VIN PArT TWO

[bookpapers]

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[bookpapers]

[he nods, accepting her answer. though a part of him will always want to know... but what's life without a little mystery, even for a historian?

he opens his mouth to say something else,

and then a memory interrupts.]

[allomantic]

[ah... she's quiet for a moment, removing herself from the grief and the shame, the regret. once she's taken a moment to process:]

...Are you some kind of historian?

[bookpapers]

[he makes a face, but just at the principle of memory sharing which is rich when Lavi was so nosy earlier,]

A different type, but yeah. I'm a Bookman. We record the parts of history no one wants to talk about or acknowledge -- which is usually war.

It's always war, actually.

[allomantic]

[there's a little humorless laugh at the last part.]

That sounds about right. [...] It's good that someone does it. Family business?

[bookpapers]

Yup! There's only one at a time, but the rest of us support 'im. That's my Gramps right now, and when he's gone -- it'll be me. Hopefully.

[allomantic]

Hopefully...?

[bookpapers]

In case I get sacrificed to a demon goat or turned into a monster!

[don't be so cheerful about it lavi...]

Or if I get killed by an Akuma, or if Gramps thinks I'm not fit for the job in some other way.

[allomantic]

[she gives him a look for the exact same reason as that bracket text]

What's an Akuma?

[bookpapers]

[STOP LISTEN]

They're weapons powered by human souls. They look like regular humans until they transform. And by the time they transform, it's usually too late before you're dead.

[allomantic]

Ah... So - some kind of shapeshifting monster?