Aziraphale's Festively-Decorated Bookshop

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

Kiki opens the shop, and runs through her mental check-off list.

"Open" sign - check.
Tea and cocoa - check.
Scones and biscuits - check.
Crackling fire in the fireplace - check.
Cozy chairs and pillows - check.
Festive decorations - check.
Lack of avocados - check!

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Re: Books

[suzotchka.livejournal.com]

Ivanova is totally caught up by the other girl's enthousiasm. "That's great! A friend of mine when I was younger got a job like that - at a stable, actually." She looks around the store. "Could I possibly have a cup of that cocoa?"

Re: Books

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

"Absolutely," Kiki answers. "It's free for anyone who would like some - and it's always hot. Help yourself to some scones or biscuits, too."

There are some cozy arm chairs and a very comfortable couch near the fireplace, as well, and the table with the goodies is near them.

Re: Books

[suzotchka.livejournal.com]

"Thanks!" Ivanova takes a cup, but avoids the squishy couches of doom, as she has to get to work at some point in the foreseeable future and squishy couches are as insidious traps as bookstores are. Instead she wanders towards the books, carefully holding her mug at a safe distance.

"Oh, by the way, I'm Ivanova, I don't think we've met," she says to the other girl.

Re: Books

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

"I'm Kiki," answers Kiki. She looks about 15 years old. "I'm going to guess that you're browsing, not looking for anything specific," she says with a smile.

Re: Books

[suzotchka.livejournal.com]

"Very true," Ivanova replies to the younger-by-three-years-while-we're-giving-some-context girl. "I just managed to burn through everything on my ship. It's down to the manuals. In Minbari. Do you stock any of those cheesy romance novels?" She grins. "Y'know, the ones with the fiery-haired, tempestuous young heiress and the dashing rogue with a past as dark as his manly windswept hair?"

[[I swear I'm not refreshing like a demented hamster. I just happen to check almost as soon as you post]]

Re: Books

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes," Kiki smiles with a twinkle in her eye. "We have an extensive selection of Regency and Harlequin romances," she elaborates, leading the way between some shelves. "This series, I'm told, is good," Kiki continues, plucking down three books by the names of Passionate Trousers, Trousers Revisited and Trousers Aflame. Each cover shows a vibrantly red-haired, green-eyed and buxom lass who would be corsetted if her corset were not actually half torn from her torso by the raven-locked and massively muscular hero with the finely-chiseled features who is clutching at her like a drowning sailor to a floating log and looking at her with his ebony eyes in a way both ravishing and highly improper. "Rhiannon," Kiki explains, pointing to the be-cleavaged and half-undressed woman. "I think."