peterverse | shaker, meet stranger

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Sadde is home; it's a Friday evening, his shift is over, and there's no school. He's reading a book, lying on his bed in his small-but-tidy apartment.

He is also quite naked, because it's his place and why not?

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From:

first_and_final

"Things about this planet that people who were born here would already know!"

From:

peterxy

"You've been here for a while and studied all the time, there can't be that much."

From:

first_and_final

"You'd be surprised."

From:

peterxy

"What kind of stuff are you studying right now? Calculus and Rome don't count, that's school stuff."

From:

first_and_final

"They do count!"

From:

peterxy

"They don't! They're not stuff you get just being from here, or you won't stop studying until you're Einstein or something."

From:

first_and_final

"And see, a week ago I would've said 'who's that?'. That's the sort of local knowledge I pick up indirectly by studying things like Rome and calculus."

From:

peterxy

Snort. "How'd you get that from Rome and calculus?"

From:

first_and_final

"Some textbook happens to mention something and then I look up what it's talking about, and then I know who this Einstein person is and why he's supposed to be so smart."

From:

peterxy

"Huh."

From:

first_and_final

"I'm sure if I really hated research I could find a way to do the same thing with less reading, but I don't, so here we are."

From:

peterxy

"I guess," he says, dubiously. "If you like it so much why don't you go to school?"

From:

first_and_final

"Because if I go to school I have to learn on someone else's schedule. And spend entirely too much time sitting in a room being taught things I could be learning faster by myself."

From:

peterxy

"Yeah, I guess."

From:

first_and_final

"Much better to just do everything myself."

From:

peterxy

"My parents would love to have you as a son."

Edited Date: 2016-03-09 11:23 pm (UTC)

From:

first_and_final

"No they wouldn't."

From:

peterxy

"Why not?"

From:

first_and_final

"Oh, I have, what's the word, authority issues."

From:

peterxy

"What do you mean?"

From:

first_and_final

"I was one of those children who responds to every rule with either 'why?' or 'no!'."

From:

peterxy

"Huh. Yeah I can see that."

From:

first_and_final

"And, as a separate issue, also one of those children who decides to go hunting for giant snakes when he's five and nearly gets eaten before his parents manage to rescue him."