[ It's a good thing he said something. She was quickly getting so comfortable, she was close to falling asleep. That just goes to show how much she trusts him, because being asleep around someone else while they remained awake? Talk about being vulnerable.

His voice stirs her out of her descent into drowsiness, and she jerks upright, shifting her neat pile of books into a mess spread across her lap. Oops. ]

Oh! Yeah! [ She clears her throat. He saw nothing! ] Let me see. I was going to start with Alice in Wonderland, since it's pretty lighthearted. And...it's a nice story when you feel like a fish out of water.

[ Fitting! It's definitely the theme of the day. You'd think she was trying to get a literature club meeting going! ]

It's weird, too. [ She giggles before she can stop it. ] But that's something that makes me like it, too.

[ He gets a quick upward glance and a smile, then she focuses on the book, opening it to the first chapter. It's not long before her smile's widened, and she hasn't even begun reading. Can you tell she likes this one? ]

Don't expect me to do voices, by the way. [ She says, then immediately puts on her "performance" voice as she begins to read: ] Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"

[ She giggles more, poking at the picture of the White Rabbit on the page. ] Isn't it so cute and silly already?