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[rainscented]

Characters: Rat (rainscented) and YOU.
Setting: Libraries, mainly the third floor one. 14th-ish
Format: Your choice! I'll follow you.
Summary: Four mice raid the library.
Warnings: foul language, probably.

[ there's a pissed-off teenager in the library. Said teenager is currently occupied tearing books from shelves, flicking through them with the speed of an experienced skim-reader, and just as quickly throwing them into a growing pile on the floor behind him.

It would be more dramatic if he wasn't dressed as a giant mouse. For one thing, the furry paws make gripping the books difficult, let alone turning a page. He keeps dropping them, or tearing out chapters. For another, there's a small troupe of real mice perched inside his fluffy, ear-bedecked hood, chittering complaints at him for making a mess. Occasionally one darts across to a shelf to sniff at book spines, but they always return to scold him.

What's he doing? Who the hell even knows. He's been looking for some time now; the pile is huge, and he hasn't found what he's looking for.

Maybe he's just venting. ]

Comments

[forgetbeam]

[STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM.

Incidentally, it's a teenager dressed as a cop who decides it's time to lay down the law. Of course, a regular police uniform is too much to ask from the tower. It really looks more like something that would be more suited to a male stripper, right down to booty shorts. It might be scandalous if Ishimaru didn't insist on wearing his normal white uniform over top of it anyway... even if the costume somehow found its way to the top layer when he wasn't looking.

So it just looks stupid and uncomfortable. But at least he's dressed decently!

Anyway, he's too busy being seconds away from causing an uproar to care about how he looks. He was glad to find a library, but not if this kind of thing was going on inside!]

What do you think you're doing?!

[rainscented]

Venting. [ he admits, easily. Another book goes sailing past Ishimaru's head. ] I'd say it's pointless - [ riiiiip ] - but it's making me feel better.

[forgetbeam]

[He flinches away from the flying book, because that looks like it would really hurt otherwise. But he's not giving up yet.]

Such vandalism is never the right way to express anger! You should be doing something constructive, instead!

[rainscented]

[ are you for real. ]

Like what?

[forgetbeam]

Well... As an example, instead of throwing a book, you could be reading it instead! It's relaxing and useful to fill the mind with knowledge.

[rainscented]

Huh, really? I have these memorised. [ he waves a volume of Hesse. ] -- and I don't feel very relaxed at the moment.