Snippet #2097942

"How was your first night in your dorm room?" Elisane heard and barely registered that it was adressed to her until she glanced up and found Rin watching her. "It's pretty great that the principle of this university accepts requests for room decorations. I got goldfish! It was a complete joke when I asked for all that stuff in my room." Rin said, sounding like he was on the verge of laughter and Elisa smiled, feeling like laughing herself. "But it's actually pretty cool. This school must have quite a lot of money." Elisane nodded in agreement. "Generally schools like this are very weathly." Eli commented in her agreement.

Then Rin asked something rather odd and it made Eli chew her lipa little bit in thought. "Elisane, you really seem to like reading a lot. Why is that?" Now of course, Eli knew exactly why she read, but didn't quite know how to phrase it without going into a long speech, which she had a tendency to do. "Well..." she began slowly, making a conscience effort to not become long winded, "I guess it's because... because life is so dreary. Nothing interesting happens, nothing odd occures and it's just so very boring. I can hardly stand it! I crave... adventure and, please don't laugh, but I want my life to be strange! Thrilling and dangerous and exciting and... well, that's not what lfie is."

Elisa sighed and glanced at the cover of her book. "When I read I get to take part in a world that's not dull. Dragons and magic and vampires and flying pigs-" Elisane took a moment to laugh quietly to herself, "I get swept away into an adventure. And until I turn the last page, I don't have to suffer the normalness of reality. I can be a part in something... special." Elisane pause a moment, looking at her feet, then quickly turned her head to Rin. "Don't laugh at me, okay?"