Study Hall, 11/08

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream steps around the blue-eyed boy who is agitatedly trying to claw the doors open to unlock study hall and declare it open.

He brings no animals today.

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[miss-thomasina.livejournal.com]

The radio . . . At any other time, Thomasina would be interested in finding out just where this thing called a radio fitted in the general scheme of technologies that had been developed over the course of the centuries that had passed since her birth, but, at this moment, Wednesday's final statement was much more interesting and important. . . . said that Archie had been washed ashore? Was there any mention of whether he'd been hurt?

[addams-daughter.livejournal.com]

"No." Wednesday was certain of that, remembering more as she spoke. "Just that he'd been washed ashore and seemed none the worse for wear."

[miss-thomasina.livejournal.com]

That is lucky for him, then - the sea does terrible injury ever so easily. Thomasina stops, thinking this inadequate, but unable to find words that carry more meaning than the ones she has already spoken. Then her brain skips off down a tangent and she muses aloud, I wonder whether the professor will allow him to attend our lesson tomorrow?

[addams-daughter.livejournal.com]

Wednesday looked at her for a moment before asking, "Thomasina... do you find Archie pleasant company?"

[miss-thomasina.livejournal.com]

Thomasina hardly considers her answer before responding, He has been perfectly pleasant on every occasion I have chanced to find myself in his company, though I do not know him well enough to speak knowledgebly of whether he is pleasant company on his own. Then she pauses, looks down at her maths text, returns her gaze to Wednesday. He is ever so earnest, though. And nice. I am glad to know he is not missing.

[addams-daughter.livejournal.com]

"'Earnest'." Wednesday said the word as though she wasn't quite sure how it ought to taste. "I've never met him."

[miss-thomasina.livejournal.com]

I do not know him at all well, Thomasina replies, but he has been enrolled in two of the maths courses I have been a part of over the course of my time here. I do not think I've ever properly seen him outside of lessons - except perhaps in passing. She considers the way in which Wednesday said the word 'earnest', then adds. Yes, earnest. Also dedicated and intent on learning . . . of course, he would be unharmed; he is a sailor!

[addams-daughter.livejournal.com]

"A sailor?" Wednesday looked momentarily intrigued. "I wonder if he's ever been to the Bermuda Triangle?"

[miss-thomasina.livejournal.com]

I would not be surprised to discover that he has been to Bermuda, at any rate - my uncle, Captain Brice, has often spoken of putting in at Bermuda or Kingston, in Jamaica, as though it were not an uncommon thing. Thomasina frowns, momentarily. You would most likely need to to ask him whether he had been to the Bermuda Triangle, however, as it is not a name I recognise.

[addams-daughter.livejournal.com]

Wednesday considered that, reflecting back on the lecture she'd gotten the last time she'd been expelled for 'blowing someone's mind'. "It's a strange phenomeon linked to the geographical locale, involving disappearances and odd weather patterns. Christopher Columbus wrote about the area in the logs of his first voyage, and there have been local legends for no one knows how long. It is only in recent years that it has gained noteriety, however. I find it... fascinating."

[miss-thomasina.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Mysterious disappearances? Thomasina is all but vibrating in her seat with the thrill of it, but she contains her excitement and continues. It is hardly a wonder that I have not heard of these oddnesses, then, for Mama would surely have stopped uncle telling me anything about them if they were nothing but 'foolish tales'.

[addams-daughter.livejournal.com]

Wednesday's eyes sparkled. "I have several shelves of books on the subject, if you have an interest in it."

[miss-thomasina.livejournal.com]

I should be most interested in hearing more of the legends associated with this place, Thomasina replies with obvious eagerness. They sound like the most fascinating sort of tales, whether or not there is any truth to them.