Tuesdays with Nori
[Tuesday | Lunch]
Who: Owen and Noriko
When: Tuesday at Lunch
Where: Gekkoukan High
Rating: PG
Warnings: Modtalk.
Summary: NONE YET.
She's sitting near the Persimmon Tree at lunchtime, untouched bento box at her side. For the past three years, this has been the place where Yamaguchi Noriko spends her lunch time.
Of course, she can't eat under the tree all the time; rainy days sometimes prevent her from enjoying the meager shade the small tree provides. On those days, she'll sit under the overhang nearby, avoiding the few club members so dedicated that they'll use even their lunchtime for practice.
Unlike the other students, she doesn't hold chopsticks or curry pan in hand. Instead, she holds a DS Lite--a game system salvaged from the wreckage she made the night before.
Noriko has never been interested in video games, nor has she had the time for it even if it did pique her interest; her discovery of the Dark Hour two years before proved to be more exciting than any video game she happened to catch glance of in passing.
What she is interested in is inside.
And then, she begins to hum. Frederic Chopin's "Raindrops".
With a small, eye-glass sized screwdriver, she carefully unscrews the back of the console, sets it, along with the screws aside, on top of the lacquer bento box, and carefully examines the system's contents. It'd be possible to modify the system as is if she wanted to with the proper tools, but unfortunately, she doesn't have a soldering iron handy. But already, her mind is taking in the circuitry, deciding how to remove the cartridge slot that's been soldered on without breaking the base board; how and where to put the oscillator and where to wire it for these modifications.
Her brain is churning with answers, and with every answer that comes to every question she has, she wants more and more to just do it right now with a lighter--though she knows it will ruin the board.
She can always get another.
Instead, she replaces the casing, carefully screwing the back of the system back into place.
Who: Owen and Noriko
When: Tuesday at Lunch
Where: Gekkoukan High
Rating: PG
Warnings: Modtalk.
Summary: NONE YET.
She's sitting near the Persimmon Tree at lunchtime, untouched bento box at her side. For the past three years, this has been the place where Yamaguchi Noriko spends her lunch time.
Of course, she can't eat under the tree all the time; rainy days sometimes prevent her from enjoying the meager shade the small tree provides. On those days, she'll sit under the overhang nearby, avoiding the few club members so dedicated that they'll use even their lunchtime for practice.
Unlike the other students, she doesn't hold chopsticks or curry pan in hand. Instead, she holds a DS Lite--a game system salvaged from the wreckage she made the night before.
Noriko has never been interested in video games, nor has she had the time for it even if it did pique her interest; her discovery of the Dark Hour two years before proved to be more exciting than any video game she happened to catch glance of in passing.
What she is interested in is inside.
And then, she begins to hum. Frederic Chopin's "Raindrops".
With a small, eye-glass sized screwdriver, she carefully unscrews the back of the console, sets it, along with the screws aside, on top of the lacquer bento box, and carefully examines the system's contents. It'd be possible to modify the system as is if she wanted to with the proper tools, but unfortunately, she doesn't have a soldering iron handy. But already, her mind is taking in the circuitry, deciding how to remove the cartridge slot that's been soldered on without breaking the base board; how and where to put the oscillator and where to wire it for these modifications.
Her brain is churning with answers, and with every answer that comes to every question she has, she wants more and more to just do it right now with a lighter--though she knows it will ruin the board.
She can always get another.
Instead, she replaces the casing, carefully screwing the back of the system back into place.