Fifth Miracle

[beamiracle]

[It's the weekend, and there's no school. And since Lion's a teacher and he's already finished marking assignments, there really isn't anything to do. More specifically, there isn't anything around the house to read. So what does that mean? A trip to the library!

A. If anyone's in the library today, chances are they'll see Lion perusing the shelves. And it looks like Lion's already caught on to the fact that since Mayfield classifies him as a man, the only books available to Lion will be books about car repair. Lion's starting to look a little frustrated by this.]

Is there really nothing else here at all...?

[B. Eventually Lion gives in and figures that books on car repair are better than nothing, so he's taken some out...perhaps a bit more than Lion can carry. You may see Lion on the way home, carrying a somewhat precariously stacked amount of books. Lion's trying to be careful by walking very slowly, but still...]

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B!

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

[[Aaron comes over to help, waving.]]

Hello, want some help carrying those?

[beamiracle.livejournal.com]

Huh? Oh no, I'm perfectly fi--aaah!

[Barely manages to rescue a falling book. Don't listen to Lion, Aaron, he's just an overly polite Japanese person.]

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

[[Will step forward and helpfully lift the top several off the stack.]]

That was close. Don't worry about it, I'm heading the same way.

[[No he isn't, but Aaron can lie to be polite.]]

Oh, car repairs. You interested in working on cars?

[beamiracle.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much...

[A rueful laugh.] Not really, to be honest. It's just that I was looking for something to read at the library, and it seemed these were the only kinds of books I could find.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

Oh... oops.

[[Aaron was hoping to talk cars but...]]

Yeah, they don't have a lot to read here I guess.

[beamiracle.livejournal.com]

It really is amazing how the whole library seemed to have books on just one subject...

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

Everything here is kind of amazing and terrifying.

[beamiracle.livejournal.com]

Ha, that's definitely true.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

So, what's your home like? Everyone is from strange places.

[beamiracle.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, there's nothing that strange about my world. [The other worlds that apparently exist alongside it, however...] I'm from Japan, and I'm next in line to be the head of my family.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool. There are a lot of people here from Japan. And then a lot from weird worlds. Though I guess we are the weird ones to them right?

[beamiracle.livejournal.com]

Yes, I suppose we are.

May I ask where you're from?

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

New Jersey, in the United states. So not so strange.

[beamiracle.livejournal.com]

I see. I've never been to America myself, but my grandfather always wanted to go. He has a bit of a fixation on Western things.

Oh, I should introduce myself. Lion Ushiromiya.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

If you visit, don't visit Jersey.

Oh, yeah. I'm Aaron Taylor.

[beamiracle.livejournal.com]

Pleased to meet you.

Oh? Why is that?

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

I've lived there all my life, it's kind of boring. Besides, New York City is better.

[beamiracle.livejournal.com]

Yes, so I've heard.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually traveled much at all.

How about you?

[beamiracle.livejournal.com]

I haven't either. I lived on a small island that's privately owned by my family, so I usually only left to go to school.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

Really? Wow, was your family rich?

[beamiracle.livejournal.com]

Yes. My grandfather built up most of our wealth after the second World War. We've been pretty well-off since then.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

That's cool.

My foster father owned a car garage.

[[Not nearly so important but Aaron was proud of that.]]

[beamiracle.livejournal.com]

[Lion can tell from the way he mentions it.]

I see. I imagine that he enjoys running it, then?

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

He did. He liked the work and the people.

He also liked cars. I have to admit it was fun.