🏫 (for jacques from philosophicalpursuits)
send a symbol for a starter where my muse is… 🏫 a teacher
“Good morning, Ms. Caliban!” Jacques said, bringing a small stack of books into the library to return. “Thank you for these, they’ve served beautifully. I think you might expect one of my students to start stopping by with a newfound interest in Jane Austen. Do we happen to have Moby Dick? I’m hoping to start an oceanography lesson course next, and you know how I like to get the class invested with a classic novel first.”
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“Part of me wishes it didn’t have to be secret. Things would be much easier if we had a principal that actually appreciated and encouraged education. But…” he grins “There’s always something fun about a secret, isn’t there?” He looked around the nook. “Where do you think we should host it? The library seems the most obvious space, but we’d need somewhere easy to get in and out of without drawing attention.”
Olivia smiled. “Well, there is an easy way in and out of this library, didn’t you know? The back entrance,” she replied. “I don’t even think Nero knows it exists. I also found something else, I want to show it to you.”
“No, I didn’t” Jacques answers, pleasantly surprised. He’d be glad to have a less visible way to visit Olivia and her collection. “Well go ahead” he encourages. This day has been full of wonderful little secrets, and he feels a childish excitement at the prospect of another.
Olivia led him to the desk, a rug underneath it. “So, I was moving the desk, and the rug with it, and,” she trailed off to move the desk enough to draw back the portion of the rug to reveal what she wanted to show him. She managed it and knelt down to pull back the rug, revealing a trap door.
“Isn’t it cool?” she asked, looking up at him. “I haven’t opened it, but maybe one day.”
