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[curiouseyes]

Is anyone good with mathematics? I'm in the remedial class and I still don't know if I'm getting it. It's a lot of information that I never had to learn before. I really would like to know if I am understanding it. - Kory

Also, no offense to the teachers, but I'm so bored in some of my classes.

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[fierybluebird]

I can help with the math. Which aspects are giving you the most trouble?

- Marco

[curiouseyes]

Thank you! I'm having trouble with some of the word problems and the triangles.

[fierybluebird]

You know, I think that was a problem for someone else a couple of years ago too.

Fortunately, I've become extra proficient with them since then. What times do you have free, we can practice in the library, if you'd like.

[curiouseyes]

I'm glad to hear that. I could definitely use all the help I can get. I'm free after classes and on the weekends. The library is just fine.

[fierybluebird]

All right works for me. I'm not taking any serious away missions for a little while, so it should be a breeze, eh. And I wouldn't want to get rusty.

What is your best class usually?

[curiouseyes]

I really do appreciate at the help. I really only have basic math skills from before I came here.

My best classes tend to be the ones that require physical training. I like the boxing class when we are moving.

[fierybluebird]

No problem. I did a lot of the finances for my crew, so I got to cheat and breeze through those classes.

Really? [He's actually a little surprised, but he takes note of it.] All right, the best trick is to usually associate the math with word problems to things you grasp easily or are strongly interested in. I think I can manage getting triangles and angles to relate to boxing, the rest might be a little tricky, but I'll try to come up with something.

[curiouseyes]

That will be helpful then!

My people are warriors for the most part. When I was a child, I trained under the Warlords of Okaara. I appreciate that very much.

[fierybluebird]

No problem, it might even be fun!

What are the Warlords of Okaara like?

[curiouseyes]

Well, the Warlords are very serious. They train children from the Vega system in all forms of physical combat. But it was more than just fighting. It was also the philosophy of war, such as having compassion in war and compromise.

[fierybluebird]

Compassion and compromise? I can't say that's any fighting style I've ever heard of.

[Well, his father was compassionate, but it's little involved.]

[curiouseyes]

Well, you can fight, but you don't fight for no reason. My... there were others who did not understand this and she tried to kill me during a practice match.

[fierybluebird]

Right. One should always fight to protect something. That's when you'll be at your strongest.

What happened to her?

[curiouseyes]

She got kicked out, but she didn't go home. She's not a good person. She's the reason I can't go home anymore.

[fierybluebird]

You can't go home?

[curiouseyes]

No, I can't. If I go home, they said the agreement my world will be safe will no longer exist. They could destroy my homeworld.

[fierybluebird]

What? That's...

[Shivers.]

I'm sorry. So where did you live before here?

[curiouseyes]

It is a very bad situation, but its what I have to do.

I lived on a planet called Earth with my friends. They helped me get used to Earth.

[fierybluebird]

So long as you had nakama to help at least.

Did it make adjusting to this place any easier you think? Since you've already had to adjust to one new world once?

[curiouseyes]

Nakama? What is that?

I think it did. I've adjusted to so many new worlds before so this was nothing new.

[fierybluebird]

Friends or comrades who join you through a journey in life. You might not always get along, but you'll always forgive each other.

More than one?

[curiouseyes]

Oh... now I have friends who help me. They are the nicest people I know.

[At this last part, if he could see her, he'd see she pauses for a long moment]

Yes, when I was taken from my home, I was sold to different worlds.

[fierybluebird]

[His fist clenches off screen. Sold. To different worlds, no less. Not only was the slavery he fought so hard against present in other worlds, but multiple ones at that. Figures.]

Seems some things are universal. [Sorry it's so cryptic, Princess.]

Are you free now?

[curiouseyes]

It seems to be. Earth had it too, but not in the country where I am.

I am. My friends helped me escaped from them.

[fierybluebird]

I see. That figures.

Good. My father always tried to stop slavery back in my world, but it's a long process when you're an outlaw, eh. Friends make all the difference.