[AQ] Most Egg-citing [Ananti/Takara]

[Ananti]

I hope you're all ready for egg pun hell

The Heart’s Egg

+ Description: There’s a book on campus about all this egg business… it’d help you out a lot if you could find it to learn about everything. It might be in the library, or left in a common room; someone else might be looking for it though, or maybe you could look for it with a friend--maybe a friend even already knows about it and its whereabouts!

+ Follow Prompt: +1 Guardians, +1 Faberge, +1 Roost

+ Requirements: None

+ Submitted by Pai

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"Good thing the decimal system is universal..."
Slip of paper clutched in hand, she made her way through Seiyo Academy's impressive library in the hopes of finding out more about the enigmatic egg that had only very recently shown itself to her. Of course, she didn't expect to find anything specifically on the subject - that would be crazy. So here she was, going off of the one clue that she had - dreams and wishes.

What better way to do that than with a book about dream interpretation, right? Ananti checked the sequence of letters and numbers again on the slip of paper she had written them down on, her eyes going back to scanning the abundance of spines that were laid out in front of her, "Here it is.." In an eager attempt to educate herself she opened the book to scan the contents, immediately met with a sea of hiragana, katakana and kanji. Frowning to herself she snapped the book shut, the frustration of her situation once again dancing on what seemed to be the last of her nerves lately. She sounded suspicious enough asking her translator to search relevant titles for her to track down, and now she would look crazy asking her to look up egg dreams in particular. 

She let out short, forceful sigh before deciding to take a handful of books in the same general area, seating herself on the carpeted floor in the hopes that maybe she could go off of pictures alone. Gently she placed her messenger back beside her, opening it up to find the self-same egg that had brought her here in the first place, looking almost comfortable in the bed of gauze and cotton she had made for it. Carefully she cradled it into her hands, setting it into her lap before grabbing the top book of her pile, "Well, Egg....here goes nothing, huh? There has to be something in these books about you..."

[Takara]

Takara had spent days in the library trying to find data regarding the strange egg he received months ago that to this day hadn't hatched. A realist in the most part, he had gravitated around books about birds... because it was the most logical thing to do, even when a voice in the back of his head repeated him time and time again that this wasn't a very logical thing to begin with.

Eavesdropping on others, because that's what he does, he figured that maybe the answer didn't lay in biology books, but perhaps in a less mainstream and more esoteric section of the library. He wasn't sure exactly what to look for, but apparently dreams had a close relationship with the egg than he had originally thought.

'Good thing I'm not the only one going through this...' he thought, mostly assuming. It had to be a somewhat repetitive occurrence to be gossiped about, at least that gave him comfort on not feeling like a freak and also not looking like a freak to others. Wielding his smile like his best weapon, he walked through the aisles searching for a book that might help. He saw the names of the different sections pasted on the wooden surfaces...

Philosophy, science, history... None of these.
Even more history, english, geography... No, no, no.

Walking to the back of the library, to an area he usually didn't see many people around, he turned abruptly searching for the sign for what this particular aisle was about only to find nothing. Instead, his foot hit a book and disturbed a nice pile sitting on the floor. Startled and embarrassed he looked down to meet the eyes of a girl he had never seen before. "I'm sorry." He said, trying to not sound too jittery. Kneeling down he tried to fix the books back to their little pile. "I didn't think anyone was back here."

[Ananti]

Sigh, this whole search was really going to eat into her studying time, she just knew it. Idly she flipped through the pages of one of the books, having decided that using colored post-it tabs would help her later with Mia. Her eyes were lazily scanning over a page when a scuffle next to her broke her out of her concentration, her uninterested expression going from the books and then to the offending person who had knocked them over. She heard him apologize, though the rest of his sentence wasn't one she could easily translate.

"It's fine." Truthfully it was - she was only looking at pictures in the first place. Unconsciously she brought her knees up in a rather dull attempt to guard her egg, as if she feared the books might break it somehow, and she brought her eyes back to the book in front of her. He would probably leave her alone if she didn't engage....right?