PRIMARY SOURCES: LATE 19TH CENTURY

[personal profile] libraryofbabel 2021-09-06 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)

You enter the section for late 19th century records. The following books stand out—

Relationship Dynamics Under Supernatural Compulsion, Late 19th Cen (Content Warning: Dubious consent, faded to black)

Explorations of Faith in a Flawed and Cruel World, Late 19th Cen (Content Warning: Suicidal ideation)

You can read one, or return to the primary sources hub.

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[personal profile] libraryofbabel 2021-09-06 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)

scattershot: (✶ wayward daughter)

Re: PRIMARY SOURCES: LATE 19TH CENTURY

[personal profile] scattershot 2021-09-07 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, she can probably save herself a little time and trouble by taking both books at once.]
Edited 2021-09-07 01:04 (UTC)

Re: PRIMARY SOURCES: LATE 19TH CENTURY

[personal profile] libraryofbabel 2021-09-07 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Well.

You open Relationship Dynamics Under Supernatural Compulsion, Late 19th Cen, and then You open Explorations of Faith in a Flawed and Cruel World, Late 19th Cen.

The experience is not—pleasant.

Somewhere while turning through the second book, you hear a sound like someone either laughing or crying in the distance, from outside the room—you're not sure which.
scattershot: (✶ the gauntlet)

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[personal profile] scattershot 2021-09-07 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[This is not going to be a very good essay.

[She's far too angry for anything she's likely to write in the next few hours to be a very good essay.]
scattershot: (✶ without shadow)

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[personal profile] scattershot 2021-09-07 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[What the thump on the roof couldn't do, however, the sound of someone in what might have been tears can. Alisaie closes the second book; she returns the books to the shelves, far more hastily than she might have intended.

[Peers out from around the shelves.]

Hello?

[Glances down the aisles; to the left, then the right.]

Is someone there? Are you all right?

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[personal profile] libraryofbabel 2021-09-07 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
You don't see anyone—it might not be coming from this section. Maybe from one of the other ones outside of Primary Sources.
scattershot: (✶ the rider's boon)

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[personal profile] scattershot 2021-09-07 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[She is absolutely going to go looking for the source of that sound.

[Some things are more important than books, and essay deadlines. A person in (potential) distress is absolutely one of them. And if they happen to be laughing after all, well... at least she'll know for certain that they're not.]

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[personal profile] libraryofbabel 2021-09-07 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Where to check first, then?
scattershot: (✶ with these hands)

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[personal profile] scattershot 2021-09-07 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Can she follow the sound?

[If not, she's going to play a Dream Logic hunch and see if a laughing/crying person gets filed under 'Emotion'.]

Re: PRIMARY SOURCES: LATE 19TH CENTURY

[personal profile] libraryofbabel 2021-09-07 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
In fact—it does seem to be coming from the direction of the Emotion section.
scattershot: (✶ exponential entropy)

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[personal profile] scattershot 2021-09-07 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Emotion it is.]

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[personal profile] libraryofbabel 2021-09-07 01:40 am (UTC)(link)