cafeteria | lunch time | tuesday | 29 september

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After his success with toast last week, Jonas had spent his free time trying his toaster out with a few other things. He'd found that bread worked well but crackers did not. That had been a gigantic mess and Jonas had felt sheepish enough to not touch the toaster for a few days.

But, he'd gotten over that and tried bread again, this time adding peanut butter once the bread had been toaster and packing it for a lunch. So, that's where he was now, prodding experimentally at the sandwich and wondering if he should eat the apple first. The apple was green, something he hadn't seen before but he'd been assured it was ripe.

Food examination and consumption was a lengthy process for Jonas but he enjoyed it. Food was a small but integral part of his memory that he was building.

[cafeteria's open, yep]

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Jonas was pretty sure Ender had mentioned invasions and the like but the thought of something like that still had him paling ever so slightly before he was able to banish that worry away. He knew he was safe, he felt safe but he'd been so insulated for so long that being so open was frightening at times.

"No, I'd like to learn," Jonas told her, nodding eagerly. "I can't promise to understand because there's a lot I don't understand but learning, hearing it from people helps me build what I don't know."

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"All right," Karla said with a gentle smile. "But feel free to stop me at any time. It can be a lot for your brain to digest." She paused to eat a few bites of salad, thinking about how best to begin.

"Okay, so first, there is basic Craft. It covers a lot of things, like calling in and vanishing items--" her laptop appeared on the table next to her tray and then disappeared a moment later, "--floating objects--" she called over a handful of napkins to their table, "--and passing through objects." She brought her arm underneath the table, then stuck in through the middle, waving at Jonas. Rather than pulling it back down, she just straightened up, bringing her arm back through the table itself. "Also, there's shielding. There are regular shields that protect from magical and physical attacks--" a column of sparkling sapphire light sprang up around her, then dropped back down, "--aural shields, which block all sound--" the column was back again, and while Karla was screaming shrilly inside, there was nothing to hear, "--and sight shields," she said after the aural shield was dropped. There was no tell-tale blue shimmer when she raised the sight-shield. Instead, Karla simply vanished.

"Still here," she said, bringing up a cup to drink from. Her throat hurt after all that screaming. The shield dropped and Karla was visible again. "There's also airwalking, but I'm pretty sure you can guess what that means. You following so far?"