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meganelizabeth 
Rubbing the back of his head awkwardly, Christopher shifted in his seat. He probably should've seen that coming. "Right... sorry... that was a stupid question." What else would she be doing with a book in the library? That was pretty embarrassing. He looked up her with a grin and a blush and laughed a bit at himself.
"Fairytales, huh. Good choice," he said with a smile. He'd noticed that Cass was definitely into stories about fairytales from a Muggle's perspective. Back in the summer he remembered she read Sleeping Beauty, and now an entire collection of them from Brothers Grimm. Nodding to her book, he said, "Be careful with Brothers Grimm tales. They're quite dark. Not like the children's stories adapted from them." He'd once attempted to read Sleeping Beauty allowed to his younger sister but had to stop due to some very scary themes not fit for a child or anyone else.
Glancing down now at the own book in his hands, he replied cooly, "Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo. I read The Hunchback of Notre-Dame on the train, so I figured, why not?" It was fairly good so far, even though it was in all French. He'd learned the second language at home, though it wasn't traditionally spoken by anyone in his birth family or the pseudo-family he currently resided with during the holidays. It was just for fun.
"Nah, my mother always said that there are never stupid questions." She said with a smile as she set her book down on her lap, keeping her finger lodged between the pages to mark the page.
"Just stupid answers." Although, she wasn't entirely sure how that applied in this situation exactly.
Cass glanced back down onto her book and sort of grimaced as he mentioned the dark themes. Yup, definitely not like the childish fairy tales that she used to hear from her grandmother
. "Yup, I definitely didn't see most of the things in here coming..." She trailed off, trying to forget that particularly gross bit in Cinderella. Then she grinned up at him and chuckled
"But no worries, I can handle it..I guess. I mean, when you live in a dungeon, things just down look as scary as other people would make them out to be." Although, she still avoids reading it before bed...especially when she's the only one up.
Les Misérables? Wasn't that in French? She peered down to glance at the pages and indeed found the words written in French.
"Wow, my book selection looks absolutely ridiculous compared to yours." She joked with a light laugh as she stroked the spine of her book, as if comforting it.
"and I didn't know you could read French!" She added with a bright smile. It was pretty awesome actually
"Where did you learn?"