literary curve;

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

[There are surprisingly little things to do when you're a ghost. He's had his fill of spying and listening in on people for today, so he's taken up residence in a chair in the library, sorting through one book after another.]

How is there absolutely nothing to read in here?

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[dawnrise]

Nothing, or nothing you want?

[...asks a voice from the next aisle over.]

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

Nothing anyone would want.

[dawnrise]

[sets a book back on a shelf.]

You sure about that?

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

Let me clarify: nothing anyone with a personality would want.

[So he's going back to practicing making one of the books levitate.]

[dawnrise]

I'd argue that, but I can't find anything interesting.

[walks around the aisle. behold, a one-armed Girlyku.]

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

Because there isn't anything. You'd think there would be in such a huge library.

[When he glances over, her lack of an arm is enough to make him accidentally let the book drop.]

[dawnrise]

Maybe we're looking in the wrong places.

[Looks at him, not quite surprised, then at the book.]

Problem?

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

[Maybe it's because they're versions of the same people, but he knows how much he likes to keep certain things to himself. So he won't ask.]

...With this, yeah. I still haven't gotten the hang of levitating stuff for too long.

[dawnrise]

[She appreciates that part of it, in a way.]

How hard is it?

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

A little easier than making myself solid for a bit.

[Concentrates again and the book floats up and over a coffee table.]

[dawnrise]

Not exactly something I can compare it to.

[Watches the book, only slightly interested.]

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

You can't levitate books either, can you?

[He didn't exactly ask for an audience.]

[dawnrise]

Point made.

[Well he's got one for now. After all, there's nothing interesting on the shelves.]

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

[After a few more moments the book falls onto the table. So much for concentration.]

...Do you know someone else from Halloweentown, by any chance?

[dawnrise]

[She's so surprised by that question that she just stares at him for a moment, then relaxes.]

I might. Why?

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

He mentioned you. And I thought I'd ask.

[dawnrise]

Really.

[Small world?]

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

Really. Though I'm still tempted to just call him Axel instead.

[What kind of ridiculous name is Red anyway, really.]

[dawnrise]

I can see why you would be.

[He's not entirely unlike one.]

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

Still, I wouldn't have expected Axel's Other to come from a world like that.

[dawnrise]

I wouldn't either. But I doubt the Axel I know did.

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

Oh?

[dawnrise]

I couldn't see it. But I wouldn't know.

[... But Axel as a woman and Axel as a man are two entirely different things to her, sometimes.]

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

[It makes sense to him that they would be.]

I'm not sure any world he's from would surprise me.

[dawnrise]

I'd never cared enough to think about it.

[But now, considering her Axel's Other... Oh dear lord. She did not want to imagine Red as a woman.]

[radiantprodigy.livejournal.com]

I'm rather curious as to what your definition of 'nothing' is, then.

[behold, one of the resident bookworms]

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

'Nothing' being short for 'nothing interesting'. At all.

[radiantprodigy.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I'm inclined to disagree. There are books here on just about every subject be it the various genres of fiction, books specifically written about the many worlds in existence, science, history, and even books written for those with, erm... obscene tastes.

Considering this, what do you find interesting?

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

Obviously nothing in here.

[Or maybe he's just a bitter ghost.]

Look, I didn't mean to offend your amazing literary tastes. There's just nothing worth reading in here in my opinion.

[radiantprodigy.livejournal.com]

I suppose we all have our own opinions, it just seems rather strange, when there's likely books of every subject here-- surely there would be something if you looked hard enough.

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

The only thing I consider worth looking up in here didn't have the answer I needed. Other than that, There's nothing to read.

[radiantprodigy.livejournal.com]

What sort of answer would that be?

[falseapparation.livejournal.com]

...How to tell a real ghost from a fake one.