Office #5, Wednesday All Day

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Well, Parents Weekend had come and gone, and next week was the autumn break. Jono wouldn't be able to believe it if it wasn't for the calendar with the week off circled in bright red. He'd been planning on heading to New York for the week, right up until he realized where it was the school was intending to send the students for the break

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Yeul did not have class today. Yeul did not even have a reason to be wandering among the offices of the teachers. Except, perhaps, the fact that she'd vaguely wanted to and so had seen no reason to not.

Which was reason enough, for her.

"Hello Professor Starsmore," she said cheerfully, stopping at the door to his office.

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Jono glanced at his doorway from the letter he was typing, offered Yeul a quick smile, and then reaching up to flick off his computer monitor. He was pretty sure that wouldn't make him lose his e-mail.

... Someday, he'd actually bother trying to learn his way around a computer.

"Afternoon, Yeul," he greeted, nodding. "Come in, sit down? To what do I owe the visit, luv?"

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She wandered in and took a seat with a smiled thanks. "I was just out walking," Yeul said, like it was normal to walk around the teachers offices for utterly no reason, "and I realized you were here and so I thought I might say hello."

That was reason enough for a visit, right?

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Jono considered that answer, and noted that it seemed to marry up well enough with what Caius had told him about her just the other day, and then he nodded. Reason enough, when who you were meant that you took the world in stride, he supposed.

"Well, then can I get you anything? Tea?"

He... did have tea! He wasn't much for it, himself, but he did keep it on hand for classes, and he still had some left over from Parents Weekend. It couldn't hurt to offer.

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"I appreciate the offer, but no thank you." She tilted her head at him curiously. "Might I ask how you are doing today, Professor?"

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"I've been worse," he answered, which was true enough. It was still more than a little odd, being called Professor as though he'd actually done something to earn the title, but beyond that, there wasn't really anything for him to complain about. "Trying to do some last-minute schedule rearranging, mostly, but that's nothing that can't wait. And you? Ready for the break, yet?"

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"I enjoy classes," she admitted lightly, unselfconsciously, "so I do not mind having them. I think the break will be interesting though. My understanding is we’re going somewhere, unless we wish not to, and there does not seem to be a reason to not go. I am sure I will enjoy the break as well."

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Ah, so she was planning on going, then. Jono nodded, thankful that he'd decided to let Jubilee know he was otherwise occupied, next week.

"It promises to be quite the trip," he decided. "I've seen a great deal of the world, but Africa, I can honestly say, will be new to me. And you're enjoying classes, you say? If you don't mind my asking, how are they going for you, this semester?"

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"I find them very curious," Yeul said, after mulling over an answer for a few seconds. "I enjoy the discussions in your class," and his patience in explaining things to her, "and Wild Roving is fun to learn about how people here travel, though they seem very fond of bags and bags of things."

Instead of pockets!

"Two Lions is well taught but I do not believe I'm the sort of student most suited to their topics, which is not a fault of the class, merely a difference in opinion."

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"I don't know Professor Lannister from Adam," Jonothon mused, "but Lady Ghanima never was one to teach a lesson on anything in half-measures. Her classes do tend to be for a very specific sort of student, though you might find some use for their lessons yet. It's not as though the knowledge isn't worth having, hm?"

He smiled faintly.

"And... you don't use bags when you travel?"

That one had him intrigued, yes.

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She shrugged slightly. "They teach of power," Yeul said, "and I am find it difficult to imagine people wanting it."

Which was definitely not something that the teachers could be blamed for at all.

Yeul blinked at him. "Why would I?" she asked. "I have pockets."

... In a skirt that did not look like it had pockets. Let alone ones that were large enough to hold anything even as big as a wallet, mind.

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Jono blinked, just once, and then filed away her opinion on power, right along with everything else Caius told him about her over the weekend.

"Pockets?" He'd discuss the simpler topic, however, tilting his head at Yeul curiously. "You can keep everything you need for a trip to a foreign country in your pockets?"

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"Easily," Yeul assured him, "that and more."

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"And is that a normal thing, where you're from?"

He was vaguely, dimly aware that there had been other people around the island who could do something of the sort, though he'd really only spent any measure of time with a few of those people, and most of their conversations hadn't been about pockets. It was a strangely fascinating topic, for what it was. Jono thought his coat pockets were deep, and he could keep his phone, wallet, keys, and a few rather small pieces of weapon tech in there, if he arranged carefully. He could hardly live off of what he could carry in them.

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"Oh yes." Her eyes were very earnest. "Everyone's pockets are like that back home. Some still carry bags, because they enjoy them." For style! "But they're not really needed for most things that a person would need."

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So help him, Jono would probably regret asking, but...

"What sort of things, might I ask?"

Squall and Rinoa's potions, whatever it was that Rosalind carried around with her for the work she always hesitated to talk about. And besides magic and bloody huge swords, the one thing these three realities actually had in common was pockets.

Go figure.