sometimes entrancing and sometimes annoying to whomever saw it, it always marked her as a unicorn.

A magical, magical unicorn.

But she didn't want to think about that. All she wanted to think about was the properties of the Juglans nigra, which could apparently be used for truth serums.
 

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Cabel was in the library on a pre-assigned day, like the first Sunday of every month or something. Just enough that the staff weren't surprised to see him, but not enough that he could really be connected to anything nefarious going on.

Today, Cabel's involvement at the library was purely pleasure.

Well, mostly pleasure, because Cabel took great enjoyment in his work. He was looking for an old book on what some crazy old witches used as euphasisms in their work. Eye of newt and pickled toes were both names for plants, or something, and Cabel wanted to learn whether he should be using the plant or an actual newt eye when he was concocting in his lab.

Unfortunately, the bookshelves were a lot taller than he was and the books he needed were all on the top shelf. The ladder was only helping a little bit, but it was on wheels, and Cabel was getting really tired of having to hold onto the shelf to stop from listing to one side.

He did the only thing a logical person could in this situation: he crawled ontop of the bookshelf.

This meant leaning over to look down at the books, upside down, but Cabel was surprisingly good at reading upsidedown. He'd managed to find several that he wanted and was working at pulling out one book in particular that was really wedged in there when something caught his eye.

Something...sparkly?

Cabel looked up at the same moment he yanked and found himself flipping over the shelf and into thin air. Luckily, there was a table to break his fall (although Cabel was surprised he didn't break the table) and he found himself looking up at the sparkliest nicest looking girl he'd ever seen.

"Hey," he said, or tried to, because the wind was knocked out of him. "Sorry for just..dropping in like this."
 

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Aeon was engrossed in the book. It was such a compelling read as they dissected the plants of various families and how each family and small variations affected the type or strength of the enchantment it could give. To anyone else, she was certain that they would find it droll and dry, but she supposed that was the cost of having boring nerdy hobbies.

She turned a page and picked up the book to have a good look at the illustration, marveling at the details of the elegant scientific sketch.

That turned out to be a mistake as she heard something slam onto her table.

The unicorn shrieked and jumped back, slamming her back against the wall in an attempt to get away from the loud noise and the perceived danger that had every nerve of her equine body on edge. Her chest was rising and falling with worrying quickness, and the book was pressed tightly to her bosom, probably ruining at least a page or two.

As her breath started to calm down and she took a few moments to parse the fact that a boy had just fallen onto her table from absolutely nowhere, her muscles relaxed and she smoothed out the wrinkled pages of her book. The last thing Gunner wanted was the library staff trying to get her head.

This was the only place she could be alone.

Or.... it used to be.

"Uhm," she said, blinking at him. "He... hello."

She looked up.

"Where... why..."
 

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Cabel coughed once and then twice while air started to come back into his lungs.

The girl with the really shiny hair was standing up and shrieking and he waved a hand at her, sort of trying to motion that she should bring it down a notch. Of course, since he was on his back, it might also look like he was suggesting she raise the roof.

"Hey," Cabel said, "This is a library you know. There are people trying to study."

Which, Cabel supposed, was what she was trying to do before he so rudely interrupted her. He was fixated on her hair and the way it seemed to sparkle in the light. Cabel was certain he'd never seen her before, but there was something so familiar about her hair....

...he reached out and touched it before he really thought about what an awkward move that was. It was so soft.

It took him a moment to realize that he was invading someone's personal space and touching them without permission. What sort of asshole was he?

"I...I should probably get up," he said, but he still couldn't stop looking at her hair. God, maybe he hit his head harder than he'd thought.
 

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"I don't think the guy who fell from the ceiling should be talking about what is and is not proper behavior for a library." She hissed back. She'd managed to calm down a good amount, but she was still wary of the male who'd fallen on her table. Again the unicorn looked up. The only thing that made even the slightest amount of sense is that he'd fallen from off the top of the bookshelf. But why he was on the bookshelf in the first place was a question that her mind couldn't answer.

Looking down at him, she wondered if she knew him from somewhere. Although Gunner didn't have many friends, she did know a few of the popular people in the school. She knew of Sid and of Stefan... Wei and Marina of course. It was hard not to know about them.

But this guy... he definitely wasn't a drow, a girl, or a monkey... and he definitely didn't have the stunning blue eyes that were apparently Stefan's best feature.

So she was lost.

