WHO: Hisako Ichiki and Emma Frost NPCs: N/A WHAT: I guess a sort of scholarly discussion over break. WHERE: Mansion's common area. WHEN: 4/14 NOTES: Incomplete
The mansion was weird on breaks. The lack of students (even if there were still quite a few around) had Hisako thinking she lived in a ghost town as opposed to a bustling school. Hisako had opted to stay behind this year. Normally, she went home to her family on breaks, but she really didn't feel like it this time around. She figured senior year, college, the future was supposed to be a stressed out time in a person's life, but she didn't feel like going home to a bunch of "advice" which were really demands from her family. Part of her wanted to go to college but part of her very much wanted to stay put, and she didn't want to her her parents react to the news of all the New York and local colleges she'd applied for. She very much just wanted to join the team.
As long as her squad experience didn't kill her first. Which she figured, it might do, but instead of dwelling on the crazy that was Pixie she was reading the paper. Some might think it was a bit dated to actually read the news from a paper as opposed to the internet, but there was something relaxing about it. She and her dad used to read the paper together. So taking advantage of the ghost town like common area she commandeered the couch and coffee table with sections of about three different papers strewn around her as she read. She didn't look up until she heard another person enter. "Hi, Miss Frost." She greeted smiling at her teacher. She wasn't being a suck up, but she really did like Miss Frost's class. "How are you?"
Emma was enjoying the quiet of the mansion. She had spent a lot of time reading and lounging at her leisure with being interrupted by a bunch of rowdy students. It was also relaxing to get a break from teaching for awhile. Her classes were simple enough and her students were far from dumb, but she still found herself thankful for the break away from the classrooms.
With coffee in hand, she walked toward the common area with the intent to laze around a bit more before going to talk to Xavier. The moment she entered, someone called out her name and Emma recognized it as one of her smarter students. Those students Emma did not mind being around; as a matter of fact, she preferred them over all the others.
Emma looked over at the girl, immediately noticing the heap of newspapers. “Enjoying the break well enough. Yourself?” she replied as she walked over to where Hirako was sitting.
Hisako cleared off a spot when it looked like her teacher might be looking to sit down. It was just the social pages anyway. Hisako never read those. She just never found it interesting. "It's been good. I mean, it's a little weird that this place seems so much more empty than normal, but it's let me catch up on reading things." She admitted. Hisako usually leafed through the paper, read, and then made mental notes to look more stuff up on topics she found interesting. "Iowa's supreme court overturned their anti-gay marriage laws." Which is something the other woman probably already knew. "And that's great, but it makes that state officially more progressive than California. That's weird." She said flipping a page and smoothing out the paper across the table.
Emma hadn’t planned on sitting down, but when Hirako cleared her a place, she felt a bit obligated. She picked up a random page with her free hand as she sat down and looked it over before folding it onto her lap.
"Progression tends to be cyclical," she replied vaguely before taking a sip of her coffee. "The faster one place progresses, the faster it recoils. California was too progressive for the times and now it seems to be catching up with itself with all its backtracking." A discussion about politics wasn’t something she expected, but it was a relief from hearing students talk about vapid music and mindless movies all the time.
Hisako could speak at length about vapid music and mindless movies as well. She supposed it came with being a teenager, but you didn't discuss that stuff in class, or to teachers. Never to teachers. She nodded and considered what Emma had said to her, and it was sort of vague. She supposed it was true. Sort of like a city where you put all your money into one area to fix it up only to let the rest of it go to hell. Kind of. Maybe. "Then middle America should be stepping up." She joked, knowing that wasn't exactly true. She also knew that acceptance of some groups that people tended to not think of as "normal" sometimes happened when a new group to fear popped up. That was common sense to anyone who knew their history. "Still not right." She mused more seriously. Perhaps it was teenage idealism where everything was right or wrong, but Hisako did have a pretty stong moral compass. "What all have you done so far for break? Can teacher's go on vacation?" She was almost embarrassed becaue it seemed excessively nosy and she quickly attempted to correct herself. "I mean, I'm going to run out of things to read eventually, and it can get boring."
"This society thrives on being far from right; no matter how much it tries to claim otherwise," quipped Emma.
Another sip of her coffee gave her a moment to think about how to answer the girl's next question. Telling a student that she did next to nothing seemed inappropriate as she had materials to grade and assignments to plan. "Not in the same respects as students," she answered. "I haven't done anything differently from a normal school day; aside from not teaching classes. I never did find much solace in Spring Break; it isn't a vacation I take seriously."
She glanced up at Emma from her where she was skimming the paper. "True." She admitted. "Just really... pessimistic sounding." And it was kind of sad actually, but she'd admitted it easy enough. So what did that say about her? Oddly enough she didn't feel weird telling her teacher she thought it was. Miss Frost sort of fostered free opinions in her class, and Hisako had always spoken aloud there.
"Oh." Hisako was pretty sure if she was a teacher she'd get as far as possible away from her job. If she had work to do, it was being done on the beach or something. "A small vacation from mutant high might be relaxing." Seriously there were some crazy students, some crazy powers, and, at times, a crazy amount of property damage. A break should be welcomed.