Dusty Librarys And Chats-LP LOG

oz · 2020-02-24 04:21:01 PM

Who:

Zolomon-Corpial, Archer,Runner in the Long Patrol

Quinten- General, and Recorder in the Long Patrol

Zeldove-Private,Archer,Fighter in the Home Guard of the Long Patrol

LOG:

Salamandastron: Library
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Here lies the collective efforts of a few good, intellectual hares of the mountain. Over the seasons, this room, which was once little more than a storage room, has been converted into a quite functional library, filled with books of all sorts. The room is staggered with bookshelves, all crafted within the mountain, which reach very nearly to the ceiling, with only a foot or two of space above them, in most instances. And, surprisingly, the shelves are basically all full. Apparently, over the seasons, hares have donated books, and books that were previously stored elsewhere have been brought here.
Some books are older than any of the hares alive in the mountain, and, even more, some are nearly as old as the mountain, itself. These sort are usually journals and records - histories of the mountain. In fact, there is an entire section of this, in a corner of the room, which one can only get to by making their way through the maze of bookshelves to that corner, which is quite like a room in and of itself, closed in by walls on two sides and bookshelves on the two others. However, in the center of the main room, there are two tables set, and upon these books like, some open and some closed, despite the efforts of the librarian hare to keep them on the shelves.
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Zolomon finally had some time and came to the library to sit down as it's usually quiet in the library, and they had soft chairs in here to relax in.

Zeldove looked up from some paperwork and nods "A break I guess or hiding ?" She smirked a little as she was joking, she looked over a paper she had and wrote down a few things before laying it aside.

Zolomon smiles "Zelly..not seen you in a few days, then guess we both been busy, you doing ok lately?" He sits up in the chair"And just got done with training drill and got back to archer training today as well, they are learning...though one is for sure not gonna be an archer,though seems good at the sling"

Zeldove nods "Everyone I believe has some sort of skill and like something they are not as good at..a weakness and a streagth I suppose.I been fine just finishing up paperwork and even helped put some history scrolls away"

Zolomon smiles "Important stuff I am sure...think we could finally have that planed date in Halyard or....not allowed ta bally well leave the mountain?"

Zeldove says" Never said couldnt leave, just not go on missions and such and rather not go to Halyard, your welcome to though"

Zolomon shrugs "Ok...it just seems, things get messed up...never had that picnic, not really....and never had that dinner together."He smiles at an idea"I have a grand idea, be right back!" He heads off and dissappears for maybe an hour.

Zeldove chuckles and goes back to the last couple bits of paperwork, finally donr she places it in the office nearby and puts a book back on the shelf she had gotten down.One of the chores to do was dust the library and sweep in the library so she started to tend to that.

Zolomon slips back in quietly and watches her, he smiles and gets a dust cloth to help her "I say...lass"He smiles "Need help, I am sure with this I can jolly well help, right?"

Zeldove says, "I welcome help this place is huge....thank you Zolomon and sorry we never got to do much,maybe my fault on getting....well at first it seemed stuck here but I rather like Home Guard, even got to chat with the cooks, carefully yes and they will have some other foods in the infirmary now besides brooth and bread. Now still and I understand...its never gonna be like wot the rest of us outside infirmary would have, but tis better than wot use to have"

Zolomon nods "It's a start and thats good"He dusts a shelf and sneezes as dust gets into his nose, he grins. He dusts some more and again a sneeze"Seems this area is super dusty"

Zeldove dusts carefully off the shelfs and the books and places them back on, she will even carefully go up a ladder to dust higher up "Not many read the books here so yeah its dusty....other areas yes they read some of the books"

Zolomon frowns, he will still help dust but on the lower shelfs"Well...history section not always intresting Zelly"

Quinten walks into sight carrying a scroll, the general frowning at it as he moves between the shelves, other hand reaching out to straighten books and adjust them on their shelves as he goes without really looking. He only stops when his way is blocked by Zeldove and Zolomon, he lifts his head, "Oh good day to you both."

Zeldove looks over at Quinten and quickly goes to move the ladder"Sorry sur, we just doing some dusting and Zolomon decided to help me out a little today"

Zolomon steps back and gives a salute, "Sur...good day ta ya"He sneezes once and frowns, ok dusting can be a little messy at times bu the shelves in this area of the library do look a lot better.

