i'm looking for an easy thing [ OPEN MINGLE ]

[hyperlit]

Who: Anyone and everyone! Who wants to look at books?
What: BOOKVALANCHE
When: Let's say from the 25th and onward for simplicity
Where: The Storyteller's Temple, in addition to the library that's finally getting some much-needed attention
Warnings: Mark anything that comes up!



The library is finally getting some renovations! Between some new bookshelves (hope someone here is good at hauling) and a veritable cascade of all sorts of books and supplies, an awful lot needs to be transferred from the Temple to the heretofore unused library, and any help anyone has to offer is much appreciated!

But, of course, there's also so very much to go through for your own perusal. Just look at all this! Coloring books, puzzle books, stories of all sorts, comic books, fashion magazines, all sorts of survival texts...you name it.

This all needs to be put away and stored in those neat little waterproofing book protectors - shelves need to be moved, supplies need to be secured, and someone should probably take inventory. But also...there's a lot of fresh new reading material on an island that previously had none.

Isn't that worth looking over?

Comments

gasp a cute

[mamaterasu]

[Yasha actually takes Ammy a bit by surprise when she appears, mildly startled out of her quiet. Haha, she must have been pretty engrossed to not even notice the woman's steps or scent coming in, but Ammy stands on her feet happily to greet the woman and wags her tail pleasantly. She carefully picks up the comic book she was reading in her teeth (careful not to poke, tear, bend, or drool all over the delicate paper) and holds it up.

It's mainly pictures, as comics usually tend to be, but there's text boxes and the like strewn in there as well. The boxy pictures are bright and vivid, and the artwork truly pops. For a painting goddess, it's pretty easy to see why she picked up this book right away. Not only that, but the story is engrossing and exciting!! This is so much better than a picture scroll!]

:-)

[barberian]

(Yasha's hand pauses, mid-descent toward Ammy's back, and she takes the comic book very gently. She hasn't seen anything like this before. Granted, she doesn't really read a whole lot, but... well, other people in her party do, and she's never seen Caleb go through a book with more pictures than words before.

It must be good. Ammy is wagging her tail, delighted with her find. Yasha turns a page carefully, perusing it.)

How do you know how to read? (She says eventually, turning back to the page Ammy had been reading, and offering it back to her.) You are a wolf.

[mamaterasu]

[There isn't much to parse in the way of words. Certainly, they do explain the story a bit, but the pictures and everything therein detail most of what's going on. Ammy can certainly appreciate a good story told in pictures, after all.

The question actually has her blink, then begin to laugh in that way only she can - wheezy, rasping, almost like a hyena's cackle with her tongue bobbing from her lower jaw. Yes, she's a wolf, of course, and most wolves probably don't read, write, or paint. They probably don't speak, use magic, run faster than the wind itself, or glow in the darkest depths of night either. It'd be so easy to tell Yasha the truth of what she is, but where's the fun in that? Where's the mystery? Humans need to figure these things out for themselves.

Though...she will give a small hint. She looks around, trying to find a place where she can write, not wanting to damage any of the books or scrolls here already, then just opts to write on her own flank. She is as white as a fresh piece of paper, so... The character is small, and just a few simple strokes. One single character, that means everything to some and probably nothing at all to others. But it's the answer she gives--]

天

[It means heaven.]

[barberian]

(Yasha's a little thrown by the wolfish laughter, even though she's already more or less settled on the idea of Ammy's having once been a person. Does she know, that it's strange for wolves to do these things? Yasha's not too sure of anything any more, but she has to be at least a tiny bit self-aware...

Though not enough to keep from literally daubing words across her own flank. Or at least Yasha thinks that it's a word? The character doesn't mean anything to her, but she still traces it slowly across her own palm with her index finger, trying to remember it.)

I don't understand, (she says finally, a hint of frustration creeping in.)

[mamaterasu]

[Sorry, Yasha, but that's all you get. The wolf smiles in the way that canine do, a sly twinkle in her eyes hiding the answer she holds. It's funny, she can't help but think, how humans search so long for answers to something that, to Ammy, seems so...uncessary? Mysteries occur all over the world, things that are more fun or more interesting because they are so mysterious. It's half the reason why the world is so wondrous.

Magic, too, is mysterious, as are gods. Ammy could tell Yasha right now - she has the capability - but why? What fun would that be? What would she learn, if given the answers? Ammy looks around the library - small, but already filling with knowledge. Have a look around...maybe the answer is hidden away in a book or a scroll.]

[barberian]

(Yasha stares at Ammy for a long moment, long enough to catch that little smile and eye twinkle... she huffs impatiently, folding her arms across her chest. Maybe she wouldn't want to know the answers so badly if she weren't so obviously being toyed with!

It's clear she isn't going to get any by standing here. Yasha's eyes narrow, and then she sighs, and lets her arms drop. If she wants to know, she will have to figure it out by herself, huh.)

Fine, (she tells the wolf, acknowledging her little glance around the library with an exasperated look,) I can do my research. Don't think that I won't figure it out eventually.