The bus didn't take long to appear, only after roughly 15 minutes and I was already en route to my destination.
One of the things I noticed was that public transport wasn't free, which I find baffling but whatever. If no one notices me no one can charge me money, specially since I don't have any.
Based on what I had found out from Liz, the biggest library in London should be the British library, so that's where I'm going. I just hope I can find what I need there.
After around an hour and switching two buses, I was looking out the window out onto the gloomy cityscape when the library came into focus.
After that it didn't take long for the bus to come to a stop in the British library bus stop. I got out of the bus as soon as the doors opened, going straight for the main door.
Though the reader pass is free, I doubt they would give one to a four year old, so I just kept my perception filter up. As I was entering I identified another person, an older woman that looked to be in her thirties. I ran to her portending we were together.
Honestly, I'm not sure if my perception filter would work through cameras, and this place has enough of them that there's no point in bothering to find blind spots, so this is the best I could think of. Hah ...maybe I should've planned this better.
After some walking, turned out that we weren't headed for the same place, so I changed partners and went along with a slightly younger woman wearing a backpack, I managed to follow her all the way to science reading room 1, though half way to getting there I changed my strategy to using her larger body to hide myself from any cameras.
I wasn't sure if the books I wanted specifically, would be available in open access shelves, or would I have had to find a way to get them from the storage, but I hoped for the best and went to browsing.
After around half an hour of browsing I collected several books, on programming languages, software engineering, computer architecture, databases and algorithms, and network and security.
I already know programming. Unfortunately, programming for crystal core quantum computers is vastly different from programming digital computers, though digital systems were still in use in the twenty-seventh century, their programming aside from the completely alien system architecture compared to even two decades before, was mostly done using assistant AIs.
Having taken seven different books on the various subjects, I headed for an empty table further away, to put some distance between myself and others.
It didn't take more than thirty minutes to read all seven books since every page didn't need more than a glance. After several more back and fourths with a new stack of books every time, it was time to go to the next place.
My next stop was the humanities reader room, as I needed to check some of the books on some of this era's laws.
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I once again used my smaller frame to my advantage, hiding from the cameras behind other people walking by.
In the humanities reading room I found some books, that might come in handy and started reading them, as I was reading, I couldn't help but think just how terrifying perfect eidetic memory must be for normal people, just by the books I read today I would be eligible for several different masters degrees of not doctorates, that is if we ignore the need for personally written papers and conducted research, while most people have to work for years to study this stuff.
It was just after noon, when I was done with the library and walking in the street. There were a lot of obviously tourists around but, the thing I couldn't help but notice, was that I was now looking at the fourth child I had identified as a wizard, it was a young boy probably four or five, almost my own age, sleeping in his mother's arms, with the father holding an absurd number of bags. They were also one of the obvious tourists.
Seeing this though I can't help but think what it meant for the wizarding community. Based on what I had seen in the first movie there were only three confirmed mundane borns, even if we say there were ten times that, that we didn't know of, this is clearly weird, unless I'm not actually in the world of Harry Potter, and I'm just hyping myself for no reason.
As I was walking, I saw an asshole in suit that had been yelling at a young girl working in a clothier, had his wallet stolen. I laughed but changed my course, walking alongside the thief who was also wearing a suit and took everything in his pocket discreetly. Thanks to the perception filter and a little help from telekinesis, I was out with him non the wiser.
There were a total of five wallets with around two hundred Pounds total cash between them. I kept the cash and threw out the wallets. I normally don't like stealing, but I think I can make an exception for thieves and assholes.
Having accomplished my most important objective, I decided it was almost time to head back but Mrs. Gray should be out until evening, and I still have a couple hours before Alice comes home, so in the meantime I was going to check one last thing.
A short stroll later and I'm In front of Currys electronics store, as I walked in the front doors, I looked around taking in my surroundings. Honestly... I don't know what I was expecting, but I'm kind of disappointed. I mean I obviously didn't expect it to compare to anything from the twenty-seventh century but I guess I kinda expected more, like someone who walks into a museum, but this is just, underwhelming.
Putting the pitiful level of technology that I had somehow only just come to grasp for the first time to the back of my mind, I went around looking at what they had.
There was no smartphone but there were others, like the famous Nokia or BlackBerry but they're not why I'm here. Going to a guy I could see was idle, I looked up at him and started talking making my perception filter ineffective against him.
"Excuse me." I said getting his attention, and simultaneously doing my best to make him ignore my age using a partial filter, "Hi, can you please show me your best desktop replacement laptop?"
I tried my best not to sound childish, anything to push the thought of my age further back down his mind. "Oh, hello. Certainly," he said and started moving to the side, "follow me." 'Success.' I thought barely stopping a woohoo since technically that was my first time doing that specifically.
He brought me to a bulky black laptop and started listing me it's features at first I was listening and honestly? It was pathetic. My thermometer had higher specs than this thing, but halfway through his speech, I tuned it out while looking at the price.
Twenty-five Hundred Pounds! For this piece of junk? Are they shitting me? I sighed again leaving the electronics store while ignoring the guy who now could not find me anywhere, I swear I didn't used to sigh so much in my last life. Well, I guess I'll have to find a way to get my hand on some money.

