Mission 13

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Characters: Xion and all who wish to talk with her
Content: Xion's decided to do some information-seeking re: potentially awkward subject
Location: Media deck
Time of Day: Afternoon, probably before Vanitas found Ven
Warnings: Potentially awkward conversations of "the talk" variety, depending on how much people notice about her reading material.


Xion had taken to spending a lot of time on the media deck this week. Mostly because the weapons deck, where she usually liked to train, didn’t seem like such a good training ground anymore.

Then there was the fact that the media deck looked so much like Beast’s Castle. She’d liked that world, and it was good to have a bit of home here, even if only for a short time.

She’d decided to take the chance to finally try to some investigating into some things she’d heard about but everyone seemed to be hesitant to explain. Not that they probably wouldn’t tell her eventually if she asked, but she didn’t like to bother them when it made them feel awkward. The library was supposed to have books on everything, right? She could just look it up there.

First thing was first, though. She played for a bit with the dog-footrest until it settled down enough to follow her quietly as she looked for books. Not that there was a lot, but she found a few geared towards “teenagers and the changes they’re experiencing” that looked promising, and then a few novels just because they looked fun--and were about relationships, which was interesting at the moment.

Sitting down in a chair (that had moved so it was beside a table), she decided to start with one of the novels. She picked up one that had two smiling blond girls on it (it looked like the first of a series) and began to read.

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Xion had been to enough different worlds to have a fairly good sense of direction, and was usually able to navigate the changes easily after a day or so to get used to them. It also probably helped that she tended to not go many places other than the residential, cafeteria, weapons, and recreational decks.

The media deck's similarity to Beast's Castle this week had helped her orient herself more quickly. She'd simply had to use what she already knew of that world, and not having to worry about remaining unobserved helped. Fortunately all the moving objects were friendly--the greatest worry was being bowled over by a dog-footstool eager to be petted.

She'd gotten nearly halfway through the book at this point, and was thinking that seeing it through to the end might not be worth the annoyance of reading about two sisters arguing over a boy, or who had the better friends. Didn't they have more important things to do?

So she was more than happy to put it down to smile and greet Harry. She was somewhere between oracle and midboss, really, but she didn't know enough about either to know that. "Hi, Harry."

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Harry didn't mind the lack of answer to his inquiry. Even back home most people found his sense of humor odd at best, and those little comments were more his way of saying hello than anything else.

Moving over to rest against an end table, after making sure it wasn't someone who'd take offense first, he turned and smiled. "Nice reading spot you've picked out. Nice, quiet, almost impossible to find in this maze."

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Humor was something Xion hadn't heard a lot about before coming here, so she was developing her own sense of it. So she didn't know enough to think of Harry's as odd, just a little different.

None of the furniture was the type to be offended easily, though Harry would soon find himself supplied with a chair. Not to mention the footstool-dog begging for attention somewhere around his knees. "Maze? I didn't have too much trouble finding my way around. Maybe that was because this is like one of the worlds I went to, though."

She sets the book cover-up on the table to make focusing on talking on a little easier.