InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "But why is the rum gone?"

Lorna Dane (metal_and_lace) wrote in no_good_deed,
@ 2011-03-04 12:45:00

Entry tags:

incomplete, old pc: cypher, old pc: polaris

Lunch Time~.
Who: Lorna, Cypher and possibly Open (ask me first? I don't bite.)
What: A conversation during lunch
When: Friday Afternoon, forward dated slightly
Where: Cafeteria/Room where lunch is eaten (me spek good)
Rating: PGish

Yesterday had been a bad day. She hadn't meant for it to be, but it had ended up like that anyway. She picked at her food, finding that she wasn't really hungry. After months of barely being fed, the initial knee-jerk reaction of wanting to eat everything had faded. Now it was back to what it had been before her life had been turned upside down.

And when things went downhill, so did her appetite.

She was mostly ignoring the salad in favor of her math work. Back at her old school she had often worked ahead, which gave her more time to read things she'd rather be reading. She wasn't quite to that point here, still playing catch up from her headaches. But she was trying. It beat spending too much time thinking about what an idiot she could be.

(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

	cypher_warrior 2011-03-04 04:44 am UTC (link)
	He grinned and pulled her plate over toward his and began shoveling in mouthfuls from each. After a few of these, he paused long enough to look at her book and ask the most obvious of questions, "Working on math, huh? I'm pretty good at that... sometimes." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	metal_and_lace 2011-03-04 04:46 am UTC (link)
	"Sometimes?" Lorna asked, tapping her pencil on the paper, "How can you only be good at it sometimes. Either you know what you're doing or you don't," she said simply. At least that seemed to be the case with most people she knew on an academic level. Either you got it or you didn't. She had always been very good at stuff like this. Even as a kid. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cypher_warrior 2011-03-04 04:49 am UTC (link)
	"Um.. only when it's being used as a way to communicate," he mumbled, head lowering as he picked at his food in slight embarrassment at being called out like that. "I'm not very good at more than the basics when it's just being used to calculate things... I take it you're pretty good at it?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 04:52 am UTC (link)

Lorna nodded once, "I always have been," which was good, as you kind of needed math for any field of science, and doubly so when you added the word "physics" to it. Geology wasn't just rocks, and geophysics wasn't just about those aforementioned rocks.

As it was, she was just glad to be back in school, she thought, "You don't need help with it or anything, do you?" she asked. She really wasn't the best tutor. Tutoring required you be able to relate to people, and she never quite could. Or she did sometimes, but more often than not it failed. Hard.

	cypher_warrior 2011-03-04 04:55 am UTC (link)
	He grinned a little and shook his head, "No. Anything I can't figure out, Warlock will do for me." Doug gave a half-hearted shrug of his shoulders and shoveled a couple more bites into his mouth. "So... um... where are you from?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	metal_and_lace 2011-03-04 05:00 am UTC (link)
	"California," Lorna said, still tapping the pencil as she worked over a problem while having the conversation, "Outside of San Diego. Or France, depending on how you look at it," she muttered the last, writing down some numbers and then caught what he had said. She looked up, "What's Warlock?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cypher_warrior 2011-03-04 05:05 am UTC (link)
	He set his fork down and scooted his plates forward enough to bring his left arm up on the table. Doug pushed his sleeve up and showed her the 'watch'. "This is Warlock," he replied in a quiet voice, very hush-hush conspiratorial-like. A few seconds later, the 'watch' moved and WARLoCK stood up to give a bow and a soft greeting like the trill of a fax machine. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	metal_and_lace 2011-03-04 05:27 am UTC (link)
	Lorna was glad she wasn't eating, because she would've choked right then. As it was she almost did. She definitely did a double take. "I... you were there too?" was all she managed. The tone of her voice was one of understanding and pity. "The box is gone. That whole place is gone, thank God." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)