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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

[tohko_amano]

Tohko glared at the boy as she tried to twist her wrists out of his hands. "If you need information about the tower, then talk to the people that live here! Or read some books. Tearing them apart isn't going to help anyone. Besides, I doubt you'd find a single book here that'd help you escape. They've done a good job taking those sorts of volumes out."

Tohko too had searched the shelves, looking for a way home, but she had found nothing. And if she, the book girl, hadn't found anything, than this terrible, book-destroying monster wasn't going to either. "Now, let go of my hands, or I'll kick you!"

[rainscented]

They'd been taken out completely? That figured. His shoulders slumped for a second, before she threatened him and he laughed in response, surprised, unamused.

He did let her go, though. Her anger had managed to take the edge off his own, and he was suddenly rather tired.

"This place sure has a lot of defenders. I guess I should be happy people care about books even after the world has ended."

[tohko_amano]

Tohko rubbed her wrists, happy that he had let them go, but she wasn't quite sure if that laughter was mocking her. It probably was. She sighed before replying.

"You should! After all, books are important. even if we were all to die right now, the books in the tower would still be here, and they'd be able to help anyone who came along. And they really help out the people who are in the tower. So, don't rip them up, alright?" Tohko started to clean up, putting the books back in the shelves and putting any ripped pages that were still legible in their proper spots.