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She huffed a sigh and shoved her honeycomb back in its package, deciding that if she couldn't just side-step the issue then she wasn't going to assault her stomach and ...

Ky nodded thoughtfully. "Mm... yeah. I guess that makes sense though, right? Hierarchy of needs and all that?"

"No." Yes. But. Well. She deserved that one. And... gods. She was blushing profusely. How was he getting distracted from her intentional distraction? She didn't like this at all. "Just ...

Ky smiled a little more. "That's great!" It felt like adults usually got overlooked when talking about systematic changes to education -- start a new system off with the youth. ...

This was a lot harder than she'd expected. "Everyone's mad at me." She shrugged, swallowing hard to try to clear her throat of the honey. She was still holding the ...

"That's reasonable." Ky nodded, desperately thinking of how she could so utterly derail this conversation that Tomhas forgot about Emery. "Are there any... tunnels... close to that one, too? Straight ...

"That's fantastic!" Ky said with a smile. "How are you approaching it?"

(their adhd energies are unmatched lol two conversations at once lets goooo) "Have you stayed in that one ever since?" Ky asked. "Like, when you and Anneke first came back ...

"Fine, it wasn't a yell-yell, he's just mad at me," she said, waving her hand dismissively. "So like, are you closer to the front stairs or the back stairs?"

Ky winced at that and inclined her head. It was so odd. Hearing a nobleman having been humbled. Learned what it was like to live as a peasant. She supposed ...

She furrowed her brow at him. He was so disorienting, latching on to teeny details she said but not giving any indication that he did so until he suddenly yanked ...

“He seems to champion making education accessible,” Ky said with a nod. “I was pleasantly surprised how encouraging he is of me and Tadaaki taking up our respective lessons.”

Ky tried to process what that meant, attempted to map it mentally, then utterly failed and had no idea what he meant. But she nodded. “Ah.” It’s not like she’d ...

“True,” Ky said with a nod. She’d wanted to move past it quickly, but she hesitated. “Actually, no, I don’t. Where is it? Close to Gaius’s office?”

“I believe it,” Ky said, glancing around. “I didn’t know this many books existed in the whole world. I thought Aleth had a lot until I saw this. He only ...