Louis
After an emotional conversation with Lorelai Roswell, Carina Templeton had been made painfully aware of her *Lack* Of awareness surrounding politics. It was a subject she had always purposefully distanced herself from, being that her father and uncles had been engaged in foreign relations enough for all members of the Templeton line. After the fall of her good name, she began to resent the events of the world outside of the southeastern United States, as though history was writing itself to spite her specifically. 

After hearing about Lorelai's experience in the Great War, she had quickly reckoned with what a shallow stance she'd claimed, and hoped to just as quickly become educated. In Carina's mind, making up for years of ignorance was as simple as walking in the front doors of Briar Ridge's library. 

Immediately, she spotted Jade Grant, the librarian, there amid the shelves, but she half ducked, half speed-walked into the back sections, unwilling to draw attention to herself. She was somewhat familiar with the town's library. Surely it wouldn't take her long to find the references she sought. She didn't need *Help,* And she certainly didn't need to speak with Miss Grant.

She was mistaken. It had been around a half hour and Carina still had not found the *History* Section, despite the relatively small number of books in the building. So wrapped up in her search was she, that if a helpful young librarian were to approach her offering guidance, she would not have time to escape an interaction. 
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Edna
Jade had known very little about Carina. She had heard some things, of course! Dimitra told her some. It was enough to make Jade never cross her. Yet now, the woman was in the library. Looking a little confused and lost. Carina had swiftly avoided her before she got the chance to speak up. Although it had been 30 minutes, Miss Templeton hadn't found what she was looking for. Jade sheepishly approached Carina; she didn't want to spook the woman, as if she were a deer in the field. She tried to make her presence known. Jade did not blame her for being lost. Jade and Ruth had been working on a whole reorganization floor plan, and it was still underway. Leaving a mess for patrons. A mess that Carina found herself in and unfortunately trapped in interaction.

"Miss Carina, may I help you find something?" Normally, she would've outstretched her hand to the woman's arm to alert her of her presence, and she wouldn't speak so formally, but, truth be told, she was a little scared. She did not want to disturb the woman in any way, yet she had already done so. "The library is a bit of a mess right now. Ruth and I are rearranging and trying to divide out sections and put them in alphabetical order, so if there is a certain section or book I can help you find, I can help if you would like me to."

Man, this is how Jade spoke when it came to Arthur and her father. She hated that; Miss Templeton had done nothing to her! Except avoid her. She had never heard anything about Carina being mean or physically violent with someone for no apparent reason. C'mon Jade! Quit being so shy. Yet she couldn't; she didn't want to be loud and boisterous like she was with her friends and everyone else. What if that made Carina more irritated? Jade tried to force herself to relax; maybe this wasn't because of Carina but simply because of how beaten down she had been. April and May were hard months.

April, did you know Miss Templeton? Were you friends?
Louis
Despite Jade's best effort not to startle her guest, it happened anyway. Carina's attention was so singularly focused on making head or tails of the organization in the library that she had lost her good sense. She jumped at the woman's voice, and quickly cleared her throat as though the small noise would do anything to disguise the disadvantage she'd been caught in. 

"Miss Grant," She greeted, disdain already thick over her words, "I can see that." She commented, her eyes roaming the discordant stacks. She *Hadn't* Picked up on that fact before, but it was of the utmost importance to pretend she had, lest Jade understand her to be anything less than razor sharp. It did comfort her slightly to know that her inability to locate a simple subject was not entirely her own fault. 

"I'm looking for books on the subject of foreign wars. Namely, the Great War." Carina answered, reluctant to share something so personal as her research query, but she had quickly lost the patience for trying to find it herself. She opened her mouth to offer an explanation for her grim interest, but snapped it shut almost immediately. Lorelai's generosity must be wearing off on her. How mortifying. She quickly settled back into the comfort that she owed Miss Grant nothing, besides maybe a quick thank you and a few cents' tip for her assistance. Polite conversation was a stretch too far for this encounter. 
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