2nd Floor Common Room Saturday Afternoon

[not_a_haint]

It was really, very, incredibly cold outside. Which was unfortunate for a number of reasons, one of them being that Caleb was feeling poorly, emotionally speaking and his usual remedy of going for a broody walk was, well not out of the question but seemed like it would be counter productive.

So instead, he was listening to the radio, as he attempted to make pizza. Well a few pizzas as the pre-made crusts only came in so many sizes.

The current music selection was actually doing a fairly good job at alleviating some of his angst.

Comments

[sairis]

"The Long Con? What's that?" Sairis asked.

[not_a_haint]

"Do you got snake oil salesmen where you're from? Folks who come into town hawkin' some potion or other they swear will cure what ails you, then leave before anyone figures out it's all a fake.

'Parently another word for 'em is con men. A long con, I have recently learned is a scheme that can take weeks, maybe months t' complete." He hesitated, but decided that it was probably safe to confide in Sairis about this. "There's folks who mean me harm that might still be lookin' for me back home. So I need t' learn how t' pretend t' be someone I ain't."

[sairis]

Sairis grimaced. "That makes sense. A lot of people back home would want to kill me, too." Not that he had much hope of pretending to be someone else. Not for long, anyway. It seems an odd thing for a class, though."

[not_a_haint]

"It does. This school isn't quite what I was expectin'," understatement of the year, "But then nothin' about this entire island was. Although, given' my relatively isolated upbringin' I'm not sure I could say exactly what I was expectin'.

"My learnin' was pretty basic. I got my letters, learned basic 'rithmatic, maybe a more balanced picture o' history than some, but not a lot 'bout anythin' outside o' Appalachia. Mostly we learned how ' survive in the wilderness, fix stuff, take care o' animals.

"Oh an' Appalachia is a pretty big swath o' land in the Appalachian mountains."

Oh! He'd found an atlas lying around. Where had he put it?