It's beyond the pale!

  Independent, selective Reeve Tuesti from FF7R, as written by Phoebe. Sideblog to @phoebesmuses. Remade July 17. Crossover friendly.  

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@edenslostwallflower - continuing because it won’t let me reblog

         How strange it was, to enter a bookstore and not tell herself that she could simply read whatever she wanted on the network. Most books these days were digitized for easier reading and better convince but the traditional way was still popular among many. Though, given her capabilities, she wondered why her instruction was to choose from the literary section for ages much younger than she. She could easily read college and university level books, this seemed like a step backwards. Perhaps, Mr. Tuesti had something in mind and this was simply a place to start.

         She decided to find the books not based on content or summary, but simply the cover. If something stood out to her like shapes or patterns. Most children’s books were illustrated in the same fashion. She found one featuring many tales using animals as the characters and another about a caterpillar.

         Returning to Mr. Tuesti, she held them both up for consideration. “Are these two satisfactory?”

Watching Leanna browse through the books was certainly interesting, and not only because it was a task Reeve doubted she had ever encountered before. She was already a person, in Reeve’s eyes, yet she had lacked many of the experiences that most people encountered before adulthood. It was perhaps a senseless wish to want to give someone like Leanna something not unlike the experiences many children had, yet he was willing to try. 

As she brought the books, Reeve observed them and then nodded. 

“Certainly.” He said. “We will be taking those.” 

For a moment Reeve considered filing them under business expenses, wondering the face the poor accountant in charge would make, but in the end he decided to spare them the confusion. 

“When you have some free time or your duties allow you to,” he told Leanna as they left, “read them, and tell me what you think of them.”

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For each “⭐️” I get, I’ll write a headcanon about our muses.

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        Leanna lifted the book from the shelf but her expression stayed the same, despite inside feeling a strange emotion she couldn’t quite place. She had never owned anything before. According to Mr. Tuesti’s intentions, she was currently buying books to keep for herself. Was this a satisfactory choice? She.. wanted it. 

        Had she ever wanted anything before? 

        Her mind immediately searched the businesses of Midgar trying to find anything to match the subject. “The most I’ve ever seen is the atrium in the cafeteria. I would … like to see a real garden.” She looked at the cover again, then held the book close and returned to face him, and for the first time since her activation, she seemed almost… eager. Wanting to continue but as always, awaiting instruction to do so. “Are there any other books I should have?”

Proud of Midgar as Reeve was, he was no less aware that many of its inhabitants would grow without ever seeing flowers beyond images, or beyond what one could obtain from other cities. Leanna was not alone in her wishes. Moreover, they were a cause of hope for Reeve, who could not help a small smile. He couldn’t recall ever having heard Leanna say she’d like something. It was good. 

“I shall see what we can do.” He promised, sincere despite the difficulties it could entail. It would be worth all of them. 

Then Leanna asked again, and Reeve located a book that seemed to focus on a young girl’s journey to find a garden -had that one been approved by Shin-Ra? Not that he cared much- and then he gestured towards the children’s book section. 

“Take two that catch your attention, no matter which.”

Then they’d continue, not that they wouldn’t return another day.

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She followed him up and down the aisles and around the displays. Her eyes quickly scanned each book, looking at the title and immediately finding the summaries in the online network. This only counted for those she saw at eye level, leaving the other shelves of books disregarded. Science fiction, westerns, mysteries. It was hard to pick something that interested her when she, in fact, had no interests at all. 

She held the book of fables and stories in her hands and looked at the cover, taking in the detail of the hand drawn pencil art and water coloring. Nothing of the cover revealed distinctly what the book was about, more rather, it displayed snippets of the stories within. There were mostly animals, with some people, and she wondered how on earth the two had anything in common as animals couldn’t speak. Well, she knew one that could, but he wasn’t exactly a normal cat. It was a good place to start, considering the plethora of novels a bookstore had to offer. She continued her walk behind him when they passed a display and she paused. One of the newer items was a book on botanicals. Opening up to a random page, she saw there were illustrations of various outdoor plants and flowers with snippets of information about each scawled on the side. It almost seemed to mimic a sort of journal. She flipped the page, then another, and another.

“I’ve never seen these flowers in the city. Do they.. really exist?”

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Reeve observed her as she watched the cover, then kept glancing towards her as they moved through the shelves, looking for any sign of interest. There may be none to be found, not yet, but that didn’t mean Reeve didn’t hope. And then, Leanna stopped.

Truth be told, Reeve did not know much about flowers, beyond the basics. He had a few plants in his house, all for the purposes of decoration, but none of them bore flowers. And, all in all, he had never seen the flowers Leanna was talking about. 

“I’m not certain.” He said at last. “Although they are rather beautiful. I will make inquiries.”

It was not particularly easy for flowers to bloom in most parts of Midgar, unfortunately, not to say almost impossible. 

“But these are not matters to be discussed here. Keep that book as well, though, and perhaps someday we will have the chance to visit a garden.”

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