After a few minutes of focus on the Epic Guard Skill’s outer layers, the clerics started to really get into the book, with one researcher dedicated to feeding the others breakfast, so that no greasy fingers would be touching the manuscript.
It was a well practised routine, and Remi thought that it was hilarious.
Most species only hand fed their beloved ones, or the young. But the blue dragon clerics did it so that they could research more efficiently, without even taking meal breaks.
[Give them a few minutes, and they will realize that they got entirely too comfortable around Karl, and they will be all embarrassed.] Remi laughed as they finished eating, and then the designated food holder carefully washed her hands before replacing her white cotton gloves.
"Is there a reason that the gloves are always white? Is it just so that it is easier to see if you’ve gotten them dirty?" Karl asked as they delicately flipped the pages.
The clerics all shook their heads. "Cotton is naturally white. We choose white cotton gloves because there are no dyes added to them which might transfer to the pages if they have something on them or our hands are a bit wet." Explore more at empire
Lotus sat down beside them and began picking her favourite parts off the plate of breakfast snacks.
"As if a blue cleric would ever let wet hands around a research book. They’re so mean when we go to the library, like the books were their beloved children." She complained.
The others all rolled their eyes in unison, but didn’t respond.
"Are you sure it’s not because they never know where a green cleric has been, and there is a greater than zero chance that you have both tree sap and peanut butter on your hands?" Karl asked.
"That might be part of it. But they’re not only mean to us."
The middle-aged woman leading the research team shrugged.
"Well, we did personally write most of the copies that are in the Library. But nobody properly respects the books. We have entire teams dedicated to just cleaning and removing stains from our collection." She reminded Lotus.
"Don’t I know it. I had to spend a whole week helping them after my botany textbook had an unfortunate mishap."
The clerics all laughed, and even Karl chuckled, knowing that almost anything could have happened to the book.
The day that he had met her, Lotus wanted to take Rae to go nap in the trees.
For the most part, they worked in silence as the rest of the team woke up and ordered additional breakfast items.
The ones that the Blue Dragon Clerics had brought appeared to be mostly chosen for ease of consumption, but they didn’t cover everything that the others were used to eating.
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