aterat | Books you say?

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Books you say?

Who; Yuki & open!
What; Books!
Where; Mage Tower
When; Yes
Warnings; None

Yuki had heard about a strange tower in the North. And what was even more fascinating was that many thought it was a wizard's tower and that it held so many books. Well once he caught wind of that, he had to go off and find out this thing for himself. After all, he did have a promise to keep regarding research.

So he packed himself a few things in his backpack including pens and paper and headed out, following the directions he was given. It took him awhile but he found his way, seeing people pass by him talking about the tower and the books to be found there. He listened carefully and knew he was on the right track.

After awhile he found himself looking up at the Tower itself and nodded. If this place was half as great as the people he'd passed on the road, this would be a great place to be and go. Cautiously Yuki headed up to the great door and poked his grey head around inside, looking things up and down. But soon he smiled and walked in, with his eyes blinking repeatedly at the endless rows and twists and turns of books here there and everywhere.

"Is anyone here?" This was asked in his usual quiet tone, which was more hushed because library.

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"Yep. It's a limited selection of spells, but I'm definitely capable," Nida confirms for Yuki. "Maybe I'll show you some time. And in exchange we can see if there is magic lingering in you."

Like he really needed to do with Jacob, but that wasn't something he was going to force the guy into.

"I can help you two look for things if you want. Me, I'm looking for ways to travel from this world into a world that isn't my own."

The silver head went to Jacob when he asked about the answers that Nida was looking for. And then he nodded at the offer of help, which was adorable but he couldn't say so and had to keep the smile off of his face.

Turning to Nida he did let something of a smile show. "You can sense something like that?" Since the curse was broken he didn't figure that the man would be able to pick up on it. Not that he'd tried to run into any females out of old habit and not that it was his style anyway, but he definitely didn't feel the same way that he used to.

But the last part had him confused and he mentally pushed away the image of holding Jacob's wrist. "Is something like that even possible?"

Jacob tried to keep his mannerism's relaxed but there was a hiccup to his offer to help. "I'm not actually looking for anything." He had tried to think of something but his mind was blank.

"I followed Yuki." He nearly flushed at his confession but quickly moved on. "But since I am here, I am at your disposal. Either looking for magic or whatever it is you're interested in Yuki."

He looked down at his friend and flashed a small awkward smile. He felt like Nida would read into his actions and he honestly didn't want to hear it.

"Siren, the spirit bonded to me, she can sense magic. A gift she affords me as well," Nida explains to Yuki, before smiling to Jacob.

Seemed maybe Jacob had made another friend. And at the look on his face, maybe more. Nida was proud. So very proud. But calling it out in front of Yuki? Definitely not the right way to handle this. So instead he focused on Yuki's question.

"I don't know. But I don't want this world taking me away from Ignis, so I'll fight to the end to be at his side," he admitted. There's an adamant passion in his voice, like he refused to let fate stop him this time. Because it really was a 'this time'.

"But first, what are you two looking for?"

"I'm here to look at books on gardening." Yuki replied easily enough. He'd promised Lauri-Ell that he would help her research as to what flora and fauna could grow at what time of the year. Plus there were some kids with a garden but it hadn't looked so healthy. If it produced unhealthy food they could get sick, but he had no idea if they had any fertilizer such as he was used to. Worse come to worse he'd have to do it the old fashioned way but he was hoping to avoid it.

Jacob's smile was hard not to smile back to, but realized what it could look like in front of his friend. So Yuki turned his attention back to Nida when he mentioned Siren, whoever she was other than some magical person.

But something in the man's impassioned words stirred something in the silver haired man. Whoever this Ignis was, they were really important to him. "So..you're looking for a way to stay here with him? Or go home with him?" He looked back at Jacob just for a moment, thinking about how he'd felt when he'd died.

Jacob exhaled when it seemed like Nida wasn't going to instantly start teasing him. That was good... at least for now. He was sure that he'd get an ear full at their next training session.

