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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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I wouldn't doubt him being very impressionable.

[She doesn't comment on the rest of what he said. There's no point. However despite not seeing that side of Dist (because she was younger than him so it's not like she could have made much of an impact) she could easily see someone manipulating Dist with promising words even if they weren't true.]

[As oddly frustrated as this appreciation of Dist makes Jade, he isn't too keen on trying to completely destroy her image of him. They did just meet, after all.]

Precisely. If I had to credit him with one thing, it would be having the tenacity of cockroach. No matter how many times it's seemed certain, he's always been able to elude death.

Do you bully him back home?

[Your word choices are suspect.]

[Now wherever could you get that idea, Winry.]

I'm not so sure if it qualifies as "bullying" when you're on two opposing sides of a conflict. But, you can certainly say I was rough on him in our youth. He was always insufferably persistent in tagging along with me, after all.

And so instead of being flattered someone liked you enough to want to be with you, you decided to compare them to things like cockroaches?

Hm... Yes, that seems to be it exactly. Trading away his flattery also comes with trading away having to act as his caretaker.

[She rolls her eyes here. Of course some guy is going to vulnerable to suggestion when the person he goes to for reassurance rebuffs him. She sighs and begins to twist in a screw to the leg she was working on.]

Well don't let me keep you from browsing.

[At a surface glance of Jade, one would assume the most difficult thing to do would be to apologize. That was a misnomer; sincere apologies may be rare for him, but it's not something that's difficult for him. No, the hardest thing for him would probably be to acknowledge that friendship, that sincere friendship that Dist wanted so desperately for Jade to accept. He certainly wasn't going to try now.

He puts on a cheery smile as if the argument never happened - and even makes a small bow.]

Why, thank you. It's been a pleasure to make your acquaintance.

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