[Dr. Sigmund Klim would be out drinking like the respectable career academic he is, but his grant application had other plans. Not that he's tired or anything. Man, he loves his job! He loves it so much he could just ball his fist up and thump the shelf that is so rudely refusing to materialise the obscure journal he needs.
Which is why he does. Which causes it to creak alarmingly loud in this hushed section of library, and also dislodges something that... glints? A coin, he decides after picking it up and squinting at it for a moment. One of those treasure hunt coins, judging from the design...
Ahh, screw it. If he swallows his pride, he can get out of here with the reference he needs and still have time to pass out in a bar tonight. Yes, getting face to face help from someone in this library suddenly sounds like a really good idea. And who should be rounding the corner but one of the assistants he certainly recognises as a relatively new hire? A new hire who he has probably already told to smile and/or lighten up once or twice, while passing by? Convenient.
That is the story of how Bebe comes to be waved down by a middle-aged man in a polo shirt despite minding her own business.] Hey! 'Scuse me.
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Which is why he does. Which causes it to creak alarmingly loud in this hushed section of library, and also dislodges something that... glints? A coin, he decides after picking it up and squinting at it for a moment. One of those treasure hunt coins, judging from the design...
Ahh, screw it. If he swallows his pride, he can get out of here with the reference he needs and still have time to pass out in a bar tonight. Yes, getting face to face help from someone in this library suddenly sounds like a really good idea. And who should be rounding the corner but one of the assistants he certainly recognises as a relatively new hire? A new hire who he has probably already told to smile and/or lighten up once or twice, while passing by? Convenient.
That is the story of how Bebe comes to be waved down by a middle-aged man in a polo shirt despite minding her own business.] Hey! 'Scuse me.