Yotsuba!&..

[sunflowerfairy]

Characters: Yotsuba Koiwai and you!
Setting: The nineteenth floor on June 19th.
Format: I'm starting in prose, but I'll match you!
Summary: After getting a note from Enoch, Yotsuba decides to search the library for more treasure: information about 'romeance'.
Warnings: None so far!

Yotsuba was always happy to get mail, especially from good friends..but her recent letter inspired her to search the library, since it seemed like it was a huuge beach where seashells and other cool things hid. So, after putting the letter in her pocket, Yotsuba ran down the stairs, careful to avoid any monsters she saw. While she was wearing her sling and sash-pouch, it was still best to avoid any trouble. When she saw the first elevator she found, she pressed the call button and waited, singing to herself to pass the time.

When she finally got onto the elevator, arrived at the meadow, and dashed into the nineteenth floor, her eyes got wide, and she couldn't help but cry out to herself. "There are a lot of gems here! They're really colurful!" Nonfiction books, of course, still looked quite nice, especially to a young child. While Yotsuba was looking for a book to explain 'romentic love', she wasn't the best reader, which resulted in her pulling the first book she found off the shelf and expecting it to have all the answers..when it was just a thin book on psychology.

As Yotsuba tried to read it, her face scrunched up a she tried to make sense of what she was reading. "F..Fruied was..de..deflunked by modern.." After trying to say 'psychologists' and not getting it, Yotsuba glared at the words, as if they were the ones responsible for not having what she was looking for. "That doesn't sound nice!! This isn't a good gem!" Yotsuba closed the book and put it back on the shelf-not in the same spot she had found it in-and kept wandering around, hoping she could find something about what she was looking for.

Comments

[madokacries]

[ Madoka's not familiar with the second library, but she's found herself in here once or twice when hiding out from monster attacks in the last mouth. It's much more different than the other one! This one looks like it would be something she'd use for a research paper.

She's perusing the selections when-Oh! Her eyes light up when she sees the child wandering between the shelves. She had barely noticed her. What's a child like this doing in a library full of research books? ]

Um. Do you n-need any help?

[brbtalkingtogod]

Yotsuba hopefully won't be scared at Lucifel unannounced appearance in the library. To be exact, walking right next to her. It was amusing to see a little girl around the library in a section with literature which wasn't really made for children. How she referred to the books as gems though... it made him wonder.

And thus his interest was piqued. "Pretty hard words adults have to read, huh?"

[sunflowerfairy]

[Yotsuba turned to the person, smiling at the question. While she didn't know if this girl was a good or bad person, the question sounded nice. And she didn't look mean!]

Yotsuba would like some! But are you a good person?

[sunflowerfairy]

Yotsuba was not the type easily frightened by strangers, even if it was weird that she didn't notice him before. But..that thought didn't linger long in her head, and nor did it bother her. While she didn't know if this person was good or bad..that question didn't seem bad. And this person hadn't tried to attack her yet. So she nodded as she spoke.

"Yeah! It's hard for Yotsuba to un..understand them sometimes! But I'll understand them when I grow up! Are you a bad person?"

[madokacries]

I-I guess?

[ What a strange question to be asked. Well, she hasn't done anything evil or bad and always tries to help out... Maybe an example would be better. ]

I'm the medical officer of my class, does that make me good o-or bad?

[brbtalkingtogod]

So she got lost here by chance as it seems. Well, he'd have to see where this encounter would lead... but so far it still is amusing. And it already started with that question of hers.

"Hmm, what would make me a bad person?"

[sunflowerfairy]

[It might be a strange question..but Yotsuba was a strange person, and her Daddy had told her to not go with any bad people, a lesson that was only reinforced by having been killed by two bad people here.]

I don't know! What's a meshical office? What's a class?

[sunflowerfairy]

She actually hadn't-she had wandered into the right library..but had underestimated how much she would be able to understand to find out what she was curious about. The question was easy to answer though.

"If you've hurt someone..or killed someone without a..apologizing, that would make you bad! Taking away ice cream would make you a bad person too!"

He must not know a lot, if he didn't know what a bad person was..

[brbtalkingtogod]

Lucifel chuckled. "Then I'm not a bad person." She had put it simply but the things she counted could be considered bad. That's if the circumstances of the deeds were considered as well.

"And is Yotsuba a bad person?"

[sunflowerfairy]

And with that, any and all doubt was removed in Yotsuba's mind that this person could be bad. While she hadn't thought much about the circumstances that might surround those events, she was rather young and didn't know much about that yet.

"Okay then! That's good! And I'm not a bad person! Yotsuba's a good person!"

[brbtalkingtogod]

It would probably be a bit complicated to explain to her when something is bad and when not, so he would rather not do it in the first place. The archangel tilted his head then and leaned down to take a closer look at her.

