[ listen ] sender listens to receiver explain something they're passionate about
PROMPTS FOR ORDINARY THINGS THAT FEEL INTIMATE / @starrkc
Nelliel did not think accumulating so many books would warrant such an issue. At first, it was fine with the few she had. They were stackable and hidden from view. Then she began receiving more as gifts and who was she to decline? Thus, those stackable piles grew in size and were no longer hidden, but compiled against a wall.
Pesche and Dondachakka didn't think it fit to have those books on the floor, haphazardly stacked atop one another and ready to fall at any given moment. What if she wanted a book from the bottom? Too much work for Master Nelliel to bother with. So they made her a book shelf to organize everything accordingly. Easier to access. However, therein lies the problem.
"You can try by color," Starrk says casually, and Nelliel wrinkles her nose. She looks over and finds him laying on a mountain of pillows similarly organized to the one in his quarters. He's playing with a trinket in hand, not entirely engrossed in helping her solve her dilemma, but not entirely ignoring it, either. It's like when he visits and doesn't say much. When he doesn't want to be alone, but doesn't want to deal with other people or the whole talking part. It's the presence thing, the principle, and Nelliel gets it because she sometimes does it too.
"By color is sinful," Nelliel starts. She gazes back to the shelf. "Size, too. I can organize them from A-Z but then I won't be able to differentiate my favorites from the rest. There needs to be a clear distinction from the ones I've yet to read, too." She looks at a book for a second before an idea comes to mind. "Starrk, did you know that the world of the living have systems in place for their own books, too? For some libraries, they use the Dewey System which use digits to identify categories and can then be alphabetically organized by the authors last name. Although my collection isn't so large as a library, I think I'll use a similar approach to that system. A section for my favorite books, the unread, by their genre and then... ah, I can even fit my journals to the side, too."