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Characters: Tim Drake and YOU (yes, you)
Setting: Library
Format: Brackets but feel free to use prose.
Summary: Newbie having something like a quiet mental breakdown in the library. Approach him during any part of his information gathering.
Warnings: None.


[As soon as Tim had arrived in the tower, he was determined to find out why he was brought here. Sorry, but he's not buying anything about his world being destroyed. He's helped save it far too many times to accept that.

So, the only logical place to go (besides interrogating various workers and other kidnapped people) is the library. Unfortunately, there was no section on the history of this place or even other worlds, so now Tim is striding quickly through the aisles of bookshelves, pulling books down at random to hold in his arms. That's not all of them, though -- just outside one of the aisles is a group of stacked books, unnecessarily high, where Tim is dumping them all.

Eventually, he sits cross-legged in the middle of all the stacks and starts to flip through the books at speed, skimming them for information. He doesn't particularly care if he looks odd; it seems like a good portion of the people here are just as curious about this place as he is.

As he reaches the end of a rather thick encyclopedia, he discards it a bit roughly and groans to himself.]

Oh, come on, there has to be something useful hidden in one of these books.

Comments

[f0rceless.livejournal.com]

[Ven was now investigating the books that were not currently being read with interest.] In another hour? How long have you been at it?

...What are you doing anyway? [They all seemed like random options as he was skimming the titles.

[chapsandcowl.livejournal.com]

Not very long. It took longer to take all of them down.

[He watches Ven examine his books.] I'm looking for clues.

[f0rceless.livejournal.com]

Wow.. [Ven's face scrunched a bit, amazed someone could not only read them so fast, but actually had the patience to.]

Clues to what? The tower? [Don't mind him randomly flipping through one of your selected books.]

[chapsandcowl.livejournal.com]

[Tim laughs softly.] Don't look so surprised. I'm only skimming them.

Yeah. Everything about this place is so obviously suspicious. There has to be something they forgot to leave out.

[f0rceless.livejournal.com]

Still, that's more than I could probably manage. [He laughed in return at his own expense.]

[Huffs] What about the fact that there's no way that a bunch of worlds can just be destroyed like that. I bet it's just some trick!

[chapsandcowl.livejournal.com]

I've had a lot of practice.

Definitely. It's possible, but it's highly unlikely. And I don't appreciate them lying to us about something like that.

[f0rceless.livejournal.com]

Do you have to read a lot or something?

What I can't figure out then is why they would do all of this in the first place. It doesn't seem like they want anything out of us, so why go to all the trouble to convince us our worlds are gone?

[chapsandcowl.livejournal.com]

You could say that.

For their own sick amusement? It happens.

[f0rceless.livejournal.com]

Hm...? [Confused face, but he wasn't sure how to ask another question, so screw it.]

Just for their amusement? Who would do something like that?!

[chapsandcowl.livejournal.com]

Bad people.