towerofanimus | The Book Girl and..

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The Book Girl and..

Characters: Tohko Amano and you!
Setting: The first prompt starts in dorm room 1-09, and the autumn one starts in the library, but the rest are all around the Tower.
Format: I'm starting in prose, but I'll match you!
Summary: Like A Lion catch-all event post.
Warnings: None so far!

Tohko, for once, didn't have any nightmares, but instead, woke up rather nicely..only to feel some water fall on her head and feel cold and wet sheets. Sitting up, wide awake, Tohko saw that it was raining in the dorm rooms for some reason...and her trunk was getting filled with water.

"No! My books!" Quickly working her way out of the wet sheets, Tohko jumped out of bed, grabbed her trunk, and pulled it onto her bed. It was hard..but at least it would keep it from getting even more waterlogged for now. Opening it a little, she poured out the water before inspecting the damage. Her clothes and shoes were soaked. Tohko usually changed into her nightgown when she slept, so her school uniform got soaked, along with her cloak. That wasn't what bothered Tohko. What bothered her was that all of her books were soaked. The first volume of the Holy Knight chronicles, Similar To The Sky, the story Romeo had given her..and her notebook with Enoch's story in it..they were all ruined. She couldn't read a single word of them.

Tohko sighed to herself, clenching her fist. "Darn it.." Those were the last few things that had connected her to Konoha..and home. Why did the Administrators have to be so darn cruel?!

She wasn't given much time to mourn the loss. As she pulled out her shoes and her lightning ring, she noticed that her mailbox, her last connection to the book club, and her box full of the daises that Kiyotaka had given her were floating away. She usually kept them outside of her trunk, but..since they were made of wood, they were floating out the door. Quickly putting on her shoes and ring, Tohko chased after them, into the dorm hallway, not caring that she was in her nightgown or soaked.

Help her? Laugh? Lecture her about how she could easily catch cold?

This was a different change of pace to the rain..and while her books were now dry, they were still pretty illegible..and the heat was horrible. Even though she could now wear her normal clothes, she was sweating horribly and kept trying to find water somewhere. After all, even if she couldn't taste it, she still needed it to keep her body alive. Normally, she would use her lightning ring to generate some rain..but she was just so exhausted by the heat and the lack of water that she couldn't get the energy to.

Help keep a book girl from dying?

The leaves themselves weren't bad, and the fact that the temperature had changed was great..but the fact that there were leaves everywhere was horrid. It was bad enough the library books had been subjected to the rain, but these leaves wouldn't help any patrons that still tried to keep reading. You can find Tohko trying to keep the library and it's entrance tidy, even though there seems to be no end to the leaves.

Waking up to rain was unpleasant. Waking up to cold snow was even worse, and the temperature drop was horrible. Even with her brown cloak, Tohko was still shivering somewhat..and occasionally sneezing. It seemed that someone was starting to catch a cold, but wouldn't admit it. You could find Tohko wandering around, breathing into her hands and trying to find V/V or any other human cuddlepile that might have been established.

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Kazumi was carrying one (1) bedraggled looking cat with her as she splashed her way through the halls in her magical girl outfit. Sure, it was kind of chilly with the exposed skin, which was why she had her cloak wrapped tightly about her and Toto, but the wide-brimmed hat was practically an umbrella, so she was going to wear it as much as she could!

"Ow!" She looked down to see what had bumped into her legs. A box? Oh no, whose were these?

Tohko had managed to grab her mailbox easily, but her small box of flowers still floated away, mocking her. However, when she saw Kazumi and her cat find the box, she smiled and quickly ran over to them. It seemed that her last reminders of home and the flowers would be safe, for now.

"Good morning, Kazumi! Thank you..I've been chasing that box all morning. I'm lucky you came along. How have you been feeling?"

As she asked that, she looked a little..sheepish and scratched her head. She still felt bad for what happened back during the mist.

