Of course she goes to the library first

[rhapsoidein]

Characters: Genesis Rhapsodos and OPEN
Setting: Floor Three; The Library; A good chunk of the afternoon
Format: I'll match!
Summary: Genesis finds the library and disappears into the world of fiction!
Warnings: None for the moment

Fighting monster had gotten boring, really. While many presented a challenge, she really did not want to keep fighting! So it just so happened that she found the library Tohko had told her about and it was here she stayed for quite some time. Many of these books were just fascinating! Like nothing she had ever seen on Gaia. Genesis had grabbed quite a few, though she doubted she would finish any of them today. Was she allowed to check any out?

Were anyone to find Genesis, they would find her on the floor in the corner of the fantasy section, a couple piles of books next to her and her nose in one of them.

Comments

[tohko_amano]

Tohko, being a librarian, spent most of her days cleaning the shelves, putting the books back in their proper places, and sneaking in a nibble or reading when no one else was looking.

However, when she saw Genesis stuck in the fantasy section with a pile of books around her, she couldn't help but smile and walk up to her friend.

"Good morning! I take it you've found quite a few wonderful books to read."

[rhapsoidein]

Genesis had been so into the book that she didn't hear Tohko approach until she spoke which led to Genesis gasping in surprise and nearly dropping her book! She managed to catch it and save the page she was on, coughing lightly to regain her composure. "Oh, yes. Yes, I have."

Pausing for a moment, she gently shut the book after leaving a slip of paper as a bookmark inside of it. "Many of these don't exist on Gaia. Such creative plots that I would have never thought of!"

[tohko_amano]

Tohko forced herself to not chuckle at Genesis's surprise..but she did smile at it.

"It's great that you have then!"

Tohko paused for a moment at that second statement. Gaia..so this woman was from the same universe that Sephiroth, Cloud, and her old roommate were from. Huh. Well, she didn't seem like a bad person, so Tohko wasn't suspicious of her. Plus, she loved the books, so that was always a good sign.

"It's good that you get to experience them here then, even though it is a shame that they didn't exist on Gaia. Thousands of tales with hope, joy, despair, glory, honor, traitors, miracles, backstabbing..it's wonderful!"

[rhapsoidein]

Genesis was considered a bit of an oddball for loving books so much. One in particular, in fact, but that was her treasure and she kept it in her room. Besides, she doubted the library would somehow have the lost Act of that particular story, anyway.

"I don't know if I could read them all, but I suppose these tales could help me with my time here. Fighting monsters wears on you, even on Gaia."

[tohko_amano]

Tohko was considered an oddball for liking them more than anyone else..but Tohko never really cared, and she was always happy to see fellow book-lovers.

"Fighting is rather exhausting..plus, stories hold quite a few things that fighting would never be able to show you."

[rhapsoidein]

"Except fighting shows you a lot more about humanity than any story could convey," Genesis sighed, looking at the book. "Though I am grateful these stories don't glorify battle."

Fighting was exhausting, but Genesis was a SOLDIER. She wouldn't be able to avoid it.

[tohko_amano]

At that, Tohko sighed and scratched her head.

"..It is good that stories don't glorify them..but I think fighting, in certain conditions, only shows you the darker aspects of humanity. There are some light pieces..but on the whole, it's pretty bitter."

[marriedthebloke]

Ah...so this is the library...

[Sola-ui walks into the third floor, looking over the shelves to see which books would be useful to her. She catches sight of the woman sitting by the pile of books.]

These books are...

[rhapsoidein]

[She sat leaning against the bookshelves, legs crossed at the ankles and stretched out. It was as she was finishing a book that she caught sight of the other. She closed her book and reached for another, giving the woman a nod in greeting.]

[marriedthebloke]

[She approaches and picks up a book.]

Are there only fairy tales like these here?

[rhapsoidein]

[She nodded, pointing to the shelves nearby]

The fairy tales are around there, I believe. I've picked up the fantasy and science fictions books mostly.

[marriedthebloke]

Fairy tales.

[She repeats her previous assertion. Fiction stories were a waste of time in a place like this.]

Are there any non-fiction books?

[rhapsoidein]

Oh, I'm sorry. I misheard your question.

[Genesis frowned at the woman, still. And scoffed lightly, going back to her book.]

I don't read non-fiction, so I don't know where they are.

....because in the end, how could I resist?

[neverbeamemory]

It's always important to check every aisle of the library before settling down at a terminal with your back to them. Monsters, though much less threatening in the daytime can nonetheless lurk in the seemingly less-harmful places. Indeed, only last month the network terminals themselves attracted monsters.

Sephiroth rarely comes to the Library, having recently grown bored of the subjects available on both floors. He wasn't much for fiction and the factual books just didn't hold anything that he found himself in much need to know.

Though he paused at the sight of the redhead sat on the floor in the fantasy section. Of course he recognizes her from the video feed a few days ago, but as he made it clear his memory doesn't quite stretch as far as it should. A delicate silver eyebrow raised at the piles of books around her, before Sephiroth turned his back to carry on his checking of the other aisles.

He didn't even make a noise towards her, only resolved that should any monster be hiding in that aisle; that she would learn of it soon enough.

nevar!

[rhapsoidein]

Genesis was actually leaning against a bookshelf, so her back was far from open. However, that didn't mean she didn't check the place out to make sure none of the monsters roamed the area. So far, none have.

