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[vestigiaflammae.livejournal.com]

[It's noon on a Saturday, and the weather's nice... which means it's just wrong to be sitting in the library.

Besides, the librarian kicked him out for spinning one of his Frisbees around his finger while he read, which is why Lea's occupying a bench and half of the edge of a raised flowerbed in the Quad, a book open in his lap. This place is gonna kill him by making his brain explode. It's an evil plot. Or something like that. He keeps spinning the Frisbee in alternate directions around the fingers of his left hand, stopping occasionally to turn pages and take notes.

Finally, frustrated, he tosses the book back on his flowerbox edge pile and flops out backward along the bench, feet up on the opposite arm. The metal disc goes over his face to shade it from the sun. His voice echoes weirdly in the sheet metal.]

This totally sucks!

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[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

What totally sucks?

[vestigiaflammae.livejournal.com]

[HE DIDN'T SEE YOU THERE and so he's sitting up abruptly with a squawk.]

...

Oh, hey, Toph! We've got to memorize all of this stupid rule book and there's this paper I've gotta write. [More than one, actually, but he's gonna end up beating his head against the bench if he thinks about it too hard.] Since when does learning how to hit things take so much paperwork?

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

[sympathetic pat]

Hey, at least they're not basically making you learn a language written in dots.

[vestigiaflammae.livejournal.com]

Dots? Oh man. [Sounding sympathetic right back.] That sounds pretty dumb. Nah, I guess I'm lucky, they speak the same language here that we do at home.

[erosion-sucks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, apparently, it's how blind people read and write here. [Snort] I'm thirteen and I've managed just fine not being able to read or write, I don't know why I have to start now. It's not like I won't be with someone who can see whenever I go on a mission, anyway.

[moirailcompass]

[Nepeta had been eying him for a while. Or rather, she had been eying that frisbee he had been spinning like a cat watching a piece of string. Round and round and round and round an---aww he stopped :((

But perhaps for the best. It broke her out of the hypnotic trance she had been in enough for her to scamper forward towards him just in time to hear him speak]

Is something wrong?

[vestigiaflammae.livejournal.com]

Stupid homework.

[He pulls the frisbee off his face, looking up -- he didn't recognize that voice.

Or the person, actually. Big yellow eyes and horns? He props himself up on an elbow.] Hey there! Does this stuff ever get easier?

[moirailcompass]

Unfurtunately I think it only gets harder! The longer you are here, the more likely you are to have to move to the advanced classes. [Le sigh. She shares your pain, Lea]

[vestigiaflammae.livejournal.com]

Aw man. That's not what I wanted to hear.

[Sighing tragically and spinning his frisbee again.] Hey, what's your name?

[moirailcompass]

[She can't help but giggles a little]

My name is-- [but her attention instantly shifts to the frisbee and her eyes go wide as saucers. Once again she is staring at it go round and round and round...and then she shifts down, crouching low to the ground, tail high in the air. Just waiting for the right opportunity to pounce.]

[shops-a-lot.livejournal.com]

What totally sucks?

[Today Bulla's walking around in her casual and fashionable clothes rather than the uniform. It's a stark contrast from the professional looking SeeD uniform, but this look suits her more.]

[vestigiaflammae.livejournal.com]

[Lea grins at the newly-minted Seed. Whoa, she looks nice today... makes sense for a fashion club president, right?]

Hey, Bulla! I don't have to call you ma'am or anything, right?

...I'm trying to memorize the stupid rule book.

[shops-a-lot.livejournal.com]

Not at all. In fact, I'd prefer you didn't. I'm only sixteen. Ma'am sounds like something for forty year olds.

[She rests a hand casually on her hip.]

It's not much fun, but I found it's not so bad if you try a little bit at a time. You have all semester to memorize it.

[vestigiaflammae.livejournal.com]

Seriously? You're just a year older than me?

...Whoa.

[Shaking off the surprise, and tossing the book thoughtfully in the air. It's more fun as a projectile than as a textbook. If only he could figure out what he wanted to toss it at.] Yeah, if I don't get started now I'll never get it done, though. I keep falling asleep in the middle of the word.

It's like, "Clause 1.3.52" and that's about as far as I get before I'm out.

[shops-a-lot.livejournal.com]

Well, you're eligible to take the graduation exam when you're fifteen as long as you've got all the required courses. I got here when I was fifteen and turned sixteen back in February.

[She is pretty short, though. 5'1" and not really one for wearing heels, either.]

Hmm...well, maybe you could try putting it in your own words to help you remember it. The important thing is knowing the rules, not the exact wording. You'll lose a few marks if it's not exact, but you'll lose more if you don't know what the Garden rules are.

[seethelanterns]

[Rapunzel is out for a walk outside herself when she recognizes the redhead, approaching as she stares the frisbee.]

Hi Lea! Um, what..."sucks"? And what's that? [Pointing at the frisbee. Is it some kind of hat?]

[vestigiaflammae.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, Rapunzel. Studying's what sucks....

[He holds up the frisbee, grinning, and sits back up on the bench. This is way more fun to think about than schoolwork.] This thing? It's one of my weapons! See the points on the edge?

[He spins it around the fingers of one hand, and then one finger, before catching it.] Pretty cool, huh!

[seethelanterns]

Oh, so you're working on homework for classes? I'm just taking a break before I start mine after my class I had this morning.

[A weapon? It didn't really look like--oh! That was pretty neat!]

I've never seen a weapon like that before....I have my frying pan, but mostly back home there were swords. What's that one called? You...you throw it?

[vestigiaflammae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you can throw it, or do this -- [he braces his fingers against it, making a shield] or use it like a knife if you've got it in your hand.

[He dodges the question about what it's called, because, well. It's not exactly a real combat weapon. It sure is cool, though.]

[seethelanterns]

It's neat! It seems pretty versatile too, if you can use it for both, um, long and short range! [Rapunzel doesn't know any better, it's okay Lea.]

[overclocking.livejournal.com]

*Sion planned on just walking through but wow Lea looks lazy today. Let's correct that laziness, shall we?*

And what exactly do you expect to accomplish by taking a nap out here? A sunburn?

[vestigiaflammae.livejournal.com]

[Wow, that tone has him bolting upright in a moment of instinct. His brain takes over before he's all the way up, though, because Isa is (a) not that purple and (b) not a girl. Embarrassed, he runs a hand through his hair and gives her a sheepish grin.]

Hey, I wasn't napping! I was resting my eyes. Who're you?

[overclocking.livejournal.com]

If you need to rest your eyes perhaps you should consider sleeping at a decent time.

*Crossing her arms! Hmph!*

Sion Eltnam Atlasia. You will do well to remember it.

[vestigiaflammae.livejournal.com]

It's not being tired, it's reading too much.

[Making a face at her and putting the book properly aside in the pile.] I'm Lea, and don't you forget it! What's with all the syllables? Tell me you've got a nickname or something, please.

[overclocking.livejournal.com]

Knowledge is power. You must understand that if you want to get anywhere in this school.

*Sion stop it you're not a headmaster here... Also dissing the name she has... name issues.*

I will allow you to call me Sion as long as you never insult my full name ever again. I worked very hard to earn my second last name.