Quinten looks around at all the dust, "Hmm, this is certainly a dusty section... clealry I need to review the history lessons I set the leverett school," He glances at the two younger hares, "So how are you finding the new routine Zeldove?"

Zeldove will get a broom as she sweeps a little and answers "Its going well sur, I thought be hard but it's not...and I even got de cooks to make some..different things, like if your ever in the infirm..the soup they had..well the healer woudlnt even try it..so talked them into adding a little flavor to it"

Zolomon smiles as he dusts another shelf, listening some."Infirm is right boring at times too..." Luckly he hasn't had to go to the infirm, almost but he didn't go.

Quinten smiles at Zeldove and rolls up the scroll and holds it out to her, "Good, but now for a real challenge, this is next weeks leveret class schedule, you are going to be teaching them history of the Badger Lords three times a week for the next two months," He smiles, "I can help you put together a class plan, show you the essay marking guidelines I devised but they will be your classes."

Zeldove reaches out to get the scroll and look it over "I..might need to brush up on some of the history myself..I know some though."

Zolomon grins "Sebasiten was one...a Bludstripe was one too, he was ere when me Grandfather was around as a patroller...well my grandfather was in de patrol fer....few seasons"

Quinten smiles softly, "Well the library is open to you Zeldove," He smiles, "Let's say you have twenty four hours to come up with a concept for your class," he smiles, "I want to challenge your mind."

Zeldove says, "So teacher....me, well history is important...learned that from a..friend before he died, he loves history and always seemed to want to learn more"

Zolomon smiles "I think you would make a good teacher Zelly, and young ones like to jolly well listen...well sometimes, maybe find a way to make it fun, least fer them anyways"

Quinten smiles and leans back against the shelves, "I think you will find teaching the little ones is an experience and a half"

Zeldove smiles "I will do my best sur. And I can send reports to you on how it goes."She glaces at Zolomon"Fun huh...your the more fun one, but I am sure I will come up with something"

Zolomon nods "Right O..of course.I likely will be doing training drills and such, the privates and recruits are doing a lot better with archer skills now. Though one might wanna think on practiceing more, if practice will help that is"

Quinten says, "Oh I will be along to watch," He grins softly, "A couple of times at least," He turns to look at Zolomon, "I have to admit I don't have much to do with the training of the recruits directly, I tend to deal with all the admin and the jobs that aren't related to fighting, making sure we have enough food, medicine and the like."

Zeldove smiles, "And we are good on supplies..maybe some other herbs for having cold or cough but otherwise, then I have not been in the infirmary much. Mainly in here or the kitchens"

Zolomon says, "Training drills can get tireing...and then needin' ta do laps for running..but as said they are doing better, unlike a few weeks ago when someone fired an arrow backwards somehow and it barely missed hitting someone, earlier that day an arrow did go in a footpaw."

Quinten says, "Well.. that is not the strangest thing I have seen in the archery range," He shakes his head, "When you have been around as long as me nothing much surprises you anymore."

Zeldove frowns a little but nods "Glad no one has been getting hurt or almost hurt. Least no danger of injuries in a history class"She chuckles "Least fairly sure on that"

Zolomon grins "Paper cuts maybe..."He just had to come up with something didn't he"Maybe Lord C can pay the class a visit after a few lessons..something fer them to look forwards to fer learning soem grand history"

Quinten eyes Zolomon, "Now that will be up to Zeldove, to see if and when the perfect time for him to be invited to visit would be. You need to invite him at the right part of the lesson plan so they can also still learn something from him turning up."

Zeldove shrugs "Maybe...but first history will be on some past Badger Lords...maybe ven the real far past and a lot of them are important like one started the Long patrol...and there was even a Badger Lady who went on to be Badger Mother at Redwall"

Zolomon tilts his head "Badger Mother?"Ok he is slightly intrested in this, so maybe he needs a refresher course on history of the mountain too

Quinten smiles, "Yes, one of our previous badger ladies became the Badger Mother of Redwall, Lady Cregga Rose Eyes, led the Long Patrol to save the Abbey from a horde when the abbey was vulnerable to invasion because the southern wall had collapsed."

Zeldove asks, "Wall came down? How....I mean I know they fixed it..hmmms and I thought i knew a lot of abbey history"She smiles "Ewan told me abbey history while I was thar..he loved history"

Zolomon sits down after he had dusted some and had got dust off himself too.

