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[Not everyone makes a big show with their arrival here. Hell, some people would like very much for their arrival, and subsequent tenure, to be as uneventful as possible.

Case in point: One Dr. Robert Bruce Banner.

You may see Banner around town, at the library, a cafe, maybe even his own farm (which is currently not being used as a farm), reading hefty looking books, taking notes about various things.

But regardless of what you find him doing, the most notable thing about him is how unremarkable he seems, coming across as a quiet, shy man who's just trying to keep out of trouble.

Of course, trouble tends to be drawn to him, but Bruce is hoping it'll hold off for at least a little while...]

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[ Please excuse her, as she hefts some books of her own. After a while, Rapunzel eyed the books he had in his stack, noticing they...sounded really boring! A lot of 'physical science' books and whatnot. Allow her to drop off one of her favorites, A Tale of Two Cities, right onto his pile. ]

Here. In case you need to make things a little more interesting.

[After seeing what was dropped off, Banner closes his book, and giving his attention to the "delivery girl"]

A Tale of Two Cities? [A slight chuckle] I don't think I've read Dickens since I was in college.

College...whatever that is. You make it sound like a long time ago!

Either way...those all look really technical. That, or Northanger Abbey---those are my favorites.

That, or...well. Stories about Knights of the Round Table.

Reading about Guinevere is my favorite, but...Jane Austen is too, I can't really pick.

[ Big grin. Someone reads a lot! A LOT! ]

But you seem like a...Dickens kind of guy anyways.

Um, it kind of was...

[Don't make him feel old, Rapunzel.]

You seem like you know your stuff, and it's been a while since I've been able to relax and read a good book, so I'll take your recommendation.

Oh, I see...well, then it should be refreshing!

[ She grins, holding a different book that she's never read before close. ]

I don't really, they're just a few of the ones I had while I was at home.

[ All the time. Perpetually. ]

Well, I'll take your recommendation anyway.

[Honestly, the library is still a bit mind-blowing. The fact that anyone can just use it whenever they want is more boggling still.

Of course, it also means that books aren't always on shelves while a person drifts through the stacks. And that means puffing up the courage to approach the most obvious potential culprits: those with large books and a distracted air.]

Sorry. [That's how you greet people, right?] Do-- you have the Feynman?

[True, Horatio is currently carrying a book on beekeeping and another on ornamental flowers, but surely Lectures on Physics has a universal appeal.]

Feynman?

[He looks through his pile of books.]

Here, I don't really need it right now, anyway.

[The victorious flicker of a smile is brief, barely there before it's gone again.]

I'll-- be quick, sir. Promise.

[Heck, he'll even find a table to copy on where the man can keep an eye and make sure he doesn't wander off with the book.]

Oh, take all the time with it that you need.

--really?

[There's just no getting used to people being accommodating, apparently.]

[the library seems to be a popular hiding spot for unremarkable-seeming people. take Alec, for example, a scrawny young man with tired eyes and a coat that seems just a little too big for him. he is extremely fond of books, and has gathered an almost comical stack of them in his arms.

it looks heavy. fairy tales, crime novels, classics, history, autobiographies, cookbooks, graphic novels, illustrated field guides, and at least one random tome from an encyclopedia set containing entries K-L.

and now he's perusing the science section, and he has to go for the big book on microbiology... but he is clearly struggling to hold onto his heavy, wobbling pile of books while also reaching up towards a shelf above his head.

he seems somewhat oblivious to his own struggle, though. he's too excited about books.]

[Before Alec's pile of books can topple over, a second pair of hands comes to steady them.]

Hey, careful now.

[Were you looking for trouble? WERE YOU?? Well, you won't find it here. Maybe. Who really knew? But there was a girl carrying heaps of books from the shelves to a soft arm chair. There were already an absolute crazy amount of books around her, fairly thick ones. If Banner was around, she would probably be going to and fro, picking up books from all over.

She was on a mission. But this book was a bit out of reach, she was short.]

[Was Bruce hoping to have a nice quiet afternoon in the library? That's unfortunate because Nero has decided to take over a great deal of it today. There's books strewn about. Some open, some closed, some just piled on each other in mass. There's scattered bits of paper filled with notes and equations. The math will look incredibly familiar but the language wouldn't be.

The books themselves are about all sorts of energies. Oil, gas, electricity, even coal. Electricity itself seems to be the winner on display at these tables. Those big thick volumes are scattered about the most, their pages flipped open to all sorts of equations some of which Nero is hastily scribbling down on a blackboard he's found and claimed as his own. That loud clacking of a thin piece of chalk is hard to ignore as the outlandish man hastily writes his formulas down.

But thankfully it doesn't last terribly long. Nero takes a step back from the board, smearing white dust on his outfit but paying it little mind, and takes a seat on one of the tables. Pushing aside some books so there's room for him, he overlooks his work on the board which is nothing more than voltage and wattage, things of that nature, equations.]

I'll be done in a... bit.

[He informs Bruce. He doesn't need another lecture about how this is a "public" library for all people. If his temporary shack could provide enough space he wouldn't be here. But as it is... Everyone is going to have to just deal with him.]

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