It builds character

[Kaili Talith]

Onderon
Great Library
15:54 - Afternoon

It had been a long trip to Onderon. Once more had the family gone to visit Oma and once more had Kaili been bored out of her mind as she waited around the house for the hours to pass. This place felt like a second home and not in the good way. The trips here were almost always about animals and if there was something that had been established it was that Kai did not have the same kind of connection to the beasts as the others did.

Not that it mattered. She had drawn the jackpot and found an affinity for droids instead.

So there the young girl was in the library looking not only for tomes about droids, but possibly for something exciting to read while still planetside. She was probably just lucky Micah didn’t spot her here or she would once again never hear the end of it about how reading is boring or that she was picking up an urgent case of ‘Aelatis Bookificus.’

Row for row of bookcases passed her by. Fiction, non-fiction, comedy, tragedy, horror and all other sorts of fanciful labels to put on something. With the way things had gone with the Brat Pack lately she was certainly in a mood for... Tragedy. Definitely some tragedy to even out the many laughs that there had been so far.

She grabbed a book and took a seat by one of the great tables in the very center of the big chamber. The dim lights provided an excellent mood as each turn of the pages echoed around her and each time that she noticed it she looked around the vast emptiness of tables, books and chairs that people seemed to have left her with.

It was just her, the books and a great story about unrequited love. She might have read this one, and the hero might have been seen more as a pathetic whiner than anything else, but she was not in the mood to be picky. At least not right now.

She turned the page. Here came the part where he professed it to his friends who laughed at him. Classic.

[member="John Hunt"]

 

[Hira Mitsae]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px][Onderon][/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.6666666666667px][Great Library][/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.6666666666667px][15:56 - Afternoon][/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Ya know.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]There is just something about books that makes me wonder - don’t get me wrong here, I ain’t wondering about what I am doing in life or any other thing life changing things - it’s just that when I am walking along side this bookshelf or that, it opens-[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Well, hello there.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px][member="Kaili Talith"].[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]My uncle once told me that libraries were horrible places to pick up a cute girl, but clearly my uncle had never been to the Onderon Great Library at 15:56, because he woulda been- well, probably not. A little bit too young, probably.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Either way, I randomly picked up a book from the shelf. Didn’t even read the cover.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“How to knit a sweater in thirty-five steps.”[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]And started walking towards the table.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Keep it cool, John. Just a random dude with a book who wants to sit down. Just wants to read a bit and maybe exchange some conversation.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“Hey!” I said with what I hoped was a normal smile and not chainsaw-crazy. “This seat taken?”[/SIZE]

 

[Kaili Talith]

Onderon
Great Library
15:59 - Afternoon

Footsteps. Quiet ones slowly approaching. Her head leant up from her book only to set her sight on [member="John Hunt"]. She looked at the book in his hands and with great effort she held off the great urge to snicker. So he was a knitter, was he? She wouldn’t have expected that.

Granted, she didn’t really know what to expect, the kid was new to their little group of people.

“Nah, go ahead.” She finished the rest of the book’s page before looking up again. “Good to see you again, John.”

New guy extraordinaire, one time sparring partner and most importantly unknown to most of them. Just like most of them he had been picked up somewhere along the way and brought along on their misadventures. Crashing ships, sending probes and so much more. For all things considered the kid was very much already part of the few major things that Kaili could think of.

Even if he tended to stay a bit in the shadows, but she always believed that to be him being a bit unused to such big groups of kids. Well, a good way to break that is to make introductions. Even if they had already been had once. Kaili closed her book and looked at the boy and the book he had brought.

“Oh knitting,” She seemed surprised. “You like to knit... Sweaters?”

It was a good start.

 

[Hira Mitsae]

Onderon
[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Great Library[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]16:01 - Afternoon[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]He didn’t really know much about [member="Kaili Talith"], which didn’t really mean much in the grand scheme of things, because he didn’t know much about anyone in the bratpack. Might be just time that needed to be spent before he could really judge one way or another, or might be that he really needed to get out more.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Point was, John [/SIZE][SIZE=10.6666666666667px] [/SIZE][SIZE=10.6666666666667px]was still pretty fresh when it came to folks.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Knitting?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]The lad couldn’t help but blink when she mentioned that, wasn’t sure where it had come from, until he decided to take a brief look at the cover of the book he had put on the table.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Feth.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]His eyes widened and it took him a lot outta himself to look back with a smooth outlined expression and a little shrug.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“Guy’s gotta do something in his spare time.” [/SIZE][SIZE=10.6666666666667px]did she buy it? She must have bought it. [/SIZE][SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“What do you do in your free time?”[/SIZE]

 

[Kaili Talith]

Onderon
Great Library
16:02 - Afternoon

Blinking, eyes widening, the boy had no idea what she was talking about at first and the small snicker that she had tried so hard to contain found it’s way past her defenses and began echoing around the vast library. He was not really into knitting, at least if going by his reaction. She smiled at [member="John Hunt"] and slowly shook her head.

“Yeah, sure, whatever you say John.” She pondered his question. “Well, I like to read, I guess. That and training. Father is showing me how to use the force to manipulate mechanical beings. Called it ‘technomancy’ or ‘mechu-deru’.”

“It’s pretty cool.”

She turned to look at her book. She may have read it once or twice before, but it was still a good one. If anything it made her laugh at the struggle of a man too blind to see. Her mind went back to the book as she thought on all the motifs and characters. She remained there for a bit, forgetting all about her friend’s presence until footsteps in the distance brought her back.

“Oh! Right.” She was hushed and she lowered her voice into a small hissing whisper. “Oh! Right. Since you like knitting, do you prefer wool-based or silken-based yarn? I personally prefer to wear the more wool-based ones because of the warmth they provide but we all have different taste.”

She had no idea what she was talking about but if she had learnt anything from watching others at play it was that if she improvised something and used plausible words she could bust the most basic lies. This one was quite clearly a very basic bluff. Random Book Grabbing 101 said to always look at what department of books you grab yours from.