Leisha Camden (leishacamden) wrote in madisonvalley, @ 2013-10-13 17:30:00 |
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Entry tags: | !closed, !log, ~2013 october, ~25 points, ~~leisha camden (leishacamden), ~~roland deschain (ofgilead) |
Who: Roland and Leisha
What: Leisha's first lesson
Where: Cuthbert and Roland's apartment
When: Thread is backdated! To after Roland and Leisha discussed shooting lessons
Warnings: TBD
Leisha wasn't sure what to think of Roland Deschain. He was giving her a chance, wasn't he, where other people wouldn't. That was good of him - but then he went on about how difficult it'd be and how she wouldn't like learning and she'd get angry with him for it. That part she didn't understand. If he actually thought her incapable he'd have refused to help her just like Shaun Mason had, so it couldn't be that. She couldn't figure out his reasoning.
Although she complained, Leisha couldn't really blame people for having spoken against her. Daddy wouldn't have given her a gun at home, after all. He'd have laughed at her if she'd asked for one. Leisha was only eleven. But she didn't have her daddy here, did she? Or Susan, or her tutors, or anyone who worked for Daddy. Usually he hired security for when they travelled and they had guns, didn't they? To keep everybody safe. There was nobody to keep her safe here. And didn't Cuthbert have a gun, and Ciel Phantomhive who wasn't even that much older than her? Maybe this was America but it wasn't her America and she couldn't pretend like it was. This place was dangerous.
So she'd go to Roland's lessons and she'd prove to him that she could be safe with a gun and learn to shoot. She didn't expect it to be easy, but she did expect that she could learn; Leisha's genemods made the accumulation of knowledge and skills that bit easier for her. She'd managed with everything else she'd tried to learn here, advanced math and Latin and computer science. This wouldn't be much different, unless Roland deliberately chose to be awkward about it.
He was giving every indication that he would, though. They weren't even going to be firing any guns today, only talking about a philosophy that, given what Leisha had gleaned from Cuthbert over their time together in the church, was vague, dualistic and quasi-altruistic, certainly with little trace of proper Yagaiist principles. She could have lied to Roland about it, of course she could have, only honesty was one of her principles, and it mattered. She wouldn't pretend to agree with him, not even to get what she wanted.
Maybe it wouldn't come to that. She arrived at his apartment a little before ten, and smiled broadly at him as he opened the door. 'Good morning!' she said brightly, her enthusiasm palpable. 'I hope you're feeling well today, Roland! I'm all prepared for our talk!'