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For the books? Why else would anyone want to go to a library?

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[ His nose wrinkles behind his mask. ]

It just sounds boring, is all.

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You're not a reader, I take it.

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[ With mock innocence, ] I have no idea where you got that idea from. I read War and Peace just yesterday.

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[ She's guessing that's another Earth thing, but it's easy enough to infer the meaning. ]

Did you, now? Tell me, what was your favorite part?

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[ Without missing a beat, ]

Definitely the War. But the Peace comes in a close second.

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[ Good job Peter, you got a legitimate laugh out of her. ]

I suppose I walked right into that one.

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[ He looks surprised for a second, but then he grins. He had assumed she'd be the type who rarely laughed, but-- that was a pretty dumb joke. So clearly he had assumed wrong.

He pats her on the shoulder as he passes by. ]

Happens to the best of us.

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[ She rolls her eyes, but the grin stays on her face as she follows after him ]

You know, you remind me of someone back home.

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[ He tilts his head, curious. ] I'm hoping that's in a good way.

[phaselocknroll]

If it was in a bad way, I'd be substantially less friendly towards you.

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Right. Aside from the trapping me in a weird-- purple thing with your mind.

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Notice I didn't set you on fire, though.

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For which I'll be eternally grateful, now that I know that it was a possibility.

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I imagine it wouldn't have done wonders for first impressions.

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Yeah, pretty sure it'd be less an impression and more a pile of ash and a soot stain on the ground.

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And piles of ash don't help you shoot skags in creepy-ass tunnels.

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[ He grins behind his helmet. ]

Are we having a moment? I feel like we're having a moment.

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[ she just laughs again ]

Sure, Peter. We're having a "moment".

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See? Getting trapped in a possibly alternate dimension with no discernible means of escape isn't so bad. It means you get to make brand new friends.

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I could do without the "trapped" part. The last person who tried to trap me anywhere got a face full of lead for his troubles.

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[ -- And that's a story he wants to hear, but-- he doesn't press. He's learned the hard way (and more than once, even) that it's dangerous to pry into someone's past if they're not willing to share.

So all he says in return is, ] He must've been a real assmunch.

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[ She just sort of... looks at him for a moment. "Assmuch" and "Brother Sophis" were not two things she ever though she'd hear in the same sentence ]

That's... [ snerk ] That's one way to put it.

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[ He shrugs a shoulder, as if to say, "It's a gift." ]

I've been told I provide a unique perspective on things.

[ In a sense, anyway. Usually in conjunction with a suggestion as to where he can cram his perspective. ]

[phaselocknroll]

If you knew him, "assmunch" would be the last word you'd think of.

Kind of fitting, though.