The Librarian

It was all the better that a costume didn’t need to be professionally made in order for the Ascension Candies to work, because it meant Lisa was able to put as little effort as possible into her custom made one. It all looked good after she transformed, so clearly her work was fine.

And dressing up as Dvalin, with her wings beneath her arms like a bat and attached to her legs, her skin turned a light shade of blue with matching Dvalin face markings, not only had her confident that she had the best costume, but that she could easily get rid of any horrible pumpkins she found along the way.

But she had a first stop to make, and as soon as she rang Jean’s doorbell she was leaning against the doorframe, just waiting for her to open the door.

“Trick or treat, cutie.”

          ❝ Hey. Fancy seeing you here. ❞ one lift of his hand accompanied with that of a cordial smile, taking note of a far too familiar face within his vicinity. ❝ Quite the scandal with two of the Favonius winding up here, don’t you think. Or perhaps it’s a case of another missing library book our dear librarian must track down? ❞ regardless, while his own methods were more of a lone wolf style, there was something relieving to know that you had at least one ally among the myriad of unknown faces, walking up to her beside the few shops along golden’s streets.

                                              「  @electrohypothesis 」

“Oh?” Lisa turned her attention away from the dusty antique wares she was admiring at the sound of a surprisingly familiar voice. “Is this the sight of a Kaeya I see, or do my eyes fail me as much as my Vision does?”

“It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve gone to such tiring lengths to track down a lost book...” Though she spoke in jest, her posture visibly relaxed and her smile did grow wider, with Lisa sharing the same unspoken relief at the sight of someone she actually knew.

Lisa walked on up to the front counter of this very peculiar bookstore, lazily leaning on it on her elbow as she addressed the owner—at least who she assumed was the owner.

“I see you have a section labeled magic,” she said.

What Lisa had originally intended to do was come out here in the woods near Savior’s Respite to look for potential alchemical ingredients. But once she found that all the flora here was decidedly lacking in any elemental energies, and none of the plants here even so much as glowed under this night sky, and thus would not at all be useful for potion making, she became a lot less... enthused.

Which is not to say that she was very enthused in the first place (manual labour? no thanks) but she was at least not sitting on a tree stump and yawning trying not to doze off for the first, say, five minutes or so.

She was just wondering about how easy it might be to get someone to continue this search for her when she looked up and saw a young looking boy approaching.

“Oh, hello, sweetie.”

“Excuse me?” Lisa said, poking her head out through the back door of the Iron Rose and into the garden. When she spotted the employee tending to some of the plants, she gave a smile and a small wave before fully exiting and carefully closing the screen door behind her.

As expected, one of the first places that Lisa found herself in after arriving in this city was a small bookstore located not too far from her assigned residence. She wasn’t a librarian in name only back on Mondstadt; she had an intimate knowledge on every book contained within because the contents of the books themselves were an interest to her, too.

Books could hold a great deal of information about anything and everything, but most importantly to her right now, she’d like to find some information about where she currently was. She was going to pull out what she thought might be an atlas of sorts from the shelf when she felt resistance, and quickly realized that it was because someone else was trying to pull it out from the other side of the shelf.

“Pardon me,” she said, keeping her hold on the book but moving it to the side so that she could see through to the other person.

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