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[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

Bartending yesterday was a blast. Meeting some of Bart's friends even more so. It was, in fact, worth the embarrassment of her sort-of-kind-of-maybe-not-friend-but-something-more finding out about a certain book that had led to all of the brilliance.

Today, the young Timelady-in-training can be found by the fireplace with the same book. Her legs are curled up underneath her and she chews on her pencil's eraser as she reads through chapter one, "Thoroughly Modern Dating."

Her list of questions, so far? Is a mile long.


[tiny tag: jenny (doctor's daughter)]


[ooc: gone for a few hours, as of 6 pm est. slowtime please, and new tags still welcome.]

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[will_scarlett]

Its the book that catches Will's attention first,

"They've written a guide to that?"

He wishes he'd had one when he arrived in Bar.

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

Wide eyed, Jenny looks up and nods at the man.

"Yeah. It's, um, not all that helpful so far."

She still hasn't gotten her answer to the why yet.

[will_scarlett]

"Wish I'd 'ad somethin' like that when I got 'ere, modern women are confusin'. 'ow's it na aidin'?"

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

"I don't understand why," Jenny insists, sighing and closing the book in frustration. "Why my cheeks flush when he looks at me. And what the point of all this is."

[will_scarlett]

That makes Will smile with happiness as he touches a cross at his neck,

"Tis cause ye like 'em an the point is findin' someone to trust an share yer life an 'eart with."

[i-brained-clor.livejournal.com]

Well then, who better for Jen to meet than a man who has spent centuries wooing ladies?

That's right, Hercules, Lion of Olympus and Prince of Power doth come and sit by the fireside himself.

He's back in his usual skirt-sash-sandals ensemble today.

He gives Jen a happy smile and nod in greeting.

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

Jenny does look up from her book time to time. And one of those times, she spots the man wearing a skirt.

And blinks, confused.

"Isn't that female clothing?"

[i-brained-clor.livejournal.com]

Herc pouts for a moment.

"Twas perfectly manly attire for many years!" he says.

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

"Where?"

[i-brained-clor.livejournal.com]

"Greece, of course!" Hercules says. "I am Hercules, son of Zeus!"

[candied-rabbit.livejournal.com]

Momiji, apparently, intends to join the reading squad - though, admittedly, the paperback thing in his hands is a volume of comics, rather than proper narrative. He seems quite interested by it, though, and his nose remains firmly stuck in it, his attention focused there rather than on the world at large.

So much so, in fact, that he almost sits on Jenny. Fortunately, he realizes there's someone behind him at the last second and shifts, ending up flopped immediately to her side, instead.

"Oops...sorry!"

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

Engrossed in reading about the pros and cons of asking a man out on a date, Jenny almost doesn't notice Momiji sit on her. She so could have moved out of the way in time if he hadn't shifted.

"It's okay!" Look, he has a book too! "What are you studying?"

[candied-rabbit.livejournal.com]

"Uhm!"

That question earns a noisy giggle, and he holds up the little volume. A picture of a handful of Japanese high school students in various states of weird hair-color and outfits with a pair of giant robots looming in the background graces the cover.

"It's not really studying - it's just a comic. What about you?"

He leans over to try to get a look at the cover of her book, figuring that it must be something like a school textbook. Or maybe something more exciting, like a big book on magic or supercomputers or stuff like that.

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

"It's a book on human relationships," Jenny answers matter of factly, holding up the yellow coloured text so he can better so it. She stares at his with a sort of awe.

Those weird hair colours are kind of fun! "What's a comic?"

[candied-rabbit.livejournal.com]

"Ohh...it's a dating book!" Momiji nods, shaking his head and snickering a little at the title, before just pausing and blinking.

"You've never seen a comic before? It's - it's kinda like a book, except instead they draw what happens, and they put the words in little boxs and word bubbles."

To demonstrate, he opens the booklet, holding it out and displaying the page he's on. The page seems to depict an average math class suddenly being interrupted by a GIANT ROBOT HAND OF DOOM!!! coming through the classroom wall. The text, of course, is all in Japanese.

[walksindeath]

Sabriel was about to go out and run through sword exercises when the title of the book catches her attention - which is why the woman who stops, head tilted in slightly bemused curiosity, is wearing a full coat of strange ceramic scale armour under her blue and silver robe, a sword buckled at her side and a bandolier across her chest that carries seven bells.

Look, there's no point in practising if you don't do it properly.

She wonders to herself if the girls at Wyverly get taught this kind of thing these days.

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

Jenny isn't fond of the way the hairs on the back of her neck stands up when being watched. She frowns, eyes finally resting on the watcher.

"Hello?"

[walksindeath]

Sabriel shakes her head slightly and nods to the girl who looks up.

"My apologies," she murmurs, "The title of your book simply struck me, rather. Forthright, isn't it?"

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

Jenny shrugs. Dating for Dummies might be a little insulting in the title, but it's true she knows nothing on the topic.

"I guess?"

[walksindeath]

Sabriel eyes it again. She'd actually been referring to it giving out advice on romantic entanglements without swathing it in refined euphemisms.

"It certainly looks more direct than ettiquette lessons," she says, wondering if maybe she shouldn't see to something of the kind for Ellimere. "Is it... helpful?"

[tobeclosetohim]

Jo plopped down on a couch with her beer in hand. Long day at home made better by being at the end of the universe with beer, couch, and slightly cut girl across the way, who gets an exhausted, but vaguely appraising look.

Her books elicits an amused snort.


"Is it helping?"

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

Jenny shakes her head quickly, flashing a grin at the new face.

"Not entirely."

[tobeclosetohim]

"What're you lookin' for?"

Jo took a pull of her beer, still draped back with no real inclination to move yet.

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

"I'm trying to understand human relationships," Jenny answers stubbornly. Maybe she and Bart shouldn't have ever gotten distracted from their last chat. But kissing was a lot better than talking.

She waves a hand around impatiently, shrugging all the while. "Like... um... I think it was boyfriends and girlfriends and that sort of situational concept?"

[tobeclosetohim]

Jo's eyebrows rose in amusement.

"Got a boy or girl you're angling for?"