Your friendly neighbourhood librarian at your service

[cattygabriel]

Date: April 5, 2003
Status: Private (Gabriel, Loki II) - Complete
Setting: Library
Summary: Loki has questions. Gabriel helps him find answers.

  Gabriel sneezed lightly, before suppressing a smile at the strange feeling. Some of the books there were much older than he'd thought, and he turned the crackly pages cautiously, carefully holding the cracked leather spine. He ran his fingers over an old drawing of herbs used in medieval medicine, amused at the portrayal of the mandrake root as a human baby. Medicine had once been a complicated thing, involving arcane herbology and old spells and bitter potions and poultices; now anyone could pop a few tiny pills to get rid of illnesses that had once been deadly.

  "Amazing," he murmured. They really had come far; not that all the pills and such were good, but medicine certainly had progressed in leaps and bounds. Humans were nothing if not survivalists. 

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[norseloki.livejournal.com]

"He's out doing something by himself." Loki said. "So I think I'll go down to the bar and have that drink. Care to join me?"

He didn't mind drinking on his own, but taking a person for a drink tended to be a good way to sound out his views of certain things. One thing he would not let this situation distract him from was his ultimate goal. He hadn't come too far with that one yet.

[cattygabriel]

"I would. Thank you."

Gabriel bit his lip thoughtfully as he turned to leave the library with Loki, wondering about the other Loki. He'd always thought that gods could not fall ill; they were, after all, immortal, and powerful in their own right.

But then, some pantheons did need certain foods, like amirtham or the golden apples Loki had mentioned, to confer that immortality on them. Still, even without them, surely cancer wasn't the norm.

[norseloki.livejournal.com]

"Let's go down to the bar," Loki said, turning towards the door.

He thought that possibly, mead didn't begin to cover his needs right now. Hopefully, they had something stronger there.

[cattygabriel]

"Alright."

Gabriel generally didn't drink anything stronger than red wine, and didn't plan to. He was, however, rather curious about both Lokis now.