Sometimes when you’ve spent the better part of a day… Or two… reading, it was a bit jarring to happen upon another person. He had certainly not expected to see someone else or to be asked about his current selection. “Huh?” He blinked, looking a bit like an owl, as he tilted his head around the stack of books to look at the young woman in some surprise. She actually looked a little familiar… Had he saw her around the red building? Possibly, they were neighbors even if he didn’t realize it at the moment.

Finally, clearing his throat awkwardly to bypass his momentary confusion, he offered an answer. “Yes, I do. Hard to not take advantage of a place like this while the time allows. There are many titles I’ve never seen before, not even in the dustier sections of the Clock Tower Library in my world.” There was a particular comfort in research, and Waver had always been the sort to devour knowledge when something caught his interest. Even if some of his points of views had shifted with new experience in life, it was something he’d never really grown out of. It was all useful in its own way, even if he couldn’t fully utilize it the way some mages might. It helped with planning subjects for class and with casework alike.

It was not strange for him to pull several all nighters like this, or to fall asleep at his desk.

He squinted slightly, picking out the titles on the spines of her own selections with some interest. “It would seem you’re doing the same, though.”