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Book Haven, Tuesday

Her conversation with Hayley yesterday had left her in a worried and thoughtful mood. Hayley had seemed cheerful enough, but there had been several comments that left her feeling uneasy.

It made studying a little bit more difficult than it usually was as she had problems focusing.

Eventually she simply gave up and contented herself with people watching by the window. It passed the time and left her free to try and pinpoint what was bothering her so.

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"You know," Warren mused, grinning as he stepped through the door, "it's been entirely too long since I've treated my roomie to lunch?"

Yes, it was another cheeseburger day. Why not?

"I managed to get them to put cheese on all of the cheeseburgers, this time." Which totally counted as a huge success! "They forgot everything else on there, but I picked up some pickles and ketchup and mustard on the way here."

She blinked out of her thoughts, a bit startled--there hadn't been a customer in a while and Hinata had let her mind drift.

"I almost have to wonder about their hearing," she said, smiling lightly. "Though I suppose they could have legitimately presumed you had wanted plain cheeseburgers." It happened. She didn't mind.

Stepping away from the window, she gently shooed Yei out of her path. "You did not have to, however, th-though I'll not say no to you now that you're here."

Warren was getting to the point where, really, he didn't mind either. If he had to pick up condiments, that meant that he had an excuse to make detours from here to there, and any excuse to be in the air...

"I know I didn't have to," he pointed out, making his way to the counter and depositing the bag there. "I wanted to. How has your shift been so far, Hinata?"

Him wanted to meant that further protests on her part would only cause difficulties... and truly she did not mind. It was simply a matter of attempting to focus.

"Quiet," she said finally. "It seems as though a bookstore is not the most popular of places in the midst of summer."

"Which is weird," Warren decided, already up to his elbows in the paper takeout bag. "You'd think there would be more people looking for a book to read, this time of year. Between the rainy days and people out sunbathing, things like that..."

Warren wasn't really a professional in summertime pastimes, but at least he was trying.

"What do you have that's good?"

She would just watch him, amusement soft in her eyes as she leaned against the counter. The food would not run away, there was no need to rush--and he seemed so much more eager for it than she.

"To read?" Hinata shook her head. "That depends on your tastes. I prefer either fantasy or reference novels."

Warren was a growing boy who flew from place to place! He needed to eat! And that explained why he was barely taking a moment's pause before peeling the wrapper from his cheeseburger, yes.

"I don't really dabble in fantasy much," he admitted. "Growing up, it was mostly biology books and math textbooks, and economics. Things that are interesting if you already have an interest in them, you know? I wouldn't mind picking up some good fiction sometime, just to see what it's about."

She nodded her head. “I confess to not having read much fantasy prior to working here,” Hinata said quietly, reaching for the bag now that he was occupied with his food. “But some of it is quite interesting.”

And some of it was just plain bad.

“Did you want a few recommendations?”

"I would appreciate that, if you had any, please."

Warren's face was now screwed up in a mask of concentration. Getting the perfect mustard to ketchup ratio on one's fast-food burger was a delicate science, after all.

"What have you been reading lately?"

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She almost laughed at the amount of effort he was putting in. Hinata's methods were neat, but not particularly precise.

She was less picky.

"Me? Mostly law books," Hinata admitted. "Which are informative but not particularly exciting. I would suggest you try Lord of Snow and Shadows which is the first in The Tears of Artamon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_of_Artamon) trilogy. They're quite dark in places but very well written."

Hinata grinned faint. "Dragons. Vampires. War and love. It covers many bases." And had a likable heroine.

"Dragons and vampires?" Warren grinned right back, pausing from the application of condiments to look up at his roommate. "It sounds exciting. And you've got the whole trilogy in?"

Please say yes! Please say yes! If the first one turned out to be a good read, he'd want to leap right into the second, after all.

"Of course," she said, leaning forward to steal a fry. "Prisoner of the Iron Tower, and Children of the Serpent Gate. I'll show you where they are once we've finished eating."

"Thank you," Warren replied, reaching down to snag a few fries for himself, too. He might look like an angel, but he had the eating habits of a teenage boy, and all five of the fries he'd grabbed were going into his mouth at once.

At least he chewed and swallowed before he continued speaking. "And you've been reading up on law, too? Did Professor Cabot's class leave an impression on you, last term?"

As an afterthought, a few more fries were now being stuffed into his burger, for important experimental purposes.

Hinata eyed his burger and cringed but said nothing. Chewing was useful as a way to avoid saying anything.

She was not a teenaged boy. Her burger and fries were going to stay neatly separate. "It's not the first class I've taken here on the law," she replied. "Th-Though I appreciate Professor Cabot's take on it the most, I believe."

... Way to not answer the question, Hinata.

Warren was just going to go ahead and assume that was a 'yes.'

"Her last class was an interesting one," he decided. "I didn't get to register for her workshop this term, though. Paperwork errors."

Yeah. Instead of ending up in any courses about justice, he was in both of the classes that were very much the polar opposite. He was still trying to figure out how in the world that had happened.

"They cannot be as different as home economic classes," she teased. "Which is my course load this semester."

Warren was skeptical, considering Dr. Horrible's persuasive tactics using baby otters, and the pair in the butterfly costumes. But then, he'd never taken a class under Aquaman, either.

His loss.

"What are those like? I can only imagine what a Fandom High home ec course would look like."

"Do you know how the Vice-President dresses?" she asked, after another bite. "The professor of Home Ec dresses like that with a more eye-searing colour combination. Very... enthusiastic." Insane, Hinata. You mean insane.

"His name," Hinata said, very dryly. "Is Aquaman. Or King of Atlantis. We designed superhero costumes yesterday."

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"What is with people and tights on this island?"

There were some things that Warren would never be able to wrap his head around, yes.

"Is he really the King of Atlantis, at least?"

You could never be too sure. He'd had a casual Monday dinner with the Prince of Hell last week.

"He seems to believe so," Hinata allowed. "Though how much of that is truth..."

Well. It probably was truth considering the island...

"If he's still around in the fall, I might have to take one of his classes," Warren decided, smirking faintly. "Just out of curiosity."

And with that, he took a bite of his burger.

Mmm, fry-y.

She wrinkled her nose at him. Ewwww that poor burger.

"I will let you decide for yourself whether that is a good idea or not," she said. "My other class is much more pleasing. Cooking--with a teacher who is sane."

"And you haven't brought me any food yet," he teased, lifting his burger slightly as though he was totally proving some sort of point.

Some really nasty burger-with-fried-potato sort of point.

"I suppose I'll forgive you, on the grounds that I like you."

She flushed.

"We have not cooked anything yet," Hinata replied lightly. "I would not bring you store-bought goods and lie about their origins."

"Well, since we're just starting our second week, I guess I can give you a break," Warren laughed, grabbing a few more fries and slathering them in mustard.

"Just this once."

“You’re too kind,” Hinata said, faux-meekly. “I will have to find some way to repay your kindness.”

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I am so hungry right now. Weeeird.

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