As he reached out to touch her, she flinched back, her back once again meeting the hard wall of the library. She could feel his hand playing through her hair. What the hell? This was... Oh god, this was like something out of her YA romance novels. Somehow should didn't know if she should be excited or afraid. Right now she was moving towards afraid as he cracked one of her eyes open.

"I...I should probably get up."

"That's a good idea." Aeon muttered. "Especially since I don't think tables were made to hold human weight like that."
 

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"I don't think the guy who fell from the ceiling should be talking about what is and is not proper behavior for a library."

"Yeah, well-!" Cabel started, but she had a good point so he just said, "your face."

He was a little woozy from the fall and she was so pretty, what with her sparkly hair, that Cabel had to taper his grade-A comeback with "...is really pretty."

She was like a young, hot Cruela De Ville.

"That's a good idea." Aeon muttered. "Especially since I don't think tables were made to hold human weight like that."

Cabel's face contorted into something indignant, his newly-grown eyebrows twisting.

"Are you...are you saying I'm fat?"

Maybe he had put on a little bit of weight since he'd been eating all those cookies and stuff, but they were one of the few things lemonsqueeze really seemed to enjoy, and Cabel had to admit...they were delicious. He tried to sit up to look at his stomach but instead ended up misjudging and falling onto the floor infront of her, his feet up in the air.

"You have nice shoes," he said.
 

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She rolled her eyes at his comeback. But halfway through, when his comeback turned into a strange complement, she... really didn't know what to say. It wasn't even a smooth comment, but it made her cheeks boil a little. Stupid boy and his stupid... falling from a bookshelf.

Stupid idiot who probably cracked his skull.

Gunner watched as he rolled off the table and onto the floor. Okay, this could not possibly be how someone acted normally. The way he fell onto her table--he had to have given himself a concussion or something like that.

Even though she was tempted to just leave him there, the part of her that cared about other people couldn't leave him just laying on the floor. She relaxed, closing the book and dropping it heavily onto the table, standing over him.

Silently she was grateful that she'd decided to wear shorts today.

The unicorn leaned over and slid her hands under his back. "Come on. Get up. I'm taking you to the Infirmary."
 

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The unicorn leaned over and slid her hands under his back. "Come on. Get up. I'm taking you to the Infirmary."

"Woah, Woah, Hey!" Cabel said, flopping over onto his side and then pulling himself up so he was basically kneeling before her. He was really woozy, maybe he should go to the infirmary, but that was a little...

"That's a little forward," Cabel said. "We should get dinner first before we go all the way to the infirmary, jeeze. I like the way you think though."

He winked at her.

"I have to be honest, I don't think I've gone all the way to the infirmary with a girl before...not like this. It feels wrong. How do you feel about cheeseburgers? Are you a vegetarian? I could do veggie burgers. But we should get something first."

The room was spinning. This was pretty cool.
 

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Wait.

What?

Was... was going to the Infirmary some kind of sex thing that she wasn't aware of? She wasn't surprised--as paragons of virtue unicorns aren't taught anything super lewd or detailed when it comes to sex. The idea is just to remain chaste until she returned to her island home and then she'd learn everything trial by fire.

In times like this, she regretted that.

Because she'd apparently implied some kind of weird sex thing.

A shudder raced down her spine.

"I... I don't eat meat." She said softly before she remembered that this was not was they should be talking about right now.

God damn this guy. He had such a knack for getting her off topic.

"Well, how about I take you to see a doctor then." She said, tactfully attempting to rephrase her suggestion.
 

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"I... I don't eat meat."

"Okay!" Cabel said, nodding. "We can get veggie burgers then. What about dairy?"

He got up off the floor and was a little wobbly. His left wrist had started to throb now that he was up and his head was still spinning, but he was feeling much better.

Very slowly, he reached out and took her hand, and then made a motion like e was going to start for the door. It'd be easy for her to pull her hand back before he even touched it, and if that was the case, Cabel would just be heading to the door.

"Well, how about I take you to see a doctor then."

"That's great, we can all get lunch, it'll be a nice visit. Do you still need to check out your books? I haven't even figured out what I'm gonna read later. Agh, you'd think this kind of stuff would be on google. Do you know anything about eye of newt, but the plant? I wonder what that'd be like on a veggie burger. Newt burgers."

At least part of this was the concussion. The other part was probably the amount of caffeine he'd consumed.

"by the way, your hair is really nice. I like the two tones. It makes you exciting to look at from every angle."
 
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