[At least this adult’s frustration is clearly not directed at Minakami. Elias pauses what he’s doing to respond- more conversational rather than accusatory, because this is just a fellow person, and he’s had enough positive interactions with people coming in to feel more comfortable with having others around. He hasn’t seen a troublemaker yet. This is a booklover positivity zone.]

It’s as bad a time as ever, to be honest.

Uhm, feel free to browse, just don’t- put anything onto the wrong shelf, basically. It’s supposed to be alphabetical…

[He says, squinting at a book filled with large unlabelled diagrams of fish. Where does he put this?? There’s no title????]