"That's awful. I'm so sorry. Thanks for trustin' me with that bit o' your story." (Long Patrol and Salamandastron Ambassadors Log)
Salamandastron: Library
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Here lies the collective efforts of a few good, intellectual hares of the mountain. Over the seasons, this room, which was once little more than a storage room, has been converted into a quite functional library, filled with books of all sorts. The room is staggered with bookshelves, all crafted within the mountain, which reach very nearly to the ceiling, with only a foot or two of space above them, in most instances. And, surprisingly, the shelves are basically all full. Apparently, over the seasons, hares have donated books, and books that were previously stored elsewhere have been brought here.
Some books are older than any of the hares alive in the mountain, and, even more, some are nearly as old as the mountain, itself. These sort are usually journals and records - histories of the mountain. In fact, there is an entire section of this, in a corner of the room, which one can only get to by making their way through the maze of bookshelves to that corner, which is quite like a room in and of itself, closed in by walls on two sides and bookshelves on the two others. However, in the center of the main room, there are two tables set, and upon these books like, some open and some closed, despite the efforts of the librarian hare to keep them on the shelves.
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Visible Exits:
[R]ecords [R]oom [C]orner of Library
[Back] to Second Level Intersection
Badgers: Zinnia, female.
Hares: Felicity, female.
The library is the most quiet room, unless there is a class and right now there is no class. Zinnia has been helping in the library sometimes and is here today after taking some time away due to her still bandaged shoulder. She frowns as she lifts her arm and makes her shoulder hurt, she sighs and decides another can reshelf that book maybe. She most likely be further along with the healing on her shoulder but it had swollen some, but luckily was caught in time so she is fine, just healing will take a little longer now.
The door opens, and Lissie enters, a stack of books cradled in her arm. "Oh! 'Ello, Miss. I 'ope that you're enjoyin' your stay 'ere." she walks over to the Recorder/Librarian's desk and sets the books down. She has her cane and is still leaning on it, though not nearly as heavily as she was a few weeks ago.
Zinnia turns and smiles, "I am. I am helping a little in here, the LP Recorder still does the main things. I reshelf books and helped someone find something once. I also helped with some dusting and fixed a couple older books, they will be reshelfed soon"
Felicity smiles as she turns back around to face the badger. "That's sounds positively jolly! I say, is there anything I can do to help? I just got off-duty, and I'd like to do somethin' before I pick up my baby sister from the caretakers."
Zinnia shrugs and frowns, she rubs her shoulder a little as she speaks "Well so far I am doing ok...well with this, not so sure of anything else."
Felicity's smile vanishes as she notices the badger's body language. "I say, are you alright? Do.....do I need to go get an 'ealer?" She would be very upset if the Abbey Ambassador got broken while the hare was kind of helping her.
Zinnia smiles a little" My shoulder hurts some is all. I sort of didn't pay as much attention to it as I should of, I was helping a dibbun who still seems to trust no one but me so far, in fact he is in my guest room or least hope he is"
Felicity relaxes a little. Okay, so the Ambassador isn't broken. Whew! "I'm glad that you're okay. Oh! I 'eard that there was a little badger Dibbun 'ere, but that's all I know. Is 'e the one you're talkin' about? You seem like the perfect friend," she adds quickly, not exactly sure how to interact with an Ambassador from the ever-famed Redwall.
Zinnia watches the hare and nods "Yes, his name is Xander and he is a little over 2 seasons...I think. He may be sleeping now I do not [know for] sure, if someone came near him he most likely hide somewhere. He is alone, sort of like I was when I was young...so he sort of needs me I think"
Felicity listens quietly to the badger, then walks over to her and goes to a lay a paw on her non-injured shoulder. "I think you're right. Anybeast that's alone needs all the friends that they can get. If I didn't 'ave Julia, I don't know what would've 'appened to me after our brothah and parents died...." she trails off, sounding sad as she tries to do the right thing and empathize with the Abbey Recorder.
Zinnia frowns, "I...know how it is to lose parents, I lost mine and the next couple seasons were the worst of my life. Then I found the beast I called Papa and was adopted" She smiles as she remembers "I didn't think of it till now but I sort of trusted him before anyone else, we didn't get along too well at first and then sort of...just did and I called him Papa one day and he asked if I wanted him to adopt me and I said yes. I am glad we found one another...it was really hard for me when he died this fall season, and I...almost gave up hope." She frowns as she adds "I...never told anyone this but, my first plans were not to come here, I was gonna write my two friends a note and have them bring all those letters to Lord Ciocan and I was...gonna go off somewhere, I didn't know where at the time, but I slowly got better"
Zinnia says, "I am glad I stayed with my friends"
Felicity listens quietly while the badger is speaking, then sighs. "That's awful. I'm so sorry. Thanks for trustin' me with that bit o' your story. I'm glad that you stayed with 'em, too. I might not've a beast who understands me." she smiles softly. "May'ap we can be friends, too? Since we seem to understand each-other?"
Zinnia smiles, "I would like that as it's always good to have more than one friend and I would like to befriend some of the hares here as well, I am here till Spring"
The auburn-furred haremaid grins. "Wonderful! I know that I'll /definitely/ be your friend, and I'm sure Julia will be, too. So there's 2 new friends for you. My name's Felicity Rosinbloom, by the way. I can't remember if I evah told you that."
Zinnia chuckles "I am Zinnia. Maybe you can even help with Xander sometimes, I am....well guess learning on how to care for a dibbun, maybe I will even adopt him one day, I am unsure yet"
Felicity wrinkles her nose and gestures with her cane, being careful to not hurt her ankle any worse. "Let's just say that I'm still learnin' on 'ow to take care of little ones, too. Miss DoraRose 'as been super 'elpful. I wish...." she hesitates, then says, "I'm glad that I 'ave a mothah to 'elp me figure all this out. I'm sure that she'll 'elp you, too. That seem like the kinda beast she is."
Zinnia nods "I still have an Uncle...well two uncles. I wonder what their reaction would be if I came back with a dibbun"
Felicity chuckles as she twirls her cane, being careful to not get it anywhere near the badger. "The looks on their faces would probably be brilliant. Pity we can't make a painting within the span of a few seconds; it'd be great to capture the looks on their faces, wot."
Zinnia smiles "Maybe someone with a good memory and good at drawing and painting could make the picture still."
Felicity laughs aloud. "Aye, 'twould be grand fun!" She stumps her cane down and asks, "I say, would you like to get somethin' to eat? I'm suddenly feelin' a bit peckish." Read: I want to continue growing our friendship, and I also would like to wreak havoc on the dining hall because I'm a hungry hare. Wanna join me?
Zinnia chuckles "Sure it is like what...dinner or lunch time?"
Felicity shrugs as she makes her way over to the door. "Actually, I think it's teatime, but whatevah. 'Opefully they'll 'ave enough food...." she actually sounds worried, which does make sense, seeing as how the Mountain is populated by /hares/, who are basically just stomachs with legs when they're hungry.
Zinnia blinks as she follows the hare "I think they do, least hope" She has watched hares eat and still wonders where it all goes, but she will be polite and not ask her new friend or any hare, maybe they have magic stomachs! She just follows and smiles ready to chat some more in the dinning hall.
And so it's food time! Thanks for reading! Man, this log made me HUNGRY. How 'bout you? XD
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