How's That For Inspiration? (open)

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Books. There were probably a thousand of them here. Now that she was out of her summer evening class, it was time to do some personal research. She walked down the aisles, just for the fun of it. She knew this place by heart after that monster of a research project. She’d done it on her own specialty, Bipolar Disorder. Mostly because, well, she had it. So learning more about it helped her out, and she could also put her own perspective into the paper. It really did go pretty well. She got an A on it, so that was good. A B+ in the whole course. Not bad. She had been shooting for straight A’s, but night classes while in the Legion was pushing it.

She thought of her new friend, Mattie Blair. Hmm, that got her an idea. She made her way to the casual books section, most of them penned by people right here in New Rome over the years. It was a section she’d been to a couple times just to see what was there, and she thought it had the best chance of having just what she needed. She took about ten minutes to peruse the titles until she found one that it felt like it drew her right in. Nellie Pierce wrote it. She was still writing, though this had been her first book, Marie read in the intro. Back when she was still in the service she wrote it. She had been well known in her day as a rough and to the point centurion of third. And author! And this particular volume looked perfect for Mattie: “The Roman Girl’s Guide To Being Badass”. It gave Marie a good chuckle. It sounded just like her friend. Then again, Mattie didn’t need a guide, but flipping through the table of contents, it looked like it took it in a funny way too, as well as actual honest to goodness advice. And the info paragraph said she finished it when she was seventeen, so that was probably about right on target. Actually, she might read it too. She smiled to herself and headed off in her original direction to the psychology area.

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Notes: I want that book (if it were real)

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Unlike what people thought, Bellona loved to read, she enjoyed books evry much, tactics, strategies, different kind of armies around the world, and some of them she didn't help to build, so she was facinated about the way they had developed in the past thousand of years. Books were gates to different worlds and realities. She understood why some gods loved them so much that they simply spent hours, weeks and centuries, reading. it was something that opened up the heart of whoever would be readingsuch books. Bellona simply loved the books, besides if you had nothing at hand, a think book could be used as a weapon, She would have to remember that to her granchildren.

She walked to the section about war and started looking for a good book she could read. She had read each of the books in that aisle, still some people could give a very good interpretation of whatever the authors wanted to say. Most of the authors of those books were Mars kin, or maybe her kin, and most of them were so focused on War, So it wasn't easy for them to expose their ideas. to make them clear enough to be understood by common campers, well not common but not of her kin.

Suddenly, she saw that girl of Janus. She seemed to have taken a very good book. She walked closer and smiled looking at her. "that is a very interesting reading!" she said wearing only a very nice dark women's jeans, a red blouse, combat boots. She seemed to be ready for combat at any second.

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Tag: Marie Ashby
Words: 267
Notes: XD

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Marie paused en route to look at some other books. She was so zoned in that she hardly noticed the other lady rounding the corner to enter the same aisle as her. That was a bad habit of hers. She got lost in her own head. Maybe it was her dad’s fault. That one time she talked to him, he seemed to zone out a couple times. Of course, his version of zoning out involved talking to himself, which was infinitely more socially awkward if she did it seeing as she only had one face to argue with. She had done it when she was little. Gotten harassed a lot here up until she hit puberty (as if that wasn’t traumatizing enough) and had actually gone to a counselor to get it under control. She didn’t talk to herself anymore, which was good. She did in her head, yeah, but that was beside the point. She didn’t make the mistake of doing it out loud anymore. Sure, she still got teased because there were always those times when she stopped paying attention because she was thinking too much.

But now she could blame something, and that something was the books before her. She looked over the titles as she internally debated whether or not she absolutely needed to read the books themselves. That one she’d read. That one sounded a little dry. That one was a textbook and she was not up for reading another textbook in the name of fun. That super thick volume from her last class, Introduction To Psychiatric Disorders, had been plenty to last her the summer. Or, you know, the next two months, since she was only taking a bit off and would start back up when the next class was offered.

Thanks to her Roman training, she did notice thankfully when the woman approached her, so she looked over at her and smiled. “Thanks. It’s for a friend, though I’m thinking about reading it too. My fiancé would probably be thrilled if I was less of a… graecus.” She was half teasing. Graecus was about the worst thing you could be called around here, and unfortunately, she had been called it numerous times. After all, fifth was known as freaks and Greeks. She just happened to be considered a healthy mix of both. But enough of that. “I’m Marie. Daughter of Janus, fifth cohort.” She shifted her book to one arm and held out her hand to shake.

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Definitely the library wasn't the first place that Bellona would think of going a good sunny day. She would go out, she would train, she would challenge Diana or maybe discordia to fight, or to her brother, that would be real fun! But the library wasn't exctly fun material, not in a normal basis. However, Bellona also had this other side, the diplomatic side where she had to study every aspect of a conflic, where she had to check not only the present facts to be able to find a solution to an international conflict, but also the history, deep history of the placed or places where such was was going on.