He wasn't sure what he thought of Yuki. Only that the young man had been kind to him and worried about him. It was awkward. Jacob really didn't like it when people worried about him but it was a good sign. It made him happy, uncomfortable... but happy. It meant that they could become friends; which wasn't really a skill that Jacob exceled at. He kept most people at an arms length away but things were different here and he wanted to at least try.

He turned to Nida and nodded. "I get it. He's lucky to have you." He knew a lot of people that would do something similar, as it was, Jacob didn't know what he wanted. He didn't really care where he was and while he missed his family, he felt like it was better like this. Life was less awkward and there wasn't a chance of him putting any of them in danger.

"Let's look for both. We can split up. Look for magic and gardening." The two most unrelated topics ever.

Jacob gets it. And Nida smiles before explaining it to Yuki.

"There isn't much for me to go home to, so I want to go home with him."

He wants to stand by Ignis through thick and thin. He wants to be bound to the other.

"Halcyn suggests that I might be able to stay here if I want, but I don't trust her or this place."

A statement of fact, and he knows better than to trust powers in these places.

"ANy specific sorta gardening? And do you want something too, Jacob?"

There's a small smile, one he's not sure he should really be showing to a stranger. And while Yuki has no idea who Ignis is or the bond that the Nida shares with him, it's nice to hear that someone feels that strongly enough about someone else here in this place. A part of him is sad for the unknown man too since he said he had nothing to go home to, but if he's found someone he obviously feels strongly about leaving with, hopefully that helped.

So finally the silver head shook. "I don't really know if they know much either." He'd overheard Halcyn but sometimes she didn't seem too knowledgeable. However, he was too polite to say anything and hadn't.

To the last he shrugged. "Nothing special Just how to grow things here and when they're in season." Because that was the promise he'd made to Lauri-Ell.

Jacob laughed and scratched the back of his neck. "I think I have enough to do. I'll just lend a hand for now." He wasn't sure what he would want to know. Even if he had access to an endless collection of knowledge, he couldn't think of anything.

Maybe a cookbook for dummies...

"We'll start with gardening." That was easier and he'd be able to help Yuki, which was a plus.

"Alright then. Gardening first," Nida agrees. Because he knows he'll be back here so many, many times. He has to find an answer.

"Well then, boys, time for a search. Meet back here in half an hour?"

The silver head nodded at Nida. "Alright, half an hour." He was secretly happy Jacob was going to accompany him but he wasn't about to say as much. That would look like a loyalty contest and that wasn't a thing here. He just wanted the other's company since he had followed him all the way here. And he still had to figure out the why of that, but that could come later.

"Alright." Jacob grinned and then said. "Let's break."

With that, he gestured to Yuki to let him know that he was going to follow. He might not stay the entire half hour. He eventually had to get back to work and had only had an hour break when he had left but he was going to do what he could before he ran out of time and maybe try and learn more about the type of gardening that Yuki was interested in.

Nida hasn't achieved much in the form of his own research, but by the time return is expected, he had three different books on plants. Two on flowers, one on vegetables. But hey, some things happen.

"My finds."

Yuki nodded to Jacob, knowing they'd go together but still he felt bad for the other's teacher. Was there something they could do to help him? Somewhere inside, he had a feeling he might have the same dilemma at some point, wanting to take someone home or the reverse. Wouldn't it be prudent to start there before it became a problem? He just felt so selfish looking for something within his own interests.

So grey eyes looked over to his companion. "Should we talk to the lady who greeted us when we got here?" His head gestured backwards where Nida had gone. "For your sensei I mean."

"Huh?" Jacob looked surprised as he began to shift through the selves to see what they could find. Nida wasn't too far away but he was sure that they wouldn't be over heard. "I don't think they know but we can ask. I get the feeling they can't really control what the Creator does either."

He glanced through the shelf in front of him and pulled out a book about farmers, passing it over to Yuki to glance at.

"I also have to get back to work soon. Not sure I can stay for too much longer." He pulled out another history book but this one was about the market practices. It might not help with gardening but it'd give them an idea of what was sold here.

