#ooc: in my notes i have 'in a perpetual argument with altacoya/tayanna. thinks theyre winning. is not winning' written for both these two

[tlatia-the-radiant]

Write a Drabble about the two characters who don’t get along the most (if I recall it’s the librarian and Chaplin leads)

"Tayanna, if you remove that book from this room, you are being court-martialled and shot for violating hazardous and daemonic material guidelines and directives within the next two hours.

Chief Librarian Altacoya kept her voice low and neutral, trying to sound more honest than threatening. It was a threat, of course.

High Chaplain Tayanna set the Lectitio Divintatus back down on the table and rolled her eyes at her sister's overzealous adherence to quarantine procedures.

"I simply wish to attempt a cleansing ritual. The words within these pages could be valuable, if we manage to purge the daemons that rest between the lines and in the margins."

"Or, here's a thought," Altacoya countered, dry as a desert dune, "we burn that book and kill whatever comes crawling out of it."

Tayanna looked nothing short of horrified at the thought. "How shocking, that the Chief Librarian can't appreciate a good book!"

"A good--It's the Lectitio Divintatus! If I want to read a book I'll find some piece of fiction, not a treatise about the Cult of the Saviour Emperor!"

"This book is not just the foundational text of the Imperial Cult," Tayanna corrected. "This is the first edition that Lorgar wrote! It is the single most influential book in the Imperium, in front of even the Lex Imperialis!"

"That does not make it good!" Altacoya argued, sounding rather exasperated--this was not the first time the two had argued over the Lectitio Divintatus.

"If it's so popular, clearly something about it was effective!" Tayanna countered.

"Effective marketing, maybe," Altacoya snorted. "The actual words are tripe."

Tayanna sighed the sigh of someone that had this exact argument with this exact conclusion before, many, many times. "My own sister, completely incapable of appreciating a work of art."

"Get better taste," Altacoya responded. "And leave that karking book on the table."