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[readbytwilight.insanejournal.com]

Who: Zexion, Librarian, others
Where: The Library
When: Day 203, early afternoon
What: Books

[There had been . . . reservations, about visiting Sabra's library. Half-real memories, echoes of a reluctance from another time, another life. But the humidity creeping into the air, the scent of earth soaked with water (however wrong, however just a bit off that scent is from what it should be) result in echoes of another kind, and so it is that a lone Hydra has made his way there today, walking the stacks, pausing every so often to brush fingers over a leather-bound spine, or move certain delicate books from the lower racks to the higher.]

Comments

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

[nods his head]

The more delicate books must be moved to higher shelves, at minimum. I would say that the entire collection needs to be moved to high ground, but ...

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

The air in the dorm is still drier, we could move some there... and maybe wrap the more delicate ones in leather or something else to protect them from the humidity.

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

[thinks about that]

It would serve as a temporary solution.

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

Red thinks that we will be moving. Would you be able to confirm that? Otherwise we will need to look for a way to stop the water if it continues to rise.

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

Ah ... I cannot specifically confirm that, but as you seem to have figured it out ...

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

I didn't want to risk everyone's safety on an assumption. But if we really are moving, we can concentrate on preparing to move our things and the books instead of trying to stop the water.

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

That would be much more sensible, yes. Even if such a thing could be done, the water is badly contaminate.

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

Alright. Which books are the most delicate? If you could point them out, it would be faster than if we tried to check each one and decide for ourselves.

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

A very good point. Ah, you can start here --

[he begins pointing out the books]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

[follows and just pulls them so they hang out a bit to mark which ones they are for now]

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

[good boy \o/ there's quite a few of them. none of the marked ones are Twilight, however.]

That should do it.

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

Is it alright to take them to our dorm for now? When we move, we can take them with us first.

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

That would be fine. I trust in your ability to keep such things safe.

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

[nods]

We have an empty room. They will be safe there.

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

[nods]

That would be fine. You will likely have to move them again, but...

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

I expected that. But I think it would be better to keep them there than in here where they may be damaged.

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

Yes. I do not think we will be able to save all of them, in the end. But the most important ones must come.

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

If that's true, then please mark the ones that we should take first. We will take them in order of the most important to the least.

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

I can do that easily enough.

[flutters through the shelves, nudging some of them with his beak. a faint papery imprint in Cepheus violet is left behind.]

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

Ah--that's the mark we should look for?

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

[nods]

That way nothing important will be left behind.

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

[nodnod]

Please leave it to us.

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

[... dere .///.]

Thank you.

[time_andagain.insanejournal.com]

[???]

It's nothing.

[sabra_la_npcs2.insanejournal.com]

All right.