DAY 36: LIBRARY

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Keman retreated to libraries almost instinctively. He liked books. Books were simpler to deal with, and they didn't change. No matter what, the ending always stayed the same. Even if it was a bad ending, that ending was still a constant. Constants were good. They didn't surprise him, didn't show up out of nowhere and throw everything off kilter.

This had.

His mother. They'd taken Alara and done horrible things to her. Made her forget, fed her lies. He wouldn't wish it on anyone, not even Myre. And that was what would happen to him, too, if he wasn't careful. He'd lose himself completely. He was already slipping, already more halfblood than dragon. How long before halfblood turned to human, and Keman became Calvin?

At any rate, he needed to tell Shana everything that had happened. Alara was her mother, too. Keman left a note for his sister on the board, letting her know where he'd be, and then pulled the largest book he could find off the shelf: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. It looked to be a massive collection of plays and poetry. Good. Opening it to a random page, he settled down and began to read.

[for Shana (and Valyn and Shadow?)]

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Qui-Gon hadn't been able to find Goku. Someone needed to talk to the boy about what happened last night, but it was possible he wanted to be alone at the moment and was avoiding people. It was difficult, dealing with the loss of a close friend. Words wouldn't bring them back. But either way, Goku needed to have someone to be there with him - going through the loss on his own would be worse than having to talk.

The last place he checked was the library and he knew just from a cursory glance that Goku wasn't here - perhaps he'd stayed in his room. Sighing, Qui-Gon navigated his way through the bookshelves, glancing down at the books. According to Martin Landel, they were one step closer to the truth about the Institute, but it felt like they'd taken several backward. Death was a natural part of life...but how Sanzo's came about was anything about. What concerned him now was the people posting on the message board; he hadn't participated, but he'd kept an eye on Obi-Wan's postings and he knew what his friend was trying to do. If they leaked every detail and outright said Martin Landel would be there, no doubt there would be a rush to the basement and more people would die.

It already looked like more people were determined to go there despite Obi-Wan's warning. But he had warned them of the risks and it was still their choice to make. Unfortunately, it was a fact of being a Jedi that you couldn't save everyone: sometimes you could only inform them and whatever decision they made, they would have to deal with the consequences of.