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Harlowe had been spending a lot of time away from home lately. He had spent most of the month prior hanging about Dahlia de Mai's borders, skulking about and being a creeper as he was searching for Larkspur. That search was over now, though, and the tawny-furred man knew where to find his uncle if he wanted to see him. Their last meeting still echoed in the youth's mind, and he wanted to know more. Family was the precise reason he was in the library on this very day—Larkspur was not really his uncle. He knew this, but he did not know the word for their true blood relationship. He was sure one existed—people had made up words for everything. They would know what to call Larkspur.
Harlowe had no idea how to use a card catologue; he had no idea where to start looking for information on geneaology and family relationships, so here he was in the Halifax library, a creamy-furred and skinny youth creeping along in between the aisles, his jade-colored eyes wide as he read the titles of the different boosk, peering about to try and find something useful. The youth had been wandering for several minutes when a noise alerted him to the presence of someone else—a feminine scent wafted throught the library, gently pushed through the dead library air by wind blown through the cracks in the building.
The creamy-furred youth stuck his head around one of the shelves, watching as a dark brown woman meandered amonst the shelves. She didn't look or smell familiar, and Harlowe would have much preferred being left alone—but he had not been careful with the noise, she probably knew he was here. His cocoa-dipped ears folded back against his skull, and he watched her with striking green eyes, waiting to be noticed, or not.
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