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ballet!serg and duck!imrainai vs the story of gold crown town
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Serafin is also in the library early that morning.

He has the lamp on a table and the book propped open in front of him and he does not appear to be succeeding at reading it.

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"Hi! Any good?"

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"I didn't think reading books was this hard but apparently it is!"

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"D'you, uh... want me to read it to you?"

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...he blinks.

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Then he grins.

"That's a fantastic idea. Can we do it in the practice studio? I think better when I'm moving."

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"OK! I can read books pretty much anywhere."

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"Thanks!" he says, and he pushes back his chair and stands up and scoops her into an enthusiastic hug.

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She hugs him back! And then they can head over to the practice studio and read. 

She's pretty dramatic when she reads things. It's not quite a theater performance, but there are striking similarities.

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It's delightful, and it makes the story into a thing he can actually pay attention to and think about and understand. Duck is so good.

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She'll stop after maybe an hour of reading and ask if he wants to hear the rest of the story later. 

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"Sure. Thanks," he says. "Reading is so much easier when somebody else does it! Who'd've thought? Before now I had this problem where I'd set out to do some reading and somehow end up doing ballet instead."

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"Oh, huh. I think I maybe have the opposite problem sometimes."

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"Well, I probably can't dance with you while you read. But I could dance with you anyway, if that'd help."

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"Maybe! I'm not, uh, very good about practicing every day and stuff."

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"You're nice to dance with. I'd be happy to help you practice."

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"OK! Um, if it's not any trouble or anything..."

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He laughs. "If I didn't want to do it, I wouldn't have offered!"

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"OK then!"

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He smiles at her.

Then: "—Oh, by the way, your friends thought I was following you last night when I came home from practice. What were you doing running off into town that late, anyway?"

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"Oh! I thought I saw someone with a shard, but then I lost her. I think she was a bear."

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"Hope it wasn't one of the bad ones. Then again, have there been any that weren't more or less disasters?"

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"Not really! Like, I think affection's a good emotion, but apparently if it gets stuck to you wrong then you end up locking people in basements."

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He casts a fond glance over at the lamp.

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"You know," he adds, thoughtfully, "I guess I've never asked - why are you helping Mytho? Just because the shards are making a mess, or...?"

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