fourth floor common room: sunday afternoon

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One reason that Nathan was glad to be back in the dorms was that the walk back from the preserve was a lot shorter. He didn't have to take a ferry and it meant he had more time to do things like flopping down in the common room to eat a late breakfast and work with his newly received tablet. The reading wasn't going very well but he'd gotten pretty good with using the apps that played movies and television shows. He couldn't really pick a favorite but the cooking shows he found were pretty fascinating.

The common room television was off but Nathan's tablet was on while he watched an older woman bustle around her kitchen while she talked about what she was making today. Every so often he took a bite of the omelette he'd made himself but most of his attention was on the show and trying to remember the various ingredients and instructions so he could maybe give the meal a try later.

He had a brief thought of what Celia or Arran or Jessica or his grandmother would think of right now, using technology and not worrying about if people saw his tattoos or his scars. Jessica would try to kill him considering she was a Hunter. Celia would probably be impressed but she'd keep that to herself. Arran would want to play with the tablet and his grandmother would...well, he wasn't sure.

Nathan sighed and put them out of his mind. He couldn't think of them now. They were gone and he was here.

[Open common room]

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"I understand it is a joint effort by scholars from all over the world," Ichabod said. He might not quite have picked up that there were no scholarly qualifications needed. "Once you learn to read you will find it quite useful, I am sure."

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"We'll see if I ever learn to read," he said dryly. "I've tried and it hasn't worked. I'm close to just giving it up forever."

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"At least give the tablet a chance," Ichabod said, even though he had no idea of how it worked. "And there is no harm in enjoying it for entertainment as well, is there?"

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"No, there's not." Nathan shook his head. "I'm actually good at watching television shows and movies. They don't require reading -- "

Unless there were subtitles.

" -- and everything's so colorful and loud."

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"Do you have a favorite?" Ichabod asked. He had not watched anything himself apart from random programs that had appeared when he pressed the buttons on the remote.

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"Barry told me about a movie called The Fugitive that I really liked," he replied. "It's about a man wrongly accused of a crime and how he survives."

And he liked it because of that survival aspect.