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The Healing Power of Crystals, Wednesday

The teacher wasn't in the classroom when class started. No, he was wandering in about five minutes later, loaded down with some convention swag.

Some might have had a little blood on it. You know. From the usual convention... cage matches.

Okay, he stole all of it. Literally all of it.

"Oh yeah, I have a class today. Sorry, I don't care about it." That was blunt. "Just bein' honest here. You know, cards on the table. Though I need to set radio straight on me wanting you kids to take this less seriously. If you're good maybe we can have a party at the end of it. If you're bad... I'm gonna pelt you with crystals. Mmkay?"

He nodded like the pact was sealed.

"Okay, I've got some slightly damaged convention exclusives to sell on E-Bay. You all stay frosty."

Oh yeah, he was gonna win teacher of the year for sure now.

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Taking nothing seriously. You've hit millennial level abusurdism.

Summer Smith

Peridot

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Khadgar

Shiemi Moriyama

Ahsoka Tano

So, possible party. That was good, right?

Peridot squinted a little bit at that, and then shook her head and stood up again, making her way toward the door.

"I could be in the library reading that book about actual magic crystals," she muttered. "The one with kissing."

Not that she cared about kissing, but anything from the fantasy romance section was a fascinating insight about humanity's weird misconceptions about the power of gemstones.

And, fine, kissing.

"Do what now?"

Summer, who did care about kissing, like, probably too much, simply could not let that one slide if she could help it.

"Go read?" Peridot paused, and then, feeling the need to clarify, added, "A book."

"Yeah," said Summer, "but you mentioned kissing."

Come on, how could she not tease you right now, Peridot? She was physically incapable of not trying to expand on this to the best of her ability.

Peridot hesitated for a moment, and then ventured, "Do you not understand what kissing is?"

She was sometimes frighteningly incapable of understanding the nuances of human teasing, Summer. Brace yourself.

"Peridot."

And that earned Peridot a total do you even know who you're talking to? look that Peridot would very likely not be able to decipher as such.

"Do I not understand what kissing is? Come on. Of course I do. I was not, however, informed of the fact that there would be magical crystal books that included it. I mean, granted, there's a lot of book about a lot of thing that including kissing you wouldn't expect, but I guess the real kicker here is that, no offense, I wasn't expecting you to be reading them."

And that was where this whole thing got interesting.

"It was a book in the library about magical crystals," Peridot hedged, frowning thoughtfully. "Why wouldn't I be reading it?"

She'd been hoping it would be a little bit like Gem society, to help with that chewing homesick feeling she had but couldn't quite put a finger on. It hadn't been, but it had been sufficiently distracting anyway.

That was a fair point.

"Okay," said Summer, brows arched speculatively, "sooooo is the fact that it's about magical crystals the one and only reason you're reading it?"

"There are also some fascinating if frustrating politics involved," Peridot offered.

Possibly missing the entire point that Summer was angling at, here.

"Maybe," said Summer, brow now at maximum suggestion quirkage, "but you didn't mention politics on your way toward the door."

And if that didn't do it, then maybe Summer might just let it go in a wave of disappointment. Maybe.

Peridot paused, and then tilted her head at Summer thoughtfully.

"No," she allowed. "I suppose I didn't."

And the books were very much about kissing, at times. And, ah, more than that.

"So what I'm getting at," said Summer helpfully, because, oh, obtuse little Peridot was just adorable, "is that you came for the crystals, but you stayed for the kissing."

"It's a fascinating insight on human ideals of society and romance," Peridot pointed out.

And then kind of paused.

"I'm sort of just discovering romance."

Like, as a concept.

"Eeeee!"

And it that one little sound, accompanied by the soft patter of lightly clapped hands, was the true indicator of just how deprived of Girl Talk Summer had been since she started coming here. Sure, she still furiously texted her friends back home, but it wasn't the same as some face-to-face gab time to talk about kissing and boys or...crystals...or...ruggedly shaped rocks or whatever the case may be.

"That is so great, Peridot," she gushed. "If you have any questions, seriously, don't hesitate to ask me, I'll be happy to help, especially since, you know, some of those books have some really weird ideas. It's good to know fact from fiction, especially if it's written by a dude. Some of those male authors don't seem to have ever even seen a woman before. I have to admit, I'm not really...big on reading? But I can make exceptions, and this sounds really....really interesting, if you want to let me borrow it when your finished. Is it a series? If you're already into it, maybe I can start and try to catch up!"

Peridot blinked. She blinked two or three times, actually, before coming up with something to say in reply to all of that.

"It's a series," she shared, since that seemed like a good place to start. "The Gems in it are nothing like anything I'm familiar with, they're more a source of power for the humans and other assorted organic beings that wear them. But it's still intriguing..."

She cleared her throat a little, and then blushed.

"I wouldn't know what's accurate when it comes to the... romance... and what isn't, of course."

It didn't sound....too terrible. She'd probably definitely read worse before. Summer's head bobbed, a hand placed importantly on her chest.

"And that's where I can come in," she said. "I can maybe pick up a copy of the first book on my way to coffee shop. It probably won't take me too long if I actually try. And then maybe I can see all this kissing that's got you so intrigued."

And, as a concession, she waved a hand and added, "And the politics, too, of course."

And, you know, the other, not kissing stuff!

"Of course," Peridot said, though she was perking up a little at the idea. "We can talk about the book's contents together, perhaps. You can explain to me what you found unlikely?"

Even if the kissing stuff was, you know, probably the best part.

"Exactly!" said Summer happily, though she had to bite her lip a little because, oh man, she was probably going to enjoy this way too much and poor Peridot would just be confused and probably think she was crazy, but whatever. She knew humans were weird to Peridot, and she felt perfectly fine with either propegating that idea or stumbling into the happy accident of a better understanding.

Plus, you know. Girl talk. Kind of. Close enough, anyway.

"And you can also tell me what's different about these crystals and Gems," she suggested. "We'll both be learning something."

Peridot was going to be so confused.

Or so educated. Or, most likely, some mix of the two.

"Hey, yeah! I haven't had a chance to teach anyone here very much about Gems and Homeworld. It's been me doing all of the learning. And this book has it all wrong."

Though, she supposed, they weren't aiming to write about Gems. Just people with powers and jewels.

"Looks like my offer for coffee from last week still stands!" Summer chirped cheerfully as she got up. Seriously, maybe next week she'd just go directly to the Perk instead of bothering with this bullshit class. Which she didn't at all mind being bullshit, because she didn't want to be there, anyway. It was kind of perfect, really, and she was starting to come to embracing it.

Edited 2017-07-26 17:02 (UTC)

Khadgar was more focused on the things Deadpool had than on what he'd said. Once he was gone, he looked to his classmates. "All right, those things had blood on them, right? I wasn't just seeing things?"

You know, now that he mentioned it...

"Ketchup," Summer reasoned. "It was probably just...ketchup, right?"

It was...weird that blood seemed more plausible, actually, wasn't it?

"Y-yes?" Shiemi had seen enough that she didn't have to think twice. "That... was blood."

...

"And a lot of..."

were those keychains?

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One of which was taking pictures of things to sell online to nerds.

Guess which one it was.

It was the one who wasn't pointedly ignoring the other one by reading an orientation package from Columbia University.

Xanthippe would never sell nerds anything. (Or at least she wouldn't publicly admit it,)

I should come up with my next awful class for the fall.

How to Prepare for College, which is just reviewing surveillance tapes of Xan being a lonely nerd in her dorm room at Columbia.

<3

Awwwww!

How to be a Canadian (Unlike Hugh Jackman)

But he'd just get lost in those dreamy eyes!

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