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10001/Red and Caffeinated All Over
...e drinks are prepared. "So I've just been doing a little research, but the books I need are hard to come by. But if they're anywhere, they're here." The dri ...oesn't bother her. "MM. But yes. I'll have to check out this city for some books... tomes, really, big, heavy things.... to liberate from their owners. I do

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4098/We all feel weird.
...e of a blushing android. Or uh, even how to identify it as that. There are books open on the desk in the room, suggesting what she was up to, although she b ...I experience time very differently. Practically speaking I have read more books in the last six months than a Human will read in twenty average lifetimes.

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9476/A Blasphemous Plan
...>He makes straight for the bookshelf, looking for a copy of one of Lydia's books if he can find it. "Any shagging in this one?" ...oks over her shoulder to see John holding up one of the many copies of her books that she keeps around. "Lots of shagging in that one, yes, if you don't min

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14366/Boy Meets Bird
...mile converts to a kind of half-smirk.  "I've been parked in front of books getting ready for finals."  Although Superboy simply isn't genetically ...has posed:'''     Poor Jon has been cooped up with books for so many days now that he can't be help completely responsible for a bou

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8753/Interactin' Cafe Au Lait
...omer. Around her table are books from a multitude of genres, a few physics books, some biology is in there, genetics? Is there a laptop that she's typing on ...? Textbooks are always filled with mistakes, from science books to history books, it's all just a lot of blah blah I have a Ph.D and am making you buy my bo

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15851/Happenstance in Circumstance
...lks with a casual gait to her step toward her vehicle, clutching the three books to her stomach. ...(696)}} has posed:''' Lara was in the process of putting the stack of books in to the passenger seat of her Jeep when she heard the noise. Being that L

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4079/Big Nerd on Campus
...takes his phone back. "They have dice and stuff there. They even have the books if you want one yourself, though you can use what I have." :'''{{#var:2078|Virgil Hawkins (2078)}} has posed:''' "Sounds great, these books aren't very cheap, so I think it's good to try it out first. Trust me, I'm

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7632/Better Than School Food
...attention is more on her phone than on the room itself. She has a pair of books and a tablet held against her torso in the crook of one arm, and a reusable ...r seat on the bench. The juice box - grape juice - is set down, her books going to the side. One is a chemistry book, the other is for American histo

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Lydia Dietrich
|Profile=Lydia Dietrich is an aspiring author, having published a handful of books, and an English teacher. She grew up in a wealthy Jewish household, led by ...like a fiend. She's watched *all* the shows, and has read all the popular books and then some. She's even delved into the real life supernatural and picked

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14620/A Witch, a Mercenary, and a Thief Meet in a Magic shop
...d the shop. "Are you shopping for your daughter? I could recommend several books on Slight of Hand tricks, and some starter kits?", she offers. ...it him instead, in the wallet. And back directly instead into a display of books that starts to wobble, Scott throwing out his hands to steady it, only a si

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17396/Fathers and Daughters
...ng a jig saw puzzle or something lame. Tony was doing a final check on the books. Besides he heard Clara was coming. tony was certainly gay but he looked at ...olodex. You here to dance or ask questions, poppet?" He closes his books and doffs his jacket. He struts to a boom box and peruses the selection of

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15008/Between a Rock and Web Site
...to get worn to a frazzle. I don't even know how you make rent and buy text books. Besides, I'm done at Happy High until they hand out diplomas and the young

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14844/Bats in the Bel... Library!
...bright pink striped blanket over their lap, surrounded by varying anatomy books as they pour over the ligament connections between the musculoskeletal syst

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392/How's Happy Harbor, Harper
...nsidered. And yet, there he is. Roy sits at a study table with a couple of books in a pile next to him, another one open in front of him, and a notepad that ...is no one in this room who would believe that. Hitting someone /else/ with books, maybe. But it doesn't have the usual edge to it that it might have in the

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8805/Okay So What Happened At The Zoo Though
...oing to DO with you after today?" she asks, poring through one of the open books. Of course, she'd already read them. In fact, she'd read through the stack :'''{{#var:339|Terry O'Neil (339)}} has posed:''' Terry spots the books and swallows, managing to not make an audible gulp, and walks in after clos

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14225/Sunny and The Curio-us Vampire
...ps a little blunt, a little concerning. Enough that she'd look up from her books in her tiny apartment and her studies with a bite of her lip and considerat ...only place that I've seen things...." Sunny admits. "I mean...like movies, books...manga..." she trails off before blushing brightly at the tangling in her

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265/Mischief Managed
...rush towards them. He could very easily reach them, which might be why she books it now that her job is done, not sticking around to see what might happen n

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11641/Coffee After Collapse
...} has posed:''' Patience Alperen smiles. "Yes. I was able to locate the books I was after. They... did not yield the details I had hoped that they would. ...ligious philosophy books there. But.. it was successful in that I know the books I need are not there. It narrows my search by, well. A lot, really." She la

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Tommy Shepherd
...le traveling at supersonic speeds. Additionally, he is able to read entire books in a matter of moments though his retention is short lived. 

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103/Indomitable Frustration
...entry. Inside, Loki is laying on one end of his couch, an array of various books around him in stacks on the floor. He has his legs up, crossed, and some di ...e at research, however, and have not told me anything of it." A nod to the books he has scattered about. "Tell me what you study. I shall get us wine that w

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Nellie Graves
...l in a pinch. It's an easy solution to doing dishes, for one. She can sort books, knit, or queue books to find entries she's interested in. 

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1792/And the Guthrie presence grows.
...of sympathy as he struggles with her suitcase, which is jam packed full of books alongside her clothes. She purses her lips and thinks a moment before answe ...hould be going, too... I have a solid year of classes to catch up on. Damn books won't read themselves." He waves at Paige with his free hand and goes to st

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12912/Merry Meet, Sadly Part, yet Merry Meet Again
...setting her drink on the table. Her odd golden eyes glance at the anatomy books and she quickly hides a measure of discomfort at the sight of it. "Sorry. D ...a wince as she shrugs.     Closing her college books, she pulls out her phone. She looks at the lock photo a moment, before she

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14461/Spring, Sprang, Sprung
...} has posed:''' The library in the mansion probably doesn't have enough books for Sergeant Barnes. The digital collection, probably. The NYPL, it may giv

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14022/Trouble in Trixietown
...untrained amateur sorceress with a plethora of potentially dangerous magic books. A young and very curious sorceress in training, make that. Naturall

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8078/Tracking down the Fireworks
...moment, reaching into her backpack, and she pulls out three thick academic books on folklore, one leather-bound book, and she folds the notebook front with ...t in someone taking a blowtorch to her hair. Her eyes lower to inspect the books, naturally drawn to the tiara sticker. She nearly reaches out for it -- a s

22 KB (3,932 words) - 09:25, 2 October 2021
513/Attempting SCIENCE!
...e dressed alike, yeah? Same clothes, same colors, same cuts. Sam thing for books, movies, and TV." She shrugs a bit. "I mean, I don't see differences as a b ...hang out or need help with history, okay?" And then she starts packing her books up. 

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13523/Text Blitz: Holidazed
...olves enough booze to sink an oil tanker but that's probably a plus in our books. 

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10420/Furry Favors
...s invitingly. The leatherbound books smelled decadent, true aficionados of books would drool over the scent of vintage paper, ink, glue, and age in the air.

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14297/A Stolen Moment
...tting in what was an empty corner of her living room, and there's a couple books of the arcane sort sitting on her coffee table. However, once the door's cl ...aining dummy earns an eyebrow, but not as much as the collection of arcana books. "You're not getting into anything dangerous, are you?" 

