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incandescensTitle: on the vanity of earthly greatness
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Series: The Invisible Library
Requested Topic: Hmm... How about something from the Invisible Library where Irene and/or Kai are trying to track down a rumored version of one of the Harry Potter books that exists only in one alternate - maybe.
Due to: http://incandescens.livejournal.com/1201511.html
“How many more days of food do we have?” Kai asked.
“Three days,” Irene said. She’d counted the cans again earlier, in between working through the stacks of books. “Then I’ll need to take us back to the Library for more food and anti-radiation drugs.”
“Why are you putting those other ones aside?” He nodded to the pile of volumes on the dust-caked trolley.
“I’d like to read them,” Irene said mildly. “And if we can find the Rowling book, then we won’t need to come back to this alternate again.”
Kai shoved his hands in his pockets. “When people plan time capsules to be unearthed in a hundred years, I don’t think they have this sort of thing in mind.”
Irene nodded. The chemical light burned pale. “They buried works of art and high literature to be dug up by future generations after the war. And what have we come here to look for? Tom Riddle and the Philosopher’s Stone.”
“Bear in mind, you lost the toss,” Kai said. “I get to read it first.”
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sophiapSeries: The Invisible Library
Requested Topic: Hmm... How about something from the Invisible Library where Irene and/or Kai are trying to track down a rumored version of one of the Harry Potter books that exists only in one alternate - maybe.
Due to: http://incandescens.livejournal.com/1201511.html
“How many more days of food do we have?” Kai asked.
“Three days,” Irene said. She’d counted the cans again earlier, in between working through the stacks of books. “Then I’ll need to take us back to the Library for more food and anti-radiation drugs.”
“Why are you putting those other ones aside?” He nodded to the pile of volumes on the dust-caked trolley.
“I’d like to read them,” Irene said mildly. “And if we can find the Rowling book, then we won’t need to come back to this alternate again.”
Kai shoved his hands in his pockets. “When people plan time capsules to be unearthed in a hundred years, I don’t think they have this sort of thing in mind.”
Irene nodded. The chemical light burned pale. “They buried works of art and high literature to be dug up by future generations after the war. And what have we come here to look for? Tom Riddle and the Philosopher’s Stone.”
“Bear in mind, you lost the toss,” Kai said. “I get to read it first.”
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Date: 2013-10-09 12:22 am (UTC)Of course a world where the Rowling books have Voldemort as protagonist would have gone down the road of nuclear self-destruction.
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Date: 2013-10-09 12:37 am (UTC)And some missions just involve poking around in radioactive post-apocalyptic landscapes. These are, in the vernacular, often referred to as "bad missions".
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Date: 2013-10-14 05:13 am (UTC)And the anti-radiation drugs. Much much better an alternate....
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Date: 2013-10-14 10:48 pm (UTC)Sometimes a Librarian just gets unlucky and draws a "go dig this book out from a post-apocalyptic wasteland" type mission. Life is tough.