What a tangle of emotions she was. She couldn't possible already know him. Could she? Far too young. Not just the look of her, but the taste. These were not emotions that had been given significant time to mature.
It didn't seem like she was just irritated with herself for being attracted to a stranger. He considered himself very familiar with that particular mix.
Hm.
"What a marvelous service," he said, a little absently. "I am sure those who make use of you appreciate it enormously."
She was fishing for something, but he couldn't figure out what. It annoyed him, as it so often did when he knew just enough to be useless. "Old storybooks," he murmured. Books that still had value. None of these beaten-up thin paperbacks with the technicolor spines, then. Those had never had value. The older ones, the hardcovers on a higher shelf.
"Are these the sorts of books you mean?" he wondered, gesturing to a row of shelves above his head. "I can of course retrieve a stepladder, if you would like a closer look, but do tell me if I am, ah. Misunderstanding your desire?"
If she looked, there were plenty of Tolkien books, alongside other battered old hardcovers about adventures in faraway lands and the struggle between good and evil. Many of them clearly loved, some of them old enough to be valuable.
None of them hers.
It didn't seem like she was just irritated with herself for being attracted to a stranger. He considered himself very familiar with that particular mix.
Hm.
"What a marvelous service," he said, a little absently. "I am sure those who make use of you appreciate it enormously."
She was fishing for something, but he couldn't figure out what. It annoyed him, as it so often did when he knew just enough to be useless. "Old storybooks," he murmured. Books that still had value. None of these beaten-up thin paperbacks with the technicolor spines, then. Those had never had value. The older ones, the hardcovers on a higher shelf.
"Are these the sorts of books you mean?" he wondered, gesturing to a row of shelves above his head. "I can of course retrieve a stepladder, if you would like a closer look, but do tell me if I am, ah. Misunderstanding your desire?"
If she looked, there were plenty of Tolkien books, alongside other battered old hardcovers about adventures in faraway lands and the struggle between good and evil. Many of them clearly loved, some of them old enough to be valuable.
None of them hers.
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