"Well. You don't have to, if you do not wish to," Long sighs, feeling he has failed. This, he muses, must be what normal librarians feel back in the regular world, trying to coax patrons to attend library events. He is now one of a noble and under-appreciated lineage of civil servants, stretching back perhaps to the library of Alexandria, and...

Well, or perhaps not, he amends, at the sight of Dick's solemn little face over the tablet.

"What are your favorite sort of stories, Dick?"