...And also these.

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[stickupherforehead]

[Pearl freezes, suddenly breathing hard. That's...not good. That is definitely the opposite of good.

She drops the books, and spends a long moment just staring at them.] Incomplete, huh?

[at least that's her take on it.]

[touchofrogue]

[There is no answer but the crackling flame of the candles, the fire, the whistle of the wind outside.

'Incomplete.'

An interesting enough assessment, really.]

[stickupherforehead]

[too bad Pearl is too much of a scientist for her own good. She examines the books again, looking at the spines for titles before lightly trailing a finger across the cover of the top book.]

[touchofrogue]

[The titles of the books are clearly escapist literature, at least at first, and of a very definite kind. Their titles are unabashed romance, things like Dark Passions and Long Arrow's Pride. The rest upon Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera. There were slim volumes of poetry by Tennyson and Yeats. A copy of Alice and Wonderland. Several pulp horror novels.

And as Pearl touches the book, the same feelings begin to blanket her - the subtle and inevitable sense of complete isolation.]

[stickupherforehead]

[none of those books have "engineering" or "aerodynamics" or "fuel propulsion systems" in the title, so Pearl's a bit lost. They don't look like histories, so she's going to guess fiction. Or maybe oddly named memoirs?

She's ready for it this time, though. She can be objective, right? It's not real. At least not for her. For the moment.

If it doesn't seem like it's getting worse or triggering other surprises, she's going to pick up those books and stack 'em on the coffee table.]

[touchofrogue]

[And objectively speaking, Pearl is absolutely correct -- the same sensations steal over her -- isolation, loneliness, despair -- maybe a hint of rejection.

Perhaps most horribly of all, though, since this is the third time Pearl's touched the books there is a sense of familiarity -- of belonging, as if these feelings are absolutely hers by right, like slipping into a pair of well-worn jeans.]