aimsforknees: (63)
John Reese ([personal profile] aimsforknees) wrote in [community profile] etrayalogs2024-12-04 03:46 pm

December Library Catch-All [ OPEN ]

WHO: John, Harold, and anyone who might find themselves at the Library
WHEN: December
WHERE: The Library!
WHAT: The Library is here and open to all! Come borrow books, find a comfy chair to relax in, or snoop around.
NOTES\WARNINGS: Will be added as they come up

The Library is a five-story neoclassical building of terra cotta, brick, and stone. And the inside is, in fact, a library! And rather clean and organized too. There's no dust, no muddy footprints (apart from your own), and all the shelves are organized by Dewey Decimal, subject, and author. All literature is something you might find in a 2010 New York City library: various forms of fiction, children's and teens' sections, history, science, cooking, gardening, the list goes on. There's even small sections of audiobooks on compact disks and of DVDs ranging from old classics to history shows. The first floor has a reading/study room, a comfortable space with deep armchairs and tables with chairs; the fifth floor has some smaller tables clustered under a skylight. Part of the second floor is abruptly closed off by a door with a biometric scanner that denies entry to anyone who isn't John Reese or Harold Finch; the walls surrounding this section are soundproofed, so even a keen listener won't hear anything from inside. Otherwise, it's a perfectly normal library!
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[personal profile] ornithologist 2024-12-24 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
There's nothing damaging to one's image about liking dogs. Harold is an awkward person on the whole but he has no reticence whatsoever about appreciating Bear now that he's come around to being a pet person.

"Thank you, my partner named him," he says wryly. He'd actually named him after the bearer bonds the dog was tearing up when they'd met, which is a tongue in cheek sort of joke Harold has to admit he appreciates.

"My name is Harold Finch. Are you new here?" It's the sort of polite question he's started defaulting to in Etraya when meeting people.