Not all research [[Kaine]]

[adifferentlife]

The library has turned into a wonderful resource for Sybil. Always an avid reader, she's discovered the books there are the best way to catch up on all that has happened in the years since her own time and the time most people in Darrow are from. Her choices that day aren't all for research, copies of the first two Anne of Green Gables books, A Princess of Mars (which had a rather scandalous cover), and The Primrose Ring. All books of her own time and all for comfort, to help offset the history books she has piled up on a table.

Her true delight was discovering that the library has phonograph records. She looks through the titles recognising so few. Finally she pulls out Gershwin and Billie Holiday almost at random. American composers and an American singer. It suits, she thinks, with all the Americans here.

Content with her finds, she settles back in at the out of the way table she's picked, determined to skim through the 1940s and 1950s before the library shuts.

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[adifferentlife]

Sybil leaves the first alone, knowing she has pushed too far today. "Next you'll have me chaperoned everywhere. Worse than my father, I believe."

It is said with a smile and a teasing note in her tone. "I finish work most days at four if you are that concerned."

[badtotheclone]

"I'll keep that in mind," I say.

I wonder if she's just joking or if she wouldn't mind if I showed up. It's not like I've got a busy schedule or anything like that and unless I'm in the middle of stopping a crime or something I can probably make it. Maybe showing up every day might get a bit weird but nothing says I can't do it every once in a while.

[adifferentlife]

"Do," she smiles at him, feeling terribly daring before turning to head into her building. Sybil pauses at the door to wave, hoping that he doesn't see the flush of her cheeks as she ducks inside.