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13793/Day in the park
...e got away before I could get a full answer from him. So..." she hefts the books and shrugs. "I chose to look up the phrasing used. Sadly, it still didn't l

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9391/Chillin' at the Embassy
...ought her something. "Oh, my." Diana says as she sets the last two books down and turns to face him, her hands going up to remove the black thick fr

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9316/Apologies and Bagels
...her shoulder that is full of really quite expensive looking leather-bound books. She tucks those in first, and then slips in across from Lydia. &nb ...ocery store within walking distance, and you're welcome to read any of the books you find there." She shrugs. "It's not much, but once you turn the heat on

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12236/Procastinating at the Garden
...eton that many think is a demon. But the drinks are free, there are books he needs to read, and Dan is poor as a rat. Also, against his best judgemen ...is on a slow burn, currently sitting in a small ashtray near her elbow. No books today, she's just enjoying her freedom and soaking in the artificial light.

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17455/Gliding High
...rm, analyzing what needs to be worked on. "Great initiative, Patty, though books can only take you so far. They don't always explain the things you need to ...long ago that had an honest to God blunderbuss. Straight outta the history books. Things can get very weird very fast." 

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3863/Mack Bolan and Bolognese.
...books set in," she tells him. "At least for me. I'd rather read than move books around." Viola taps her fingers on her glass. Comments from the conv ...k stores and buy up all their Harlequin Romance Novels and those... action books. Mack Bolan and Remo Williams? And boom, instant store stock."  &nb

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406/Look Who's Back
...itch so the three of us could talk, so he decided to put his head into the books of this time." oh right, Bart's from the future. "Oh well, snoozes ...or going to mystical island that is apparently hyper-medieival, if history books say anything about it." He shrugs a moment. "Well, I've been hangin' out wi

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149/That's a strange flask
...emarks, lifting an eyebrow to Mike and shaking his head, "No, I don't bind books." Rather flatly. 

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Levian
desire to sit and read magic books, but being a demon can be a very alien thing for some people, and He has two grimoires, magic spell books. One he stole from Hell, which taught him ways to

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2598/Stuffy Boring Parties
...s on top of boxes in all the corners, but the many shelves were covered in books and trinkets. "The bulk of my work has been localized lately, but I do have ...wn and slides it near-silently across the smooth counter toward a stack of books sitting in the middle. "This was fun." She says to him after another

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1696/Apologizing to Dinosaurs
...the ones less likely to disturb her, and set things up. Blanket to lie on, books to read, the warmth of the sun to enjoy. Currently, she's turning the page

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15894/Meetings Anew
...osed:''' While Nettie is relaxing, Joshus is sprawled out on the floor. Books surround him and he is making note. Turning his attention to Nettie as he r

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10290/For Want of a Nail...
...Gotham City, but no farther than that. Most of the travelin' I did was in books. I've 'been' to Narnia, Westeros, Klahd, Hogwarts, the past, the future...t ...no matter what." She lifts a shrug and smiles at him, "Ya disappeared into books, I disappeared into a ranch... we both found ways t'hide an' discover our o

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7078/How Do You Solve a Problem Like...
...ntil we are sixteen. The only books we remember reading before were school books, but we want to learn everything so that we can find the one thing we are g ...k up and read. These topics, they are good to guide things, when we choose books. It is a tricky process, really." Then -- tension rises upwards, be

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5413/Afterlife: Listen to Me
...r>    Jia sits behind her large desk in her study with books lining the walls. She's staring intently at nothing in particular. She knew ...n the mountain side as Jia watches, feeling the room shake and some of her books fall from their shelves. "Daisy!," she says sharply and turns to look at he

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10790/Is there a chill in the air
...n his face. His eyes glance briefly at the book she is holding - bulky old books are always curiosity inducing. 

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15306/Helena and the Ghul
...s a hand slightly to gesture around at the books. ".. a bunch of musty old books." Was there surveillance? Did Helena not know? "What do you /want/?" <br

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8640/=Curios, Tomes and Family
...eather, wood and the scent of vanilla that tends to cling around the older books.     Inside the lending library, Phoebe was cur

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12210/Welcome to the club.
...familiar 'For Dummies' series. There was even a box with a few more modern books on the floor near where Sif was sitting. There was a glass of some sort of ... She motions to the table, offering them all to join around the mess of books. "Zatanna, we found this old scroll." And she moves to pick up something th

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3975/Checkin' on Bart
...he area while lacking a few key elements to her disguise. Namely, a set of books or a backpack, but that can always be explained away, right?  &nbsp ...re to meet you, but I have to get to English class." He sighs and puts his books in his backpack with video game pins on it." He gathers up the bags from th

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10944/A Thursday In The Batcave
...side her. She's finally chosen a major. Criminal forensics, and two of the books are fitting for it. The other is probably for an elective class in literatu

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17669/Say You'll Haunt Me
..."This young lady was giggling when I got here, and Lumi was looking at the books." A smirk. "I don't think she's old enough to display gifts yet, do you?"<b

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Rebecca Ryker
...ll Rebecca's life's weirdness, she does love to learn. She doesn't hide in books just to hide. They're also her friends, and she has a deep love for philoso

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Irie West
 Irie is able to use her speed to blow through thick books in a matter of seconds. She's even

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Helena Shepherd
...ry and a career. And yet, the woman is still a dreamer who loves her comic books and anime, never loosing sight of what was at once an escape and an inspira ...mic books and anime, cartoons like My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, and books like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy despite many women her age being

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3713/RecRoomOlympics!
...acon -- the healer known as Balm -- was currently mid-study, surrounded by books. She has a primer on American Literature to her left, page opened to a big .... Spying Phoebe she raises an eyebrow at the myriad arranagement of books and tablet with bemusement. This wasn't an unfamiliar sight by now. Chuckli

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15757/What Day Is It
...him. Then there's a laugh, "I'll have to look into some cooking and baking books then. I am great at magic, not so much mundane things." she admits. It was

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6289/Finding Drive-Thru in Midtown
...head and snickers softly, "Well of course you don't! They'd nibble all the books, right?" Eyebrows perk, lips spread in a wide, downright silly grin. This,

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16865/Book Night at Lulu's
|Synopsis=Kenesha and Johnny enjoy a few drinks and a deep discussion on books. :'''{{#var:418|Johnny Storm (418)}} has posed:''' Considering some of the books that Johnny has been involved in, Kenesha may actually be the best book he'

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17194/Witches and Weirdos
|Synopsis=When Johnny Blaze and Lydia Dietrich start talking writing books, their biggest fan is pouring whiskey and promising to carry them in her sh ...ebt. Especially when you're also the collector," he says. "Comes to books, I was mostly a Louis L'amour man." 

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15906/Faking Humanity=lame
...about all that Caitlin has allotted for time, anyway. Dozens of med school books are stacked perilously high on shelves at her desk, and her bed's been move ...I am not interrupting your studies?" As she peers at the stacks of pre med books. 

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12723/After the Dwarves
...f the magical lamp gleaming on the magician's desk. Interspersed among the books, astrolabes glint and stuffed heads poke their noses into conversations hel

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14421/Sparkle Goths and Emos
...shes her phone out and flips it to the docuscan app and satrts to scan the books contents. Probably for some class assignment and the book isn't available i

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14776/Full stomachs, and good times
...reddy offers, "Obviously it's no secret that I'm a bit obsessed with comic books. Ever since I was a kid I wanted to draw comics." He clears his throat and

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12255/Magic on the Side Lawn
...ns to the explanation of containment magic. "Huh. Okay so... it's like the books talk about with summoning circles. The whole part that is drawn on the floo ...p; "Everyone wants me to do it by the book. There seems to be so many books though." 

