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Book Haven; Friday [ 10-5 ]

Finals? Were done and over with, so when Alphonse got himself settled in the usual spot behind the counter, he was left with an amazing amount of nothing to study. Which was fine, because now he could spend most of his time reading at his leisure.

It was the end of the week already.

The store was open for anyone with booky needs.

[ ooc: I am posting this with my mind in my sleep, because I am totally not awake at this hour. Honest! ]

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Setsuna came into the shop that morning to...get books. Yes, that was it. Definately just to get books.

Thankfully, she had the whole walk into town to try to think of what kind of books she'd be coming to the shop to get.

Alphonse was just about ready to look up and greet whoever came in, until he saw who came in. He paused, briefly, until he managed to stammer out, "O-oh, hi, Setsuna."

"Hi, Alphonse." Setsuna's mouth continued as if she was going to go on to say more, but she'd forgotten entirely everything that she'd been putting together to say on the way over.

...Crap.

"Was there anything you needed?" Alphonse asked, quickly, already setting aside what he was previously reading.

"Ummm..." Setsuna knew she had an answer to that question; really, she did. But it was escaping her at the moment...

"Oh! Right! Books!"

Because that was what you did at a bookstore. Get books. Or hide, but she actually didn't have much reason to hide at the moment for a change.

"Ah, well, yes..." Inwardly, Alphonse was already starting to shake his head at himself. Really, it's not like he needed to tap dance around everything because of what... happened.

Ooooor maybe he did, because he was already turning to go toward the shelves, attempting to fight back the shades of red appearing across his face. "Right! What kind? I could help you find them! Um-- if you need the help, that is."

"Help would be nice," Setsuna said, and boggled at herself because she never asked for help when she didn't really need it and instantly went about justifiy it. "You're much more familiar with the layout of the shop, and too much English at once can still manage to get me confused."

Yeah, that's it, fall back on the whole English-as-a-second-language thing...

Well, Alphonse wasn't about to call it a poor excuse. "What kind of book were you looking for?"

"Well...Ojou-sama suggested some reading on astrology that might help with some of the things in Ami-chan's dreams; perhaps I could find some of those titles? She's coming by the Nest later and we're going to discuss it, so it probably won't hurt if I had some extra materials."

Yes, that would do quite nicely, Setsuna decided, a little proud of herself for the reasoning.

"Astrology," Alphonse concluded, spinning on his feet to walk in the opposite direction; maybe he should have asked that before going in a totally random direction. "There's a lot of that," he said with a nod, then waved down the shelf once he found it. "Right here."

Setsuna ducked her head to hide a little smile and a blush brought on by thinking that little change of direction was cute and followed after Alphonse.

"Oh, good," she said, when they got to that section and she passed her over them all. "Wow. There is a lot...."

Alphonse nodded with a small grin. "It is a pretty broad topic," he said, skimming over some of the book titles on the shelf out of interest. "Hopefully something in here would be able to help you."

"Something specific to the planets," Setsuna offered, also looking them over, her head tilted slightly to better read the words on the spines of the books.

"Hmm," Alphonse looked over them more before giving Setsuna a thoughtful glance. "You mean, scientifically, or the mythology?"

"Mythology, I think," Setsuna said. "As far as Ami-chan's dreams, I think we're definitely in the realm of the mythical over the scientific..."

Dreams, huh? Alphonse had to wonder how astrology and dreams went hand in hand, but as he barely knew her, decided not to ask. "Okay, then riiiight..." he skimmed a bit more, before pointing. "Ah-ha, right here. There's a few different topics over that, too, though I'm not really familiar with them."

"A few different topics?" Setsuna asked, turning to Alphonse briefly before she stood on her toes a little to reach better. She went and pulled the book he'd pointed out to her.

He nodded again, stepping back to give her room. "I don't know which ones will work best for something like dreams, though."

"Well, what did you have in mind?" Setsuna asked, tilted head toward him for a moment again before she started flipping through the book she'd gotten down.

"Eh? Oh, um, nothing in particular..." Alphonse trailed off sheepishly. "This is a bunch of stuff I don't know much of anything about."

"Me, neither," Setsuna admitted quietly, her attention entirely on the book now, although she wasn't really paying much mind to the contents at the moment. "Which is all the more reason I need to look into it, I suppose..."

Alphonse gave a series of nods. "I'm sure there's plenty of things here to help you with that."

Setsuna smiled a little, closing the book and holding it against her chest with an arm, having decided that this was one she'll take. "This seems like a good start; I wonder what else might be good?" She implored Alphonse for a moment before directing her eyes back to the shelf.

"Ah, well," Alphonse began shifting his fingers around where Setsuna got her book from. "I imagine the books around it would have similar content."

After a moment, Setsuna slowly asked, "See any on...Mercury, specifically, by chance?" She was looking, but hadn't located any yet.

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