Wingardium Leviosa'd [Open]

[isee-snorkacks.livejournal.com]

There are uncharacteristically dark crescents under Luna's protuberant eyes, their usual twinkle a little dimmer than it's been of late. She seems to be drooping in an odd way, shoulders curled forwards in a hunch, hair unnoticed in her face, fingers dull and slow.

Still, even exhaustion and nightmares can't stop Luna Lovegood from being Luna Lovegood - no matter how much they make her worry that Katara was right about... - and, as such, she has settled herself in the library, not particularly uncommon for her. Today, however, she isn't reading.

Today, she is juggling book tablets with her wand, a vague look of interest fixed on her pale face as Hogwarts: A History spins past the 1960 edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, The Encyclopaedia Brittanica bumping corners with Lolita.

"And Odo the hero, they bore him back home
To the place he had known as a lad,
They laid him to rest with his hat inside out
And his wand snapped in two, which was sad," she sings quietly, chin resting in the palm of her free hand as she twirls the four books into a counter-clockwise formation, screens glinting in the light, a sigh escaping.

"I miss normal books."

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Hunter's not sure if Luna's talking to herself or to him; after all, this is Luna Lovegood. She could be speaking to a thestral for all he knows, although he's almost entirely certain he'd notice if a giant leathery-winged black horse was in the Media Library. Still, he decides to chance a reply to her statement. If he was wrong, well... the worst that could happen would be a brief conversation full of extreme awkwardness before Hunter could extricate himself and flee to the Medbay with his copy of Gray's Anatomy.

"Doesn't everyone?" he asks, glancing up from his datapad.

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"I suppose they do, yes," she says after a moment, blinking owlishly at him through an opening in her digi-book cyclone. "I feel I rather undervalued the sound of pages turning, though. It's quite a loss."

There is a silence, filled with her usual inscrutable staring. It seems she is finished for the moment, when she swish and flicks, and the datapad slips out of the teen's hands to join her collection. She looks mildly curious.

"What exactly does 'Gray's Anatomy' comprise?"

[notastaffchick.livejournal.com]

There is a tiny, undignified noise of confusion from Hunter as his current choice of reading material is unceremoniously pulled from his hands. "Um... it's a human anatomy and physiology textbook." Hunter says after a moment, fidgeting in his meatchair under Luna's stare. "And, well, I think in this specific case I don't mind e-books, because the paper copies of that book are about 1600 pages long and I don't particularly care to tote that around for real long."