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 blinked a few times - adjusting to the different light, mainly. "...No," she settled on, after a brief pause to consider whether or not that was actually the true answer and not simply the polite one. "Please. Come in."

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She stepped inside, smiling a little wider. "It was just that I had not spoken with you in a small while," Yeul offered as explanation. "Then there was no reason for me to not come see you."

So here she was.

"Are you well?"

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Liara untangled her legs from the precarious mess they were currently knotted into so she could move to the edge of the bed. "I am well," she affirmed. "I have been trying to catch up on my reading. I may have not realized that I was... ah, absent."

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"No harm was done while you read," Yeul said, with a shrug of her shoulders. "It took me time to realize it as well."

Yeul and time had a peculiar relationship after all.

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"How have you been?" Liara said, because going on about who was primarily responsible for the brief lack of association seemed fairly pointless.

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"I have been well." Which was Yeul's standard answer to that sort of question. "Mostly quiet, though I've spent some time with Rapunzel and she is not quiet."

But she was fun and excitable and kind. Yeul liked her.

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"Rapunzel?" Liara asked. "I am... not sure if I have met her." If she had, it had been earlier on, back in the days when she had significantly more problems separating one human from another.

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"She is in the senior class and has very long hair," Yeul said, thinking of ways to describe Rapunzel. "I'm sure you've seen her around but, yes, it is possible to have not met her."

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"You are good friends?" Liara inquired. It... seemed like the sort of thing to inquire about, social graces being what they were.

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Yeul looked thoughtful.

"How do you determine if a friend is merely a friend or a good one?" she wondered. It wasn't like she had much experience with that.

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... Good question. "I am... not sure."

Don't ask Liara things about social graces. Because she honestly didn't know.

"Logic would assume the length of an acquaintance," she added, "But I'm told logic rarely comes into friendships."

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"I cannot disagree with that," Yeul said, laughing softly. "Perhaps it is that a friend is someone you enjoy talking to and a good friend is someone who you enjoy talking to and you feel more comfortable around?"

Or maybe they were both overthinking it?

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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."