queenoflogs | WHAT IS LOVE etc etc

Characters: Lambda-11 and OPEN, followed by Lambda-11 and Akiha Tohno
Date: Sunday, September 9th
Summary: Lambda reads some books and asks some questions.
Warnings: Should be nothing. Will update as needed.

Love was proving to be a very complicated topic. Things Subaru said conflicted with things Urd said. Things Urd said contradicted with what Akiha had mentioned before. And, having no real frame of reference of her own, it was hard for Lambda to determine what information was the most correct.

Obviously, then, the best course of action would be to give herself a frame of reference. Under normal circumstances, she spent very little time in the library, but reading the literature located there seemed like a good way to do this. So, that was where she chose to spend her afternoon, barefoot and clad in her standard leotard as she paged through book after book.

Most of them were proving less helpful than she had hoped. After finding herself unable to parse the pertinent information from one, she would set it aside and pick up another, her demeanor growing a little more frustrated each time. She seemed oblivious to the way her brow had begun to furrow.

So, when the library proved not to be very much help after all, she returned home to the Tohno Mansion. It was evening by the time she did so, and once inside she decided to stop by Akiha's room on what was almost but not quite a whim. She trusted Akiha more than anyone else in the Gardens, so if she was confused about something, it seemed right to make her the one she asked.

She hesitated outside her door longer than was typical, seized by an uncharacteristic feeling of uncertainty. Then, she lifted a hand and knocked.

Threaded | Flat

"You may enter," Akiha called.

She was lounging on her side on the made bed in casual clothes, hair pulled up in a ponytail, with an open notebook out before her. The girl's writing was scrawled across it with many places of things being scratched out.

Pen twirling in her fingers, she turned back a page and reread over what she'd written.

It was actually becoming a common thing, for Fionna to find spare time and, making sure that no one was looking, popping in to read more of the poetry. It had started innocently enough when she and Chihiro had started poking around, but now Fionna was more interested in reading the romance poetry, especially the ones written by women. So making sure she was alone, she used her flashlight to find a dark, hidden corner of the library to start reading.

Wild nights! Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile the winds
To a heart in port,
Done with the compass,
Done with the chart.

Rowing in Eden!
Ah! the sea!
Might I but moor
To-night in thee!

Man, they spoke weird, some of this poetry stuff. She alraedy had a dictionary out.

...it's almost like she's following herself.

Chihiro gathers up lost books throughout the library, dusting off their covers and replacing them on the shelves. She hadn't found them terribly helpful, either, when she'd embarked on her own search for the answer to this particular riddle. All the same, a book was a book.

All the same, when she came across Lambda and saw her furrowed brow over the top cover of the book, Chihiro could only be sympathetic. Drawing nearer slowly, she reaches out and gives a soft tug on Lambda's sleeve.

"What are you reading?"

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Sorry to pick your brain again!

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