[After the rain and blistering heat, the cool feeling in the air was a welcome change. The leaves were a bit obnoxious, but Czes wasn't about to complain after experiencing the crazy fluctuations in weather the past few days. He had been staying close to the upper floors, but now that he could walk around without having to worry about drowning or dying of heat stroke on top of the numerous other dangers the tower posed it was worth braving the lower floors.

He enters the library, an amused smile pulling at his lips.]

It's going to take you an awfully long time to clean up these leaves when they just keep coming back, miss.

[Tohko, sadly, didn't have a broom or anything else of the sort, so she just had to keep on cleaning and picking up the leaves with her bare hands. So, when she saw and heard the boy speak, she sighed, holding a huge pile of them.]

Maybe, but I do have to keep trying! The poor books have been under so much..I'm not going to let them get wrecked by leaves! Plus, it's hard for patrons to take a look when leaves are blocking the way.

Aren't they already ruined from all the rain?

A little..but summer's drought healed them a little, even if they are still pretty illegible. However, that's why we have to keep them from getting even more wrecked!

Picking up the box, Kazumi looked up when she heard Tohko splashing her way.

"Ah, Tohko, this was yours?" Her smile faltered though at that question. How had she been feeling? After what had happened the last time they'd met... Kazumi couldn't help looking a bit awkward as well, even though she still tried to smile. "Um, well... better?"

Tohko was a frequent wearer of mask-smiles, so she could see through Kazumi's a bit. Smiling, she tried to pat the girl on the head.

"Yup, that's mine. Thanks for picking it up..it's been giving me quite the chase..and..it's good to hear that you're feeling better."

Tohko sighed and scratched her head as she spoke.

"..I've been meaning to apologize, actually. I..didn't mean to hurt you that badly. I'm sorry."

With the intense summer heat gone and water being accessible without flooding the entire Tower, a few leaves seemed like nothing at all. Even if "a few" meant they were well up to Ishimaru's waist in places and he had tiny bits of them sticking to his uniform and in his hair no matter what he did to try to keep clean. He was beginning to see a pattern with the weather, and he could only hope that winter would be skipped over in this latest experiment. Hadn't people suffered the cold enough in December? He made a note to stockpile warm blankets by the end of the day.

First he had a little pit stop to make.

His arrival at the library was heralded by the loud crunching and shuffling noises of the leaves he waded through, but he was surprised to find the entrance itself a lot shallower than everywhere else he'd been. He couldn't help but feel the need to kick out the leaves he'd dragged in with him.

Oh, what a futile effort...

Tohko, of course, had been hard at work in the library, gathering up leaves with her bare hands and dumping them outside, all while trying to keep the entrance tidy for patrons. However, as she wandered by the entrance with another pile of leaves, she spotted Kiyotaka kicking out a few leaves and smiled, both happy to see her friend and that he was trying to help out the library.

"Kiyotaka! Good morning! Thank you for helping..these leaves are quite the nuisance. I keep cleaning and they keep coming!"

Since Tohko had given a hair ribbon to Mondo, she would have not two thin braids but one thick one that held her charms.

But... how can leaves hurt them?

Well, if a few leaves manage to get inside the books, they could leave stains, and if the leaves have bugs, the books could get infested and eaten by them. It would be terrible to have book bugs in the library!

Gosh... that doesn't sound good at all!

[And Tohko actually managed to smile at that.]

No, it's not. That's why I'm trying to keep the library tidy. After all, the books have already been through a lot! They don't need even more blows!

Kazumi shrunk in on herself a little at that head patting, mostly out of shame, but she didn't move away from it otherwise.

"No, you don't have to! You were just protecting yourself... I'm really sorry I tried to hurt you myself," said Kazumi, her look downcast. That she'd tried to hurt her... and could have done some really serious damage if she'd used her magic more...

At that, Tohko put on a warm smile and shook her head.

"It's alright. Don't worry about it. The mist was affecting you, that's all. I heard people back from my universe too, so it's alright."

"I should have been stronger though... I should have listened to you, but I just... it was scary," she said, hugging Toto and the box close to her as she shivered. "I was afraid it would really happen... that my friends would end up hurting each other like that... like they did..."

