三角関係!

[paper_animals]

Who: Maggie, Howell
What: Howell, he gonna play
Where: Staff Break Lounge
When: Monday at lunch (slightly forward-dated)
Warnings: Howell is a player.

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[hywelincymru]

Howell wasn't in the habit of taking his lunch in the teacher's lounge, but there were some times where he simply had to escape his students. Some of them were particularly enthusiastic about learning - and some of them were particularly enthusiastic about him, something he attempted to stop before it started. America was not forgiving about that kind of thing legally.

But he disliked sitting alone, so when he saw a pretty woman with her nose buried in a book, he took the liberty of sitting down at her table. "Not exactly the type of reading I would have expected, Ms. Mui," he said with a smile. His own thick, leatherbound volume got placed on the table next to his lunch.

[paper_animals]

She looked up suddenly-- first edition creatures were drawn so differently than most art nowadays, and she was surprised at how vicious they seemed in this game. She'd read through one of the newer versions some time ago, and it was interesting comparing them together. She still did not know how to play, but she could probably quote rules to you if you asked.

"Professor, hello..." she said quietly. She glanced side to side quickly, noting that there were plenty of open tables, but that Howell had chosen to sit with her nonetheless. Adjusting her posture slightly, she nodded, and blushed slightly. "I found it behind some old shelves," she said timidly. Something about Professor Jenkins was overly cool to her-- perhaps it was because she expected that he read as much as she did.

[hywelincymru]

"Please, it's just Howell," he said with a smile. "Professor is for my students to call me." He busied himself with unpacking his lunch. It was really too bad that there was no stove or kettle, or at least hot water pot, in the teacher's lounge. Maybe he would have to bring one in - if only because he was getting tired of horrid microwaved tea.

He leaned over the table, taking a closer look at the illustrations in the sourcebook. "Amazing how much detail the creators put in to this sort of thing, isn't it? Almost reminds me of some of the illuminated manuscripts I've come upon."

[paper_animals]

Immediately he had all of her attention at just those two words. She set the book down almost involuntarily, her mouth slightly open, her eyes widened. "You have those? Like, real ones?" she said, wide-eyed. "I've only ever transported one before, never got to read one..." she said, pressing her index fingers together and trailing off at the end of the sentence. She glanced at the leather tome he had brought with him. What was he reading?