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But, moving on! It wasn’t that bad. At least for a blink Jaq seemed genuinely happy, so she might not pick on you for that. In the end Ange stepped in and offered you all her gifts. The food was and is nice, you think, and put another rice ball - or onigiri - into your mouth. Supposedly, one of her friends is a high-ranking baking club member, and yeah, you can feel it as the dish melts in your mouth along the explosion of delightfully distracting savory, homely taste. The bag contained even some tissues for hygiene, and in Jaq’s case – allergy syrup and a burger.
After each of you – including Cat Don Fluffles – had your specific bag, she announced that while you still have time to work, the library is off limits during the night and - what's especially pressing – tomorrow at the end of the morning the special, mandatory meeting is scheduled in the ball room for all male students. The teachers have ‘exciting’ news to announce. A change is coming to ‘help students express themselves better’. Sadly, you couldn’t share Angelina’s enthusiasm at the news, but at least they served as a good distraction to your performance.
Afterward is how you got there. Angelina said she must discuss something ‘secret’ with her gal pals; Alex dutifully offered to escort her back home – something she clearly wasn’t comfortable with, but a few words of yours mollified her a bit. You, of course, took to the remaining quota to get it over with... And jaq and Don-
*Thud!*
The abrupt sound of tome rapidly closed in one of the closer aisles brings you back to reality, followed by the all-too familiar serious, but higher-pitched voice. “Aki, don’t slack.” Jaq says, remianing focused entirely on searching through the rows of ancient literature and evidently alerted by the sudden quiet. The Cat, one you told you to assist you, took off and started scouring the library again. Hopefully it will return shortly.
“Oh... Right.” You answer. “Right.” Soon the main chamber is enveloped by another fit of whirling of jagged blades and ruffling of torn paper once again. With food pushed to lower priority, you continue your task. For some reason Jaq stayed back in the library even though she said she would deal with diplomacy first and foremost. When you asked her to help you with the quota, she dismissed you with the ‘I'm too busy realizing our ambitions’ spiel, so you gave up, and didn’t even bother with further questioning.
Of course, you tried peeking whenever she wasn’t looking. For the most part, Jaq seemed to inspect the books, but sometimes also the corners searching for... you don’t know exactly, but rows of history, biology and chemistry seemed to attract most of her attention. Although nothing seems to garner any interest beyond superficial observation or an occasional raised eyebrow. At times you try to squint and look for the titles or distinguishing features of the tomes she does pick up, but all of them have the same leather or plastic coverings on them.
