Third floor common room [late morning]

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Mat had woken up this morning with the dice rattling in his head (never a good sign), so he wandered down to the common room with his new yearbook, flipping through the pages as he sipped on a mug of tea.

"Danced with her, kissed her, kissed her, kissed her..."

Mat had discovered a new purpose for the yearbook, yes.

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Jonas came in on that last statement and raised an eyebrow. His own yearbook was tucked under his arm but he hadn't thought to do that.

"Is making lists like that mandatory?" he asked as he stepped inside the common room and headed to get something to drink.

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"No," Mat said with a laugh. "I just didn't realize how many people I knew until I started looking through this."

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"It seems you more than know most of them," Jonas said, collecting his juice and taking a seat on one of the sofas. "I haven't looked through mine that thoroughly. Have you ever had one of these before?"

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Mat shook his head. "I don't even recognize some of these people," he confessed.

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"I don't either," Jonas said, paging idly through his. "We didn't have these at former my school. Of course, we didn't have cameras so that might have had something to do with it."

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"We have pigeons," Mat said with a little laugh. "We don't have cameras. Burn me, we don't even have school that lasts this long. You learn to write and cipher and read and then you're back to the farm."

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"Are you finished now?" Jonas asked curiously. "With school, I mean. Will you be graduating?"

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Mat nodded. "I'm heading home immediately," he said. "Well, assuming I can get home. I'm expecting to be picked up like a parcel by a friend of mine."

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Helen was a bit headachy today, though she wasn't sure why. She'd left Kianah safely back in the room and was currently checking different common rooms to see if they might have a particular kind of herbal tea that might help her head. Having no success on the fourth floor, she headed down to the third and stopped there, looking at Mat curiously.

"What are you doing?"

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"Are you going to attend the ceremony first?" Jonas asked, eyebrows going up at the immediacy. "The one that's being held tomorrow."

He'd been through many ceremonies in his time but this one would be a new one for him, participating or not.

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Mat nodded again. "I'm not a huge fan of ceremony but I'd like to see everyone before I leave. Are you sticking around for the summer?"

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He held up the yearbook. "Realizing how many people I don't know."

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"Yes," Jonas confirmed, nodding. "I've a few years left yet before I go through the ceremony myself. Providing I'm still here, I'm looking forward to it. This will be the first one I've ever seen."

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Helen nodded. "I know. I was quite shocked at how few people I have spoken with. I have done better, I think, about talking with others, but still there are so many."

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After seeing Rand become the Car'a'carn, he was pretty sure that other ceremonies would pale in comparison. "It's my first graduation as well," he said with a smile. "It should be interesting, like everything else at this school."

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"I think they put in pictures of strangers just to mess with us," Mat said, pointing to someone randomly. "Like them. Who is that? I think I'll call them...Tam, and give them a very tragic past."

Mat shouldn't be left with time on his hands.

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Helen looked surprised, then smiled. "Poor Tam. He was never the same after the rhinoceros trampled his parents, was he?"

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"That is something I can agree with despite never having seen one. Nothing is dull here." And Jonas found he liked that. "What sort of plans do you have when you leave here?"

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Mat sighed. "I have to escort a stubborn noble to see a friend of mine."

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"Never," Mat agreed solemnly. "And he didn't have the legs for the skirts he tried out, either."

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Jonas took note of that reaction and asked, "You don't sound too happy about that. Will it be that awful?"

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"She's a bloody pain," Mat said.

And arriving any minute now. Not that he knew that.

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"What makes her a pain?" Jonas asked, curious now since Mat looked so pained by it all.

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"She's the Daughter-Heir of Andor and a bloody Aes Sedai and always has her nose in the air." Mat made a face. "And she's bloody ungrateful, even after I saved her bacon from one of the Foresaken."

That would be quite a list of grievances if anyone knew what those words meant, Mat.

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Jonas was just going to let him in on that. "I don't really know what anything you just said means. Why do you have to accompany her if you don't like her?"