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[He's been here a little bit. Hasn't engaged much. Figured he was having one hell of a fever dream after getting bit. Course, he couldn't remember getting bit, but what else could it have been? Only it hadn't gone away and the food he'd been eating seemed real enough and the people he'd been ignoring acted offended enough to be real, too.

So... maybe it was real. Weirder shit had happened.

And if it was, it might do him some good to actually start figuring his own shit out. Including how to actually use this thing.]

I ain't never used one of these
smart phones I think they're called
before. They had them before but I never
anyway I only ever had a flip phone
one I could text on.
How's this thing work?

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[He definitely knows what getting your ass kicked for not fitting in feels like, so-- he really can't blame him all that much.]

Yeah? I mean, I know a place that has a nice selection of books. I can send you the address, if you're interested. I might even be able to give some recommendations if you've got an idea of what you like.

It a library? Or do you mean a store?

[He wasn't not interested. But it'd been a while since he'd been in either and the idea of going into one felt a little weird.]

I can send you addresses to both, actually, depending on how committed you are.

Don't see what commitments got to do with it. Books are books.

I just meant if you want to buy and keep or read and return. Books can pile up really fast...

[Oh yeah. He'd forgotten about that.]

Don't really have a lot of space. So library'd be better I guess. You been through their stacks a bit? They got stuff on native legends and the like?

Yeah, sure. You can find a lot of native stuff, I think. They have a lot of stuff I've never seen before.

Do you like that kind of stuff? Mythology, folklore?

Folklore. Stories they use to keep history alive. That sort more than mythology. Was never really into the Greek stuff.

Those are good too. What's your favorite folklore?

You ever hear of 'Native Americans'? Or 'First Nations Peoples'? Well, guess it don't matter if you have. They're the first known people of my world to populate a couple of the continents. Way they lived was real connected to nature. Their lore had a lot to do with plants and animals. Like that sort.

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I'm from America... Manhattan, actually, so I've heard.

[He almost forgets sometimes, just how varied the people are here and how different the worlds all are...]

Do you like that kind of stuff? Nature, I mean. Outdoors-man?

Yeah. Could say that. Wouldn't mind some books on the local rocks and trees, but I'd like the stories behind them more. Why they're green or blue or bloom the way they do that ain't got nothing to do with the science behind it. Just... the reasons they do.

I can send you a list of stuff I've found at the library, if you want? I can even leave off the really New Age-y medicinal stuff.

[He was looking for books on magic, okay. It leads you to some really weird places.]

Unless you want to learn which herbs treat headaches and stuff, I guess.

If it's local shit, sure. That's useful to know.

Alright, no problem then. I'll send it over.

Thanks

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