She looked at the daughter of Janus and smiled a bit more when she said she would like to read it too and spoke about not wanting to be less than a graecus.She smiled and even chuckled a bit. "No Roman that has such bravery and purity in her heart as yours, can be less than a graecus." She said and then took the book from her hand, it was a very good book. Then she gave it back. "Whose that fiend?" she asked really curious about it. Any roman girl willing to be a badass and a strong independent woman, deserved her respect and admiration.

She smiled and nodded when she introduced herself. it was nice to see such good manners in the ladies of roman society! "very pleased to meet you Marie, I'm Bellona, goddess of war and international affairs." She didn't say more, she didn't say less. she just smiled at the girl hoping she didn't react like some campers. with fear.

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Tag: Marie Ashby
Words: 278
Notes: lol love Marie!

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Marie had to smile. This woman seemed really nice. Plus complimentary, which was cool in Marie’s book. It wasn’t often she got compliments on her bravery or something. Though the matter did give her pause. How did this woman know anything about her bravery? Or her purity of heart? No one but Chris thought anything like that about her, so she couldn’t have just heard it on the streets. Her confusion probably showed on her face a moment, but she thought it rude to outright ask. The woman was being nice. Probably just a case of being too nice to call anyone a graecus or something. Which was fine. “Thank you.” She offered the book over when the woman reached for it and waited patiently as she looked at it. “Looks good, doesn’t it?” She took it back when it was handed to her. “Mattie Blair. She’s a daughter of Mars and legacy of Bellona, so like… really perfect book, you know? Not that she needs a how-to guide, but it does look funny at least, and who doesn’t like funny? And I’m rambling…”

Marie smiled brightly as the woman replied to her introduction, until she introduced herself in return. She stopped short. “Are you serious? I mean, true pleasure to meet you. You’re only the most highly esteemed Roman goddess ever and all, so this is like… wow. Thank you. I mean, for coming to talk to me. This is… really something. Oh, hey, if you’re goddess of international affairs, you probably know a lot about diplomacy and everything, right? Which is actually kind of like the formal version of what my dad does, right? So hey, that’s cool. Sorry, I’m just… it’s not often I meet a goddess and I’m not even sure what to say.” Awkward.

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Bellona smiled at Marie as she nodded at what the girl said about the book. it was a great book. She had seen many of them, but that one in particular was a great one and she was pleased that she was going to pick it. then when she mentioned the name of Mattie she smiled prudly and then nodded. It was good to see that even when Mattie hated her, she still was persuing the good ways, the ways of parlay instead of only the ways of sword and blood. She was proud of Matilda, always and forever, but she was even more proud in that moment.

Then she looked at Marie as she started to ramle so much about meeting her about her job and about how her father's job was more or less like Bellona's. The goddess nodded at the young woman and smiled at her. She also loved the fact that she didn't react with fear at her, she reacted as if she had seen her favorite actress or something like that. when the young one could calm a bit, Bellona smiled at her again and then spoke again. "Well... yes, your Dad and I had worked together at some point, and in some very international desisions. Sometimes we work in a very good pleasent way and everyone goes home without a drop of blood spilled. but others..."

She sighed and then smiled again with a slight shrug. "Let's say people make the wrong desisions or the right ones but they want more and that never goes well." She said and then looked at Marie. "Well, it is really nice to meet you Marie, you are quite an inspiration to me. you know? being with someone like Ashby, and being his sanity pole, that is a very good way to deal with war and peace, you know? and the way you've been my granddaughter's friends, thank you for that too." she talked about Mattie.

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Tag: Marie Ashby
Words: 328
Notes: lol Awww!!! Marie!! <3

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This woman seemed really nice. She paid good attention to everything Marie said, which might not be good for the poor woman, considering that made Marie want to talk more. She tried to reign that in though. That was, until she mentioned who she was. Might as well give it up, because it was all coming out now. She smiled brightly at the idea that her dad could be helping so important a goddess in such a grand effort as to stop war. Sure, there were going to be bad times, but that was to be expected. Not all decisions were good ones. “Right, of course, I mean, the way I look at it is… if there’s a right choice, there has to be a wrong one too. And no one is immune to picking wrong here and there. It stinks, but it happens.”

She nodded at Bellona’s wise words. “Yeah, know exactly what you mean. I think everyone is guilty of it. No offense meant, my Lady.” Then those glowing words from an amazing goddess, well, Marie couldn’t help but smile, though it was in a happy yet humble way. She truly felt honored to hear this from the goddess. “Thank you. That means a lot. Coming from you, especially. I mean, Lady Bellona, who’s basically the goddess of awesomeness. But yeah, thank you so much. I mean, I don’t think of being with Chris as a chore, heavens no. I love him dearly. He’s my sanity too, to boot. And Mattie, she’s pretty cool herself. I want to be her friend really badly, but, you know, Rome wasn’t built in a day.” She fidgeted a little for no apparent reason – old habits. “Would you like a smoothie or something? I’m not real sure if inviting a great goddess to get smoothies is considered bad, but… I mean it in the nicest way, of course.”

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