afterliving | 002; action/text

[Feeling a little nostalgic in the morning, Riki heads on over to the library in search for a few books. In particular, they're a few that one of his close friends used to read a lot, and some that she even recommended to him. He's also just looking around for Kyousuke, seeing as how he hasn't seem him around lately and... it definitely has him worried. It's not like him to just disappear like that, so...

...yeah. People can find him walking around the library, though he may seem a little dazed at first and maybe slightly out of it.

Later on, however, his search for books gets him a little curious! So he heads on over to the computer lab to hop onto a computer and ask a question...]

We sure have a lot of books in the library, huh? I have a friend back at home who really loved reading, and the books she read were always really interesting. But anyway, I'm just kind of wondering, but what kinds of books does everyone like? Or any kind of literature, for that matter. My friend happened to like poetry a lot too, so... yeah. I'm just curious.

[And then as a side note...] Also, for those of you who know him, has anyone seen Kyousuke around?

((ooc; as a side note, since the event began today (which we will put a mod post up about soon), here are Riki's rumors! Feel free to poke at him about them.))

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[ hm.

he waves a hand in dismissal. ]

There's simply nothing that can be done about that at the moment. What are you reading currently?

Edited 2013-02-17 00:28 (UTC)

[Ah well... With a sigh, Riki looks back down at one of his books in hand.]

It's a detective novel. When I was alive, one of my friends recommended it to me.

[ oh ... ! ]

Are you interested in mysteries, Naoe?

Eeeh... Kind of, yeah. Some of them can be interesting, anyway.

I read this one already and it was pretty good and unique.

[He was just looking it for nostalgia's sake..]

[ ... oh, that's sort of ... sad. ]

Something you'd recommend, then?

[He nods.]

Yeah, definitely. It's pretty strange and it actually made me feel a little uneasy while reading it, but... it's definitely something I would recommend, especially considering how different it his from traditional mysteries.

You can't simply leave it at that. Tell me about it.

[ gesturing toward the seat across from him ... ? ]

Oh, sure. [Excuse him as he takes the seat, then! And then begins explaining. As he does, he just flips through the pages of the book a bit.]

It's not really an ordinary story where a detective tries to solve a crime. It's a book within a book, basically. One of the characters in it writes a novel based on those around him, making the odd numbered chapters based on actual events going on, and the even numbered ones fiction.

[ he listens intently. riki has his full attention! ]

Really? I've never heard of a narrative structure like that before. What's the mystery?

Well, murders take place in both types of chapters of the story. Someone's trying to solve them, but... That's not really what makes it all that mysterious, I guess. Since half of the chapters are fiction, at times, the people who were killed in one chapter would be alive in the other one. It's easy to follow at first, but after a while the realistic and fictional aspects get mixed together, and it makes it harder to keep track of what's actually happening and what's just made up. It makes a vague borderline between the two of them.

[And somehow it had made Riki feel like something was up in his own life that demonstrated a reality versus fiction theme, but...]

[ hmm. considering that ... ]

So the author's intention is to instill a feeling of uneasiness in the reader. That's ... very interesting.

[nodding]

The author definitely does a good job at doing it.

They don't have a second copy in this library, do they?

I don't think so. If you want to read it though, you could take this copy if you want.

[ ah. ]

Perhaps when you've finished with it. I wouldn't want to tear it away from you.

I've already read it before back at home, so I wouldn't mind if you wanted to check it out first.

[ waving his hand. ]

It can wait.