What's a girl like you doing in a place like this? [Open]

[combustible_me]

Sleeping, is what. Now, Ellyn had not intended to come to the Media Library to sleep, but the book she had chosen had sealed the deal. It was yet another treatise on magic by the Endless--"A Dissertation on the Vagaries of Elemental Magic". Required reading back at the Elemental College. Dry as a bone.

Even now, that book was sitting in her lap. Ellyn herself had her head thrown back on the fattychair she was sitting on, sprawling bonelessly across it. Only the fact that she'd had her robe closed protected the book from sliding onto the floor.

Every once in a while, she let out a loud, rumbling snore. It was sort of like a small, localized thunderstorm had rolled in, only without any rain...

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[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

It was one of those times that Kaya had decided to pop into the Media library to get more information on things she didn't know. Right about now? She was reading up on different kinds of elves, just to see what she could dispel of fact and fiction with the ones she knew on the ship.

But after awhile, of course, she was going to notice the thundering snoring a few aisles down, so naturally, she went to investigate and found the sleeping woman. She was a little confused: why would anyone come to the Media library to sleep?

Still, she would try to continue to read her book despite the snoring. Hopefully it would eventually taper down.

[combustible_me]

Except it wasn't, really. Though for a little while, Ellyn stopped snoring when she rolled over on to her side, nudging the book on to the seat next to her.

Though after a while, a surly-sounding grunt escaped her, she rolled over again, and the snoring returned. It might have only been the silence, but it sounded as if Ellyn were snoring louder than before.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

And it was right about this time that Kaya would definitely have to say something. There was being polite, and then there was intentionally inconveniencing her own self.

"Um," she said, lightly tapping the girl's shoulder, "I don't mean to be rude, but its sort of hard to read when you sleep because you snore loudly. If you're tired, I oculd recommend a place to nap."

[combustible_me]

Ellyn grunted again and jerked awake, blinking.

"Dammit," she growled. "Uh. Sorry. Naw. I ain't tired, I oughtta know better'n ta read th' Endless when I don't wanna be put ta sleep. 'Specially his stuff on magic. Even his Lives of th' Monarchs're less snoozeworthy."

She shook her head, and got up to replace what she'd been reading. "I c'n get quieter, I'll jus' look fer somethin' else ta read."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Kaya felt a little bad about getting her up.

"It's not like you could hep it, but why read something that you know will put you to sleep?" She asked. "Magic always sees so interesting: i can't imagine reading something that would make it unintersting enough to bore you to sleep."

And now she realized she hadn't introduced herself. "I'm Kaya, from the Northern water Tribe! Who might you be?"

[combustible_me]

"Guess I was that bored. An' th' guy who wrote it's from my world. Kind'a familiar. I s'pose it might be interestin' fer an outsider, but I've been learnin' that stuff since I was half my age, if that."

Ellyn chuckled a little. "Dad's always told Ethellon ta lighten up, but I don't think 'e can." She shrugged, and held out a hand.

"Ellyn Vitner, pyromancer. Yer tribe got any meanin'?" She was, admittedly, more curious about the "water" part, but she wasn't about to be that obvious about it.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"I've never heard of magic being boring, but then all magic is a little different, I guess. I do know a few people on the ship who use magic though, so maybe I'l ask them how their texts are."

She smiled. "Pyromacer? I don't think I've heard that term before. Is that a kind of title for a witch in your world?"

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Zouichi came mostly to investigate the sound, but when he spotted Ellyn sprawled out there on the chair, well. The least he could do was make sure the book didn't drop and wake her up. He moved quietly toward her to retrieve the book. "A Dissertation on the Vagaries of Elemental Magic"? Sounded boring.

[combustible_me]

It was. The Endless loved to read his own writing, or something. This is exactly why the pyromancer was asleep!

As Zouichi retrieved the book, she gave a grunt, and her yellow eyes opened.

"Ugh, ya don' wanna read that, yer gonna melt what passes fer yer brain," she grumbled at him. "Think it gave me a headache."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Zouichi smiled apologetically and handed it back to her. "Sorry," he said. "Thought you were asleep. And I wasn't going to read it; I don't think I'd know where to start when it comes to magic."

[combustible_me]

Ellyn grunted quietly as she accepted the book. "Yer right, I was sleepin'. Endless always did put me ta sleep, long-winded bast'rd that 'e is."

She sat up a little, trying to dispel the fog of sleep. How long had it been since she actually slept, anyway? She couldn't tell. Maybe that was part of the problem.