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7817/Light Truths in Dark Sands 3: The Covening
...ld have been scrolls. "These are yours now," Masika says, gesturing to the books. "They are the fundamental spells of the coven for you to learn." ...l be curious when I come back." Her eyes go wide when she sees the books however. She gently picks one up and opens it, her fingers gently feeling t

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2048/Asking for Accounting help
...e juice added. "But, you see, while I'm used to balancing my accounts, the books here would be a whole other story. I know you changed your major, but I tho ...mment, letting her mix up whatever she likes. When she mentions the books though, he smiles a little, knowing what's coming next. "Yeah, I still took

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945/House Calls Are Not Cheap
...ng in fact, that in the middle of the room, papers start to whip about and books start to fly open and pages turn rapidly. A hole in the room grows from not ...She asks in her southern flavored words while gathering up an arm-load of books. She'd seen him on Genosha briefly, but that memory is a bit behind shady w

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1324/Lunch at the Strait Lace
...finish up his dissertation. Most days he's holed up in his apartment with books and sticky notes, pounding away on his laptop. He should be finished soon, ...His library is like, all economics books. It's worse than my dad's and law books are deeense." She smiles a bit and gestures to Emma. "You're like the diamo

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14069/An Unexpected Guest
...f her head says.     "Plenty of people read my books," she says defensively, her brows furrowing in confusion. This is just... b ...hanges a little. "Just how long are you going to hide in the pages of your books and of movies. She walks over, examining the team Bella shirt. "It's much e

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10343/A Little Paid Hacking
...been looking for reputable'ish hackers that could do a job for her off the books. She'd made it clear it wasn't some up and up offer, but had come across li ...ed people might get up to," Kitty says. "Of course there are any number of books that take stabs at it." And a particular grumpy Canadian role model who als

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3926/They ARE the Brute Squad
...threaten the peace.     Well....duty calls! The books are stored away in her backpack, then levitated to a nearby tree, while Meg

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11078/X-F Side Dishes: Dropping In
...much like the others, lavishly furnished dotted with all sorts of art and books, no doubt stolen. The kitchen is bare, devoid of any food or cooking utensi ...r money goes, and it's amazing what you can learn just by looking at their books."     Now that the information swap is done, sh

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16463/Losing My Religion
...something about his powers. Or his books. A lot of touring to research his books, which left Debbie to mark many of the milestones in her son's life. <b

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6408/Life in the medbay
...which was a very dangerous sign. She spent most of her time reading random books, as was the case with her childhood, and sitting on her bed thoughtfully wh ...ngs since she was a kid, since she was ever given books by scientists, and books that wouldn't misdirect her sense of belief anywhere. So they all had to be

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12445/15 Fears: A Growing Concern
...enemy and its ultimate goals. But in lighter news, the VR Library has art books in it. ...y small room, sitting at a desk with a laptop and a printer and a mound of books around the three.     Chas has been furiously ch

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3130/Ice Palace: Research Materials
...musty-smelling antique loveseat with an overly floral pattern on it, a few books propped up on a side table next to her. They all seem to tie together with ...s a charismatic smile at her, friendly and pleasant, eyes falling over the books around her research area. "I don't want to know where you got these,

50 KB (9,305 words) - 04:36, 28 August 2020
14525/Downtime and Spring Cleaning
|Synopsis=Spring Cleaning at the Candle, Booke, and Belle! Evil books found, sans owners. ...o convenient to leave?" Belinda Gutierrez asks, moving some reasonably old books back into their places on the shelf. Dusting, straightening, checking the s

30 KB (5,393 words) - 03:43, 28 March 2023
8967/A Dragon for Theo
...e door opens. "The books are better." Pete sighs, "But there's /14/ books Theo, that's /a lot/ of reading! Just tell me... whose the Dragon Reborn?"< ...larice Ferguson (598)}} has posed:'''     "Fourteen books is too many!" Clarice agrees as the boys enter - her gaze still on her scre

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4343/The Apocalpyse of Terry's Apartment
...fire escape of the apartment building is a large stack of junk. Furniture, books, clothing, decorations, many of which are obviously recognizable as belongi ...uff back upstairs, then." He heads back over to sift through a few things. Books, some memorabilia that was missed, a laptop that was somehow /not/ taken an

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13095/Heavy Hearts
...ough there are boxes pushed up against neaerly every wall, all filled with books, and all manner of items. The door is closed then behind them, Lara ...entire life. Ever since my father bought me a selection of Norse mythology books when I was very little. They occupied me on my first plane trip to America,

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10237/Part of the Family
...it, yes. I never really... I hadn't watched television, or movies. I read books, but only the ones Elias would let me read. I had to steal glances at his n .... Knight got me a New York Public Library card, and I've been checking out books electronically. Jon gave me a list of things he figured Elias /wouldn't/ ha

15 KB (2,760 words) - 07:42, 22 February 2022
16400/A very Outsiders training montage.
...ver to one of the benches she's set up. "I've got a variety of martial art books here you can take home. They include suggested work outs and daily routines ...of weeks." Moving towards the bench with Laura, she looks over the books and gives a nod, "Very cool. So then I need to grab a training buddy?" She

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13184/Who the heck is Steve
|Location=Steve's Comic Books ...uch the stuff with dirty hands." Bunny replies, leafing through some comic books without any particular title in mind. She used to collect a couple titles h

15 KB (2,784 words) - 04:44, 26 October 2022
9824/Donnie picks up the pizza
...r's in his way as he practically stumbles out of his store and books it... BOOKS IT... down the hall towards the main area where everything is about to go d

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16622/Let It Snow
...he reefs or bad luck or drunkenness is a fair lot for her. Cici can admire books and be called the *other* obligation and duty she has. But the woman approa

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11532/It's a Wonder, Man.
|Location=Excelsior Books ...emy Award nomination. A signing table has been set up in Excelsior Books and an orderly queue has formed. Well, as orderly as can be expected when o

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7724/Welcoming Committee
...day came to an end, she was still just as excited and loaded down with new books in her pack. Ritz and Clarice both were on speed dial when she was ready to ...under a tree with a strange girl. Instantly she's by Maddie's side and her books have been put away. "Oh gosh!" She says when she sees that her best

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13297/Ghost of the Rooftops
...ut sometime when we're not fighting ninjas or supernatural stuff. You like books?" ...ith her arms held against her, and he's briefly distracted. "I like books, sure. You askin' me on a nerd date?" He grins again impishly, watching her

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1915/Fangs, Fakes and Freaks
..." she repeats, smirking softly. "I suppose you are right. So many stories, books, tales around campfires and...movies make it awfully hard to know what's tr

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8596/Witch to Magician
...g over at some runes for enchantments she's working on. Not to mention the books on illusions. The woman is taking some time to catch up on her studies. She

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13001/That's Show Business! - Holiday Hope Release Party
...had a Christmas themed one and a kitten themed one." He sets the coloring books down next to the white haired child before rolling up the bag. Wade glances ...n't look up when Wade comes around, but she doesn't seem excited about the books either. At the end of the bar, still, Felicia was trying to be small and ou

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7322/Golem Maintenance
...you have written." Lydia looks up and mentions, "She's got every one of my books listed here." She turns back to the letter and continues, "I realize ...that somebody this rich, and possibly /old/ would be so interested in her books. "This is all...." she trails off. "I don't know. A little creepy don't you

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1593/Nerd Culture
...> "My god, look at their boobs." She says as she spies the women in the books. "For real, I see why people buy this stuff. It's bassicaly softcore pornog ...hem in the foyer or somethin'?" She glances at Remy, but looks back to the books. She reaches for one with a muscled bound man not wearing a shirt. "Now we'

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8262/How do I Choose...
...to the amulets and pick one of them up. He puts it down... he goes to the books, turns a page in one, closes it, back to the pins and the maps. He can't br ...oses the door behind him. Looks around at the map, at the pushpins, at the books and the ritual implements. Some of it he can guess at, but some of it is...

