Dusty Haven (Open)

[Abigale Quinn]

"God damn it!" Cursing underneath her breath as she stood up, Abigale started making her way away from the latest book avalanche victim - though she had to say, as interesting the 'official' name for it was, watching an unkown person get hit by some random book was much less impressive than the sight of an actual avalanche. She had not expected anyone to step into the generally unvisited parts of the library, the back section filled with dusty books with 18th century poems and litterature, and had thus almost completely let down her guard as she seated herself on the floor, back against a bookshelf and her legs stretched out towards the next. Hissing at the stinging pain in her temple, she slowly stood up and picked up her black messenger bag, casting one more look towards the ever so compelling backs of nearly endless streams of words.

Nose still buried in 'Perfume: The story of a murderer', Abi didn't pay much attention to her surroundings. Walking in what she knew was the general direction of the exit, using the outlines of bookshelves as help. She didn't make it all that far, only a couple of bookshelves in fact, before she bumped into a blockage.

"..." Slowly looking up from her book, wincing on the inside as she prepared to face the potential consequenses of being a bit too into a book, she must have looked quite a bit like 'a deer in the headlights' right about then.

[Madison Knight]

Madison was going to try to find a book as she was catching up in classes quickly she still wanted to do the assignments on time, ah yes she needed a book for a book report! She walked threw the shelves looking for one that would interest her and be easy enough to write about so she could get her passing grade. She had stopped looking over a section of her favorite author. She was not necessarily an avid reader but she knew what she liked to read and this was it. She was in the process of pulling out one that she had heard of but not read when she was bumped into. She wished she had better balance so she would stop falling on her butt.

"Really?" she asked a little frustrated at the situation that she was now in. Talking to someone she never met and trying to be pretty relaxed about it when she was fuming half at herself for being in her own little world she had not even seen her coming in the corner of her eye. "You know reading and walking is extremely dangerous..." she said as she got to her feet quickly. "You could trip down stairs... pr bump into someone who isn't nice..."

[Abigale Quinn]

Wincing slightly as she felt the other tumble onto the floor, Abi frowned mentally at herself for letting her control slip. Quickly regaining her composure, recovering from the stunned initial 'oh-my-god-I-didn't-just-do-that' state, she tilted her head slightly as the girl started speaking. Something about reading, walking and the danger posed by stairs and other people, all whilst getting up from her position on the floor once more. Noting the girls reaction to falling to the floor, Abigale guessed that she was used to it. Or, she just wasn't all that fazed by it.

Raising her eyebrows a fraction of a centimeter as she took in the sight of the other, she realized that she didn't seem to have seen much of the girl before. Seemingly a bit younger than herself, and with an air of .. 'Newness' almost, she was probably yet another new recruit.

Realizing that she had stood silent and staring for more than a couple of a seconds, Abi quickly started speaking, a jumbled mess of words blobbering forth through her lips. "I-I'm sorry that I bumped into.. Are you … Did I.." She started, but quickly silenced herself once more as she realized how incoherent the words she spoke were. Shutting her mouth once more, she took a silent breath before trying again. " I'm sorry for bumping into you, people don't really tend to hang around in this part of the library. Did you get hurt..?" She asked, silently congratulating herself mentally for the succeeded attempt at speaking. Proud, on the inside, she tilted her head to the side ever so slightly as she waited for an answer.

[Madison Knight]

She blinked a few times standing awkwardly as she waited for the girl to speak. When she did she blinked another few times trying to figure out what she was saying when she finally asked if she was hurt Maddy shrugged as if it was no bother. It really was not sh fell all the time and it did not seem to phase her much. When she started her growth spurt she could not seem to manage walking anywhere with out falling at least once.

"No, I'm fine i have a very limited ammount of balance." she laughed slightly shaking her head. "I have a tendency to fall, I'm Madison Knight, by the way, You can call me Maddy." she smiled pleasantly as she bent over to pick up the book and sighed softly smiling back at the girl.

[Abigale Quinn]

Relaxing slightly when met by kindness, friendliness almost, Abi smiled slightly at the other. Relating to the 'limited balance' of the other, Madison apparently, she softened up further.

"Ah, I see. Well, I'm not exactly the most poised creature around either. Abigale Quinn, pleasure t' meet you." She said, casting a quick glance at the book in the others grasp. Somehow, it looked .. Familiar.

"People don't really tend to take much interest in the pieces of literature typically stored around here... Might I ask which book..?" She asked, tilting her head towards the object in question as of to punctuate her question.