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[littleonewhosteals]

If you're up for it.

[He sits up, moving over to rest his head in his lap, letting his fingers link together on his stomach.]

[draculabutbackwards]

[Adrian pets his hair for a moment, settling in, opens the book with a dusty rustle, and reads--]

The camelopardus is so called because it has the head of a camel and the spots of a pard. Its neck is like that of a horse, and its feet like those of cattle. It is from Ethiopia...

[littleonewhosteals]

Adrian!

[He sits up so fast that he makes himself dizzy, blinking away the stars in his vision.]

It does not say that.

[draculabutbackwards]

I can't swear on anything because I'm an abomination unto God, but.

[He holds up the page, which is, unfortunately for him, in Latin. The accompanying picture may or may not be recognizable as... a giraffe.]

[littleonewhosteals]

[Rags frowns at the words, finding them absolutely indecipherable. Dammit. And he doesn't know the animal.]

That - that can't be a real creature.

[draculabutbackwards]

Well, it's in more than one bestiary, so something like it is. I'm fairly certain I saw some in the enclosure once, actually. I don't know if you knew Zagreus? He wanted to see more of the surface. Had a bit of a fixation on animals.

[littleonewhosteals]

[That gets a wince.]

Yeah, he pissed off Sweeney when they were paired. I don't know much about him, only that Sweeney hated him.

[He settles back in his lap.]

Well, might as well keep going.

[draculabutbackwards]

[It's rather dull reading, after the first few. Brief descriptions of various animals, sometimes odd but without much context. And Adrian occasionally has to pause and puzzle over a translation, but Rags wanted soothing distraction. And so does he. He keeps up the gentle petting as he goes, filling the air with quiet white noise.]