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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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[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.