Subject: "IÂ’ll be in the Canon Library if you need me."
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Posted on: 2015-02-09 16:46:00 UTC
The Canon Library was dark - of course it was. That was the way the Canon Librarian preferred it, and since he had managed to obtain absolute authority in his own domain, no-one was prepared to argue.
Admittedly, that was because they figured he'd threatened, intimidated, or blackmailed the Flowers into letting him run the place his own way. If people knew that he'd actually just sulked at them until they gave in, he probably wouldn't be quite so respected.
But it was dark - the kind of darkness that comes from spending your life in a perpetual inner gloom, and then having that magnified by certain supernatural events the Canon Librarian preferred not to think about. The sole denizen of the Library sat, peacefully reading, in what was halfway between a den and a nest. And then someone opened the door, and electric light burned in.
The Canon Librarian dropped his book in shock. Not at the fact that someone was intruding on his peaceful domain - that happened often enough - but at the twin facts that the agent was some sort of lion thing with sparks of electricity flying off its fur - and that it wasn't waiting at the door, but coming straight inside.
The Canon Librarian's usual technique was to snap, 'What?', but that didn't seem enough this time. Getting to his feet, he growled out, "What exactly do you think you're doing?"
Or rather, he tried to growl; it came out as more of a squeak. Regardless, the creature looked into the shadows, blinked, and said, "Uh, reading?"
"Reading." The Canon Librarian managed to get his voice under control. "And what, exactly, makes you think that this is a place to read? Does this look like a library to you?"
"Uh..."
"... shut up. Just. Shut up."
'Hey, hS, I've noticed you seem to be responding to a lot of stories with ficlets of late. What gives?'
Well asked, dear reader. I was remembering the days of the DCPS, when case-workers would respond to missions featuring their charges, and I thought: hey, why can't the Infrastructure agents under my aegis do the same thing? I enjoy writing, PPCers in general enjoy reading - what's to lose? And thus, this happened.
hS