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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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...]