"I know..I was a bit scared too, when I heard my cousin saying that I was a goblin..however..once I heard my parents speak, I knew that it was just the mist and nothing more. Plus, I had a couple of my friends explain it to me. You didn't. If no one had explained it to me, I might have ended up in the same situation."

..Okay, there was no way she could ignore that. Tohko tried to lightly hug Kazumi, in order to comfort her.

"You were scared. There's nothing wrong with that..and I don't blame you. What you and your friends went through was horrible..and you must have been terrified. I'm sure that your friends are alright though..and there's nothing wrong with being weak. After all..squirrels aren't strong, but there are still a lot of advantages to them."

While her title may have been the Springserpent, this was just plain ridiculous. Normally water wouldn't bother her much, heck, she can manipulate and conjure the stuff herself through aid of her magics, and despite the fact that she's technically a feline, it's not as if she'd react to being drenched like any ordinary housecat. This massive, continuous downpour is far more than just annoying, and sloshing down twenty floors because the elevators decided to either get flooded, stop working or some ungodly combination of both isn't at all fun, she'll be the first to tell you.

Chilled to the bones, her turban floating off into the distance, Mihli stalks down the hallway with gritted teeth, almost hissing in annoyance before Tohko's vigilante mailbox catches her attention. Bracing herself upon a nearby wall, she casually stops the box's path with a leg so that she can scoop it out of the drink, victoriously offering up the prize to the drenched Book Girl while forcing a tired smile while she's at it.

"Lovely weatherr we're having!"

Kazumi at least giggled a little at the mention of squirrels, sniffling a bit and burying her face against the other girl.

"I just wanted to protect them. To save them from what would... what might happen," she said. "I-" But then she squeaked in surprised as one bedraggled cat squirmed up between the two girls, climbing out from between them and on to Kazumi's shoulder, meowing irritably. "Oh, sorry, Toto!"

Tohko, who was running after the mailbox-which kept taunting her, as her box of flowers hadn't been this difficult to pick up-noticed a turban as she was running. It look like the one Mihli wore, so she picked it up, in the hopes of giving it to her later and continued chasing after her mailbox.

However, when she saw Mihli pick up her box and offer it with a forced smile, she had to give one as well while offering the catgirl her turban.

"Yes, just wonderful!"

..This may be the first time Mihli has heard genuine sarcasm from Tohko.

As Kazumi buried her face into Tohko's shoulder, Tohko smiled a little at the chuckle and lightly patted her on the back.

"I know..I know how you feel. I would have felt the same way, if I were in your shoes." But..before Tohko could hear what else Kazumi had to say, a very annoyed-looking cat climbed up onto Kazumi's shoulder and meowed.

Tohko blinked for a moment before reaching out to pet the kitty as an apology.

"I'm sorry about that, Toto. I didn't see you there. Hopefully you're helping out Dorthy here?"

"Eheh, as much as he can," chuckled Kazumi. "He doesn't like the rain much..."

And with the cat out, she was reminded of the other thing she was holding.

"Oh, right, here!" she said, handing over the box she'd picked up. "I'm glad I could catch it for you."

Tohko chuckled a little bit in return, scratching her head. "Well, I don't imagine many cats do!"

When Kazumi held out her box, Tohko took it, nodding and smiling a bit.

"Oh, thank you! These flowers are from a friend of mine..I just got them recently, so I would feel terrible if I lost them. Thank you."

..And suddenly, an idea.

"..How about I make you a purple squirrel plush in return? I was planning on making you one as an apology anyway?"

A happy exchange, though she wouldn't dare throw that soggy turban on her head now.

"Thanks."

The sarcasm in Tohko's voice is surprising, though not at all unwelcome. Actually, it gets Mihli to chuckle a little despite the circumstance.

"What's causing this ... rain? And why isn't it stopping?"

Not even midway through her sentence, Mihli silently panics as she comes across a rather startling realization. If the whole Tower were drenched right now, what's to become of the Libraries and their books?

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