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[faceguy]

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[effiomsfavorite]

Isn't there one at your school?

[Why yes, Huvrye will call every single one of Leo's bluffs, as he makes them, in real time.]

[He softens a bit and shakes his head.]

Not mine - Yin's. I never got a chance to read it.

[faceguy]

Chyeah, doesn’t mean I go inside.

[Does he look like a nerd? Please!

Though he softens, too, at the explanation.]

Ah. Gotcha. Yeah, I’ll watch out for it - it’d be cool if you could read it too.

[effiomsfavorite]

Gonna be hard to watch out for it if you never go in the library.

[He's not above the redirect, or being a smartass.]

[faceguy]

[Clearly!]

Fiiiiine, I’ll go in the library just for you. But only once! Any more than that and I’ll get infected by some terrible nerd virus.

[effiomsfavorite]

Oh no, the reading virus. How will you ever survive.

[He can lay off on the sass - Leo is agreeing to help him, after all.]

Thanks, though.

[faceguy]

[He can joke all he wants but this is serious stuff! He's angling for a jock reputation at school, okay? (Though the class clown vibes are stronger.)]

Yeah, no problem.

[Leo settles back, turning the conversation over in his head.]

You've been really into Frankenstein though, huh?

[Leo's never read it, unsurprisingly. He mostly knows about it through references in other things.]

[effiomsfavorite]

Yeah, I finished it the other day. Mark told me I should read it, and he was right - it's really good.

[He can't go into the details - why Mark assigned him that particular homework, or why it'd resonated with him - so the conversation needs to stay surface level.]

[faceguy]

Isn't like really old and hard to read though?

[For Leo, reading anything written before color television is nearly impossible.]

[effiomsfavorite]

I think it's old by this world's standards, but it's definitely not hard to read.

[faceguy]

It isn't? Maaaaaaybe I'll read it then.

[He reads a lot (of comics), maybe he can do it!]

[effiomsfavorite]

You should. That way we can talk about something we both actually know.

[He's absolutely heard a thing or two about Jupiter Jim by this point, even though that doesn't seem to exist in this dimension.]

[faceguy]

You know, if that's all it is, I could just watch a movie version.

[There's several even in this world, he's guessing.]

Or we could find a different movie and watch it together!

[effiomsfavorite]

Or you could read the book and we could find a movie to watch.

[faceguy]

[Leo droops a bit.]

Man, why is it so important to everybody that I read?

[He means his teachers, too.]

[effiomsfavorite]

Well, it's fun, as long as the book's good.

[faceguy]

Comic books are fun and movies are fun, books are just slow.

[And for nerds!]

[effiomsfavorite]

Yeah, that just means you're not reading the right books. Robinson Crusoe is great.

[faceguy]

Robinson who? Croissant?

[effiomsfavorite]

Robinson Crusoe. It's one of my favorite books back home, but I'm not sure if it exists here. It's about a fairy who keeps getting shipwrecked on deserted islands and has to figure out how to survive and escape. It's kind of old, but it's pretty good.

[It's an escape, is what it is. Someplace long ago and far away from Lasardhi, and struggles far from his own - a story he could get lost in when he had a minute and enough focus to read.]

[faceguy]

Okay. Guess I'll look for that one, too.

[He could just get online and see, but if hunting for books is like hunting for comics there's something to be said for just going and taking a look to see what he can find.]

Having to survive a shipwreck does sound pretty fun. I bet you'd have to drink coconut milk and catch fish and stuff like that.