Room 303, Wednesday Afternoon

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Most people spent this week exercising, taking showers, or, ahem, engaging in other activities. Liara? Liara was just doing what she always did, with about ten times as much focus. It was hardly new for her to channel emotion into learning, and if that learning was especially dedicated this week... it could be a lot worse.

Right now she had several books scattered around the room - a couple on the theorized workings of the multiverse, a couple about human history, a couple about human archaeological findings, one particularly engrossing tome about the architectural roots of this island. She had already read most of them, but there were still several left. And so she sat there on her bed, bent over the book in her lap, scrutinizing each word with intense focus.

All in all, she was not much different this week than she had been the last, or the one before that.

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Liara's lips parted to release a short laugh. "But then we would have to define what 'comfortable' means in this context."

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"True," Yeul agreed. "Which could be even more complicated. Comfortable for one person is not the same for another and both of them can be different from a third."

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"Perhaps a good friend is someone you are content to share secrets with," Liara said, after thinking about it for a few moments. "Someone you can trust."

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"I don't think secrets should be the measure of friendship," Yeul said quietly. "Even if you trust someone, there are sometimes things you do not want to share."

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"I suppose," Liara said after a pause. "That may be my personal interpretation of... comfortable."

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"And if so, there is nothing wrong with that," she noted. "It is a complicated question, I think."

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"It is," Liara agreed. "But considering the importance of friendship in most sentient beings' lives... it is an important one." She paused, frowned. "I wonder if there has been archaeological research into the phenomenon."

You nerd, you.

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Yeul gave all the books in the room a glance. "A research topic for another day?" she suggested. "You seem busy enough for the moment."

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"Perhaps," Liara said, glancing over her stacks of books. "It may be a nice diversion later. To go looking for the right books, I mean."