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"I really really really want to stay. I'll be so careful with the books - I'll write you copies if you want -"

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Blink. "Uh, you're just not supposed to be on the premises."

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"Yes, you said, and I assumed the reason for the rule was concern for the books. What is the reason for that rule."

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"...I just work here, kid. Shoo and I won't tell anybody I caught you here."

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" -okay." He puts the book back. He vaults the balcony and goes to somewhere else in the stacks.

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The janitor lets out a strangled yelp when he jumps.

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Well, the janitor is the one who told him to shoo. He pays enough attention to things which aren't his book that he can notice anyone getting close and flee to a different shelf before they bother him.

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The janitor has concluded that he's a cape and is going to call the Parahuman Response Team.

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Well that's not good. What is wrong with these stupid horrible people. He leaves the library and goes a ways off and listens for the locking people up people to arrive.

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The PRT tell the janitor that being in a library after hours and knowing parkour is not something to call them over.

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Oh good. 

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So the janitor calls his supervisor, who says she'll call campus security.

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This place has endless layers of locking-people-up, doesn't it. He should have taken a book but what if it got wet or something. He curls up and sings to himself and waits for this lot.

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Campus security comes and prowls the stacks and doesn't find him and leaves.

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Once they have left he climbs around the outside and forces a window and goes back in and goes back to reading.

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It's dark but not pitch black so he can probably do that fine. In the morning the library opens again.

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He pays enough attention to people to avoid them entirely. Towards the end of the day he is thirsty; he finds a corner and rebraids his hair so from a distance it might look like he mutilated himself like these people and then he goes out into the better-trafficked areas and witnesses a water fountain and drinks delightedly.

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Drinking from water fountains: acceptable behavior that does not inspire anyone to try locking him up.

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Oh good. Food is more of a problem. He goes outside and tries some of the trees and they are not at all tasty or very nutritious.

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"Are you eating leaves," says a girl with a book.

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"I am hungry and I have been advised to get a job but I thought I could just eat the leaves instead. These leaves are terrible so maybe I will get a job."

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"...they're leaves. Like, off trees. You can't eat them."

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"Where I'm from you can. You can here too but the nutrient value is really disappointing."

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"They don't have nutrition facts on them they're just leaves. What's wrong with you?"

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"I can obviously tell what I'm getting out of food I have eaten. Nothing is wrong with me, something is wrong with this place."

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