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[Today Winry has a busy day! Despite things in her neck of the woods slowly turning normal(ish), she has a lot to do. Feel free to bump into her at any time/place!

[Late Morning: The Library]
With Ed in the tunnels Winry has been running books back and forth. Sokka has done this too, but she's taking this chance to also pick something up herself. A romance novel with a monochrome book cover catches her eye. She'll flip through the first couple chapters in the library before taking off.

The book reads:
I scowl with frustration at myself in the mirror. Damn my hair – it just won’t behave, and damn Katherine Kavanagh for being ill and subjecting me to this ordeal. I should be studying for my final exams, which are next week, yet here I am trying to brush my hair into submission. I must not sleep with it wet. I must not sleep with it wet. Reciting this mantra several times, I attempt, once more, to bring it under control with the brush.

[Early Afternoon: The Smithy]
Work as usual - not. Off and on Winry tends to small chores and cleaning up prototypes, but nothing extremely productive. She might end up slacking off and reading again on the couch.

The book reads:
Portland disappears in front of us as we head into US Airspace, though my stomach remains firmly in Oregon. Whoa! All the bright all the bright lights shrink until they are twinkling sweetly below us. It's like looking from inside a fishbowl.

[Late afternoon: The Square]
Winry sits herself on a bench. The book she checked out was very boring so far. The writing wasn't even that good. She reads much further, but at some point she frowns. The mechanic's expression looks like one of disgust as her calloused hands slam the smooth book shut. Quickly Winry sets aside the book to open up her journal:]

Hey, would you trust anybody that made you sign a contract if you were going to keep being with them?

[She glares at the book beside her. Should she finish it? Honestly it's making her very uncomfortable. Maybe she should have picked up a medical text instead.]

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If there's a contract like that, I doubt there was much trust there to start.

Even if the contract is of a personal nature?

I suppose it would depend on what the contract is for, really. But if signing it is required in order for two people to stay together, well, that doesn't really sound fair to the other party.

Even if you could negotiate parts of it?

Just parts? Or is the whole thing negotiable?

The text wasn't very clear, but... Maybe the whole thing? Though the person didn't seem too flexible despite being concerned with consent from the other party.

[ Text? Ah, so she was reading a book. ]

Well there's your answer, then. If they didn't seem flexible then they probably weren't, and that's never good for a relationship.

You're right.

Would you consider a bad relationship worth reading about?

It depends, I think. If the book itself is interesting, it might be worth it to see how it ends. Otherwise, no, I don't think it would be.

Until that point it was boring, but... I almost want to see how it ends.

Then read it a little longer. If it keeps being boring, though, it's probably not worth seeing it through to the end.

Right.

I was just trying to find out if what happened in the book is in anyway realistic, but I guess not.

Understandable.

You're not going to finish it, then?

No, I think I will. Something as weird as this... well I have to see how it ends. I'll probably end up pulling my hair out if I don't know. Better a disappointment than a stressful mystery.

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