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[skeletonkeay]

INBOX OF GERARD KEAY

Point of contact for Pumpkin Hollow. Gerry can be reached by phone, mail, or a visit to his shop during business hours. Pinhole Printing and Binding is open from 11am to 6pm every day except Tuesday, because fuck Tuesday, or unless Gerry deigns otherwise.

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Early in the morning, at the shop

[theresalwaystheview]

Losing control of his amassed notes isn't a problem when he can put it all onto a single device, but here, that isn't an option. He'd heard about Pinhole Printing in passing while working on preparations for work at the clinic, and now he's waiting politely at the front of the store, looking around with open curiosity as he holds his notebook and myriad hand-penned pages that, at least for the moment, are loose under the cover as he uses the book as something of a folder to keep it all from escaping him again.

If there is a bell, it will be tentatively 'ding'ed.

This tag got lost in the sauce, I had no idea it was here until now and you have my endless apologie

[skeletonkeay]

There is, indeed, a bell, but it's on the door. Otherwise Gerry wouldn't be able to hear people come in over the printing press when it's running. So when it jingles, he looks up quickly.

"H'llo." Gerry gives a short nod. "Need anything in particular or are you just browsing today?"

DW has been going through it lately tbh, I don't blame you

[theresalwaystheview]

"Actually, I have something of an odd request," Bart replies a touch bashfully. "I'd heard that you do book binding here, and wanted to know if you might be able to teach me. It's just, this isn't the most stable way to keep my work." He lifts the book crammed with notes for Gerry to see. "I can pay you for your time of course."

[skeletonkeay]

Gerry's brows raise. No, that certainly wasn't the most efficient way to keep notes.

"I wouldn't mind, but book binding requires a gaggle of expensive equipment. For me, it came with the job, but for you I don't imagine that'd be the case. I'd be happy to bind all that for you, if you like. Might be simpler."

[theresalwaystheview]

Bart's expression falls some. "Oh dear...that was what I was afraid of. I have a bit of cash but certainly not enough to buy a lot of expensive equipment. If you wouldn't mind, I would greatly appreciate your help with this."

He moves forward to place the book down on the counter for Gerry to have a better look at, trying to straighten out the loose pages a bit better. "Everything is at least in its proper order, including an index mostly for my own reference." He really doubts that anyone else is as interested in the contents of his notes as he is, after all.

[skeletonkeay]

"Yeah, I gotcha covered. Maybe at some point I can teach you to use this stuff and you can borrow it when I'm closed. I don't work on Tuesdays." Because fuck Tuesday, honestly. Gerry straightens up the papers. "You want me to trim 'em so they're uniform or no? Shouldn't be any text coming off unless you wrote real close to the edges."

[theresalwaystheview]

Bart does brighten up at the offer to teach him when the timing is better. He nods, then looks back to the notebook and its ill-fitting pages here and there.

"If you can without damaging any of the writing, then I don't see why not. It would be nice to have a uniform volume. Oh, I should ask how much you charge for this sort of service-" he pauses to fish about his person, to find his personal allotment of brass that he only tends to keep part of on him while out.

[skeletonkeay]

Gerry notices the pause and waves a hand. "It's cool, we can worry 'bout that later. You got a specific design you're after?"

[theresalwaystheview]

Bart straightens back up, obviously taken aback by the offer. He smiles brightly, nodding in his thanks for the consideration.

"I think simple would be best. Depending on the cover you might opt for, simple moldings, perhaps a stamp bearing my name so that if I somehow misplace it someone would know who it belongs to? I don't know if there's an appropriate method for adding pages between the existing ones later unfortunately, and I would hate to inadvertently damage it after the fact, so once they're bound I'll likely need to start another volume..."

[skeletonkeay]

"Nah, there's a lot of glue and sewing involved. I'll add some blanks in at the end to tide you over while I make the next one," Gerry assures him. "What's your name, then?"

[theresalwaystheview]

"Blanks seem like the best course of action," he agrees, satisfied with that idea. "Bart Torgal. I've been assuming that you would happen to be Gerard Keay?" He'd been pointed here when he'd asked around for help getting his notes bound and heard Gerry mentioned by name, after all.