"Not somethin' ya had on yer world? Lotta this is theory, so if ya got curious, might actually be a good place ta start. Ethellon does a lot o' thinkin' in his massive 'mounts o' spare time."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"To be honest, I'm not even sure I'd be very good at it. Or if it would be any use, if I returned to my own world." He looked a little dubiously at the book. If it put an actual magic user to sleep...

"So why are you reading magic texts? Trying something new?"

[combustible_me]

"Eh, more like refreshin' myself. Even if he's borin' ta read," Ellyn said. "They used this as an educ'tional text back at th' college I went ta."

She grimaced a little, then. "Though it prob'ly wouldn't hurt if I did poke through th' stacks an' see if they got anythin' else interestin' here, now that ya mention it. Never stop learnin', my brother says."

[thisclinchesit]

Nearby, Shoutarou was browsing the things in the library, and idly wondered if Phillip had been here yet - he'd bet that he hadn't, given the wealth of material here, and the timeframe his partner had provided for being here - even if he'd been in here every waking moment, he couldn't have consumed everything here already. And knowing Phillip, he'd have stayed here until he had.

The detective is jolted from his musing by that raucous noise, and he stumbles backwards, whipping out a Driver on impulse. "Who's there?!" He can't quite see Ellyn from his position, so he makes the first logical assumption - that noise meant trouble!

[combustible_me]

Ellyn is oblivious to all of this, sleeping like the dead. Which is, of course, why she continues to let out eardrum-rattling snores.

They do stop for a moment when she shifts again, and mutters something incoherent to herself, but hey, that could just be growling, right?

Clearly SOMETHING is afoot!

[thisclinchesit]

Shou places the driver on his waist, and the belt shoots around, then he whips out a Memory, clicking the button. It yells "JOKER!" fairly loudly, but he pauses, glancing around to make sure he's not going to get jumped by this snarling beast that is surely making this noise...

[combustible_me]

The loudest noise yet comes in response to that yell of "JOKER!" from the Memory. And it's horrible, snarling and gurgling and snorting--

And then, suddenly, silence. It's almost worse than the noise had been!

[thisclinchesit]

And then Shoutarou shoves it in the belt, throwing it to the side. The memory repeats itself, then he adds "Henshin!" to it, taking the form of Kamen Rider Joker.

"'Who's there', I said!"

[combustible_me]

From the fattychair, a scruffy looking head arises, and Ellyn turns, blinking sleep-bleared yellow eyes. And squints.

Luckily only one person on the ship has armor quite like that.

"Eeeeh. Shoutarou. What's goin' on?" Ellyn turned around, looking behind her. Had something snuck up on her while she was asleep?

[greeedycat]

Most people would have been bothered by snoring, no doubt. But to someone like Caz? It was actually pretty amusing. And maybe, uh, "comforting" or something. Rumbling sounds sort of did that to him.

So while it may have been incredibly awkward to most folks, Cazali was sitting on the ground, leaning against the side of Ellyn's fattychair, and reading his own unmarked literature while soaking in the "atmosphere".

[combustible_me]

The pyromancer is blissfully ignorant to all this. There's a bit of muttering and grumbling when she shifts in her chair, but the snoring resumes pretty quickly once she's settled into position once again.

[greeedycat]

Now, see? This is the perfect relationship, right here. Warmish snoring woman, squishy fatty chair to lean on, near-infinite information to gorge himself on, and a sleeping, purring kitten in his lap.

The only way it could have been better is if he was somehow simultaneously slaughtering the weak and being full of medals, but hey. You gotta adapt.

[combustible_me]

Ellyn shifted again, letting the book she'd been reading slip off her lap and plop onto the ground. Yeah, no wonder she's asleep. Even the title sounds boring.

She just snorted for a moment, before starting into another long, raucous, chair-vibrating snore. It was almost like the kitten's purring.

[greeedycat]

Caz raised an eyebrow at the book when it fell, putting his own against his knee (Besel didn't seem to mind much) and picking it up.

"'A Dissertation on the Vagaries of Elemental Magic'?" He scoffed, looked the book over, and cracked it open to a random page, barely getting through a paragraph. "...maaan, this is like if doctor wrote about how anime superheroes work."

Cazali turned to look over his shoulder, and with the book still in hand, roughly dropped it back in to Ellyn's lap. "You can have it~"

[combustible_me]

The pyromancer woke with a grunt. Maybe if she'd had a better layer of her own fat (or any real lap to speak of), Ellyn could have slept right through it, but no.

Blinking blearily, she grunted at Cazali, before leaning forward a little to offer a finger to the kitten. Apparently that passed as a "hello" to them both, from her.