Second Floor Common Room, Friday Morning

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If the radio was something to be believed, common rooms were a focal point of activity here. Ender had heard of people meeting, talking, forging friendships and forming their own groups up here, until they pulled back to the privacy of their own rooms.

For now, he didn't really feel like mingling. He didn't know how long he was to stay here, or why, except that they didn't want him on Earth back home and they taught classes here on things he'd never really thought about before. Or hadn't wanted to think about.

But if he wanted to grasp the rules of the school, he'd have to see it for himself. He didn't expect to spend a lot of time here, but it was still important to know: and so, quietly, unobtrusively, Ender made his way into the second floor common room in the morning, working the television remote until he found some history documentary on this time's previous century.

[ open like a common room, yay ]

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[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Who does?" Dean said, coming over and sitting on the couch. "Classes, especially here, can be whacked out on occasion."

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"'Whacked'." Ender tried the slang out in his mouth; it was certainly up there with the weird tendencies of slang language, all warped with only a little bit of its essence in there. "I have fashion class with a man in pyjamas." He didn't make it clear which part of that sentence was the most ridiculous.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean chuckled. "Yeah, you get things like that. I had a sex history class last term which was co taught by a guy who I think thinks he's the ultimate player -- he's not by the way -- and a little fairy. Like literal fairy."

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He tried to picture that, but he couldn't quite remember how a fairy was supposed to look like. "So I guess I'll have a lot more of this to look forward to."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Pretty much, yeah. The whole trick is to not take any of it too seriously."

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Not taking it too seriously. If they had intended for Ender to learn something new, here, that would have been it. "I think the pyjamas were a good indicator of that."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"That's definitely a big clue. Unless it's a class in pillow fighting."