At first, she didn't notice Sephiroth. Until he happened to walk past and his silver hair caught her from the corner of her eye. She looked up and turned her head, leaning slightly as Sephiroth walked out of sight.

"Sephiroth?"

[neverbeamemory]

Sephiroth doesn't respond to most people when they call him out, especially since he had been momentarily watching her and turned away before she called after him. Responding to such would be granting some measure of control to the young lady that he may (or may not) have had some history with.

As he had stated, it didn't matter anymore. Whatever memories there had been, they just hadn't been important. Certainly no a reason for him to submit to her in any way. In fact he was near convinced she had been in some way part of that all-encompassing lie; being so clearly SOLDIER. That lie that he had shattered so completely.

Still, when he heard his name he paused for just a moment as if to consider turning back before carrying on his cautious patrol of the Library heading in the direction of the terminals.

[rhapsoidein]

Genesis caught that pause, her heart beating a bit faster. What should she do now? He still said nothing and was even moving away. This Sephiroth was rather foreign to her, though. She simply wasn't sure what to do.

But he was going to be out of sight soon and she made a snap decision. Placing her book down, Genesis pushed herself up and followed after him.

"Sephiroth," She called again. "I know you heard me to first time. Rather rude of you to just ignore me."

Apparently, she was throwing caution at the wind for now. She needed to know exactly what he knew and remembered.

[neverbeamemory]

He'd had a feeling that she might do that. Well at least she came to him and not the other way around. That made it infinitely more likely that he might accept whatever it is she had to say to him. He'd heard her move before hearing her voice again.

Sephiroth stopped and turned slightly so that he may peer over his shoulder armor at her. Glinting green eyes looking over her as if he may dissect her alive, he felt something in that moment too. Somehow, Jenova was there too; impossible to hide from him.

"I know nothing of you, and so have nothing to say to you. Genesis." At least he connected his green gaze with her mako-blue before tearing it away, lest he force any deeper resonance with whatever insignificant Jenova cells this SOLDIER may have fused with.

[rhapsoidein]

Sephiroth was always hard to get any sort of emotion out of even before his spiral into insanity, but now it seemed almost impossible. Genesis also wasn't sure he liked the way he looked at her, staring at her like that. It wasn't the sort of leers she got at SOLDIER, it was nothing sexual at all. But it was unnerving all the same. Like there was more to his gaze that she could ever realize.

"But you do know me. Or you did, anyway," Genesis may not have liked his eyes right now, the way they looked nothing like the friend she used to know, but she sought them out all the same. "We were friends. You, Angeal, and I. I could understand if you were angry with me, I deserve it, really. But to completely forget about me?"

Genesis knew she had done irreparable damage to their friendship. She would have understood if he wanted to continue not being her friend anymore. But forgetting about her hurt worse than she ever really thought.

[xroyal_bratx]

[ Ishtar happened to be in the library, tired and exhausted. there was no telling what would happen next and the events int he Tower left her tired and exhausted. She missed Duzell, and she missed Elian. Hell, she never even got to say Goodbye to Gaara. Everything just sucked and she hated it.

She wanted to curl up in a ball and cry herself to sleep and never wake up, but she knew it wasn't going to happen. Ishtar knew that she would keep going, because she promised Duzell, and everyone else that she'd stay strong. She subconsciously started to write out the names of everyone she ever knew from Facility and here that she had lost on a half crumpled piece of paper in a handwritign that somehow got better in the last three and a half years she spent outside of her world. It'll be a year here soon.

She wanted to go home. She continued to scribble across the page names. ]

Duzell
Yujinn
Lelouch
C.C.
Zero
Ichiru
Itsuki
Kurama
Yusuke
Yukina
Kuronue
Gaara
Maka
Elian
Rose
Lavi............

[ and the list went on. If Genesis noticed there was furious scribbling on Ishtar's end as she scratches out something on the page, passing it down to the table, and making a scratching noise into the wood. She wasn't sitting too far from the Fantasy Section of the library. She only planted her head against the table as she closed her eyes trying to rid herself of the frustration. ]

[rhapsoidein]

[Genesis hadn't noticed the scribbling at first, but when it reached the wood, that's when it reached her ears. And it was more than a little grating. She sighed and stood up, making her way to whomever it was making the noise.

She found a woman with her head down on the table, the scribbling gone but she saw all the names. She 'ahem'ed before speaking up.]

You shouldn't damage the wood.

[xroyal_bratx]

[ Ishtar hadn't realize there were people here, and sat straight up when someone spoke to her. ]

H..Huh?

[ she noticed it was a girl that was speaking to her. ]

Oh, sorry.

[ She stopped setting the pen down. Ishtar didn't even know what she was doing until a second ago. ] I must have been a little lost in thought.

[rhapsoidein]

[Genesis tilted her head at that and gave a scoffing laugh, but she was smiling a little.]

A bit more than a little, I'd say.

[xroyal_bratx]

[ Ishtar gave her a weak smile for that scoffing laugh, because it was nice to hear someone laugh. How long had it been since she had laughed? ]

Ah, probably. I've got a lot on my mind. I'm sorry if I interrupted you in any way.

[rhapsoidein]

[She normally didn't butt into people's business, she wasn't exactly a people person herself but... well, the woman did damage property for having 'a lot on my mind'. So she took a seat instead.]

It's fine. I always find time to read. Care to talk about it?