He paused. "… ah."
That was the worst attempt at a lie he'd heard in a long, long time.
His eyes flicked over her, head to toe. Tiny, tired, not as much of a ragamuffin as she could have been. Which wasn't saying much. He'd started keeping spare clothes around, just in case. A certain amount of wretched simply could not be borne. Glittery. Young, very young.
There. The faintest hint of… what? Lapsang souchong, brewed in squid ink and saltwater.
Strange, strange.
"I may have something," he said vaguely. "However, you would need to be more specific, petite souris, if it is a specific book that you want. What sort of gargoyle is it that you wish to know about? A book about architecture, or monsters?"
He was very sure he knew. But he prodded, anyway.
That was the worst attempt at a lie he'd heard in a long, long time.
His eyes flicked over her, head to toe. Tiny, tired, not as much of a ragamuffin as she could have been. Which wasn't saying much. He'd started keeping spare clothes around, just in case. A certain amount of wretched simply could not be borne. Glittery. Young, very young.
There. The faintest hint of… what? Lapsang souchong, brewed in squid ink and saltwater.
Strange, strange.
"I may have something," he said vaguely. "However, you would need to be more specific, petite souris, if it is a specific book that you want. What sort of gargoyle is it that you wish to know about? A book about architecture, or monsters?"
He was very sure he knew. But he prodded, anyway.
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