Scene #2063: German Impressionism

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Emi Hoshino	Juvenile delinquent by day, dream guardian by night... Emi Hoshino is most often a very busy student of Radiant Heart Academy. Sometimes though, just sometimes, the twilight hours in between offer her just a little solace from both. Outfitted in wha can be best described as gothic regalia, Emi has scouted out a table within the central waiting area and laid her sketch pad upon it alongside a few illustrated books she'd collected from wandering the stacks. Occasionally, she glances up towards one of the librarians, an greying-haired and slender lady with particularly tired looking eyes. Clicking her pen and pursing her lips, Emi first flips open one of the books and then settles into her seat, but she seems easily distracted. In fact, she's raising her head and glancing at each individual that passes through the library's central area in turn, but only out of the corner of one of her mismatched eyes. Observing, it seems. Her phone, sitting in a case adorned with stylized spider-webs and bats, vibrates entirely too loudly against the table, calling immediate attention to the fact that she did not turn it off. How rude.
Fairy Lamya	The public library isn't usually the kind of place Mie would hang out at, but she's got an assignment at school that requires her to do some research. Bah! Doing school while off of school. If she had known it was so much ''work'' she would have never signed up for this undercover mission. She's staring at the shelves of books, scowling with her hands on her hips. So many choices. Eventually, she just grabs one at random and goes to sit at the nearest table which happens to be occupied by another student. Without comment, she plops down in the chair opposite Emi and cracks open the book. When the phone buzzes on the table, she looks up to glare at her table-mate with scarlet red eyes. "I believe that you're not supposed to have your phone on," she says gruffly, probably a bit louder than she ought to. "I have come to do mandatory reading and do not wish to be disturbed."
Emi Hoshino	With seeming nonchalance, Emi reaches for her phone, holding up a single finger as if to say 'just a second' towards her tablemate. Having seen, well, whatever it was she wanted to see, she pointedly holds down the power button until the screen goes black and then sets it atop her small stack of books. "No kidding," she replies, holding that gaze a moment with just a little trepidation slipping into the edges of her expression. she closes her green eye, then, and then tips back, doing her level best to adapt a somewhat more serene mien. Her eyes go up towards that librarian for the second time, a flicker of concern in her eyes before she turns them back down to the piece of paper in front of her. Her pen makes little more than seeming scribbles on her page at the moemnt, and Mie might see that the book in question is on a double spread of a fantastic night time vista with a prismatic panopoly of prismatic stars shining down on it and a mix of oversized mushrooms and twisting, colorfully blooming trees overshadowing them.
Fairy Lamya	Mie grunts in satisfaction as Emi silences her phone and puts it away. She, then, goes back to reading this random book that she chose, letting the table fall into a somewhat uncomfortable silence. She gets about five pages through the book before snapping it shut with an uttered, "Bah!" She looks up at Emi as if she's trying to decide what to do next when her eyes fall on the picture book. "I did not know they had pictures of Marchenland in these books. Where did you find it?"
Emi Hoshino	"A what now?" whispers Emi, her face screwing up with confusion as she swaps to looking at her through her green eye instead. "What's... what's a Marchenland?" she asks, haltingly, stumbling a little over herself as her detatched and nonchalant mien briefly shatters when she's caught off guard. "Some kinda nerd stuff?" she asks, casually, trying to grasp her way back to that place of detatched cool she tried so hard to start from and failing miserably once she's even slightly on the backfoot. She's just a touch unsettled for some reason.
Fairy Lamya	Mie hesitates as she realizes that she spoke of her magical homeland to a normal girl. "It's a place in Germany, where I'm from," she says, quickly adjusting course. It's funny, though. Mie doesn't ''have'' a German accent. She scowls, folds her arms, and protests, "It's ''not'' some kind of nerd stuff."
Emi Hoshino	"Germany," repeats Emi. She looks down at the page again and its fantastical creatures and then back up. Then down again. Then back up. "Sure," she says after a moment, scratching the back of her head and then brushing a pink strand of hair out of her eyes. "Seems like a weird place," she adds, just going with it for the moment, even though her eyes still ocasionally flick up towards the drowsy looking librarian and then back down to the piece of paper she's drawing. It takes a new uregency for her, it seems, even as she talks to Mie. "Tell me more about Germany," she tells her, "I've never met anyone who's come from there, not even at the Academy." Not hard to imagine that they're both students there and that's the guess she's making, even as her pen flicks across paper. She's no great artist by any stretch of the imagination, her pen showcasing only what can be described at best as a modest and underdeveloped talent as the little anime gnome with a gnome hat sits atop a mushroom spackled with a polka-dot pattern of stars.
