Fifth Floor Common Room - Monday Evening

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Kyle wasn't in the best mood, but he'd been in plenty of worse moods. Hiccup and Toothless had left all of a sudden, leaving only a note behind. Marcus was still a raccoon. He hadn't seen much of anyone else lately and with so little to do, the restlessness was building up. The noise of the TV helped, so he had that on in the background while he slowly wrote a letter to his brother. He didn't know whether it would get there, but he felt like testing the limits of the Fandom postal service. The prospect of more people leaving this week didn't make him happy either, but he'd accepted it and was focusing on next semester. He liked the normal school year better than summer and was looking forward to getting stuck into keeping himself busy.

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[wrongkindofsith]

"I'm fine. I'm where Richard and Kahlan want me to be." Which meant where she wanted to be didn't enter the equation. As it should be. "Who are you writing to?"

Subtle subject change there, Cara.

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"My brother Derek," Kyle answered, taking the hint. "I don't have a lot to say so it's not really a letter yet."

[wrongkindofsith]

"Older?" she asked, since if they were talking about him, they could avoid talking about her. "You could report on what happened a few weeks back."

Mord'Sith didn't go in much for personal letters.

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"Yeah he'd older. I have to balance telling him stuff so he doesn't think I'm hiding anything and not telling him anything that will make him get into an argument with our CO about dragging me home."

[wrongkindofsith]

If Cara had brought a journey book with her, holding very little back about this place in the hopes Richard or Kahlan would change their minds would have been the first thing she tried. "There were monsters and now there aren't?"

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"That's a good way of putting it." Not really. "I'll do it later. He'll want to know about classes too, and I'll explain the dragon."

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara thought it was a perfectly fine way of putting it. This was why Cara tended not to do the talking. "What's there to say about classes?" Beyond the fact half the teachers were insane.

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"What I'm learning, if it's worth being here."

[wrongkindofsith]

Privately Cara thought no class was worth being here. "Is it?"

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"Sometimes. I'm still working out why."

[wrongkindofsith]

"Destiny," Cara remarked sarcastically. It made Richard's life (and by extension hers too) complicated enough, why shouldn't it torment Kyle too?

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Kyle suppressed a snort. "I'm not a destiny kind of guy," he replied.

[wrongkindofsith]

Neither was Richard, guess who got a bunch of prophecies written about him anyway? "Good luck with that."

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Kyle was still amused. "I'm here because the guy who does have a destiny told me to, so that's enough for now."

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara suddenly looked a look less smug. "Right."

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Kyle noticed. "Sound familiar?"

[wrongkindofsith]

"Something like that," Cara replied, knocking one foot against the back of the couch.

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"Ours is not to question why," Kyle started quoting something he'd heard once, "ours is but to do and shut up about it." The quote may have changed over the years in his universe.

[wrongkindofsith]

"But if I shut up who'll tell Richard when he's being an idiot?" Someone needed to protect him from himself.

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"That's the prize when you get to go home."

[wrongkindofsith]

"And if he gets himself killed before then?" Such faith in his ability to not die.

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"Then you have to have faith that he knows what he's doing by sending you here."