Jacob glanced around and noticed that Nida was back at the table. "Looks like he found a few. I hope you don't mind if I leave you with Nida?" He looked at Yuki as if asking if the other man would be safe with his teacher. It was hard to tell if Jake was serious or not.

"Perhaps Nida would like to be asked first," Nida muses with a smirk. What a foolish young man. But his feet are up on the table and he's flipping through one of the plant books. He's clearly content to stay.

He didn't like Jacob's answer though he knew it to be the truth. Still, it irked him deep inside. But the book being handed to him made him think of the promise he'd made so he had to focus on what he could control.

Disappointment went through him as he heard the other had to go back to work but of course he understood that. "Alright. So he took the other book without a complaint and tried to focus on the words written.

But then he was nervous. He really didn't know Jacob's sensei, and maybe the man had other things to do. And he was about to protest that he didn't need a babysitter when Nida's voice rang out clear enough to be heard. So the only thing the blonde saw was a smirk on Yuki's face.

Jacob jumped, turning to see that Nida hadn't stayed at the table but had come to see what was taking them so long. "Nida! You're going to give me a heart attack!" His voice remained whispered, they were around too many books to speak loudly, but his tone was harsh and tense.

He placed his hand over his heart and tried to steady his pulse. Jake was used to his teacher surprising him but that didn't mean he was used to it.

"Okay. Well I should get back to work but I'll help out afterwards and maybe we can find some answers to this... staying and going thing." Jacob figured that some people might even want to stay here so maybe the Creator could focus on those people instead of just grabbing people at random.

First rule of Nida, Jacob: he never stays where you left him. It's just not in his nature to be so... stagnant. He's winds and seas, and motion was a need of his. Which made his line of work back home sometimes frustrating.

"I'll watch out for Yuki," he said as he closed the rest of the distance, smirking at Jacob. "Not like I was going anywhere else before dinner."

Grey eyes looked at Jacob in concern. While it was true he'd been startled too, he hadn't quite had Jacob's reaction. So he nodded to the blonde as he said he had to go. The unanswered question as to why Jacob had followed him remained, but maybe he would find that out at some later date.

Right, the coming and going thing, and Yuki had no idea where to even start looking.

But he watched as Nida approached and couldn't understand it. He didn't need looked after and it reminded him of the time Hatsuharu told Kakeru to take care of him. But he kept his slight irritation hidden behind a nod to Jacob.

Jacob eyed Nida. "The way you say that has me worried." But he really did have to get back to work.

He turned to Yuki and grinned. "I'll keep looking in my down time and I'll let you know what I come across. So... I'll see you later." He was trying not to be awkward and very aware that Nida was watching him. "But yeah, I'll be at the shop if you need anything."

He stepped back after nodding once at Yuki and then again at Nida. He realized that Yuki didn't need someone watching him but it was natural for him to want his friend to be safe... right? Totally normal. Maybe he was being weird.

"Don't worry."

WHy would someone ever worry about him? Silly. Nida smiles and look at Yuki.

"I found some books. Wanna see them?"

"Thank you." Yuki replied with another nod to the blonde. He didn't know what 'anything' could be but maybe it was simply Jacob's way of apologizing that he had to leave. A small part of him didn't want the other to go anywhere either but it wasn't like either of them had a choice in the matter. But what stayed with him was wondering why he'd been smiled at like that. And grey eyes tried not to look at the retreating figure, mentally willing himself not to feel like he had when Haru took off on him.

Turning to Nida now, he refrained from asking questions the other might not be willing to answer, so he nodded. "Yes I'd like to see them, if you don't mind."

With the way that Jacob smiled and Yuki looked after him... Oh Nida was smiling. In a very self-satisfied way. A smile that lingered as he handed over the books.

"So, Jacob, huh?"

His eyes started to look over the books as he fought to push Jacob and his questions about him out of his mind. He still had no answers as to why the other had followed him but he had. And it was so confusing because it didn't make any sense other than to be a creeper which Yuki was more than sure that the other wasn't.

But Nida's smile was uncomfortable in the sense that he got the impression the other was forming conclusions. So Yuki kept his voice level as he asked his question. "What about him?"

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