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14495/A Particular Expertise
...on Witches and the history thereof. Not that Kate's really focusing on the books. She's mostly trying to be a contradiction of unobtrusive and easily recogn

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13462/Couples Date
...ng sometimes there Lightning Boy. I've watched a few things and read a few books, but even if I hadn't, I know what a punch, kick, knee, elbow or headbut is ...r than he remembered her attacks before. "I'm... you don't learn this from books!" Duck, sidestep, dodge. "Condescending?!" He waits for another cha

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13865/Housewarming idk god i suck at titles
...e television, but those look more like textbooks than reading-for-pleasure books. Tommy's still working on getting his high school diploma, after all. The p

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9172/Disaster Response
...till, too, umm... and the first aid kit, and... and there's some important books and reagents in the back room..."     But he doe ...y spin up. "Martin, can you conjure up some boxes? Cael, start pulling the books off the shelves and stack them on the table." He starts going after the rit

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10893/Late Night Snacks... IN SPACE
...hone. But the illusion of hard work is set up, at least, with the stack of books and spiral-bound notebook open to a page half-filled with notes. ...if you've got your hands full with school." A nod is given to the pile of books even if she rather guessed the phone being used was not for school purposes

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3784/Things Humans Like
...t. "Sorry, sorry, I'm being rude. You did help, yes. And I did promise you books. Not sure if those shoes will fit, though." The heels are eyed carefully be ...or." That and there's a few she plans on ordering--giving Levian self-help books almost seems like entertainment in and of itself. There would be time for t

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10543/How did it get late so soon
...ping centers around the city abound, though she pauses to look at a row of books. Nothing too compelling. Bucky won't have to loiter for long. She might hav

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5038/There's No Cat On This Roof. There's No Roof Either.
...suspect at all. Of course the book delayed you, because that's what cursed books do, dude." Both hands come to rest against the countertop, since he' ...it was accurate." Because magic books, not books of magic but actual magic books, don't like their secretes being copied. Suddenly, he rubs at his e

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11769/Canus Aureus Containment
...nbsp; Once Cael gives her assent, she comes into the suite laden with books and bags, all floating gently in the twinkling lights of her ectoplasm. She ...runes that he saw on the other werejackals," Lydia says, setting down the books and other materials on the floor next to the table. "We just need to revers

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9072/A Visit From an Eternal
...Morgan Finn (3618)}} has posed:''' Morgan's eyes light up. He takes the books, opens it up, and starts flipping through it. "Oh wow, this is great, Gilga ...s posed:''' "Long as you're passing it doesn't matter how much you like books, I guess," Gilgamesh says with a little chuckle. "That's a lot of sports. A

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13663/Marvel Calling
...> "Why, hello. An unexpected surprise." She says, setting the last two books down upon a shelf as she walks over to Carol. "Hug incoming." She tells her

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15802/Ice Cream: It's What's For Dinner
...An ashtray is nearby along with a small bin (with a lid) that holds a few books and magazines. Someone's temporary retreat, no doubt. About that poi

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12610/The Invisible Girl
...rubs the base of the back of the hood as Raz rubs her neck. "I like audio-books, though. They're cool. And I can listen while I play video games or whateve ...sed:''' Sam Guthrie nods a bit to this and says "If you need audio test books those can be arranged." He offers her "And if the reading issue is from you

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Prisma
...Lumina with instant exchange of thoughts and ideas, to a word filled with books and words to read in order to get that same experience is like nothing she

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7851/Lesson Planning
...understand you are going to be coming on the teaching staff? Are there any books I should order for your use?" ...es again. "Look," Michael begins, "Miss Manh. No teacher knows everything, books or no. I'm here to express to you and your students that which exists in my

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11303/Eyestrain
...doing out here? It's going to rain any moment and you're going to get your books wet." ...  "They'll survive." Phoebe replies, her eyes not coming off the books. She has a little ball of her rose-gold light over one shoulder, which is w

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16950/Cats Take no Prisoners!
...does look terrible... take a shower too, you smell like the pier and dusty books. No offense." He sidles over to the fuming Megan and throws an arm around h

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10945/Visiting Clotho
...m, "We'll make it work." she whispers to him. "Maybe we should stock up on books. Or a trip to the bookstore." she states. "If there is any trouble I ...the better." He chuckles. "I learned most of my languages that way - from books." Pietro admits with a chuckle. "I always sound like a foreigner when speak

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3410/From the Hip
...Dick and relation to The Whale) and what looks like several doctoral text books about anatomy and medicine in front of her, including some sort of biologic ...guys thwarted another day." He leans on the doorframe, eyeing her pile of books. "Homework?" he guesses. "I have a bit of that myself to finish up, but it

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6736/Distant Relation: An Unhappy Creature
...most of it.     "There's nothing in any of the books I've borrowed from Diana like it -- the closest thing I've seen--" Phoebe s :'''{{#var:584|Laura Kinney (584)}} has posed:''' "Would she be giving you books on the summoning of evil spirits and monsters?" Laura points out, already h

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4807/Don't Say the Word...
...es have their own section, close to the study rooms. For private review of books, they're really no more than vestibules. But Father Theodore has a locked u ...e. It certainly smells a bit off though. Vellichor for the scent of books, a little musty, and something that might as well be a human steak piece of

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2971/Fun in the Sun
...ember of our posse that was usually helping me pick flowers, cook, reading books with me, or joining me sittin on the fence while the others practiced comba

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9558/Grand Central Meetings
...up a staff that identifies her as some sort of Medic. She has a couple of books spread around her and a heavy sketchpad in her lap as she works. ...ia then?" she asks conversationally as she adjusts her bag, now heavy with books. "I know how it goes precisely. I've been taking a look at the logistics of

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11918/Home by the C -- is for coffee
...ng-in-this-weather fake fireplace, a young woman had a pile of old looking books in front of her. She had a pair of orange-rimmed acetate glasses perched on ...ed finish seal.> she signs again, and then she reaches for her piles of books, and opens them up.     Zatanna might recognize

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4314/Entrance Interview
...n his stomach, a little roughly. "Times, News, Bugle, and the latest comic books." She leaves. Blue Beetle gets up and removes his goggles and hood. ...salary, Alyx shrugs her shoulders. "Well, I can bring you the latest comic books," she replies joylessly. With that, she reaches a hand in the direction of

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8256/Taking a Moment for Yourself
...eologist, and a bit of an explorer, one might say. So... dusty old leather books always pique my interests." And this is said with a playful grin. ...doing his work, much like she assume is the case for Lara. "Why old dusty books? I get the leather part." Felicia winks playfully. 

