[action] stacking shelves

[timetours]

[You know how long the Doctor has been here?

Two days.

A whole two days, mind you.

This is a simply horrendous situation - a whole two days stuck in one spot? That's just ridiculous - practically unheard of! Well, okay, not totally unheard of, but very, very unlikely. But, with no TARDIS, and time being all screwed up, there wasn't really much else to do. How... boring.

Still, he had to admit meeting a whole assortment of people from numerous different realities wasn't something that even a Time Lord got to do very often. He could do without the "military school" thing and the guns, but if this was where all the interesting people were being welcomed, he could handle that for the time being.

Then he would go and fix it. Somehow. Without the TARDIS. No, really. He's brilliant and he can do it, he's sure of it!]

Mind you,

[And yes, he's talking to himself.]

after The Library, this library is miniscule.

[Meet the Garden's new librarian, stacking shelves. It's not a position he's all that familiar with really, but he supposes he'll get a few "off-worlders" popping in. Maybe they could have a chat.]

Comments

[dataku]

[Oh my, a new librarian.]

[Data Riku's been spending a fair bit of time in the library lately. Not even as a result of the community service, either; it's just been a thing that's happened. He was interested in novels, mostly. Even if they were totally fictional with different customs than this world, he rather liked the idea of having intelligence greater than a couple of small-town thirteen year olds.]

[So when he comes in today, with the intention of getting his homework knocked out and maybe grabbing something else that wasn't large enough for his roommate to threaten him with, Dataku walks right past the Doctor as he enters.]

...Is it really that small? [It was about average size to him, compared to the only other one he's ever seen.]

[timetours]

Well, the last library I was in might have been around about the size of a planet.

[dataku]

What? A whole planet? [DEFINITELY larger than his library.] ...Well, I guess if everyone on the world loves books...

timey wimey

[bunnypassingby]

I was surprised by all the physical books... [Mikuru has probably not mentioned this to anyone before.]

[timetours]

Oh-ho? From an e-book era, are you?

E-books are all well and good, but you just can't beat that papery paper smell.

[bunnypassingby]

[She nods to his question.]

Hm, I guess so! It took me a while to get used to. [Even after her stay on Itsuki's timeplane, it still took her another while to get used to here on Garden.]

[moirailcompass]

[A small laugh from behind.]

You must really, really like to read then.

[timetours]

Well... yes, I like a good book, as much as anyone. Although... when I visited the Library it was more a sort of psychic summoning call thing, not so much for the reading.

Now.

[HELLO CAT-TROLL THING. The Doctor's just gonna sort of look over you with utter fascination.]

You don't exactly fit in around all these humans. What are you? If you don't mind my asking.

[moirailcompass]

I'm a troll! Not the kind that lives under a bridge. Or likes gross things and eats people like in some other worlds.

[And since Nepeta has learned that looks can be deceiving, and his wording seemed to imply it]

Are you not human either?

[consorts]

[ During the break, Gwen's been spending quite a bit of time in the library trying to become familiar with things here. The idea of classes sort of overwhelms her and she wants to be prepared. This new librarian sort of came out of nowhere, and he's so different from the others. Gwen makes it a point to talk to him once she works up the nerve. ]

More than this? It's the most I've ever seen in my life here. Well, in one place at least.

[timetours]

Oh yes. Many, many, many more books than this. The Library is the size of a planet - well, it needs to be, if it's going to house a print copy of every book ever written.

[y_so_standard]

[During the Doctor's adventures in shelf stocking, he may come across little 623 buried in a stack of military tactic books and trying to compare them. Yes ok, so he's hoarding them.]

So that's why that happens...[He's always had the 'do this' instead of 'do this because' explained to him. Never was interested in the whys before.]

[timetours]

[Here's the Doctor, peering through the shelves. Now this kid looks very absorbed in what he's reading - not the kind of subject material the Doctor would associate a kid with, though. Wonder why? Let's find out!]

'ELLO!

[...what kind of librarian is he, anyway?]

[y_so_standard]

[And there goes the pile of books as the Doctor has completely managed to surprise the little guy. He got absorbed in what he was reading.]

AH! [He almost goes for a non existent gun before he realizes this guy has made no other hostile action]

Erm. That was uncalled for.

[seethelanterns]

'The' Library? [Curious. Because Rapunzel came to look at the books and maybe get one out when she hears him talking. He's not someone she recognizes either. Her hair braided as best she can though still near her ankles as she raises an eyebrow curiously at him, the hand not holding the book she intended to return raised to tuck some hair behind her ear.]

[timetours]

Biggest library in the known universe! This little school library can't hope to compare!

[seethelanterns]

Bigger? [Gosh, but even this smaller one seemed so big and amazing to Rapunzel, given she had had all of three books in her tower back home.] The libraries were that big, where you came from?

[hawkette]

[Kate had been looking in the library for something to read in her off time, but had stopped when she thought she heard someone talking to her, only to realize she's mistaken.]

...Who are you talking to?

[timetours]

Eh...?

Oh! Me. Me, yes, I'm talking to me.

[hawkette]

[Okay this is a weird one.]

Any particular reason why?

[fierybluebird]

A new librarian?

[Shrugs and tilts his head.] After which library now?

Love the glasses, by the way. [Gestures to them vaguely.]

[timetours]

The Library. Biggest one in time and space. They had so many books, they needed to make a planet to house them all.

[Grins, and adjusts the "brainy specs."]

[fierybluebird]

A whole planet?

[nevergetscredit]

[Merlin's a regular at the library - he spends a lot of time trying to secretly read books on para-magic - so it doesn't take too long for him to notice the new librarian. Who he's now peering at curiously]

Are you talking to someone? [Merlin can't see anyone else nearby. And Merlin hadn't even been anywhere near the man when he started talking, so it couldn't have been Merlin he was talking to]

[timetours]

Well, sometimes I'm talking to someone, but at this very moment I am actually just talking to myself.