Librarian's Office, Thursday, 4/28

[one_who_goes]

Boxes of books. Of course his otherwise-neat office still held several boxes of books. Henry sometimes suspected he could be exiled to a desert island with no human companionship or conveniences, and he'd still have a box or three of old paper to lug home with him when he left

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[ancientbschamp]

Gabrielle couldn't not stop by, of course, after she got the message, and when she did she was carrying a couple of cylinders in the crook of one arm. More specifically scroll cases, wrapped in hand-tooled leather and ornamented, Amazon-style, with feathers.

"It's time, isn't it? Your family has been missing you long enough," she stated matter-of-factly from the doorway.

[one_who_goes]

"It's time," Henry agreed. "I was going to stay through graduation, but my wife has a gallery thing this weekend and that won."

He looked at the scroll cases with a brief smile. "More souvenirs from your visits home?"

[ancientbschamp]

"I don't think anyone would hold that against you," Gabrielle assured him. She drummed her fingertips against one of the cases and smiled. "You could say that. They're copies of a couple of my stories."

She glanced at his boxes of books. "For your collection."

[one_who_goes]

"It keeps growing no matter what I do," Henry said, almost solemn. "I am lucky they'll still fit in my house. But these scrolls? These are extra-special."