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9953/Who's the Hiring Manager Around Here
...>Standing near the hostess' station is an older man, looking over a set of books. For those in the know, they'll recognize him as Sebastian Shaw, the propri

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8806/The Oblivion of Tuesday Night
...magery swooping through the screen. If the study should normally only have books, that projection is there for a reason. Hidden entertainment will do. "The

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14625/A Rock and a Hard Place
...f a Mutant being held by Alchemax or the Feds you'd break every law on the books short of murder. And being caught... you run risks as well. Worse risks.You

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7018/Terry Provides Dinner
...posed:''' "I'm a student of history also, although you likely had more books to read than I did," Leo admits both his interest and the limitations impos ...ar:339|Terry O'Neil (339)}} has posed:''' "Oh, you can borrow any of my books if you want! The only other person I know in my circle who's into history i

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8221/Archival and Archivist
...backpack on the floor by her, a couple of notebooks, and a couple of magic books in front of her as she's comparing notes and doing some research on rituals ...b and went back out to (maybe inadvisably) go to the library and check out books on mystical... things.     Naturally, twenty min

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Blaine Colt
...pe and thrown forward in time. * 1948 - The first 'Kid Colt' comic books are published, adapted from dime novels and tall tales of the Wild West. <b

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2192/Devil's in the Details
.... So it happens that one Daimon Hellstrom, controversial author of several books on comparative theology, analyses of modern Neo-Satanism and its ties to re ...battered bookbag, a sorry thing that's seen better days and so many heavy books. No need for it to spill its contents. Openings indeed. 

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5992/An Unexpected Visit
...ay, only a few clouds in the sky as Shannon busies herself with one of her books. The normal sounds of mutant town drift up from the streets below, but up h ...until I can figure this out?!" She exclaims, slamming a fist on a pile of books. 

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9697/Arrival From Darkness
...ackles with a freshly built fire that reflects golden on the spines of old books filling the floor to ceiling bookcases lining the walls of the room. The li ...Another sip of tea; he starts to walk around the room, now, peering at the books, dark eyes flickering amongst titles. Nodding in aprecition as he does. "..

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6681/Visiting the Witch
...involve in," she says. Walking over to a closet, she opens it up to reveal books. Lots of them. She slides one out and walks back to the couch. Layin ...te my time reading fantasy novels they started letting me read the coven's books. I've read most of it twice. Some of it three times. It was good study befo

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11839/The Just And The Feckless
...craft, that is. Or something of that sort, by the look of some of the open books. "... how do you defeat a Jabberwock?" he mutters, biting down on a ...all night at this point, "But, okay, let me go upstairs and get some of my books on philosophy and we can talk to Ma'at about Foucault and his Panopticon an

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13440/Succubus Snacks
...sp;  "You will have to remind me when it comes out. I am fond of books. Though if you have been writing for some time, I will have to start from t ...    Ariah will have to remember to ask Lydia about the books again later, as she does tend to be one that devours literature. Her head n

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Leon O'Malley
...romoted to Captain after most of his squad is killed completing an off the books assassination. Leon resigns from the military, and moves into a low rent ap ...yle's company, Xander having high ranking friends willing to order off the books ops in exchange for a cut of the profits. Due to their direct personal know

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6572/Keep your Flash grounded
...is starting to look like somebody actually lives here. There's a few more books in the bookshelf, and a few more posters slapped up on the walls. Sadly, sh

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11609/The Song That Never Ends
...n digging into Wonderland a lot, researching its origins, analyses of both books, and so on. It actually existing explains why it caught on like wildfire in ...Because the thing that keeps striking me, over and over, in re-reading the books, is the way Alice defeats Wonderland's madness just by seeing it clearly an

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16209/What's a Date
...?" she asked. "I've been one of those before, but I didn't know they wrote books about it." she joked. Hopefully it was a joke. It was hard to mistake the c

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Cosmo
...m The Collector, is reinstated as Chief of Security, and adds a law to the books banning the commercial sale of security personnel, chief of otherwise!

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4840/Welcome to Ancient Modernity
...linked to the most vast library you can imagine, millions upon millions of books. It can display images, with all the artworks of the world available to vie

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Freddy Freeman
...religiously collects superhero artifacts. Combined with his antique comic books, and it's probably worth a few grand. Not that he would ever consider selli

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5240/Contingency
...ic and has little in the way of decor or ameneties unless you count stacks books and papers. He opens the door at the predetermined time. 

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8739/Title me later Peebs
...ke up my man. How else can I say 'hey can you do me a favor and move these books from Cairo to Gotham in like, a week'." 

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1407/I need a hacker and a bird
...#var:196|Daisy Johnson (196)}} has posed:''' "Black ops? Out of the log books?" Daisy knew a few of those were made. Though she also knew Bobbi had enoug ...figuring out who scheduled those trucks. Everything about this is off the books but hey if shit hits the fan, Fury already loves yelling at me so you just

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6182/The Town that Wasn't There
...of posts from 2020 for music or books in store windows. Oddly, some of the books and movies look...familiar, but not quite normal. He looks around and heads

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A Good Place To Begin
...ink dispenser and gulps down an entire cupful in one go. "Did you read the books?"

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9938/Giving Wings
...er work. "Why me? I'm just an unemployed English teacher who writes smutty books on the side. How the hell did the fate of the world land on my shoulders? T ...rned how to stitch up tears in the aether on the fly. And you write smutty books that people enjoy even the non-smutty aspect of, how cool is *that*?" Phoeb

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15662/Wayward Banner...sort of.
...not the most aware on the planet when he is working on things. He has two books under his arm and he is looking at a paper in his other hand. Sure enough h ...ke what they see, they change the story to suit their view." He thumps the books soundly,"These remain as they were when they were printed. If anyone tries

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10245/Doom and Gloom
...his favorite haunt when he's not on campus at NYU with his head buried in books. He's vaping as he goes, leaving those obnoxiously huge clouds in the air,

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5823/Future Stupid Past
...at of Cosmic Destruction? Some of this stuff... I get ok. I've seen enough books and movies; unimaginable power and destruction in something as simple as a

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8744/As things go...
...the girl of late. "Unless you have a specialty in monstrously evil books that provoke murder, I don't know that you can help on this." She eyes Lydi ...bartender gets off break." She turns and scowls at Zatanna. "Evil books? No more than anybody else, I'd imagine. Most of the arcane texts I have ar

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300/New Roomates
...nd future king. Yes, you got it pretty much. I could dig out the movies or books if you're that into it?" Morgan offers with a smile, geting up to refill Me

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2691/Ants up on the balcony
...open window, it just *feels* like a sleepy sort of afternoon. Perfect for books, and napping in the sun, and staying home to avoid responsibilities. Which ...ok, find a copy online, read it and then store it along with all the other books she's read. All in the time it takes to fold a corner of a page. S

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Alisher Sham
who will listen that he is the legendary* Skeleton Ki. While he is on the books as a small-time

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10266/A night with friends.
...>James Proudstar frowns glancing at his phone but puts it away. "Sam loves books, always has. Especially, pulp and Sci-Fi. I only read cause you all sleep s ...ouldn't have." He will take a moment looking through it, yea he is a nerd, books excite him. He shows it to Alexis "Neat huh?" 

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16597/So a Weird Thing happened in Gotham City...
...nd lead him further from the door, still talking. "Have you read any of my books? I'm working on a new one. A mix of cyberpunk and supernatural. It's not a ...h a dismissive wave of the hand, "Don't believe everything you read in the books. The reality rarely lives up to the fiction. It takes time."  

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7379/Sister Shopping!
....     Once in the book store - she picks up a few 'books' - flipping through them only to realize, "Oh! These are journals!" Then th ...r>She's only gone for a moment, perhaps two, then she returns carrying two books. One is the Anarchy Cookbook the other is the Kama Sutra. 

