Camelot: Saturday Afternoon. While Merlin And Arthur Are Off Holding Hands Like Otters.

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine had long ago figured out that Angelica Demesnes and her ilk -- not that Francine would use the word ilk unless she was trying to spell milk in a game of Scrabble and somebody else had already laid down the M -- had no clue what life was like in a medieval kingdom

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[camelotfolk]

Guinevere had never indulged in any book of its ilk, thank you very much (except for when she'd peeked while-- but nevermind that.) She flashed the back of Francine's head a quick, unsure smile, then smoothed out her skirts and sat down next to her.

"The Lady Morgana likes those," she said. "I mean-- not only those, or anything, and I'm sure other people like them as well."

[thatsamilkshake]

"Seriously?" Francine hadn't meant for it to come out quite so disbelieving. "I mean, um... Not that there's anything wrong with liking them! I just didn't picture Morgana as the type." Whatever that type was, considering that Francine was about to fall asleep over the book.

[camelotfolk]

"I think they help her sleep," Gwen confided. "Not that they're boring!"

She'd used to like them-- but the real thing, as it turned out, was actually much more romantic than books.

[thatsamilkshake]

"So far I know more about this lady's tapestries, how many sheep her father had to give to her husband so he'd marry her, and the last grain harvest, than I do about her." Francine closed the book, keeping one finger in as a place-marker because God knew she didn't want to accidentally re-read all that stuff. "Except for the enormous bosom. That got mentioned about five times already."

[thismaskiwear]

"There's too many extra vowels in there, Francie," declared Katchoo, who'd just escaped a shift in the laundry and had the damp sleeves to show for it, once she'd snuck up behind Francine and stood there long enough to get a look at the page.

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine laughed. "I don't mind that so much; it reminds me of Merlin."

[thismaskiwear]

"I'm used to it in text messages by now." Katchoo rolled up said damp sleeves and sat down next to Francine. "Or posters. It looks wrong in books, still."

[thatsamilkshake]

"So does handwriting." Despite how neat it was. "Also, the words 'enormouse-busumed.'"