IC Contact: Crux Fleet

[maddeninghatter]

KE KE KE KE KE KE KE KE!!!

[ All you get is Emily's mad laughter. Xerxes Break is so done with this shit. ]

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[velveteened]

Ah, that's true! There's no reason to worry too much. I wonder what sort of education they'd have on a spaceship; it must be very different from home.

[maddeninghatter]

You're sixteen, so education here isn't compulsory.

[ Think of a small bunny, just before a raptor pounces. ]

But no one will believe you're older than twelve. They'll insist you go to school anyway, so you might as well~!

[velveteened]

( he's so offended!!! )

Of course they would! I'm almost as tall as Lenalee by now!

( 167 cm not that he's been counting )

[maddeninghatter]

She's a girl.

[ A little pause. He continues, more soberly: ]

Have you seen her anywhere, by the way?

[velveteened]

She's older!

( g o s h. he exhales before answering next, tone turning a little rueful. )

No. I don't think she's here. Ah, but she'd hate a place like this.

[maddeninghatter]

[ Would she really hate it here? and Is her home any better than this place? are two questions that occur to him.

No and no are the answers, he suspects. Thus: ]

It's for the best.

[velveteened]

( with her dark boots, it seems like putting a bird in a cage; no matter what, she's meant to have that freedom to fly. )

Mm. ( and after a pause, despite himself — ) I wonder what they'd be teaching in the schools, here. ( in SPACE )

[maddeninghatter]

If you decide not to go to school because you don't want to — well, nobody can really force you, I suppose.

[ Because he understands at least some part of the twisted thoroughfares that are Oz's thought processes, he adds: ]

But if you decide not to go to school because you do want to — nobody can force you in that case, either.

[velveteened]

( he laughs, a touch wry )

Somehow when you put it like that, it sounds like a threat.

[maddeninghatter]

Ha! Ha! Ha!

[ a TOTALLY REASSURING laugh ]

You know, it's possible, given the sorts of things you were reading about in Exsilium, you might actually know more on, ah, certain subjects than your professors do. So, a word of advice: nobody likes a know-it-allll!

[ Please to not be teaching anyone about cloning or Chimera projects or anything else like that, ty Oz. ]

[velveteened]

Do you think so? Ah, I'll be sure to keep that in mind.

( why on earth would he talk about them when he can repress why he ever had to know about them in the first place!! )