{ o t a } now i know my a, b, c's...

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She really should have been expecting this. There was no reason for her to be exempt from this task. Week by week, the duty had been passed to others, and she’d escaped from Karin with little more than dusting, cleaning dishes, watering flowers.

This week, though, she wasn’t as lucky. She lugged the cart of books down an arbitrarily chosen hallway in the Clubs Library. After taking a little breath, she pulled out the first book, staring at the cover. Alphabetize them, Karin had said flippantly, nudging Lexa over to the cart of books. They all should go in the fiction aisle.

Alphabetize. That... meant. In order. She frowned a little, tracing the letters on the cover with her finger. The first one... looked sort of like a line, then a curve, then another diagonal. She knew she’d seen it before...

At the music shop. It was the first letter in ‘records’, she was sure of it. That was... R. Her eyes flicked up to the books on the shelf in front of her. All the letters on the spines of the books blurred for a moment, then cleared as she leaned closer. The first letter in these books... Well, some started with a ladder type letter thing, maybe a ladder with one rung, while one of them started with a line next to another line.

She bit her lip, then looked back down to the book in her hands. This was going to take a while.

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"Ain't fair." She rolls one shoulder. "Prefer not t'owe people anything, t'be honest."

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Zoe looks at her and then nods, thoughtfully. She's the same way, really. "Okay," she finally says. "Whatever you come up with."

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Lexa nods, then continues to head down the aisles with Zoe, watching carefully as they sort the books together.