Look, Riku posted something!

[silentcoast]

Who: Riku, possibly other people
What: Work
Where: Temple Town Library
When: Mid-morning, early afternoon

Riku normally disliked working in a library.

Sure, he didn't have to interact with people constantly and it really wasn't a difficult job, so it wasn't all bad. But it got boring sometimes. It was strange going from a situation where he had to fight something almost every time he stepped outside to, well, not. And having to keep a job, something he hadn't expected to have to do for at least another year or two.

But there was a bright spot, though it happened rarely. Since Riku worked by himself, he could close the library temporarily if he had to, and there came such an instance to do just that. A new shipment of books had arrived recently, and he decided it would be easier to do it himself than try to get any of his coworkers in to help, and closed the place for the day.

However, he had propped the front door open--with the 'closed' sign, actually--to get some fresh air. If anyone wanted to bother him, they were welcome to, as long as they put the sign back.

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[dork_of_keys]

Sora was off work on this particular day, mostly because the weather hadn't been very kind to shipping lately. Granted, it was a bit warmer lately than it had been, but it was still too cold for Sora's tastes and it was a relief he didn't have to work.

Why he was headed for the library was another story entirely. While he had been small and easily squishable, he had asked Riku to check out a couple of books on the local lore. They hadn't really given him any hints to what he could do about whatever problem this world might have, but he had found something he needed to go and discuss with the healers. It wasn't an emergency, but it was important. For the moment, he was just returning the books and seeing what else might be of interest.

The front door being wide open and propped open with the 'closed' sign was mildly amusing, though he did wonder why exactly this was the case. It made a lot more sense when he peeked in and saw Riku putting the new books away... by himself. Well, there went Sora's day off, but he really didn't mind.

"Hey, do you need some help with that?" He'd more or less made up his mind that he wasn't taking 'no' for an answer.

[silentcoast]

It was slightly cold for Riku personally, but it was nice out, and it was too quiet and stuffy inside.

He had taken the opportunity of no one else being there to spread books out across the library, stacking them wherever they needed to go and generally making a big mess. There had been only a handful of people who actually approached the front door, and most of them left quietly after reading the sign. So it startled Riku slightly when he heard Sora's voice outside, and he had to scramble to keep the stack of books in his arms from sliding to the floor.

Riku's response was a shrug and a jerk of the head, indicating that Sora should come in, before he wandered off with the books. If Sora wanted to close the door when he entered, he could.

[dork_of_keys]

Sora didn't exactly choose to close the door behind him. It was more that ended up knocking the sign out of the way by accident. But given that he was feeling a little chilled and it wasn't likely to get much warmer outside, he figured it might be better to leave the door closed. He did step back out briefly to prop the sign up so it could be seen though.

He wandered over to where he'd seen Riku headed. There were a couple of questions he wanted to ask, such as why exactly Riku was doing this alone when there were a couple other people employed at the library, but that would require either the notebook or a bit more talking than Riku was likely to want to do.

"Got new books in?" It was a brain dead and obvious question, but at the same time, very relevant. Maybe there was something in these new books that would point towards some of the things he'd been trying to find out.

[silentcoast]

Riku wanted to do it alone, that was why. He didn't mind it, and besides, it was too much of a hassle to bother anyone else. As long as he got things relatively organized within the day, he was probably good anyway.

Sora was welcome to ask questions, since Riku actually had one of his smaller notebooks in one of his pockets and therefore handy, and if he didn't want to write, he could always turn on one of the computers in the lab and use that. He nodded in response to the one question, gesturing at a few boxes of books nearby, then pointing to a mostly-empty bookshelf to show where he was putting them.

[dork_of_keys]

Sora picked up a stack of books from one of the boxes and headed to the shelf Riku had indicated. It did occur to him that Riku probably didn't mind working alone on this, but he also wondered why no one else was in if the library had been expecting to get a bunch of new books in. Although, 'new' seemed to be relative term. Some of them had clearly seen better days. The book right on top of the stack made him rather grateful he didn't have a mold allergy.

"So how come no one else is here?" He halfway suspected that maybe the shipment had arrived early or something to that effect, but there were other possibilities.

[silentcoast]

Hey, new meant new to the library, not necessarily new period. Sora would probably hate that a lot of the books were super dusty, too. Riku was trying to avoid those for the time being.

Riku tilted his head towards Sora at the question, then reached for a pen and notebook when he was done talking. A minute of writing and generally scribbling on the paper later, he handed it to Sora.

Cant call coworkers it read, followed by a drawing of a phone with an X over it. and wanted to do it by myself.

[dork_of_keys]

Well, that answered the question. And made Sora feel kind of stupid.

"Oh... Um..."

Okay, he felt more than just kind of stupid and Roxas scoffing at him in the back of his mind wasn't helpful.

"Would it bug you if I wanted to help?"

Wow, I'm bad at consistency

[silentcoast]

Upon hearing that question, Riku suddenly was tempted to find the nearest hardback book and apply it to his face. Instead, he rolled his eyes, slowly signing two letters: N-O. Of course he didn't mind. Sora wasn't his friend for no reason, and he probably would've considered trying to get ahold of Sora anyway, in a while. If just for company.

He scrawled a longer response below his first one, passing the notebook to Sora afterwards.

'You can help sort if you want. Thats what I was doing. Just stack stuff that goes together.'

[dork_of_keys]

"Okay." That didn't seem too difficult... at least from the standpoint of thinking. It would take a bit of physical work, though. That was fine. Part of the reason Sora was out and about anyway was that he was feeling a little bit hyper. What better use for that energy than helping out?

It was a lot of books though, so he was definitely going to be there for a while.