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Walking down the small aisles of the bookstore, Lincoln squeezed between shelves as he hummed along to to the music playing through his earbuds. Picking up a copy of Attachments, he tucked it under his arms as he rolled his hips and shimmied along the aisle looking for another book to add to his growing pile.

Singing into the book, he shuffled a little as he picked up the Will of the Empress and a couple of fantasy novels he thought Lee might like. Spinning in place, he turned to see the very wide eyes of Mrs Murphy who lived upstairs and always got him to help her upstairs with her groceries.

"Morning Mrs Murphy, lovely day." Lincoln began, cheeks turning a little red as he realised that he had been dancing in the aisles Again. Making a face at her, he got out her way as he grabbed a copy of Lee's favourite author's new book. Looking up sheepishly, Lincoln just nodded at the other customers (and owner) in the store and wanted to find a gigantic hole for himself to crawl into. "Great. This was a great idea. Should not have left the house."

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"You make that sound like it's not a thing but this town has more celebrities than Comic Con. So, it could be a thing." Lincoln looked down his body, patting for the wires that connected to his phone before offering the other guy a headphone. "Come and get your love? It's a classic."

Comic Con?

"Wait-- it does? Like movie stars?" Caleb's face scrunched up, trying to imagine it. It seemed like such a sleepy little town, not a place where movie stars would live.

"Oh..." He took the earbud with a curious smile, putting it in his right ear. His gaze drifted to the floor as he listened, wanting to learn about all the classics. "It's good," he said in approval, looking back up. He could see why it inspired impromptu bookshop dancing.

"Yeah, let's see there's the actress from the Daine series. A couple of popstars, couple of indie bands, the Cabot boys who are more infamous really I guess." Lincoln began, his tongue pressing against the bottom of his lip as he paused thoughtfully to think of who else lived in town. "Oh, er an author? Couple of artists. Not been in town long then?"

Lincoln smiled, nodding and tapping along with the beat before realising what he was doing and tried to quit.

"It is, isn't it? Oh, er I'm Lincoln by the way."

The Daine series? Caleb almost asked what that was, but honestly even if Lincoln did explain, it wasn't like Caleb would know who the actress was. He knew some things, but he supposed he still wasn't totally caught up on current popular culture.

"I'm Caleb, nice to meet you," he said, trying to hide a smile at the renewed almost-dancing. "And yeah, I'm new. I just came to the area yesterday, actually. It seems nice enough."

Lincoln took back the earbuds gently, wrapping them round his phone before shoving them in a jeans pocket. Offering his hand, he took the smaller guy's hand before shaking it firmly. His own hands were rough with work and unusually warm to touch. The problem with being both a firefighter and a fire mage.

"It is, I've lived here all my life. Which probably makes me a little biased," Lincoln began and smiled. Readjusting the books in his arms, he gestured to the book store. "You came here yesterday and you're already in a book store? You have good taste then."

If Caleb noticed the warm hand, he didn't show it, still mostly just amused by how Lincoln had gone from sharing his earbuds with a stranger to then shaking hands.

He looked a little sheepish. "Thanks. I love to read, but the truth is I'm also kind of wasting time until I have to go do something." He nodded to the stack in Lincoln's arms with a smirk. "I take it you're also a big reader?"

"A little bit yeah, though I'm not yet out of bookshelf space. Mostly because I keep making more to fit them all in," Lincoln said with a warm, sheepish smile. "I'm a bit of a comic nerd."

"Oh, like...uh...Batman?" Caleb asks, trying to remember. He hasn't seen many comic books, but he thinks he knows some of them: Batman, Superman, Wonderful Woman. Or something.

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"Yeah, like Batman. Have you never read a comic?" Lincoln asked, looking bemused at the younger man and his apparent hesitation on Batman. It was Batman, everyone knew Batman right? Lincoln was pretty sure the world would implode if Caleb hadn't heard about Batman.

"Not really," Caleb admits, looking a little sheepish. In the months he'd had to catch up with the world, this was one thing that had missed his radar. "I saw a movie, once..."

"You saw a Batman movie once or just you've only watched a movie once?" Lincoln asked, thinking the two things were very different. He could get the Batman movie thing but only ever watching one movie completely blew Lincoln's nerdy brain.