i will grow my own trees

[beforemetoday.livejournal.com]

WHO: [Bad username or site: beforemetoday title=Death @ livejournal.com] and [Bad username or site: origamiguardian title=Maggie @ livejournal.com].
WHERE: The MAC, and then the Strand.
WHEN: Today!
WARNINGS: Negative.
SUMMARY: Death and Maggie are hanging out, looking at some books, y'know.
FORMAT: Quicklog!

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[ Death finishes up her lunch, consisting of a can of cream soda and a falafel that a vendor on the street was kind enough to give her, and promptly finds herself elsewhere. Elsewhere, in this case, being on top of a kitchen table, in a building that the imPorts like to call the MAC. Death gets a good look at her surroundings, nods in approval, and then decides that standing on top of somebody's kitchen table is probably considered rude ]

[ sitting down, Death crosses her legs, and then takes off her hat. She places it in her lap, and leans to the side, so that she can look under the table ]

Knock, knock!

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[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

[Maggie's kitchen table is draped in a blanket, with books holding it down on the corners. Down past the blanket to see Maggie, sitting amidst more books, and another blanket and a pillow (interestingly, the bed in the largely-bare-except-for-tons-of-books-apartment is stripped of bedclothes). She looks up with alarm--bonking her head on the table's underside.]

Ah! [the book in Maggie's hand nearly leaps out of her hand, doubtless about to attack the intruder, until she realizes it is only Death, come to visit] Oh.

I didn't hear the door open...

[beforemetoday.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not so big on doors! The ones that are already there, anyway. It's easier to just slip in when and where I feel like it.

[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

[she is a little puzzled] Like phasing?

[and then it occurs to Maggie why her visitor has come, and her eyes light, and the normally near monotone-speaking, shy 20-year-old sounds like a child being offered a trip to Disneyworld] Are we going to the Strand?

[beforemetoday.livejournal.com]

If you don't have anything else you need to do today!

[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

[takes her hand, pulling herself out of her nest of books]

[beforemetoday.livejournal.com]

You were ready to go, weren't you?

[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

[looks around in awe, taking a moment to re-orient herself.] That's...

[And then everything, even the impossibility of how she got here is forgotten, as she notices she is surrounded by high, high bookshelves and stacks of books. She starts to quiver a little, a low sort of giggle escaping her mouth] Ahhhhh....

[beforemetoday.livejournal.com]

Where would you like to start?

[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

Bo-books... [she remains lost in excitement for several more moments before she finally registers she was being spoken to]

Ah... maybe a travel guide to the city... or... science fiction... or...

[more wondering aloud to herself] Does this world have Nenene's books?

[beforemetoday.livejournal.com]

I think we should start with a travel guide! After all, Maggie, you can't spend all of your time under your kitchen table, never seeing the world outside of books.

[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

But there's so many worlds inside books... [nonetheless, she starts to head toward the travel section]

[beforemetoday.livejournal.com]

Mm, and it's also easy to get lost in them. You'd like my brother, you know. One of them, anyway.

[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

[takes a stab, based on mythology] Sleep? Or... Dream?

[beforemetoday.livejournal.com]

Dream! We're big on alliteration, in my family. I'm sure you can appreciate that, as a literary technique. He's more into the whole artistic, inspirational thing than I am.

[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

[smile]I have a sister Michelle.

Uh. I guess that's not as cool as being... um... [but wait, she can't disparage Big Sis like that!]

But she's really cool, too.

[beforemetoday.livejournal.com]

I bet she is! “101 Top Restaurants in the City.” Hm! Original title. I wonder how long it'll take them to publish a more up-to-date version—half of these places have been wiped out by heroes and villains alike.

[origamiguardian.livejournal.com]

[thinks] Someone should build one underground. That way it won't get smashed as easily.

[picks up the Zagat guide, and it falls open to a place specializing in dessert] If this place is just "the City," does that mean there's no such thing as "New York Cheesecake"?