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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.]

Comments

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[What, she wants to read it! She ignores that, actually, to try to read it. Is it shut? Is it able to be read? Who knows?]

Hey.

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[Well now both the journal and the book are closed. Jerk.]

What's up?

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It feels like it's been a while since we hung out. [Which is understandable, she supposes, given her boyfriend issues and therefore that she needs to hang with Elicia more. She's come over and had some fun there in the last few months, but] So I'm just going to sit next to you.

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Oh, all right. It has been a long time. Why don't you come visit Elicia and me sometime?

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I have done that a few times! [Like the thing with the modeling clay and some cooking and. Oh she's just whining. She rolls her eyes and pulls back a bit]

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Oh, so you want to hang out with me alone? You could have just asked.

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While your boyfriend is running the risk of eating people? I'm not that insensitive.

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He's not like that while he's in the tunnels.

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Yeah, but now he's in the tunnels. It's still something which is dominating your thoughts, I bet.

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S-so what? I'm not allowed to worry about him?

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No you idiot. If you're worried about him I'm not going to make demands of you. Come on, don't make me spell things out.

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[Winry just casually pokes her in the cheek.]

Come on. Be clear with what you want.

1/2

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I want... [Well a lot of stuff has happened. There's the stuff with Ed - which she wasn't directly involved in - Usagi coming back way older, the draft and Rhyme's death. A lot of things, really, but none of which involve her intimately. A lot of stuff around her, and she's felt bad she hasn't been able to do more. Really though, she just wants to have fun with her friends - so afte she pulls back and pouts-]

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-it to be more like summer already! Come on, bikini season! I'll be able to dress up you, and Grune, and Elicia, and maybe I'll even be able to trick Usagi into something original, and then we can hit the beach!

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Dress us up? You say that like we're dolls!

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So what? It's not like you are.

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I'm still allowed to not like it.

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Of course you are! Isn't that how it usually goes? I know that. [ :T ]

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Either way I guess the warm weather would be nice. It would really make things a little more cheery feeling.

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Tell me about it. You go in to winter thinking it'll be some big special thing - Christmas and New Years and all - but then it's always a mess right up until... May, I guess.

[She would say April, because most of the bad stuff - this year, other years - has been relegated to December through February. But last year they broke up in April. A week from now'll be the anniversary of that date, and last year she moped and raged all through April as a result]

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Yeah. The sun stays out longer, and the weather is warmer... it just feels nice. Most of the winter I feel like I should be sleeping because of how soon it gets dark.

[godbent]

You sleep in too much anyway. [Nudging her lightly]

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I do not! I sleep in just enough! [Nudging back a little less lightly.]

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It's too much if you're waking up with the clock at double digit hours!

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Ten is a double digit hour, and that's not late!