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17764/How shall we amuse ourselves today
...could get caught up on the current comic runs, check in to see if her own books were going to start up again anytime soon. Finding out that she's still in ...as posed:''' He's here! While she has the foreknowledge of comic books, it's not always the right issue, or even the right day within the issue, s

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10743/Brooklyn has quite the varied residents.
...hen to Micola. "Yes, so I've read. They seem a rather common trope in such books." A grin. "Shall we?" He motions to one of the open tables, allowing ...good attempt at playing such games." The white-haired man admits. "So many books. There are so many authors enamored with the fantasy realms, that I doubt I

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7021/Fighting The Undertow
...ion in the glass. No violet death's heads. Just a couple walking among the books, people inside lost in their own little worlds. <<You have things you ...mortal and it does cause him a small smile. <<If you wish any of the books, I will happily steal it for you since I am not allowed to do what I wish w

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5329/Gluttony - with red hair
...t one of the tables is a woman who's got out a laptop, a tablet, some text books, and is also typing away on her phone. Somewhere in the grouping of stuff i ...a book, tucks her papers away and slides as much as she can over. Putting books on one another, and trying to consolidate her many drinks. "Sorry, just a m

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14904/Lightning Strikes... Yet Again!
...nbsp;  Irie comes into the library laden with a backpack full of books. She sets it down on the table near Billy with a heavy *thud* and then slum

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4240/(Intermezzo no 2. Adagio Ma Non Troppo)
...t the management at the Planet would not dream of letting Vorpal off their books."     She returns to the table with her coffee s ...hat Terry came along with us, then Terry will find his name in the history books. You can count the number of humans who have left the solar system before u

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9941/Is there Hope for the Future
...n nods his head a bit and then he is gone for a moment, and back with some books in his hands. He smiles and offers them to Hope. They are GED prep and stud ...hugging some of the water to clear it down. WHen he returns, she takes the books, starting to flip through them curiously, "Well. I can handle quantum mecha

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15293/Some fixing needed
...with people who try to remove them. I tried reading some of my ancestor's books, but either Ghost Riders don't make very many appearances in Egypt, or they ...sp;"If there's anything at all I can do, let me know. I'll double-check my books and see if my ancestors ran into anything like that -- but given most of th

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10287/This Thing Rocks At Homework
...crisp, white Adidas. Over one shoulder is slung a backpack full of school books. The computer down here is much more powerful than the MacBook up in his ro :'''{{#var:390|Stephanie Brown (390)}} has posed:''' As Duke's books are set on the counter, Stephanie glances over at the titles on spine or co

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16451/Hey, Don't I Know You From...
...es him as she thinks it over, sipping on her water. "I'd have t' bring th' books an' relics I've collected up.. not that I think you'd complain bout that, b ...nd boring, you're free to run screaming back to Hell's Kitchen. As for the books and relics, that shouldn't be a problem, though we might have to do some co

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6170/I See Skies of Blue
...with a nasal, slightly hooting tone to it. "She asked if you might see my books. I might have a few that would be interesting for you to study, but most ar ...t do not expect to find any references to help you when it comes to my own books. The language I write in has been dead ten times as long as we have lived o

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15814/Pizza! Pizza!
...of a stack of review books and her brand new basement-level totally-on-the-books-and-safe apartment. ...course Beeper pics get lots of heart emojis with it, and thumbs up at the books and apartment. Along with jut 'Looks great!' What Gabby hadn't really expec

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9338/All I Want for Christmas Is the Abolishment of Capitalism
.... Books that were out just for show have been taken away and replaced with books Tim actually likes. It's not a complete transformation, the place is too BI

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8309/Could This BE More Awkward
...bag on the table, and immediatly starts rifling through it and pulling out books and notebooks. If she's waiting, might as well get some work done. ...back to the table to right the chair she'd knocked over. She looks at her books, her bag, and the omlette, then to Satana's eyes. There's a moment of thoug

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11077/Shrink Time!
...a distration. And snacks. Whatever had her reading such non-school-related books had her looking quite serious indeed. ...mes into the rec room carrying one folded up and peers at Gabby's stack of books, peering at the cover of the one she's reading, curiously.  &nb

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Knox Kennedy
came to love books and the acquisition of knowledge. He is a very dedicated student when prese

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4222/Mindscapes
...p at the partially cloudy afternoon sky. Next to her backpack is a pile of books, a sketchpad, and a few stubby pencils that likely need replacing. Half-fin ...ks it's aliens, but..." She shrugs a bit, but hurriedly starts putting her books away. "Alright, you can have my number. Just... I dunno, warn me if

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1934/Dog Days
...sp;  Kainashi looks a little bit eeved at the mention of books. "Books'redumb." she mutters, her ears flicking back in irritation, the black tatto ...he nudges Donatello again, adding, "Besides, this nerd here reads all the books for me." He mutters, if reluctantly, "We're gonna have to find a new

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14500/Lazy Titan Day
...communal dining table and drops her entire armload on it with a clatter of books, tools, vegetables and canned goods.     She detours ...rcastic tone.  She wiggles a thumb vaguely behind her at the stack of books and looks at her phone.  The expression on her face says everything, a

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16897/And now for my hat trick.
...en she thinks she's being kidnapped (it happens, don't be a woman in comic books!), "WHAT THE....? LET ME OUT OF HERE!" she screams from within the giant ha

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9445/Pendants for Puss, Circles for Cats
...ave an extra room in my apartment in Metropolis. We could Rabbit Hole your books there to keep them safe?" ..."Didn't think so. Want to learn?" She follows his gaze towards her books and thinks about it for a moment. "Yeah," she decides. "It's either that or

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15173/House Warding
...trying to keep places nead an' tidy. But I promise you if I find any of my books here there are going to be words. Probably tears, like 'Tynan, how could yo ...// to write. Sometimes reading those are just as important as reading good books. It's still in my library. Can't stand parting with any book I've bought. S

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16682/A Function of Paper
...you, one of those weirdos? There is a lot of money in this. We torch these books and I'll give you half. I can introduce you to my boss."  &nbs ...such a lovely collection," she says approvingly. "But I do understand that books are best enjoyed in familiar surroundings. I find it less distracting. Libr

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3117/Wizard Questions, Dear Reader
..., "The notion of self. Where does consciousness begin and end? I have some books by Descartes and Hume if you want to explore <span class="bold_fg_w bg_n ++

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7371/Demon's Due
...aits. She lets her fingers twine with his if he allows, "Quiet places, old books, and no paperwork are generally the best ones." she confesses. "I think any ...nuckles as they twine around his fingers, "I have plenty of quiet and more books than you can stand. And I haven't done a lick of paperwork in my life, othe

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10399/With Toast
...going a subtle renovation in personality now that she's living there), the books and deep mahogany wood trim with overfilled smoking chairs. It's the smell

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14194/Taking Aim - Stringing the bow
...eps over to one of the many shelves to run her eyes over the spines of the books, one hand holding her phone, she glances down at it to remind herself of th ...if he wants a little bit of company, or if he wants to pull in a bunch of books at once. But for the most part, Librarian Jamie is just a presence who is m

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2010/Oh My God, It Is You After All.
...in a few herself and been written into a few by her mother's line of comic books. This business about James Barnes being over a hundred years old? That stre ...ks. Radio, later, and what music we couldmake ourselves. But it was mostly books, 'cause we could go to the library for free. I read a lot, and I'm sorry to

22 KB (4,037 words) - 15:36, 8 June 2020
1414/Mind over Matter
...utant Town with an outreach group, handing out summer clothing, children's books, snacks and even raffling off a bicycle at the end of the day to some lucky ...zare Bazaar a couple weeks back along the ports and picked up a couple old books." she smiles brightly, and reaches a hand.     

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4988/A Pit Stop
...omething to pad the paycheck. Even though it was after hours...and off the books...but no harm done, right? At least, he thought that before someone yank

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Claire Temple
...If it's a first aid technique, Claire knows it. She could recite first aid books in her sleep

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6915/The Package
...beer in the other. Not protocol, mind you, even though this one is for the books. Despite the goings on at the Playground, they still had a job to d ...of explaining. "Pointy hat and all. The hat is back home. I have a lot of books written by my family coven over the centuries. Most magical things, even ru

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11757/Blood and Hellfire
...pansive. I've not had the opportunity to study it beyond what's written in books. How does the process of becoming work?" 

