Floor 1 Room 4

[dyingtohealyou]

Ahito

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[dyingtohealyou]

Who said anything about looking forward to it?

[Give him the deets grandpa!!]

[impacter]

[Denied!]

You have to look forward to something to keep yourself moving forward, even if it's just getting some answers. Wouldn't you agree?

I can walk you over if you're that discouraged.

[dyingtohealyou]

No thanks, I don't need an audience to do a little research.

[impacter]

Who said you'd have an audience? Maybe we just have the same goal right now. A little teamwork never hurt for mutual benefit.

[dyingtohealyou]

You didn't already check it out yourself?

[impacter]

I have. The collection is massive. Unless I can come up with another spell to read books just by touching the cover, there's no possible way to get through them in just a single visit.

[dyingtohealyou]

[Mmmmmmmmmmmgh...

He doesn't look thrilled, but:]

Fine. A second pair of eyes is better than one.

[Or whatever his eyesight counts as, being practically half blind and all.

To the library!]

[impacter]

That's the spirit.

[Away they go! At the very least, if his body language is anything to go by as they walk, Solomon's fine with treating Ahiro like a possible peer rather than a child. Mostly.]

Are you fluent in more than one language? The material is pretty varied.

[dyingtohealyou]

[...He honestly did not even think about other languages up until now.]

Only my country's. What languages are used for the books?

[impacter]

Mmm... there's a lot of them in Japanese. Quite a few in romantic languages, some in semetic... Sanskrit, Chinese, Russian... and those are just the ones I skimmed.

[dyingtohealyou]

...

[Uhhhh.]

...I've never heard of any of those languages.

[impacter]

Oh dear...

Maybe we'll have to come up with a translation spell sooner rather than later.

[dyingtohealyou]

Are they all from your world?

[impacter]

All the ones I listed are ones I'm familiar with from my world, yes. Some more than others.

[dyingtohealyou]

So it's not even guaranteed I'll be able to understand most of it.

[Cool. Love that.]

[impacter]

Not guaranteed, no. But persistence finds a way.

What's with the gloomy face? It's going to be just fine!

[dyingtohealyou]

I have a hard time accepting that if it turns out I can't understand any of our reference materials!

[impacter]

Easy, easy. You're worrying when we haven't even started to try!

If you don't believe you can do it, your magic isn't going to help. You need to commit to what you want.

[dyingtohealyou]

I don't even want to be here in the first place.

[Easy to mistake as mere complaining, but-

there's a bit of a raw edge in there, too.]

[impacter]

...

I don't think any of us do, Ahiro.

[It stays gentle. He can hear that tinge of something beyond teenage frustration.]

Are you concerned that studying magic will give you more reasons to be unimpressed with it?

[dyingtohealyou]

If I could, I'd have nothing to do with magic, period.

[Bluntly.]

[impacter]

Well, I assumed that much, or you wouldn't go and call it more trouble than it's worth.

Do you plan to not cooperate with the situation, then?

[dyingtohealyou]

I'll cooperate if it means getting back sooner, but it's hard to cooperate in the first place when our instructions are so vague.

[impacter]

It's really frustrating, sure. But I think you're heading in the right direction. See what we have to build a framework and then just expand from there, right?

[dyingtohealyou]

What framework? The sage himself doesn't even seem to know what we should be doing.