Froggy Readings (Open, Bellmuse Public Library.)

The Bellmuse public library wasn’t the largest collection of knowledge on the island, Syne’s library rivalled it largely when it came to sheer knowledge and books contained.  However, there was much to be learned there, and not everything was the same between the two places.  While Zure wasn’t appreciative of books in general, as she wasn’t able to use them, she could at least respect the varied selection.   Unfortunately, however, they did lack in the one thing the place should have had that she was interested in.

Even nowadays most libraries didn’t stock a lot of audiobooks or the like, many seeing it as a luxury or simply feeling it got rid of the point. While some she’d been at did, particularly within the city of Haven in Zure’s experience, the selection at Bellmuse’s library was abysmal.  Her eyes didn’t allow her tor read, as a simple problem caused by her faunus trait.

Frogs couldn’t see still objects well, they could even starve surrounded by food if it wasn’t moving.   She couldn’t really make out much in the way of details normally on stationary objects. And while there were some advantages of her faunus trait, superior ability to see moving objects for example. Being unable to make out any real serious detail meant that she was physically unable to read.  It had been hard enough to convince the somewhat uppity librarian to show her to the audiobooks, but from what she could tell, after having coerced into being told what recordings were. She learned they didn’t have much she could use. She adjusted her scarf somewhat before sighing, it was probably too much to ask for that they have an audio book that could be helpful for fighting grimm, whether that be on Grimm anatomy or simple combat strategy.

Zure had been resigned to leave the library, it would take time to find her way back to the airship after all.   Her eyes weren’t capable of things like reading maps, or even words or signs.   Even her scroll required voice command for her to use it at all. As she can make out written words. It was the entire reason she was dependent on using audio format for books rather than simply reading them.

The presence of the armored man was registered, with his movement allowing her to notice the detail of it, she didn’t give any visible reaction, but she found the design to it somewhat intriguing from what she was able to see. It was nothing more than an intriguing oddity to the ninja, whom didn’t put much stock in heavy armor, such things would be a hindrance in the swamps she’d grown up in. Even with the height difference, with Zure only coming up to about level with his shoulder.

The large weapon similarly would likely be intimidating to others, but she showed no real reaction to it, though internally the frog faunus recognized that there was something unsettling about the weapon. Something which she couldn’t be able to put her finger on. The strange device he was using to scan things would have gone unnoticed if not for the audible beep causing her to take notice…was he scanning books? She didn’t recognize the device, but it appeared to be attached to a scroll.  Was he a member of the library’s staff? Doubtful, unless they happened to face a lot of danger. She doubted the library’s workers walked around in armor regularly from what she’d seen of them so far.  “Pardon me but, precisely what is that device?” She asked, deciding that was the best course of action for figuring out precisely what he was doing. The detail she could previously make out fading as he had stopped moving.

Zure blinked at the new information…the device would be helpful for her purposes then. Of course, there was still the issue of finding the proper books. “Interesting.” She responded, not indicating anything. She didn’t want to expose the weaknesses her eyes gave her, at least not to the broader public, even when she’d spoken to the librarian she’d tried avoiding that subject, simply treating it as herself knowing a different written language rather than the weakness it was. She had put out that she understood the spoken language in her deception…

Still she’d caused the library staff much trouble, and the brief request she made to the librarian after the device was returned indicated she could use it, but it was obvious the librarian was rather busy. She turned her attention back to the man as he was on his way out. The thud of his weapon drew attention. She knew she needed help figuring out the device, since even using a scroll was difficult with her frog eyes, she couldn’t make out much in the way of text generally. It was one of the reasons she had her scroll mostly programmed to get around this disability, using primarily voice commands and having it set to read out messages.

“Excuse me, could you show me how this works? The library staff appear to be busy at the moment.” She asked, approaching the armored man, she didn’t really know anybody else in the building that she could see, and figured he would have a good idea of how to use the device. “I’m still not quite used to the technology here.” That much was the truth, her village was a bit backwater, lacking the proper ability to produce more advanced tech on their own, and with little trade from the cities of remnant or the like. Most trade revolved around items of necessity, and thus she still wasn’t in the know on most of the facets of technology.