towerofanimus | Book Girl and...

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Book Girl and...

Characters: Tohko Amano and you!
Setting: The third floor library and the graveyard on July second.
Format: I'm starting in prose, but I'll match you!
Summary: After getting some name tags and a paper hat from Diarmuid, Tohko decides to put the hat and a name tag on 'Ivan' while waiting for other people to respond to her offer. Later on, wondering about some people she hasn't seen in awhile, Tohko wanders over to the graveyard and finds that quite a few of her friends are gone.
Warnings: None so far!

Tohko had been pretty happy since the event was now, officially, over. While she the library, it was nice to actually sleep in a bed without worrying about being cornered by a monster. Ruana's note of her games never going off the script annoyed her though..it sounded like something Wilhelm would say, but..she knew that there were times and chances where her games wouldn't go exactly as planned. After all, that was what they were working towards.

While that didn't change the fact that Ivan, her retrieval unit of a stalker, was constantly following her, Diarmuid's gift of a box of name tags and a paper hat for the 'library helper' did make her smile. So, while waiting for anyone who would take up her offer, Tohko put Ivan's name tag on his chest and the paper hat on his head before looking him over and chuckling.

"It really suits you, Ivan! You have to promise to work hard, now that you have your hat, alright?" She wasn't expecting an answer back, but it felt nice to talk to him sometimes, even if he wasn't really on her side.

Tohko didn't quite know why, but she had an urge to visit Konoha, Ryuto, and Chia again, even if the gravestones weren't real. The sentiment was still there, and that was all that mattered, as far as she was concerned. It didn't feel quite right to have Ivan accompany her though, so it took awhile for her to even get to the graveyard, since she had to run around and take a few trips on the elevator before she could ditch him.

When she did get inside the graveyard, she had to catch her breath for a few moments before walking down the rows of graves..but instead of pausing at the graves of her family and friends, she saw graves for old friends, ones that she didn't know or wasn't aware of the fact that they had left the Tower. She saw Tear's grave, Waver's, Mihli's and a few others. She didn't cry when she saw them. She just put on her mask of a smile, sighed, and patted the stone like she was patting their heads.

"I promise, I'll do my best to save you guys. Immortality's painful..especially when you're alone in a situation like that. I promise, I'll try."

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"I'll come with." Darres wouldn't make her do all the work, but he wasn't very good with this social thing.

"No. I don't." Except maybe he did and he's just not admitting to it.

Tohko wasn't quite sure that she bought that denial, but, since it seemed like Darres wasn't going to elaborate right now, and since she didn't want to be nosy, she let the matter drop with a small sigh.

"Alright then, but if there's something you do want to discuss with me, don't hesitate to, alright? And if we're going to find The Phantom Tollbooth, we'll have to go this way.."

And with that, Tohko would turn and start to walk down the isle with Ivan following her. Darres would have to keep walking with her if he wanted to keep up.

"My apologies for misleading you." Ahh what a mess, and he still hasn't figured out how to work that network thing, and it didn't seem very reliable either. Ishtar showed it too him several times, but technology was a hard thing for him to graph. He was good with a sword, not keys. Maybe he'll slip on the matter.

"Right." It wouldn't be hard for him to follow her, Darres kept up just fine.

As she spoke, Tohko kept on walking down the isle, turning left into the next one when she came to the end of it.

"Oh, don't worry about it! I can misconstrue some things sometimes, so it's alright." Tohko, on the other hand, did know how to work the network and would be more than happy to show him to do so..provided that Darres actually asked. She wasn't a telepath, after all.

However, when she saw the familiar blue book, she smiled and pulled it out of the shelf before handing it over to Darres. "Here you are! This is The Phantom Tollbooth."

Darres did lighten up when he was handed the book. The tall male carefully took it and gave it a quick examination. "Thank you. I'm sure he'll enjoy this story."

