Closed RP Between the Lions

[Katpride]

“The movies, huh?” Adelyn’s voice is thoughtful, if a little confused. She doesn’t really know what Eli means by ‘go to the movies’ - aren’t they already on the tapes that you load into the television? Maybe she meant to say they should go to her house? - but she nods anyways, figuring that she doesn’t really mind either way it shakes out. “I’d like that! Is there one in particular you wanna see?”

She doesn’t really remember what all is in her grandparents’ collection, but she can always check later. There’s sure to be something that isn’t too terrible to sit through, right? Oh dear, she isn’t sure. Maybe she should try to pick something up while she’s here at the library. She’s sure she saw a section for DVDs somewhere in here…

A casual glance around reveals that it is still very dark, and further scrutiny only proves that she doesn’t remember where that section is at all. She gives up on looking so she can focus on not tripping, and, luckily, they make it to the circulation desk without her having to add any more bruises to her collection.

It’s only once they reach the desk that Adelyn realizes another big, glaring flaw in her plan. You see, the desk is unmanned. There are, in fact, no men or women in sight, and especially no nice old ladies who can take her big pile of books and run it through the beepy scanner thingy so that the library knows where their books went when everyone wakes up in the morning. “Oh, drat.”

Defeated, she stops at the counter, sighing heavily before getting up on her tip-toes to place her books on the surface. The stack wobbles dangerously, but she steadies it and scoots the whole thing away from the edge before stepping back. It’s nice getting to drop the weight for a minute, and she takes the opportunity to rub some feeling back into her arms while puzzling through the latest dilemma.

The light from the little windows in and around the doors is finally strong enough to see by, so she turns to Eli when she poses her question, smiling automatically at the sight of her friend. “How do you suppose we tell ‘em we took the books?”

 

[UmbraSight]

“Oh, I guess we should see what theater is closest for both of us.” Eli said, as she shuffled alongside Adelyn. It would be really embarrassing if she stubbed her toe this far in, or like tripped and spilled all of her books, or bumped her hip against a shelf and it made a really loud noise. Instead of any of those dire fates, Eli instead stuck close to Adelyn and sometimes bumped into her, which was better. “Well, uh, we could go see the new Zootopia?” Wait, was offering to take the meta who could make themselves have animal parts to go see a movie about animals, rude? Oh no, she really hoped that wasn’t rude.

This new worry saw her all the way back to the circulation desk, which wasn’t really good but it did keep her preoccupied. The ‘oh drat’ did free her from her current downward spiral, though it did give her a startled jolt that one of the nice librarians might have shown up for their job really early which would have been bad. That wasn’t the problem thankfully, instead it was that there wasn’t someone showing up for work really really early.

“Oh, right. Uh, hang on.” Eli said, placing down her little armful of books before she slipped behind the counter. Was there a generic system password or would there be individual logins? Well probably individual for this desk, but maybe there were self checkout machines? If she had Wren’s power then—

Eliana entirely froze at the half formed thought, all the color finding somewhere else to be that wasn’t her face as her eyes flicked across the empty space as if just thinking about his name would call him to her. This was not the case, but no one seemed to have bothered to let her heart know as it was doing its very best to not be inside of her chest anymore. After a moment Eli gulped down a lungful of air, because she just realized she had stopped trying to breathe, and with a chuckle that was entirely nerves trying to find their own way out of her body she knelt down.

“Well, uh, right, so.” Eli babbled out quickly, as if she could get ahead of any awkward questions if she just shoved enough words out into the air. She had at least figured out that whole breathing thing again, even if her heart was currently aware of her having done an exercise routine she didn’t remember doing. She looked up at Adelyn and tried out her best miscreant smile, which felt tight on her cheeks. “So, step one if you want to break into a computer, see if someone left you their password.” She slid her fingers around the handle of a drawer and gave it a tug. It probably would have been very cool if it had popped right open after that line, but it was instead locked.

“Right, uh, and step two is unlocking the drawer.” She said, her hand sliding back into her bag to retrieve her lock picking set.