Library, Sunday

[gavegoodface]

Being an industrious sort, today Face had set up several displays of books the new kids might find useful, prominent among them were some books on learning to read, a couple of cultural primers, and a stack of YA romance novels.

One of those things was not like the others.

His good deed done, Face was now napping behind the desk.

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Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

"If this Empire was using you for their own ends without your knowledge, then yes," Cassandra said, firmly, "You are better off for it. It is better to live a truth in hardship than rest comfortably in a lie."

Hence her - in retrospect, rather thoughtless - denouncement of acting last time they met.

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

"Well, I dodn't know if I'd call living here or on Lorrd a hardship." Lorrd was a really nice planet, just out on the Rim. "But, pretty much, yeah."

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

"Fleeing your home and spending your life in hiding is not something I would immediately equate with 'easy'," Cassandra said. "But if you say so."

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

"If you say so," Face said with a shrugged. "But enough about me, let's hear about you for a change."

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

"Me?" Cassandra snorted softly. "What do you want to know?"

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

Face shrugged again. "Whatever you feel like telling me," he said. "Doesn't have to be earth-shattering."

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

"I am not that interesting," Cassandra said. "But fine."

Sigh. Was there anything she particularly wanted to tell him? She had no grand, romantic stories of fleeing evil empires, and Anthony's death was not something she was eager to speak about.

"I... liked the book I found last week, even if some of it is hard to understand," she said. Not that he didn't know that already. "I have always been fond of such tales. It is frivolous of me, I know."

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

"There's nothing wrong with enjoying 'frivolous' stories." Face wasn't one to judge. He'd been marketed towards teenage girls as well. "People need hobbies, it's healthy."

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

"Perhaps," Cassandra said. "But it is not what I should be doing with my time, especially here."

But the issue of the star-crossed lovers was not letting her be. Sigh.

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

Face raised an eyebrow. "Because we have so many classes taking up our time?"

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

"Because I am trying to find my way home," Cassandra clarified. "It... is distracting me from that task."

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

"Distractions have their place," Face said. "I mean, not all the time, but if you're always on, you're going to tired and stressed, then you start to miss things. Best case you're not able to get the things you want done done right, worst case..."

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

Cassandra sighed softly. "You may be right," she admitted, "But it is difficult for me to think of it that way. I am not used to having this much time to myself."

Re: Talk to Face

[gavegoodface]

"Of course I am," Face said, grinning. "I'm brilliant. Modest, too."

Re: Talk to Face

[seeks_truth]

"Yes," Cassandra said, rolling her eyes expressively. "You are extraordinarily humble."