Whoo, yeah! Chapter 11! I do believe this story is nearing it's end :)
At the watch house, Avalina's nerves almost got the better of her. There was something about being so near her most favourite characters that set of the butterflies in her stomach. Of course, the Librarian was among her favourties too, but he was really just an orangutan. He was sort of normal, once you got to know him, and she guessed the Watch would be the same. Just before she went in, she turned to the Librarian.
"One question. Do any of these guys know about L-space?"
"Ook." he said, shaking his head.
"Oh. That's going to make things a bit tricky."
"Ook?"
"I'll think of something, I'm sure." she took a deep breath and went in. She relaxed a little when she realised the Librarian was following her. At least she wouldn't be alone, and people respected him. She wished she had her MP3 player, or even just her guitar. Music was so calming.
Avalina walked up to the main desk, and paused. She hadn't really though beyond here. What should she say? The person at the desk wasn't a watchman she recognised right away. It was a dwarf. He (possibly) looked up at her.
"Yes?" he asked politely.
"Uhhm... I, uh, I found this piece of paper and I think it's really important." Avalina said, vaguely waving the paper.
"Can I see it?" Avalina put the paper down on the desk.
"This doesn't look important to me, it's just a draft of an ad for Mrs Cotton's boarding house."
"It's definitely really important." The dwarf looked at her oddly.
"Ook."
"Oh, Mister Librarian, I didn't see you there. Really important you say?"
"Ook." The dwarf sighed.
"Alright, I'll ask someone to have a look at it." The dwarf spotted Carrot across the room. "Hey, captain!" he called. Carrot came over and saw Avalina.
"Oh, Avalina. Find somewhere to stay?" Avalina nodded and then grabbed the paper.
"This is a really important piece of paper." she said, waving it about again. Carrot took it from her and looked at it, reading it carefully.
"Are you sure it's important? It doesn't look important."
"It's really important, isn't it?" she said, nudging the Librarian. He nodded.
"Ook. Ook." Carrot frowned a little.
"Are you sure it's not, magically important? Because we don't deal with that kind of thing here." Avalina bit her lip and looked at the Librarian, who shook his head.
"Ook."
"Oh, so it's normal important, because you'd know if it was magically important." A thought seemed to occur to him. "Say, you're new to the city. Has anyone tried to kill you recently?" Avalina raised her eyebrows in surprise.
"No. Why would anyone want to kill me?"
"I don't suppose they would want to kill you. It was just a thought. Where are you staying?"
"At Mrs. Cotton's." Carrot seemed to consider this.
"Do you know who else stays there?"
"No one I've ever heard of," Avalina answered truthfully. "and there's never many staying there. I'm sure it gets less every day..." Carrot seemed deep in thought. He'd been staring at the paper the whole time.
"I think," he said eventually, "I think we need to take this to Commander Vimes."
To anyone who still cares about this story: I promise I'm working on it! I would have had it done already but, well, school. Bleh. I'll try and finish soon :)
