Log 1(6)

[toujoursfluer]

[For most of the day, Robin will be in the library. There is a sign tacked on the door reading:

Those with outstanding fines or books overdue two weeks or more will be severely penalized in three days time. It's recommended you take care of this now. ~Robin Nico. Head Librarian.


She herself will be inside the library all day, awaiting frantic returns and/or deposits before someone comes to remind her that she is going to be late for dinner again. Feel free to stop by at any time.]

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[toujoursfluer]

[Robin gives him a look over her book]

Ikki, make a dramatic entrance if you must but please keep your voice down. As it happens I haven't seen her. [faint concern crosses Robin's face]

Is she missing?

[uccellodifuoco]

Sorry.

[It's mostly an automatic response though he is sorry, he didn't think he was being too loud but if Robin said so then he must have been. He sighs in annoyance at the negative answer before he shakes his head, answering in a lower tone, hoping that it's enough like that.]

No. I still have a few places to look in before I consider her missing.

[Ikki has never needed a reason to search through Heaven and Hell for his sister, or to make it a serious matter even if she was in the next room from him. Sister complex at its best. Fortunately, it's not so bad that he doesn't care about the rest of his family, he gives the sign a look before he approaches his aunt.]

What serious penalization can you give people for not returning books in time?

[He has always wanted to ask that.]

[toujoursfluer]

Perhaps she wants some time alone? [Ikki had always seemed a little...overanxious about his sister. And while she understood the sentiment it also struck her as a little suffocating.]

Come help me shelve things, ne? And as for the penalty-- well if you have to ask you truly don't want to know.

[she smiles and pushes a cart around the desk, raising an eyebrow at him]

[uccellodifuoco]

[Ikki just snorts at the idea of Selphie wanting time alone. Except that he understands it, he just doesn't like it and can't help to worry. Specially with how lately it seems as if a general discontent is forming around, she's just another worker but she works for Capsule Corp, as that big shot's secretary even. Who's to say that if something happens she won't be in danger. And that's ignoring the whole issue with how her boss may actually be dangerous and evil and try to do something to her.

Yes, he's suffocating, but he prefers that than to be sorry later on.]

Now, doesn't that sound ominous? You know borrowing books isn't my thing, not when I don't read them myself, so it's not like I'll ever be in trouble with that.

[He moves towards the cart, taking hold of it and already starts moving towards the shelves.]

[toujoursfluer]

[Oh Robin knows that times are troubling. But she's also confident in Selphie's ability to get in and out of it. Smoker is her father after all. She follows along readily beside Ikki]

Well then you'll have nothing to be worried about. The penalty, of course, is that I will come to their houses and bother them incessantly until the books are returned. [she trails her hand lovingly along the spines as she passes] They are our precious treasure.

[uccellodifuoco]

Does that mean that if I get one and don't return it you'll come to visit and don't leave until I return it? Why didn't I learn of this earlier?

[Not that he would need it, his aunt and cousins visit often enough, and when they don't his family is the one doing the visiting. But he remembers that when he was little, before any cousins entered the picture, he always complained about his favourite aunt having to leave when she came to visit. He figures he would have probably tried to use some trick like that just to have her come more to see him.]

It doesn't sound as a fearsome penalty anyway.

[There's no bias here, not at all.]

[toujoursfluer]

[she laughs softly, secretly delighted to be so welcomed and presses a fond kiss to his hair]

Well let's just say my punishments are tailored to the perpetrator. For you, I think, I'd let your sister decide.

[uccellodifuoco]

[He smiles at the kiss, though for anyone who doesn't know him he's still scowling, his smiles are always very faint and soft, full of warmth and love, but hard to see unless the other knows how to look at him. He groans at the mention of letting Selphie decide on his punishment.]

It's a good thing then that I will never get in trouble with returning books.

[It's not that he doesn't like books, he does, but he prefers to listen to others read to him. It's rather ironic, how someone who isn't a social butterfly prefers an activity that is usually individual to be a social thing.]

Are there many who are in delay anyway? If you want I could go to remind them.

[And glare at them and basically give them a good scare by thinking that if they don't return the books he will go and break their legs. He's good at giving that impression, even when he doesn't want to, may as well use it for something good.]

sorry for the late TT

[toujoursfluer]

Oh quite a few. And some from a rather wealthy neighborhood. [she gives him a pointed look] It could be dangerous even reminding them. [Though she wonders if he will try]

/hug it's ok

[uccellodifuoco]

Then I won't, I will just do them a good service like a good low class member and take the books and bring them here.

[He smiles, more openly though it's because of that that anyone who knows him can tell that it's a fake smile full of sarcasm. He's also pretty serious.]

Or maybe if they like the book so much they should just buy it directly, I could take the fee from them so they don't have to bother coming all the way here.

[It's only because he thinks of others and doesn't have a good motivation why Ikki isn't permanently in jail from causing trouble with the richer people. He doesn't mind them, really, so long as they remember that just because they are privileged, for now, they don't own the town. And to return the fucking books.]

[toujoursfluer]

[she smiles at that and touches him lightly] Give them hell, sweetheart. And if you get locked up in a horrible torture dungeon, it will be fun to break you out.

[uccellodifuoco]

I think it will be fun to see them try to lock me there. And keep me there.

[Arrogant and confident with little respect for the current system? Hell, yes. It's one of the reasons why he and his father clash at times after all.]