Bassoon, Day 22.

[dredefulchilde]

I'm rather desperate for reading material or new knowledge. Sitting on one's arse, day in and day out, gets old.

We need to establish a library or a school to maintain a free exchange of information and ideas. We are playing into the hands of our captors if we continue to stay weak and uninformed.

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And, quite honestly, I'm bored out of my skull.

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[runs_on_batteries]

[Tony rolls his eyes.]

This is why I told Peter to take on the library as a full project when he first suggested it...

You want a school?

[dredefulchilde]

I do. I attended school for the first time last year and I found it to be quite the novel experience. Very different from sitting in a room with one’s tutor or governess.

[runs_on_batteries]

[Well that ruined any joke he was leading up to.]

What kind of subjects are you interested in?

[dredefulchilde]

Anything. My previous education had been heavily focused on the Classical model, but being able to converse in Ancient Greek does one very little good in the twenty-first century. In school, I was studying maths and sciences. In fact, the last thing I remember doing before going to bed and then winding up here, was working my way through and advanced proof. Calculus is rather fun. Organic chemistry somewhat less so, but I do like physics and engineering.

[runs_on_batteries]

[He'd been so hoping to be able to troll the kid, but this was turning out to be much, much more interesting.]

Really? Well, Joss, you're in luck. I'm a god of math, physics and engineering. Peter had recommended someone else to be tutored but perhaps we should open it up to the train.

[He considers this a moment.]

I'll find a way to test what skill level people are at and see if we can't take it from there. Sound good?

[dredefulchilde]

That sounds agreeable. I should like to be doing something practical again, rather than twiddling my fingers. Video games are great fun, of course, but they’re hardly intellectually stimulating.

[Joss is the kind of obnoxious and condescending teacher’s pet that other kids absolutely hate.]