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Characters: Pepper and anyone who wants to pop up - OPEN. :D
Time: Late afternoon, after classes end.
Location: Library.
Content: Pepper is looking for new reading material, since she's finding herself with more free time and what have you.
Format: I'm starting off in prose, but you guys can do whatever you like if/when commenting.
Warnings: ... nothing scandalous, I am quite sure.
Pepper should have known that the likelihood of actually finding a book with relevant information about dragons in it would be difficult. It isn't as though there had been much concrete proof of their existence before three suddenly took up residence at the institute, so after listing through her third (frankly unbelievable) storybook with a cringe, Pepper thought it best to give up. To an extent some of the fiction wasn't entirely incorrect; Pepper was aware that Temeraire and Iskierka had quite the penchant for jewellry, and distinctly remembered seeing Billy's outfit at the homecoming dance. She also knew that firebreathing was not a general trait amongst dragons, since Temeraire couldn't do that. They also weren't particularly subtle, but Pepper couldn't really fault them that. It must be hard to whisper for dragon. In any case, the internet hadn't been that much better, and the quest to help Laurence gather further information was really quite lacking in much depth and substance. This frustrated Pepper quite a bit more than it probably should have done.
However, in other areas Pepper had been more successful. She had secured herself a pleasantly simple though thorough book on US politics, one that was fairly recently published and had quite a large section on the implications of future politics on the lives of mutants, as well as another recently published book documenting the history of mutants, their emergence into the wider public and impact on the world. It seemed to Pepper that right around now, she should take a more active interest in knowing about these things and understanding them. After all, now her boss was a technopath and she was teaching and mentoring in a school for mutants.
The practical reasons, though, were not her only reasons.
In all honesty, Pepper was really growing quite attached to this place. She liked the students, she liked her mentor group. Most of these kids were really great kids, some of them great even though they'd been treated unfairly by others just because they were different. It riled Pepper a lot more than she thought it would, and on a certain level she owed it to these kids to try and acquaint herself with their problems and be more able to deal with them. Of course, there were the counsellors who were here specifically to help, but Pepper still felt a perfectly willing obligationg to be there and be of help to her mentor group, at least. This was why there was also a small book on teaching and teenage psychology in the small pile that was in her arms.
Time: Late afternoon, after classes end.
Location: Library.
Content: Pepper is looking for new reading material, since she's finding herself with more free time and what have you.
Format: I'm starting off in prose, but you guys can do whatever you like if/when commenting.
Warnings: ... nothing scandalous, I am quite sure.
Pepper should have known that the likelihood of actually finding a book with relevant information about dragons in it would be difficult. It isn't as though there had been much concrete proof of their existence before three suddenly took up residence at the institute, so after listing through her third (frankly unbelievable) storybook with a cringe, Pepper thought it best to give up. To an extent some of the fiction wasn't entirely incorrect; Pepper was aware that Temeraire and Iskierka had quite the penchant for jewellry, and distinctly remembered seeing Billy's outfit at the homecoming dance. She also knew that firebreathing was not a general trait amongst dragons, since Temeraire couldn't do that. They also weren't particularly subtle, but Pepper couldn't really fault them that. It must be hard to whisper for dragon. In any case, the internet hadn't been that much better, and the quest to help Laurence gather further information was really quite lacking in much depth and substance. This frustrated Pepper quite a bit more than it probably should have done.
However, in other areas Pepper had been more successful. She had secured herself a pleasantly simple though thorough book on US politics, one that was fairly recently published and had quite a large section on the implications of future politics on the lives of mutants, as well as another recently published book documenting the history of mutants, their emergence into the wider public and impact on the world. It seemed to Pepper that right around now, she should take a more active interest in knowing about these things and understanding them. After all, now her boss was a technopath and she was teaching and mentoring in a school for mutants.
The practical reasons, though, were not her only reasons.
In all honesty, Pepper was really growing quite attached to this place. She liked the students, she liked her mentor group. Most of these kids were really great kids, some of them great even though they'd been treated unfairly by others just because they were different. It riled Pepper a lot more than she thought it would, and on a certain level she owed it to these kids to try and acquaint herself with their problems and be more able to deal with them. Of course, there were the counsellors who were here specifically to help, but Pepper still felt a perfectly willing obligationg to be there and be of help to her mentor group, at least. This was why there was also a small book on teaching and teenage psychology in the small pile that was in her arms.