[Open] A Library is Not a Luxury

[tearmeanewone]

Who: Elizabeth DeWitt, Ginko, Solas, Leonard Snart, and Library Fans Shipwide
When: After the Emirimess
Where: The Library
What: Elizabeth welcomes her new assistants! Also library mingling, petting Robbie and Rosie, go wild guys.
Warnings: SEVERE LEVELS OF LITERATURE

((What it says on the tin-- it's an open library post! :D If you actually want Elizabeth somewhere, let me know, otherwise party-style it up~))

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[armoured]

Yeah!

[He reaches out for the box eagerly and starts to open it, even though he probably should wait for permission. He's just too excited about the idea of actually getting his hands on alchemical textbooks even in space.]

A lot of alchemical research notes can be dangerous if put in the wrong hands, that's why they're often written in code or kept in specialised libraries so that only trusted or qualified alchemists can read them.

[tearmeanewone]

Well, if they're in code, the automatic translator may have de-coded them unwittingly. [Elizabeth picks up one of the books out of the box.] I confess, I took a quick look myself and while I could read the words, I was too nervous to start dabbling in things I didn't fully understand. Especially when blowing a hole in the floor could potentially kill us all.

[armoured]

It's okay, they're not dangerous just to read and you'd have to understand the requisite transmutation circles in order to make anything happen. Just reading them wouldn't have caused any damage.

[Or he assumes so, as long as they're alchemical text books such as he recognises from Amestris. He opens the first one to take a look... are they familiar?]

[tearmeanewone]

[Familiar yes, but there aren't any circles. Just instructions. But the principles seem to be similar, just in the form of written instructions on what to do inside the circle.]

I don't know... the captain said it might be alright, but I didn't want to take the chance that someone could... set the whole ship on fire.

[Which wouldn't last long, vacuum of space and all that, but it's the destruction of the Moira she's making a point about.]

[armoured]

I promise, it's totally safe. Only an alchemist would be able to do anything with the instructions written here, and they would be skilled enough or smart enough not to try anything dangerous.

[Probably. He's half distracted by a new type of transmutation circle, not drawn but the description for it is interesting.]

I could show you some of it, if you liked?

[tearmeanewone]

Well, you're probably the expert. [She admits with a little shrug and curious glance at the book. It doesn't mean much to her, but it seems he's entranced. Job well done, Librarian Elizabeth.]

Oh... I'd, actually be very interested to see. As long as it's not going to, you know... [Kill them all?]

[armoured]

It's not, I promise.

[He sets the book aside for a moment and clears a few more from one of the shelves until it's bare. Then he claps his hands together and places them on the wooden shelf.

There's a bright blue light and a singing echo of energy before the wooden shelf transforms into a little wooden statue of a bird.]

See? Totally not dangerous.

[ooc: Sorry for the wait, I was out of town at a wedding.]

No problem! :Db

[tearmeanewone]

[The bright blue energy looks almost familiar, and for a moment it causes Elizabeth to jump. She wasn't sure what she was expecting, but certainly not this.]

[When it clears and Al has a little bird in his hands, Elizabeth looks stunned.]

Oh my God... that's incredible!!

[armoured]

[He chuckles a little self-consciously, though secretly pleased by her praise, and hands the bird over to her.]

It's nothing really, just the application of science through alchemical transmutation. My brother could make small things like this from basic materials when he was four.

[tearmeanewone]

'It's nothing really, I just made a tiny bird sculpture from a shelf, like everyone can.' [Elizabeth smirks as she sets the little bird in her hands and admires it. She's not even upset that they're down a shelf-- she'll fix it later.]

Four... wow. So he's like... an alchemic Mozart.

[armoured]

What's a Mozart?

[He can't help but chuckle, pride in his voice even through the confusion. He obviously thinks the world of his brother.]

If that means a genius, then yeah! He's a prodigy, he was the youngest person ever to become a state alchemist.