Could you be more specific?

[spiritcrystal]

[Keeping Up With the Next Generation: An All-Purpose Guide to All That Stuff Those Kids From Other Regions Keep Talking About.

That's the name of the book Kris is reading in some weird and strangely specific library. Some other hits she sees in the shelves are How (Not) to Deal With Meddling Kids in Caps, It's Not All Black and White, The Series of Guys That Cramped My Style And Messed With My Social Life, and Hot Enemy Problems: Part 1.

But it's a large library. A huge library. The possibilities are endless... and very specifically tailored to everyone's needs.]

[ooc: Aaaand mingle post! Go ahead and comment/tag around!]

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[givespoisonoak]

[Team who? Green takes a quick peek over his shoulder; he doesn't recognize the girl and she apparently doesn't recognize him. Not-nerdy reputation still safe!]

Huh? Oh yeah, sure. You want this one? [He pulls out the book he thinks she's pointing to.]

[accidentalruenn]

[Team better-than-Aqua --]

Yep! Thank ya! [She'll take it from him and thumb through it...

...and seems pretty content to let Green be by himself, except for when she tugs on his jacket.]

Do ya know what a sta... sta-lag-might-tuh is?

[She points to it -- stalagmite. Come on, come on, she wants to know.]

[givespoisonoak]

[Uh oh. She better not be asking him to define every single word in there. But sure, he'll bite.]

It's when speleothem rises from a cave floor and then calcium carbonate- [Whoops sounding way too geeky here. He coughs.] Uh, you know those stone pillars in caves on the floor and ceiling? Like triangles? Those.

[accidentalruenn]

[Nerd alert!

But she likes this stuff.]

Oh. Thanks a bunch!

[.......Hey. Hey, Green --]

Howsabout you tell me more about this... speeleotham or whatever ya called it?

[givespoisonoak]

Look, if you're that interested, just take this book and start from here. [There is only so much nerd that Green is willing to admit every day. He hands over a Geology for Dummies copy.] I'm not a walking encyclopedia for you.

[accidentalruenn]

[What a nice guy!]

Ya seemed like yer real interested in this stuff, so I just wanted to have some conversation! [Mr. Cactus. She will accept his dummy book though -- for dummies that is so mean.]

[givespoisonoak]

[Hey, he didn't write the book; it's not his fault it's titled that.] I'm just saying it like it is. We don't have to talk about this anyway.

[They could be having way more engaging and not-geeky conversations.

Like about who this handsome young man is.

He's kind of a big deal and all.]

[accidentalruenn]

I don't know ya well enuff for somethin' else though.

[Who the heck are you.]

[givespoisonoak]

No? Green Oak? Doesn't ring a bell? [SURELY NOT]

[accidentalruenn]

Izzit supposed to?

[givespoisonoak]

[Oh! Right in the heart.] Kind of. But whatever.

[accidentalruenn]

[HAHA] Sorry 'bout that! I'm from Hoenn, so if yer real popular somewhere else I ain't heard about ya. Howsaboutcha tell me about yerself, since ya don't wanna talk rocks?

[No promises that she'll actually listen but.]