I don't quite remember the name of the contractor that had the ability to cut using the air and stuff. I think it was Luc or something, but I'm too lazy to Google it right now.


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"Akira!" the librarian shouted at the small Japanese boy that made his tiny body comfortable in the middle of the beanbag towards the corner of the room.

Akira looked up, eyebrows furrowed, wondering why the librarian was angry at him.

"Don't doggy-ear the pages, you hear?"

Akira nodded, and covertly flipped the corner of the page back up.

He couldn't help it. It was a habit he started to pick up. He loved the crisp new page under his finger and the feeling of creasing a nice sheet. It was convenient too; Akira was the avid book reader and didn't have so many bookmarks.

Besides, bookmarks got lost and sometimes slipped out of the book. And bookmarks were larger than the book themselves sometimes so it was more difficult to pack orderly in his bookbag. When the pages were creased, he could immediately get to the page he wanted to get to without needing to worry about anything.

Well except if the book was from the library.

Akira was notorious for leaving pages dog-eared.

"Go buy your own books to fold into origami!" she'd always tell him.

Akira rolled off the beanie bag chair, carrying his twelve year old body over to one of the larger adult tables in the back where the librarian at the desk wouldn't be able to watch how he read his books.

He climbed into a chair across the nearest table that wasn't completely occupied, opposing a rather large man that was probably at least four times the size of Akira.

Akira plopped his book down on the table and continued to read, flipping a page.

But then he heard a familiar sound.

The cupping of a page corner and the nail creasing down on the page.

That was a sound Akira was very well accustomed to! That was exactly how it sounded when Akira dog-eared his pages!

Akira looked up to see the brown-skinned man in front of him doggy-earing the page of the book.

Except that he found it weird that the man was dog-earing every page he read.

The man caught Akira watching him, and then the man noticed the unfolded fold at the corner of the page Akira was on.

The man smiled, "You like reading, too?"

Akira nodded.

The two of them returned to their texts.

They doggy-eared their pages in approval.


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