Quinten says, "Ewan loved history, I miss him... as for how it collapsed, the abbey pond is fed from an underground spring that flows beneath the south wall, it broke through into some old ruins beneath the abbey and the subsidance brought the wall down."

Zeldove says, "Guess moles have since fixed it up, moles are good at making sure buidldingss and such dont fall over....hard ta understand cretures though"

Zolomon chuckles "Not a worry few can understand moles...I learned to understand sparrow and bats as thar was a couple bats arounf the area for a while...no clue where they went off to but they were around this cave near Halyard"

Quinten says, "Moles are easy to chat with wot, and bats and sparrows, if youw a really tricky language you should try to understand monitor or deep otter," He smiles at Zeldove and takes a book off the shelf and offers it to her, "This one should help with the badger lord history to start with."

Zeldove nods as she gets the book "I wonder if its ok to have Lord Ciocan visit thas class sometime here in a few weeks...I mean I can make sure the young ones behave themselfs and sit still"

Zolomon hmmms"Why talk to a monitor fer? Ususally wise to avoid them, well most of em "

Quinten says, "Well Private, once you have a plan for your lesson let me look at it, if there is a proper proposal for Ciocan to visit I will make the request to him myself" He then glances at Zolomon, "Most of them yes, but I have met several decent monitors in my life, including the Abbot's adopted son."

Zeldove asks, "The abbot adopted a monitor? Wow.....bet that was intresting"

Quinten smiles, "He sure did, he's a nice boy," He nods, "So I will be back soon I need to just go talk to some Recruits about something."

Zolomon nods, "Hmmms then again thar was a vegterian monitor at Ferravale, he was thier blacksmith"

Zeldove finishes dusting and hmms " intresting...."

Zolomon smiles as he watches her and even sweeps some "So....after dusting maybe we can go up to the crater a short while. Or you busy with lesson plans now"

Zeldove looks over at him, dusts some more "I do have some time to work on lesson plans and how I am going to do them..still have them learn but also not get bored at same time" She sits down "Why the crater for, its cold up thar"

Zolomon just grins"Your see... just a little surprise"He waves "See ya around dinner time, got some things to do" And he is off.

Quinten walks back in carrying a small book in his hands, he pauses to write in a ledger by the door then pops the book back onto a shelf.

Zeldove has finished dusting and sweeping and is sitting down looking at the book from ealier quietly, she looks up briefly before back to the book.

Quinten walks back over and smiles, "Zeldove, how is it going?" he smiles, "How goes the cleaning? It is nice of you to hel pout with that"

Zeldove smiles "Done....was just looking threw the book you gave me...and decideing weather I join Zolomon later or not.Been rather busy lately so i dont know if I will or not"

Quinten says, "Well some time off is good for you Zeldove, take the afternoon off and go join Zolomon and have a nice time"

Zeldove smiles , a small chuckle "Maybe...he has been wanting to have a picnic or dinner date for a while, he's a...good friend"But she does smile more now."I mean we do both have great archer skills, we even both have been in Mossflower before"

Quinten asks, "Sounds to me like Zolomon would like to take the next step from friendship to walking out with each other, is that what you want to do?"

Zeldove blushes a little "I...maybe"She smiles "Then again...Home Patrol and he is in the normal Patrol."

Quinten asks, "Nothing to stop you from having a boyfriend in another regiment Zeldove, so what if he has to occasionally go on patrol and you are stuck here learning how to wrangle admin and teach leverets?"

Zeldove chuckles, "I do like him.....a lot and we have talked and still unsure of those leverets..they can get restless I know, they even took over the kitchens once"

Quinten asks, "Well that's leverets for you and well then Zeldove, sounds to me like you'd like to start walking out with him, so what's stopping you? The fact you are in different patrols is just an excuse"

Zeldove smiles "Your...right, I guess I should see what he wants up on the crater...he wouldnt tell me wot it was...is it ok if I go now, I can give you a copy of my lesson idea in the morning before class is to start"

Quinten says, "Well there we go then, go have a nice time with Zolomon and you can give me your lesson plan before and I can go through it then we can discuss itr when you get back, but for now I have a class of my own to run"

Zeldove nods as she heads on out of the library before that class comes in

Last edited by oz (2020-02-24 04:22:08 PM)

BlisaMarshmellow · 2020-02-25 06:58:08 PM

**Has visions of the DAB disrupting one of Zeldove's lessons**

Good idea or bad? XD

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