Book Haven - Saturday - 09/06

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This 'working' was starting to grow on Fiyero, admittedly. It was nice to feel as if the days weren't filled with nothing except minimal conversation and meals, really, and he'd taken to organizing the shelves to his liking and ensuring that the books stayed in that order, considering the amount of people who seemed to take novels or texts off the second shelf and for some unknown reason replace them on the third a few moments later.

He tapped his fingertip on the desk for a moment and then continued to write down The Oziad in full, scrawling handwriting. He thought it was something that Geoffrey would appreciate, at least.

That doesn't mean he's unapproachable, though. If there are questions he will certainly do his best to answer them in full.

{{OOC: And flying OCD-less. Like a drunken flying monkey.}}

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"I have a copy in a book," said a voice very quietly from a few inches away.

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Fiyero glanced up from the writing with a slight smile.

"It's mostly for Geoffrey, really." But then again, the man might appreciate a whole book of it.

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"It's got other things as well," he said as he leaned back, no longer needing to look at the page now that he knew what was there.

"Some Munchkin poets, a few pieces from Gilikin. Nothing much from the Vinkus, but that's all changed somewhat. It was a gift from someone, a history of Oz.

"I've read it through a few times."

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He nodded absently. "I'd like to take a look at it eventually if you don't mind too much."

He smiled full-on this time.

"Have you been doing all right?"

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He nodded.

"Well enough indeed," he said with a faint smile as he leaned against the counter.

"And yourself? I know I've been dropping things off and running, but I hope the summer ice didn't melt too much."

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"Not too much at all," he assured Liir with a slight nod.

Setting his pen down on the table, he turned his full attention to his son.

"And you started fall classes this week, didn't you? Or I am terribly misinformed?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I did."

He ducked his head as he hadn't quite told his father this. He hadn't thought of it. Reporting, about school and about other things, was nothing new exactly, but he was somewhat out of practice.

"I attended all my classes."

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"But did you enjoy them?" Because that was a rather important question to consider.

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Now he blinked.

"Of course I did," he said with a nod of his head. "It's learning. I'm taking Diplomacy, Survival Skills, Art, and Literature this term. Two subjects are rather new to me; the other two, not so much."

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Fiyero grinned faintly.

"I only ask because I know there were a few courses I took at Shiz that were ... less than interesting to myself."

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"That was last semester," he said with a shudder.

"A whole seven weeks on being horrible to others. I almost couldn't stand it."

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He managed to bite back something rude about some of the teachers at Shiz ... because in all honesty, he was not at all like the boy's mother when it came to opinions against the populus.

"I can imagine."

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He shook his head with a brief grin.

"Hopefully not. One of the instructors was a rather interesting fairy who runs a store in town here."

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A mean fairy? That just seems very ... well, likely.

"Oh, well. Perhaps not, then." He rubbed a hand through his hair. "But at least that bit's over, then?"

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"Thankfully. And all the courses I signed up for this semester are the ones I got into. Sometimes that isn't what happens."

He smiled.

"And you? How have you been?"

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Ah, he'd been wondering why Liir would have picked a class like that. That explained it.

He pursed his lips. "Admittedly I've been ... keeping to myself a little."

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"So I've got it from both sides? I should tell" Ino "Amber about that. Perhaps she'd leave me be about staying in most times."

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Fiyero quirked a brow.

"Well, certainly don't use it as a reason not to go out." One of them should probably be vaguely sociable.

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"I don't mind hosting people," he said in defense. "I just... like staying settled."

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He nodded absently. "That's about right, then." Although his mother hadn't much liked the hosting either, Fiyero was relatively sure.

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"I feel more comfortable if I can offer someone tea or something. If I have something besides some oddity of my childhood to fill an awkward space. Even I know how ridiculous it must sound after a while."

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Fiyero resisted the urge to wince at that. Ah, the awkward childhood because he'd apparently been ... absent.

"I'm sure it doesn't sound ridiculous," he managed, gently.

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He looked straight at Fiyero for a moment... before realizing the implications and ducking his head.

"Er, yes."

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Ah, he'd been waiting for that awkwardness.

He slid his eyes down to the paper in front of him and scribbled onto the margin ... just to make sure the pen was still working.

And not at all to avoid the awkward. Really.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"There's nothing wrong with me at the moment," he said gently. "And we probably should, er... discuss it."