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[wiggleon]

Name: Aziraphale
Date: 24/11
Format: video

[The last time Aziraphale made his own post, it was rehearsed. Prepared. He had a plan. He still looked like the neurotic, anxious mess he tends to be but he'd managed to keep most of his nerves at bay. This time, though? This time there's no preparation, no plan, no mission.

This time you just get a fairly frustrated (and slightly angry) angel making a post.]

If you are, perhaps, given a book by mistake, a book that doesn't belong to you-

[Breathe in, breathe out...]

Could you, perhaps, let me know? Apparently some of the books in my bookshop were sent through the mirror, but have ended up scattered around and they were- they are quite delicate. I'd appreciate if they didn't get damaged, they are...

Very important to me.

[Taking care of his bookshop is the closest he's ever felt to having a 'home'.]

Thank you very much.

[OOC: Feel free to assume your character found a book! Aziraphale specialized in first editions, so those are the most likely.]

Comments

[rollfordiplomacy]

That's exactly right. Souls are liken to rearrange themselves, within the tree. People are contrasting things, after all. Our beings are some parts complimentary and some parts contradictory. [he taps his lip a couple times, before thinking of how to explain more effectively, before striking it]

If my soul was a deck of cards, say fifty two fold? I would be fifty part Sherwood and two wild. [he looks pleased with this comparison, adding]

And those two make me Everett and not that same man. I would say they are the most important parts of me.

[wiggleon]

Oh, I see. That is...

[Complicated, in a way. But also it makes a lot of sense to Aziraphale, somehow. It's not the same as him being an angel, a part of Her militia, and still being Aziraphale but it's close enough that drawing the parallels helps him understand. Everett seems to be rather good with metaphors, as well, and as a lover of literature Aziraphale can relate.]

Extremely interesting, I must say. If you ever find your book, would you care to let me peruse it? I understand if it's too personal, but you've gotten me all curious.

[rollfordiplomacy]

I believe it will be a history book, judging from the title. Something like "History of" or "Founding of the Springtide", I was told. In which case, I would be happy to share with you knowledge of my people!

[he won't be happy. He'll be quite displeased. But that is for later]

If mine or any other books stumble into my possession, I will surely alert you immediately.