Fairy Lamya	"It is a magical place," Mie explains. She's never actually ''been'' to Germany so she kind of has to make things up. "With laughing... children, and great castles, and dangerous beasts in the woods." There are woods in Germany, right? Anyway, with the derision in her voice, it seems like Mie doesn't hold these things in very high opinion. She notices Emi's eyes shift focus away from her and back, so she turns in her seat to see who she's keeping an eye on. Turning back she leans forward and whispers, "You seem to be wary of that librarian. Is she your foe? Is the only thing stopping a fight is the confines of the library?"
Emi Hoshino	Emi can not help but stare at her at that response. Then she makes a soft 'ah' and nods along with her. "Sure," she agrees. "Laughing children. Probably some pied pipers," she agrees. She knows her fairy tales, even if she doesn't know Germany. But what Mie says next once again sends her stumbling over her next few words before she leans back, "N-no?!" she says a bit too loudly. "No. She just looks tired," she explains, "I hope she's not like ... sick or something." Despite her meticulous attempts to seem above it all, meticulous attempts that have holes in them that you could fly a gundam through, she doesn't even try to hide the little bit of genuine concern that slips through there. "I think she's struggling with something, I guess. None of my business." It actually is her business. That's why she's here.
Fairy Lamya	"Indeed," intones Mie about the pied pipers. "Amongst other things." She turns again to scrutinize the librarian with a piercing gaze. "If she is sick," she concludes, "then she should be wearing a mask, but I do not know why this concerns you."
Emi Hoshino	Emi Hoshino stares at Mie again. "... I don't think that's the kind of sick. More heartsick than anything else." She taps her chest once herself before turning her gaze back down to the table and her sketchpad. Drawing faster, now. She stifles a yawn in the middle of it. "It doesn't concern me, I guess," she lies. "But don't you ever wonder what's behind someone else's eyes? ...aside from their optic nerves, that is."
Fairy Lamya	"If she is sick in her heart, then she should doubly wear a mask," Mie says, totally missing the euphemism. "I've come to understand that it is a very serious condition." Emi's last question causes her to blink. "Not really?" she hazards. "I find that people make their intentions clear through action rather than words. Guessing what goes on in somebody else's mind is futile, since you'll never know."
Emi Hoshino	... more staring. She's doing that a lot today, but her eyes then sweep back down to her drawing. She is picking up the pace on filling in the rest of the details. Above it, she puts the kanji for 'good luck'. With these finishing touches in place, Emi stretches her hands out over her head and sets her pen down afterwards. "... I guess that's fair," she offers uncertainly, "... runs a little contray to my experience but you know, I can't really argue about that." Just a little old passive-aggressiveness there as she rises up to her feet and goes to take over the little drawing to the librarian, placing it on the counter in front of her and just saying, "This is for you." The librarian blinks her eyes and then accepts the drawing. "How sweet," she says, a little robotically, before she places it amongst her things. "It's nearly closing time, Emi," she adds. Emi rolls her eyes, "Yeah, sure, whatever," she grumbles, before returning to her table. "I'm Emi, by the way," she adds to Mie.
Fairy Lamya	"Mie," Mie responds in kind and stands up. "It is a pleasure to meet you." It sounds like she's just saying that because it's the thing you say to other people. It's not that she's trying to be rude. It's just part of her taciturn nature. "I believe it's time for us to go." With that she does a curt little duck of the head, and picks up her book to drop off at the counter of the library.
Emi Hoshino	"So it would appear," muses Emi. There's a roll of her shoulders as she shrugs and then she starts gathering up her things, "Sure. Nice to meet you, Mie. I'm gonna guess you go to the Academy. I'm gonna head back there too. Welcome to walk with me." She slings her handbag over her shoulder and then makes for the exit, once again putting on that air of indifference. Teenagers.