"Kino, why do you have glasses on?" Her partner asked.
She peeked above the book, looking at Hermes. Her hair was a bit messy from the fruitless effort of trying to get comfortable in her sleeping bag. Two bright lights shone from the odd looking glasses on her face.
"Oh, I see. You want to read so badly that you'll wear those things..."
"Why not?" she questioned. "We bought these some time ago but I never used them. So when I got this new book, I thought it would be the perfect time to put these to use."
"What are you reading this time? I can't see the title from here..." Kino's knees were supporting the book and thus hiding the cover from Hermes. "Lemme read it!"
"But Hermes... this isn't your kind of book..." she said, a little uncomfortable.
He snorted. "Ah, but you don't know what kind I do like! Tell me!" She sighed and Hermes knew he won the small argument.
"It's a romance novel." Kino said flatly. Hermes gagged in response.
"Oh yuck! Next you'll be telling me you read those dirty books too!"
At his comment, her face colored pink. "I knew it was going to be hard to read in front of you, so I guess I'll just sleep in front of you. Good night." She jerked her reading glasses off and turned out the little lights on them. Kino burrowed back into her blankets even though she was itching to get back to her book. But she knew that Hermes would try to pester her all throughout it, just to prevent her from concentrating. The rest of the book will have to be finished later, she thought as she drifted off to sleep.
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The idea for this drabble came from a picture of Kino from one of the artbooks. It's actually one of my favorite Kino pictures ever. XD
http :// i222 .photobucket .com / albums / dd219 / chibi(underscore)no(underscore)tabi / Kino(percent)20no(percent)20Tabi /kinohermesglasses2 . jpg
Just take out all the spaces, replace the understore with an underscore, and the precent with the percent signs to see it. (Sheesh, this place is weird on links.)
And am I the only one out there who could almost see Kino reading romance novels? XD It just sounds so... Kino to me for some reason.