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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The bottle he had filched from his other self's room tucked into the pocket of his open jacket, Loki entered the library. Gabriel had mentioned that he could drop by if he needed to read up on something, so here he was. He just had no idea of how to find what he was looking for.

Looking around a bit more, he spied Gabriel seemingly in intense conversation with a book. Some people really had a strange taste where converation partners were concerned! He even seemed to stroke that old tome he held.

It would have burned rather prettily, that much was sure.

"You, librarian," Loki said in a voice as if he was trying to covertly call someone away from a meeting with a lover, "Gabriel. Am I interrupting something?" He grinned mischievously.