OTA - debut

[treasuredtales]

The board meeting had had a few hiccups, and in the end, Belinda had resorted to magic to see things settled to her liking. The two newest members seemed to have believed Belinda being board chair and majority shareholder meant nothing when she was also young (apparently), black, and female. True, she generally let the business-minded handle the business aspects of the company, but delegating responsibilities was the mark of a good leader. Padding the bottom line at the expense of the creators who were the soul and source of the products Loreworks traded in might work in the short-term, but it was bad business over time, and Belinda had had to be rather insistent on that subject.

After the meeting, Belinda felt she’d earned a bit of a treat, so she stopped in at one of her favorite bookshops. In a manner of speaking. She wasn’t sure she could pick one favorite bookshop, when there were reasons to love them all. So much, she decided to make a day of it, going from one shop to another: from the large Waterstone’s and Foyles to Shapero’s rare books, shops specializing in signed first editions, and those with shelves and shelves of yellowing paperbacks, new books and old books, and everything in between.

Belinda sat cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by small piles of books she'd pulled from the shelves, her choices following an impulse that would probably seem random to anyone watching. Children's books, weighty literary fiction, sci-fi and fantasy both, mysteries and romance, and more - if it was a kind of fiction, it was probably represented in her selections. She paid no mind to how she was blocking half the aisle, although someone coming near was enough to get her to glance up from the book she was flipping through.

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[whispersoflove]

"Is this the way people shop for books, now?" Anael asked, amused, as she looked up at him as he negotiated his way past the piles of book without stepping on any of them. He wasn't sure what she was, but while she very clearly wasn't human, he didn't mind one bit.

[harrowgate]

Felix wanted to be rather annoyed with the obstruction to his progress through the shelves. He quite liked being annoyed, especially at other people, especially in public, especially in a place like this where knowledge and stories and metaphor were better appreciated.

Only he couldn't be as annoyed as he wanted, because the individual surrounded by this worshipful congregation of tales was worrying at his magic in a way Felix did not understand. He had circled once or twice, attempting to work out what that was, and coming up with only more questions every time. At last, he gave in, and let himself be drawn down the aisle. "Gracious, leave a few copies for the rest of us?" Felix suggested at a properly low volume.

[yves]

Yves, on the other hand, was seeking only one book- An empty one at that. Yves went through journals the way some people went through socks, and having filled the last one was currently buying another thick, leather bound tome to fill. This one dark brown.

"Light reading?" he asked, taking a step closer, and looming without really meaning to- Or, perhaps without consciously meaning to.

[akatawitch]

Sunny had quite the opposite problem, which was limiting herself to one or two titles at best. Usually she limited herself to books she'd already read and wanted her own copy of, but when she got to browsing, her control always wavered.

When she saw the lady blocking the aisle her first instinct to be annoyed lost to her mouth deciding for her that the most intelligent thing she could say was, "Uh."