Second Floor Common Room, Saturday Morning

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It was late morning, nearing noon, and Ender had finished his morning exercises a while ago. He'd sat down to work in his room afterwards, but this sense of-- moroseness he had been trying to avoid wouldn't leave him alone, making him restless and a little irritable. Jane's commentary about that hadn't really helped either.

Which was why right now he was curled up on the couch in the common room, with Animal Planet playing some documentary about Brazilian tree-frogs in the background. He'd taken the datapad Ben had given him for his birthday with him, and he was poking idly through stats for alien races he'd never heard of before.

He was still a little restless, but at least he was less irritable. The calm, he could fake.

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"I don't know of any," Sov said. "I mean, there are meditation that the Handdara Indwellers use, but you have to have pracised them for years."

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Ender took a deep breath, and ran a hand through his hair. "A lot of people on this island aren't too fussed about trysts?" he offered. "And there are always places on the mainland."

Why yes, he was worried about the welfare of someone he'd only spoken to for ten to twenty minutes.

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"Places on the mainland? People who aren't... fussed?" It would actually be a lot easier to solve this problem, but Sov wasn't entirely sure how that would work here.

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"Back here, provided you're up front about who you are and what your condition means," Ender said, with a reassuring smile, "And on the mainland, provided you pretend to be of whatever gender your body decides to slant to that day."

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Perhaps they hadn't considered all the options. Sov nodded. "Do you know any place? Or anyone?"

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"I don't know anyone on-island." Sigh, wee Tony, why couldn't you be more like your older self? "But I know someone who can probably find you something off-island."

Jane was very useful for data searches.

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"Who?" Sov asked, wondering if this was someone they knew.