Getting Down To Business

[hotheadwarmheart]

Who: Lea and Aqua in one thread, Lea and anyone in the others
When: After the memory event, but before the next Isle trip
Where: Various places, see thread prompts
What: Now that the days are getting longer and the possibility of not being stuck inside any more looks imminent, Lea is feeling motivated. Time to get things done, some of which he's been putting off for awhile.
Warnings: Feels probably in the thread with Aqua. Otherwise, we'll see.

Fire And Water- Closed to Aqua

Another training session in the gym, virtually indistinguishable from most of the others since they'd been stuck inside. Though, this time, Lea hung back afterwards, looking thoughtful. "Aqua?", he said. "If you've got a few minutes, there's some things I want to talk to you about."

Magitek For Fun And Profit

Lea reading isn't that rare of a sight, but when one does spot him, he's usually curled up in one of the library's comfy chairs or stretched out the common room sofa with a cup of tea and either a stack of comic books or a YA novel or two. But today, Lea's seated at one of the library's tables. The cup of tea is still present nearby but his attitude is different, as is his choice of reading material. The book open in front of him looks more like a textbook or other nonfiction title than anything else, and he has a open notebook and pen right at hand, occasionally pausing in his reading to note things down. What is it that could have given Lea of all people the urge to study?

Let The Sun Shine In

Lea was walking through the greenhouse, but at present, his focus wasn't on any of the plants. Instead, he was looking up, carefully directing his magic to melt any lingering patches of snow on the roof. He knew his way around well enough to avoid stepping on any flowerbeds or bumping into tables, planters, or equipment racks. Most of the time, the only interruption might be if the ent got a little too curious about his hair, but that had mostly been solved by a few well placed colorful bangles hung from the ceiling on strings. But looking up does tend to make it easy to run into people or other non-stationary obstacles that might be on the walkways. Assuming you're not just trying to figure out what he's looking at.

Let There Be Light

Lea was rummaging through one of the supply closets, apparently looking for something. And without much success, by the sound of it. "Come on, they've gotta be here someplace," he said. "You'd think a school like this would have a whole crate or something of spares sitting around, but nooo..."

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[nobodys_puppet]

Xion twisted to look up at him from under the table, resting a hand on his knee to brace herself. "Time to go find Roxas and have ice cream?" she asked.

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea glanced at the clock before looking down at her. "Nah, not just yet," he said. "Sunset won't be for a couple hours; I was just getting a little stiff. Not really used to sitting in one position for this long."

[nobodys_puppet]

"Oh. What are we doing until then?"

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Well I'm gonna be studying this book," he said. "You, apparently, are falling asleep under a table; at least if we both keep doing what we were doing before. And your cat is just being a cat."

[nobodys_puppet]

"Still?" she asked, sighing heavily. "Aren't you done with whatever you're reading yet?"

[hotheadwarmheart]

"No, I'm not," Lea said. "I'm studying it because A, it's interesting, and B, there's a lot of information in it I think might be useful down the line. That's why I'm taking notes."

"If you're bored though, you could go find a book to read too. We are in a library after all; there's plenty to choose from."

[nobodys_puppet]

"But then you might be done before me," she pointed out as if that made sense.

And in Xion's head, it did. Because if she was still reading when he finished he might leave without her...

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Well ne good thing about books is that they're portable," he said. "If you find one you like, you could bring it with you when we left and finish it later. Then you can just bring it back when you're done, and maybe pick up another one if you want. That's the main thing libraries are for; borrowing books."

[nobodys_puppet]

"But if you saw me reading, you might think that you don't want to interrupt me and then we'd never go for ice cream," she said in her most reasonable sounding voice.

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Xion," he said, "I know you well enough by now to know that given the choice of going for our sunset hangouts or basically any other activity, you'd pick the sunset hangout hands down. So unless you specifically told me not to interrupt you, I'll be sure to let you know when it's time. You can even pick a bookmark from the desk on the way out." There were a number of simple, free to take bookmarks on display on the circulation desk near the door. Most of them, unsurprisingly, had to do either with reading or promoting the school, occasionally both.

[nobodys_puppet]

"Pick... a bookmark?"

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Yeah those little cardboard rectangles in the display on the desk by the door? Those are bookmarks," he said. "You stick them between the pages of a book to mark the place where you left off reading it last time, so you know right where to start next time you pick the book up."

[nobodys_puppet]

She looked fascinated by the concept and stopped to think about it.

[hotheadwarmheart]

"You can go pick one out now if you want," he said. "I'm gonna be here a little while yet, so you can take your time."

[nobodys_puppet]

Her shoulders drooped at the thought they'd be here a while yet. But she sighed and headed for the shelves to try and find another book like her picture dictionaries. Sadly a this was a library meant for studious high school students...

Good place to wrap maybe?

[hotheadwarmheart]

He'd already said as much before, so he really didn't think much about it as he went back to his own book. And while she wouldn't find any books like those she'd read in Diatu, if she wandered into the section on art, she might well still find books with lots of pictures at least.

Sounds good to me, TY for the thread.

[nobodys_puppet]

She kept looking back and forth from the books to him for a while before she gave in and reluctantly picked a random one and went back to sit on the floor near him, under the table.