Most of the classrooms in this alleged school seemed to be empty. This suited Brainiac Five perfectly well, because it meant he could take one over for his own purposes. Which did not, at the moment, include Legion business, but had involved several angry notes on chalkboards like 'PHYSICS DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT' and 'MY SOUL FOR A FUNCTIONING
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The moving staircases and other such anomalies of Hogwarts had been no small cause of frustration. He was not certain he had even seen this particular corridor before. He thought a staircase must have blocked it from his view, a staircase no longer so positioned.
The person inside was unlike any person he had yet met. Hogwarts was full of rarities and exotic races. Octavian wondered what Pullo would say, and whether Pullo had already met this man. He ought to debrief his old friend, really, in a more attentive way than he'd done at his Sorting. He had been so distracted (not to say distraught) by the things he'd found in the library, he had not given as much thought to other matters as he should.
The green-faced youth looked not immediately dangerous. Octavian approached with open empty hands, a clear expression of neutrality and lack of intent to harm. "Pardon the interruption. I am Octavian. What is this room's purpose?"
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Octavian often found use for roundabout queries, but saw no need to weary himself with them when they were not necessary. As for backwards guesses, those he avoided scrupulously, as best he could. Backwardness was antithetical to Octavian.
He saw nothing amiss with the appropriation of empty rooms. "For what purpose do you seek to construct a 'transmatter gate'?" The question of what transmatter might be could wait.
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"'Transmatter' is a portmanteau of 'transport' and 'matter'. The systems were originally developed for the inexpensive and rapid transit of good from one planet to another within the UP network, but with some minor frequency alterations they can function as transportation for sentient beings. With only minor and infrequent incidents." Those minor incidents were severe enough that most sentients still preferred threespace transports, but you couldn't have everything, and Brainy was sure he could eliminate the problem anyway.
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What? He had an eye for urban planning!
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