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Upon entering the library this morning, Solène experienced a rush of excitement at the vast collection made available to them. While she did need a book or two for studying, she mostly intended to borrow some books for personal research. However, the desire to mentally catalog the entire library took over rather quickly as she set her own books down on a table and slowly walked from shelf to shelf, reading the spines of every book she could, sometimes removing one from its place and putting it into a now ever-growing stack in her arms. After a couple of hours of this, she decided it was time to take a break. The library would be here all year, and looking at all the shelves in one day was an insurmountable task at best. This would need to be broken up between several days.
Instead, she would take the books she had found amongst the shelves and sign them out at the front desk with the librarian before walking toward the table with her things. Adding the new books to her personal collection made it quite the stack as she gathered them into her arms. While primarily a logical thinker, Solène was not the best at spatial awareness. It was something she needed to work on desperately, and the large stack of books that slightly impeded her vision would cause her to misjudge the turn around the corner after leaving the library. Her shoulder clipped the corner of the hallway, throwing her immediately off balance. She would stumble as she tried her best to clutch the books to her body, but an eleven-year-old girl just wasn’t a match for the impressive stack of books, and most of them went tumbling to the ground.
With a defeated sigh, she would offer an apology to anyone who looked bothered or hindered by her accident while stooping down to start the process of collecting her books and getting out of the way.
⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ENCY ⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ | Stamina 4 | Evasion 6 | Strength 2 | Wisdom 8 | ArcPower 10 | Accuracy 5 |
Abilities| Perfectionist
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"Whoa!"
Jeremy's mum always told him to look where he was going, especially while reading. Jeremy had always shaken the advice off. He was perfectly capable of navigating their whole house while reading, handling stairs, and that little step into the kitchen with ease. Not once had he ever tripped over an open shoelace, or a discarded toy, or any of the other things that his Mum and Dad always warned him about.
Unfortunately, one thing that his house was lacking was other children, which was something he hadn't accounted for. So while he was walking down the hallway reading about the Goblin Rebellions, he wasn't expecting a girl to come tumbling around the corner and books to drop onto the floor. He reacted too late, nearly dropping his own book and almost tripping over the fallen books, as the books she had dropped scattered even further from his accidental kick. "Oops, sorry, are you ok? I can help you," the Ravenclaw boy said quickly, bending down to help bundle up the books that the girl had dropped, trying to pick them up for her, making a small pile.
...Or at least he WAS doing that. As he reached for a red one, he saw the cover, and paused.
"Ooh, you have a book on wards and curse shields?" Jeremy asked, picking it up and inspecting the cover, which showed a very powerful looking wizard standing before a very terrifying looking array of probably-deadly lights.
"I wanted to read about those...My mum never let me have the advanced magic books - she always said I would try them," he said, flicking through the pages while crouched on the floor, forgetting about the books, most of which were still on the floor, and his own book which had been discarded to the side.
"I heard that Hogwarts has some of the most powerful wards that were ever created. Does it say anything about those in here?" he asked her, looking up from the ground.
Jeremy's mum always told him to look where he was going, especially while reading. Jeremy had always shaken the advice off. He was perfectly capable of navigating their whole house while reading, handling stairs, and that little step into the kitchen with ease. Not once had he ever tripped over an open shoelace, or a discarded toy, or any of the other things that his Mum and Dad always warned him about.
Unfortunately, one thing that his house was lacking was other children, which was something he hadn't accounted for. So while he was walking down the hallway reading about the Goblin Rebellions, he wasn't expecting a girl to come tumbling around the corner and books to drop onto the floor. He reacted too late, nearly dropping his own book and almost tripping over the fallen books, as the books she had dropped scattered even further from his accidental kick. "Oops, sorry, are you ok? I can help you," the Ravenclaw boy said quickly, bending down to help bundle up the books that the girl had dropped, trying to pick them up for her, making a small pile.
...Or at least he WAS doing that. As he reached for a red one, he saw the cover, and paused.
"Ooh, you have a book on wards and curse shields?" Jeremy asked, picking it up and inspecting the cover, which showed a very powerful looking wizard standing before a very terrifying looking array of probably-deadly lights.
"I wanted to read about those...My mum never let me have the advanced magic books - she always said I would try them," he said, flicking through the pages while crouched on the floor, forgetting about the books, most of which were still on the floor, and his own book which had been discarded to the side.
"I heard that Hogwarts has some of the most powerful wards that were ever created. Does it say anything about those in here?" he asked her, looking up from the ground.
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“You sound a lot like me.” They seemed to have something in common, because she was fairly certain her family kept her away from more advanced material because there was a small guarantee she would attempt the spells within. Still, Solène knew her limits and wasn’t willing to do anything that would openly bring shame to her family.
Solène finished collecting the last of the books and had even moved the boy’s book closer to her pile, so it remained out of the center of the hallway. “It touches base on wards that I suspect are a part of the complicated makeup of Hogwarts’ defenses, but it doesn’t rightly say one way or another.” Which was rather unfortunate for inquiring minds, but a strategically sound decision she respected.
Now that the books were taken care of and this seemed to be turning into an interesting conversation, Solène crossed her legs and sat more comfortably on the floor. “Thank you for the help. I’m Solène d'Estienne.” A sincere thank you, with a hand offered in greeting. “You can borrow that one if you’d like. I’ve read it twice already.”
⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ENCY ⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ | Stamina 4 | Evasion 6 | Strength 2 | Wisdom 8 | ArcPower 10 | Accuracy 5 |
Abilities| Perfectionist