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16703/And Along Came a Paper (Master)
...arrives. Charta looks rather overawed. She has stepped out of her world of books and dust-covered rooms into a place where everyone appears to just fly abou ...d to that since leaving home.     "I do prefer books, though the dust is not something I enjoy. And, well, this visit is not abo

19 KB (3,661 words) - 04:55, 29 December 2023
12999/A Little Privacy, Please!
...what pure of heart meant. I tried reading my sister's Dungeons and Dragons books. I thought I was like one of those magical knight guys. I'm not. I have don

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13282/CofFee Zombies of New York City
...discouraging anyone else from sitting there with her. A messenger bag with books visible in the open flap seem to indicate that this girl is a student, even

8 KB (1,423 words) - 01:17, 6 November 2022
17038/Yancy vs June
...you ma'am?" A coupla kids go into the store and look at some comic books. 

8 KB (1,467 words) - 14:44, 30 January 2024
10400/Too Much Tea Party
...addie!" she says, her voice chipper. "I was just at the library picking up books for my English class. What's got you so miserable?" 

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127/School Daze
...y. At least for him. Right now.     Another pair of books are taken out and then he closes the locker with his hip, letting it swing

17 KB (3,145 words) - 02:40, 7 March 2020
15828/Flock of Crowes
...et to hang. "I don't want to let anyone down. I stay up at night, studying books. Trying to learn how to heal. Because I don't want to be out in the field a ...t's talk about those goals then. Do you think having better access to more books will help you feel more confident in your abilities? Or discussions with me

18 KB (3,355 words) - 00:41, 12 September 2023
3993/Demon on the Roof
...e's taught me some stuff, but you can also watch the news and read history books if you really want to." She scans the neighborhood from her vantage point.

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Jack Temple
...ing outside of human norms, following the advice of years of reading comic books he decided to keep his powers secret * 2015: Saved another student from

8 KB (1,350 words) - 21:26, 29 January 2021
5510/Disassembling an Icon
...useful thing to avoid unwanted recrimination. We don't have to read trashy books do we?" ...|Nessa Donovan (1523)}} has posed:''' "Oh no, it has nothing to do with books or ladies. Certainly more like a codeword so you don't have to just blatant

19 KB (3,577 words) - 04:45, 9 March 2021
12811/Show Me To The Light
...the room in the usual streak of neon light lest she set quite a bit of the books and papers thrown into the air. Arriving at the door, the bluenette arrives

9 KB (1,552 words) - 01:28, 19 September 2022
17765/This isn't Sparta.
...ghtly clinging to the towel about her shoulders. "First, she gave me a few books about my mother. First-hand accounts and stories written by Amazons. They p

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7026/Robert's Moving Day
...make you nervous when I am around?" He asks her. He starts packing up some books off a bookcase. I noticed when I set down you seemed to tense up and pull y ...has posed:''' Robert Marksman hmms and nods a bit to this, and puts the books down. He walks over to her, and says "Well I promise to do my best not to h

30 KB (5,741 words) - 13:53, 23 July 2021
17518/A Spare for a Spare
...out of a working engine. Also I'd have to double check some old reference books I have but think that wiring is not quiet right. Your timings may be off."

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2922/A Touch of Crimson
...the eye; what small window space there is, is filled with a shelf with old books and a few oddities, but not... bizarrely occult ones. An old fashioned glob ...y only be because a controlled climate is better for the health of the old books. And Jason himself knows a thing or too about /hot/ places. "

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Morrigan MacIntyre
 Morrigan has a well stocked library that holds books on the subjects of Medicine, Science and the Occult for research and study

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Donatello
...to the world was through media: television, movies, newspapers, magazines, books, and most importantly, video games. They soon start to operate from the sha Donatello has an insatiable desire to learn. Early in his life, books detailing science and engineering were the bill of fare, but the addition o

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Essix
...nt of concentration. This also applies to things such as learning, reading books, and watching instructional videos.

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729/C'est le choix de monsieur
...hen opens the side door that leads into the study with shelf upon shelf of books, along with several conversational areas and a bar upon the wall. It's the ...ins to study the books. Coming to herself, with a faint smile, "Excuse me. Books, I love them and you have a beautiful collection." She glides to the

30 KB (5,546 words) - 11:08, 24 March 2020
942/Oh, oh, it's magic!
...maid.     A girl looking at a variety of older books, humming softly to herself, a canvas shopping bag with "#GOTHAMHOPE" on it ....     He steps up beside Phoebe as she eyes the books, and he leans in to brush his fingers down one of the spines, considering i

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6010/A Chance Encounter
...es from stopping her and embarrassingly admitting that they've enjoyed her books, however) Lydia is dressed in an elegant emerald evening gown. The ...st seem to grow money out of trees and I write smutty supernatural romance books. Not a lot of common ground there." 

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16301/Faerie Homework
...ht oil tonight. A certain pink haired faerie is busy pouring over numerous books by candle light, frowning and making notes, crossing stuff out and making m

7 KB (1,354 words) - 05:13, 10 November 2023
3440/Court of Owls: Red Dead Redemption Interlude 2 - Brainstorm
...oom are most intact, though there are some bulletholes through some of the books. The hard 'wood' floor has a giant pair of intertwined circles carved into ...erence, then goes to the bookshelf. Absently, she starts investigating the books, just on the off chance that there's a trigger there. The bookcases were so

19 KB (3,413 words) - 05:14, 29 September 2020
8847/Tech Talks are Hot
...she's carrying with her telekinesis a huge library bag full of checked out books while she swipes on her phone. Yes, people stare as she blatantly uses her ...all bothered by this. She carefully places both the coffee and the library books down. "I'll be right with you, babe. I need to help take care of this." Wit

30 KB (5,449 words) - 22:15, 28 November 2021
5631/Coffee and Donuts
...omance novels." She takes a sip of her coffee, continuing, "I've got three books published so far. I don't make a lot from them, but it's enough to treat me ...with a vampire. That kind of thing." She grins, "It's one of my published books!" 

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14433/Rainbows and Clouds
...ibranium supply? I mean, of course that's true but I mean, that's what the books say, but they do overstate stuff all the time... Oh god, sorry, I must be a ...ieve our villages are beautiful," she says without saying much there. "And books can say a lot of things. I'm afraid I don't have any information about a ba

19 KB (3,581 words) - 09:47, 2 June 2023
14395/Bart stopping by to use the kitchen
...continues on. "As far as artist, yea I like to draw and color my own comic books." 

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457/Just Waltz In
...a set of ornate double doors. Terry looks around. The study has no books. Of course. ...xtremely plump seat. "Thank you." Sabatini pulls on the books, and the bookcase swivels, revealing a hidden bar, fully stocked. "I

24 KB (4,423 words) - 18:52, 12 March 2020
8988/Of Mice and (Bird)Men (and Women)
...ething?"     Kían moans.  "Shíi, those fantasy books of your haf put a hole in your mind." 

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Billy Kaplan
...mpire can't walk into the sunlight. Its all thanks to a bunch of sorcerers books he's spotted and collected over the past few years. 

