Library, Thursday (4/9)

[wildandbrave]

Cosette was still poking at the bits of solar generator from class on Monday; there was something she was doing wrong, and she had a fairly good idea that there was some circuit she'd missed out on connecting, but as for what exactly it was, she hadn't narrowed that down yet.

She was in no mood to let that discourage her, so she had several books on basic electronics out on the circulation desk, along with close to a dozen tabs open in her phone browser.

If not for the constant crashing noises coming from the section with all the bowling books, she might have even made some progress on figuring out the problem. But no, she kept having to make trips into that one section to reshelve the bowling books and ask them nicely to behave themselves.

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Re: Talk to Cosette

[doesnotkneel]

"Aye, I can understand that much," Edward said. His voice dropped a bit as he continued. "Didn't really get my letters until I got here," he admitted quietly. "I'm trying my best to catch up myself."

He didn't generally go about admitting that to everybody, but he had a feeling she'd understand.

Re: Talk to Cosette

[wildandbrave]

"I didn't learn until I was eight or so, myself, when my father took me in," Cosette answered with an understanding nod, and not a hint of anything negative. "It isn't always expected of girls to know, not where I'm from, but he made a point of teaching me, and I'm glad he did. People now seem to take it for granted that we know."

Re: Talk to Cosette

[doesnotkneel]

"I know, it's odd," Edward said wryly. "I mean-- good, that such a thing is now possible. But used to be you could get by without reading signs or squinting at letters on glowing screens."

Not that he'd been content with his level of education back home, but still.

Re: Talk to Cosette

[wildandbrave]

"Or knowing how to put together electronic things," added Cosette, gesturing at the solar panel with a playfully exasperated sigh. "Or, for that matter, having to read the instructions for them. For all that there are devices to make life easier, it's still an awful lot of new things to learn just to be able to use them, isn't it?"

Which she did enjoy, because it was a challenge, but it was a challenge.

Re: Talk to Cosette

[doesnotkneel]

"I don't know if the people here fully realize how much they're building on the works of their ancestors," Edward mused.

He took a look towards that solar panel. "I reckon it's a lot easier to master when you've grown up with things like it."