"Really? But it's said that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover." That he would have to explain to her, but first he wanted to see her reaction.

[sunflowerfairy]

Not that Yotsuba would mind that he leaned down to look at her. A lot of people did that, so she didn't mind. But..that statement did puzzle her.

"Who said that? And what's a cover?"

..Yotsuba wasn't aware of most things, even things that children her age did know about sometimes.

[brbtalkingtogod]

He pulled a random book out and pointed at its binding. "See this? The thing that's around the pages you read and keeps them together? That's the cover of a book." He put it back in place then, the spot he had taken it from.

"Two men who wrote a book together used it in that very same book a long time ago." A long time for her, a blink of an eye to him. "It means that you should not trust something or someone easily just because of their looks."

[sunflowerfairy]

At that, Yotsuba nodded again, her eyes a bit wide from the small excitement of knowing what a cover and pages were. She knew the word for a whole book, but not the words for its individual parts.

"Oh! Okay then! I understand! Who were the people that wrote that book? And what's trust?"

Not that Yotsuba did trust people because of their looks..she waited until people actually said whether they were bad people or not. Whether they were lying or not, she didn't worry about.

[brbtalkingtogod]

Ignorance is a bliss it seems. Good thing she understood the explanation of what a book cover is. The first question would be easy to answer, however, explaining what trust is...

"Edwin Rolfe and Lester Fuller. But I don't think Yotsuba heard of them before."

Now to her other question though... "Trust... that is if you can rely on someone. A parent, a sibling or a friend."

[sunflowerfairy]

It wasn't really bliss for Yotsuba, since she didn't know what a lot of things were..but, then again, that did help her enjoy every single day. Even if a lot of bad things did happen in this Tower.

"I haven't! Were they nice people?"

As for that explanation..while Yotsuba didn't know what a sibling was, she got the idea, even if she wasn't really sure what 'rely' meant. "Yotsuba doesn't know what a sibling is..but it's like knowing that someone will keep a promise, right?"

[madokacries]

Oh! A medical officer is someone who helps people when they're hurt by taking them to the nurse.

[ Talking about stuff she knows... this intimidates Madoka a whole lot less. ]

And a class is, well... hm... When you're old enough, you go to school, right? A class is the people you share lessons with at school.

[sunflowerfairy]

[Not that Madoka should ever have been intimidated by Yotsuba, sling or not.]

Does the nurse help those people? And what's school? And lessens?

[funnystory]

[Ellen is walking through the library, a thick tome about magic clasped against her chest protectively. It's something far too thick and complex for a girl of just thirteen, but of course, she's been tackling this level of reading since she was young. There's not much one can do while cooped up in a house, after all.

Despite that, magic is one of the few subjects that she has a semi-complete understanding of or at least enough to tackle textbooks on. Complex subjects and in particular psychology are still comprehensible, but far more difficult for the young girl to understand.]

A lot of the books here are hard to read.

[sunflowerfairy]

[Yotsuba wasn't aware of what would be normal reading levels for different ages, but that comment surprised her a little.]

Really?! Are any of them about romeance? And..are you a good person?

[funnystory]

[She answers with a quick nod, as it were a perfectly normal question, no more strange or unexpected than being asked if the sun was yellow.]

Mm. I'm a good person.

[She cocks her head to one side curiously.]

There are a lot of books about romance downstairs.

[madokacries]

[ Madoka gets intimidated by everything. She is literally a deer. ]

Yes. The nurse helps people by giving them medicine, and the medical officer is responsible for taking them there so the nurse can help them.

Um... School is a place you go to learn, and lessons are the things you learn. Does that make sense? For example, one plus one is two, right? That's called math, they teach that at school.

[ As she slaps her hand over her mouth. ] Ohhh, I'm sorry. I've probably confused you...

[sunflowerfairy]

[And, since Yotsuba was naive, she believed the girls words and smiled as she spoke.]

Oh! There are?! Do they tell you what it is? How nice are those gems?!

[sunflowerfairy]

[Madodeer is the cutest deer.]

Oh! They sound like good people then! You're a good person!

[Since that was now out of the way, Yotsuba could focus on school without worrying about whether this person was good or bad.]

Yotsuba understands! But why do you have to go to school? You can have lots of lessons no matter where you go! I knew about one and two, but Yotsuba learns a lot of things everywhere!

[madokacries]

[ The pink haired girl's cheeks tint red. ]

Ah- w-well, t-thank you!

And.. ummm.... I don't know much about going to school all the time. It's something that Mama and papa really want me to do, so I do it. Some people get homeschooled, though... but a lot of people say that's not as good.

[ Madoka frowns a tad in response. She does know why, sort of but... it's not a big deal now and worrying about it makes her a little worried and saddened when she can't go to a good high school or university if she ever gets home. Mama and Papa... she doesn't even know if they're alive. ]

S-so.... what kind of b-books are you looking for?