"Oh, you're welcome! I'm sure he will! It's a delicious, refreshing dish of cold ice water with a fruit salad made from bananas, apples, oranges, strawberries, cantaloupe, watermelon, and pineapple! It really is invigorating! However..should I grab any of the other titles I mentioned for you?"

He...didn't know what most of that was, possibly things native to her planet, but definitely not his. "If it's not too much to ask." He rubbed the back of his neck. "We kind of go through stories quickly." He's read more in the past couple months than he had through all his years spent back at home. It was really quite astounding to him.

If he asked, she would be more than happy to elaborate, but..since he didn't, Tohko thought that Darres knew what she was talking about. However, at his reaction, she just smiled and nodded. Ivan did nothing, of course.

"Oh, it's alright! I expected that, to be honest. I was just making sure. Now..James and The Giant Peach should be near Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.."

And with that, she would wander down the isle, with Ivan in tow.

That was what was bothering him the most, Ivan. Darres expressed some level of discomfort, but not for his being.

"Does that...thing always follow you?"

While Ivan was annoying most of the time, Tohko didn't like it being called a 'thing', so she turned around to glare at Darres a bit as she spoke.

"Ivan's not a thing! He may be a retrieval unit, but that doesn't mean it's nice to call him a 'thing'! Plus, I put a nametag on him, so it should make it easier for you to remember his name."

"My apologies, I didn't mean to offend." But really. He doesn't even understand the mechanics of a network, let alone the name of it. His luck with retrieval units weren't much better.

"You named [it] him?"

At that, Tohko sighed and scratched her head.

"It's alright. Just make sure to remember that in the future. And I did name him. If he has a name, he won't tell me it, so I gave him one. It feels wrong for him to not have one, and it makes it easier to talk about him. Besides..I think he's conscious to some degree, even if the Administrators do mess with him."

"They do seem to have a broad sense of control in this setting, I wouldn't be surprised."

"Nor would I. So, it's possible that he has a name and identity, even if the Administrators do suppress it. If we ever manage to beat them, I'll have to see if Ivan ever did name himself, if he becomes fully conscious."

"What of your home world, or things of that nature. Suppose we do win in our situation, what do you think will happen to this place and its inhabitants?"

"Well..I'm not sure, exactly. I know we'll be free from the experiments and cruelty of the Administrators, and we'd have a lot more knowledge, but we'd also have to work at restoring the universes and the people that are supposed to be there.

So, even if we beat them, we'll still have a lot of work to do..but it's better to work hard and be free rather than be caged up like this."

"Have we figured out how to help restore where everyone is from?" He's never had to do this before.

At that, Tohko would sigh and shake her head.

"Not yet..to even find out enough information, we have to tie up the Administrators and find out what they know and what they're hiding from us before finding out what information is hidden down there. However, we are working on it! I don't think anyone's going to give up until we manage to do it."

Or give it their best shot, at the least.

Those admins were very coy people since their promises didn't match their actions. Still, Darres didn't hate them. He would like to understand why it was they were operating as such, but he doubted he would find out any time soon.

"I see. You're right that no one will give up."

Well, not all of them were liars, but Tohko was still convinced that there were secret libraries in the Administrative area where they hid the history books. Not that she hated all the Administrators either..she liked Zo and thought that Riki might secretly be on their side..but she hated Jason and Ruana, much as she didn't want them to die yet.

"Of course! After all, when the situation's like this, I don't think it's possible for anyone to stop fighting entirely."

"That's what sets us apart from other living things." Their unusual will and ability to deceive, Their imaginative process. These traits alone would help them achieve their goal. Hopefully.

"Well, most living things, at their core, are pretty stubborn and will do anything they can to live too, you know. We just have a bit more skills and knowledge than they do, that's all."

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"We're overly complicated." Of course Darres has always had a preference for animals as well.

"Well, I suppose you could say that..but I don't think there's anything wrong with being rather complex. After all, some of the best stories have complex plots!"

"And with it come more problems." He's been through complicated plots. Royal families were never a simple thing to deal with when they all fought for power.

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