#earthrunes

(We move this over to Odyssey, so ER channel can be open to others)

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Zing motions the crowd of pooka to come in, "Welcome to Earth Runes library. No flash photography. Here you'll find the only Bookwyrm in the More Zuri area"

"oooo" Says one pooka "Aaaa" Says another. "Other vowel sounds as well" Says yet another pooka as they gaze at Bronte

Zing is wearing a tour guide outfit as she gestures here and there with a smile "It's also the home to a truly terrifying sluagh who would strip the hide from the flesh of our bodies if we damaged one single page here. Seriously, I had to get a graft"

More pictures, no flash, at Bronte

the Bookwyrm yawns irritably, spreads her wings, and says "They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance- Joseph Conrad"

Zing claps gently "As you can see, the well read can be a bit venomous when woken without coffee"

The tourist pooka join in with their own soft applaudd and comments "So life like" "I feel smarter just listening to her"

"Now the books vary, from the rare, to the well done" Zing continues "And you can sign one out, I'm almost sure rumors of contracts to your first born in exchange for the Jane Austen Erotica novels are exaggerated.. .now who would like to see the gallery where souls are trapped in artwork? By our own Earl of Middling rank?"

Nods all around, and Zing heads off with the tourists behind her.

....siiiiiiiiiiigh

A hiss and sigh from Bronte in agreement "Oh bother"

Oddly, an hour later, an Asian Leopard Cat slips in and drops off an envelope

then scrambles and zooms

A slender hand takes it, to open and read unseen

It looks like Zing DID charge for the tour.... and immediately sent 10% of the proceeds to 'Unite Against Book Bans'... and she did it under Zara's name

This is an electronic receipt of the kind donation received

Zara smiles a little at that.

If a little box of fancy jasmine tea were to appear on Zing's nightstand? Well.

Well, that sort of thing just happens around here.

Even Bronte approves and seems surprised when she sees it "How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

(Fade to a pooka sipping Jasmine tea somewhere in her room)