After the brief introduction, the previously very cheerful Gavin left after he her that Victoria wasn't at the library. Leaving the beautifully ambiguous Nassim and the odd Nixon alone in an awkward silence.
" How about I show you around the place."
Nassim nodding and started to fellow Nixon around.
" Here is the main place you will be working." Nixon went into a room that was at the background of the library.
" You will mostly just be collecting the returned books and help clean the place."
They left the room and continued to explore the library. Which in it entirely was just taking a look at the sections for the genres of books.
After touring around, Nixon showed where to stamp in for work and how to organize the books that come in.
" I'm not here most of the time so it probably rotate between you and Victoria during the day."
Finally finishing the tour Nassim asked him a question that has been bothering him since the beginning.
" Are those your real glasses?"
Nixon had a look if confusion before realizing that he was talking about the glasses he was wearing.
"Oh these things, no these are just for appearance sake. Don't I have a scholarly atmosphere with the on."
Hearing his explanation Nassim gave him a wearying smile before taking a closer look at the glasses.
"Do you want to try them on?"
Out of the blue, Nixon took off his fake glasses and put them on Nassim before he could react.
The moment the glasses were placed on Nassim's face, it was like he original pleasant atmosphere transformed into a classy librarian.
" I guess your right. They do make me feel like I'm apart of the library more."
" See I told you, I'll leave you with this pair since they suit you so well. You don't have to pay me back, I have a couple more at home"
" Thanks for the glasses." Nassim said with honest appreciation to Nixon. Though the question of why he has so many pairs of fake glasses did pop in his head.
" Before you go back to work, I want to ask you a serious question." Nixon's face became Stern as his eyes let out a glint of light.
" U-uh yeah, ask me anything. ". Seeing his seriousness Nassim gulped, as he became nervous.
" Are. You. Male or female?"
"Uh, that's it?"
Nixon nodded his head, maintaining the same level of seriousness.
Letting out a small chuckle, with relief at the question, he answered " I can be whatever you want me to be, big boy."
" That's a good one but seriously are you a guy or girl I can't tell." Nixon let out a weary smile.
"Male." Nassim replied promptly.
I wonder if this question is going to come up more frequently? Nassim thought to himself.
After being satisfied with Nassim's answer, Nixon promptly left leaving him behind at the room in background of the library.
All alone in the maze like library, Nassim thought, ' What do I do now?'.
.....
"Stop him!"
*Boom!*
Deep inside a forest, large empty metal vehicle drove through crashing into everything that it could, chasing someone.
The man in getting chased had long black hair and crimson eyes. His body was malnourished as it looked as of it would collapse at any second.
The vehicle left destruction behind in its wake, but the distance between it and the man only grew until the man disappeared.
The empty vehicle continue to bulldoze it's surroundings looking for the man. It made turns and movements that were impossible by the means of logic as it obsessively looked for the man.
Somewhere deeper inside the forest the long haired man appeared in a ragged state. His entire body was pale and covered in a thick layer of sweat. As some blood escaped his mouth flowing to his stubbled chin.
The monsterous vehicle from before suddenly stopped it rampage before driving in a direction which coincidentally or not was the same as the man.
Sensing that the roaring engine of the vehicle heading towards him. The man clenched his fist as he continued to run.
But not far away from the man was a gray path. Noticing this strange sight the man stopped.
" An Anomaly." The man whispered to himself contemplating something.
Gritting his teeth, the man changed direction and followed the gray path.
The man name is Max. He was born in the city of TC as a commoner confining his life to the ordinary but that all changed when he had a strange dream of a red chaotic cloud.
At the beginning, Max thought that it was due to stress in his life but this continued for months without fail each time the red cloud would become a bit clearer until Max saw a faint image of a house, his house.
As with a normal reaction, the constant dream of the red clouds and his house caused him to lose weight, lose his job, and ruin his relationships due to bad sleep.
As a last resort to fix this Max went to meet with a psychiatrist but that only lead to his doom. As he didn't know it at the time that it was a phenomenon of an anomaly awakening which under city laws required all citizens to give up their bodies to the government.
After a year of being experiment with in a lab, Max was able to escape due to his awakened ability. But governments can't be underestimated as very soon they caught onto his tracks with the strange unmanned vehicle.
With how the current situation is, it's impossible for him to escape unless something unexpected changed or better yet an anomaly occurs.
' Come on Max get it together. We already made up our mind that we will escape that rotten place!'
' Any where is better than there. Even the possibility of death is a better option as if we get caught death will be the last of out worries! Now Run!'