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9692/Battery Park AAR
...sh it. She does know the man, and his fickleness, well. "What local books I can get you, I will. If the over seas ones aren't willing to loan out, I' ...hing else. You get me the list of whatever you need, I'll send it with the books and the next supply drop." She smiles squeezing his hand one last time and

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17715/Sh*t Never Just Goes Bump.
...ook. The blue gem flashes brightly, almost blindingly bright, and then the books turns to ash that falls to the floor. "Witchblade was displeased wit .... "Not to hard to take down. But why's someone want them here and why kids books?" Rhetorical question or a real one? Still hard to say. He bends to pick up

24 KB (4,495 words) - 02:09, 21 April 2024
11882/Fireworks Aren't Allowed
...h it may need to be upstairs and downstairs..." A chuckle. He has a lot of books, after all. "You have yet to cause me any downs, Micola. I promise."

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12858/The one where Bruce dumps Phoebe out of a chair
...ibrary, warded by the metal screens and chain curtains to help protect the books from a burning fate.     It wasn't unusual to f

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3392/Ice Palace: Do we have a plan
...off with these, if you please. It would be Bad." A gesture is given to the books. ...t of problem two." Her gaze flickers back to Lucifer at the mention of the books. "That's the direction I was thinking might be a good route, some kind of c

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3274/Warm Soul, Ice Queen
...sign a few times. "I can also do magic, I study it. I had to steal books from the lords to do it, but I know a lot about magic. I have my own magic ...ou need me." Suddenly tearing out a piece of paper from one of the books in his jacket, he waves a hand, causing words to burn into it. This time th

21 KB (3,916 words) - 03:57, 8 September 2020
9106/And the cooks had to work overtime.
...man and says "Impulse, heard your Gilgamesh as in the one from the history books?" 

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3612/Accidental Brute Force Summoning
...air, a body gets tossed halfway across her room, knocking over a stack of books until it hits her couch. Levian groans, laying there in the pile of ...rious about them, particularly her bookcases. "Humans have so many books, and you don't have to steal them from someone powerful enough to have a ca

26 KB (4,907 words) - 05:17, 29 September 2020
5498/But what's normal, anyway.
...point. "I think that's kinda like this trick that I picked up. I can read books real fast and usually retain most of what's in there. I only learned I coul ...lions of dollars. This would not even register as a blip on the accounting books. Anything under five thousand dollars would not even register as money to h

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10999/The One Where Morgan Visits
...it looks much more decidedly lived in. For the living room has some other books and papers scattered around as well as a backpack set on the coffee table. ...Aaron (488)}} has posed:'''     "Yeah, I have three books I have to read," Alexander says as he shoots a glance at the abandoned Cice

18 KB (3,470 words) - 14:06, 4 May 2022
4920/Checking in on the new recruit
...a long stretch to pop the joints in her back before shuffling over to her books to pull out another text from her shelf. On the radio, she is playi ...de to let him in. Her room has a bit of chaos to it. Clothes on the floor, books everywhere, her training uniform hanging up on the front of the closet door

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Veronique Lalonde
...opy them. She has little time reading anything more complicated than comic books or has a spritely plot on a screen.

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12153/Taking a Page from...
...g of hair along the back of his neck.     Four books from the Non-Fiction section to the side tumble off the shelves. &n ...e floor. "Wait what?" No way that's random. The faerie picks up one of the books and frowns, "I think those kids got kidnapped and taken through a portal to

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3933/Curing Cancer
...dangerous situations on a regular basis. They don't really write self-help books on how to approach a colleague, a teammate, a friend with a 'hey, I'm prett ...on, Kurt is still no expert. He is just as willing to take his queues from books and movies and any other fiction as the practicalities that he has observed

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8268/The Secret Life of Jack Drake: Read, if you dare...
...unted on the walls - a Zulu iklwa, a Japanese tanto blade. Shelves full of books in locked glass cases. Fossils. Cuneiform tablets.    &nb ...like about this. You father somehow managed to lock up one of the scariest books in existence in a secret room below his house." She stands still facing the

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10601/Restarting Fresh
...fiction, non fiction, and other elements.     Books. Thousands of them. Every inch of wall space in this spacious room is cover ...good number of useful resources, and I do feel better looking at walls of books rather than bare ones," she says, moving to the shelves, trying to find pas

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10040/POG: Phoning a Friend
...puppet. And I need to know about a spell that was mentioned in one of the books called the Camdever Curse." she cuts to the quick of it. She keeps on eyein

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1907/Ghost/Mania
...hing of her demeanour. "Everything I know about symbiotes, I read in comic books. I mean, until recently I didn't even know they really existed. It's...like ...ose eyes, closer to Spider-Man's in style than Mania's. "<We like comic books, too. A..roommate?>" It leads to a thoughtfully confused shift to those

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16306/Post-Robbinsville
...t slept; she hass a pair of orange glasses on as she pours over one of the books, up on a stand that she's borrowed from one of the tables.  &n

20 KB (3,663 words) - 10:49, 12 November 2023
9350/Old Ft. Booksmore
...Cushions. Beanbags. Pillows. Blankets. Endless comfort, and a pile of old books that smell like leather and vanilla. A rechargable lantern is providing the ...381)}} has posed:''' The nerds have taken over again! Or would physical books classify Phoebe as something else. Vintage nerd? But no. Conner is not goin

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4068/GIRLs Night in the Mansion
...work, learning ingredients and elements that make something up. Plenty of books you can study. But there are different styles of magic. Some is more innate ...I think it would definitely be interesting to at least read some of those books. Dr. Von Doom does both Science and Magic, he's /so/ cool! I actually got h

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401/Lazy Library Loitering
...take the finance out of the boy, I guess. Yeah, I mean, I could look over books and stuff like that and make sure that everything's in order. I just won't

10 KB (1,896 words) - 19:14, 12 March 2020
9247/Just who's asking the questions here
...ppy, so here I am."     She turns back from the books to look more closely at Jonathan. "I'm not saying she's stupid or anything. ...br>    The shelves are full of both the normal sort of books on psychiatry and also more esoteric volumes--everything from ethnobotany a

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12951/Vampire Interview with the JLD
...et. "Questions...?" she considers, then looks around. "...are there... any books.. or materials.. for rune inscribing here..?" she asks, taking the shop in ...down. "If I am not needed at present, then I shall be on my way, too. More books to seek. Perhaps..." she pauses, a small glint in her eye. "Dinner. A pleas

20 KB (3,674 words) - 02:52, 4 October 2022
16508/A World of Curio-sities
...nding library. "Why the hell is that stuck shut? Do you like, have haunted books in there? I could see it. Just wanting to know in case." "I mean we

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7774/Let's Buy a Fancy Dress!!!
|Poses=:'''{{#var:605|Mystique (605)}} has posed:''' Real school books, that's what Cynthia had laid out around her on the floor. She was organizi ...protect me, but still, it was there." Starting to stack the school books up, he didn't want to think about school and telling people there and yet,

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11993/Another Wanderer on the Path
...sets up. "Hey, Robbie."     She sets down the books on a nearby table while tentacles reach out and arrange the furniture to fa ...y possible." Watching Lydia drawing out a chalkboard and papers and books, she can't help but to chuckle a little. "That is quite the presentation, I

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7932/I know what you did last summer (night)
...right place it usually is either..." who the heck pays attention to where books are in a bookshelf?! "And even if I feel it'd be a good read for you that's

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8161/Visiting Nettie Again
...nods and gives a little wave as she takes her tea and starts to peruse the books. She's never actually had time to do that before. 

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5999/Triple Chocolate Cake Repercussion
...bcde, "A character based on me...? Like what?" look, she is a fan of those books so there's a bit of a uncontrolled little excitement in her. Even if she do ...hich is a huge concession since she hates anything in paper. But not those books apparently! With Mittens going on patrol she chuckles at the talk ab

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15829/Library away from home
...ole of it would expand out into a monstrously large library, with tiers of books and decorative staircases. Decorative -- in that generally Loki wouldn't cl

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