Julian does not feel better after a good night's sleep. The absolute last thing in the world he wants is to wake up at 6:30 in the morning and work out while simultaneously trying to explain himself to a bunch of people whose opinion of him has major implications for his continued survival.
He's gonna get so much mana from this.
"Yeah, this seems like - say nothing, don't get involved, make preparations to hide out for a week if the seniors start killing each other. Which, maybe they won't, Shanghai's got to know that the Americans won't just let them get away with it so maybe there's some complicated maneuvering going on - "
"Okay, now flip the boxes, and guess what English words are on the back of them again. Correct cards go in the empty box."
- wow.
You know? Annisa respects that.
She's going to miserably blunder her way through trying to remember all the French words she forgot in the last five minutes. In her defense they were an eventful five minutes.
Annisa is not going to break down crying about French, she's not, she's not, that would be pathetic and then she would die, she is not pathetic and she is not going to die, even if it takes her half an hour to get through all the words. It doesn't take half an hour but it takes a lot longer than it did the first time.
- OK wow, Naima gets some more points in her book. She's not sure what kind of points yet but that was definitely exhibiting some positive trait.
"Now we wait ten." Actually she was going to wait thirty but there's no reason you can't add a ten-minute repetition when learning all your words, nobody has to know what her original plan was. "Do you have plans after breakfast besides working on French, Annisa? I think I'm probably gonna head to the library and work ahead on homework, if anybody wants to come with. Maybe alternate homework and sewing, I guess."
"I figured French will eat the whole weekend unless we determine I shouldn't try at it. So I guess I'm with you."
"Cool. I'd go down to the artificing shop to see if there's anything I want to grab for personal projects, but I don't think there's any way to be sure that anyone's been down there today, so I'll probably just have to wait until at least - Monday work period, maybe? And getting ahead on homework is a perfectly good way to spend some time early in the year before things are additionally dangerous, I guess."
Or desperately struggling to just keep up with homework because of your stupid disability.
She nods.
She was not paying attention because she was busy trying to figure out how not to die if the school erupts into open war.
"No specific ones, yet, happy to do a shop run with you guys and then get ahead on homework."
"I guess probably nothing that dangerous has moved in down there yet? I dunno, it'd be a dumb way to die if something had."
"Can we do French first? If I end up deciding I can't learn French then I'll be willing to take point on the shop run since at that point I'm going for high variance strategies, and if it goes well then maybe by later in the day it'll be easier to round up other people for a run."
"Once more unto the breach?"
It occurs to Julian a moment after he says this that it might be interpreted as an overture of friendship. Whatever. He is at peace with the world.
How much American pop culture is there, she spent two years studying it and she doesn't recognize that one at all!! Is it Shakespeare?
"...by which I mean, um, the library. Once more unto the library."
"Well, it'll probably take about ten minutes to get there, so that should work out fine."
She puts on her backpack and picks up her boxes.
Naima is the person Annisa wants preparing her children for the Scholomance.
- and she thought jetpacks were getting ahead of herself!!
View Flat HTML
View Metadata
Search Post
