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IC CONTACT [MASKORMENACE]

"This is Noh-Varr. I am not here, but if you leave a message, I'm sure I'll contact you when I return."

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In person. Online is too stressful. Not so sure on the rest.

[ Or pervasive, which is really what it is, but Annie doesn't actually enjoy isolating herself. That's all online ever feels like. ]

How do you feel about coffee?

Ambivalent. I have a list of recommended places for the purchase and making of coffee, but I haven't tried the beverage itself yet.

We can make this an opportunity. Since you want to learn in person.

That's an acceptable proposal.

[It's a good thing they both talk like a textbook.]

Do you know how to find the library?

[ The wonders of formalish writing! ]

In Heropa? Yes, I do.

How soon could you get there?

Including travel time from porter to porter, a little under an hour.

There's a coffee shop with a name that rhymes with "sucks" two blocks west. I'll meet you there in an hour and a half.

Understood. I'll be there.

[ time to roll on out to Nonah's porter, though this has become routine after the last month or so. finding the not-sucks coffee shop is fairly straight forward, though she doesn't pass directly by the library to do so. no need to accidentally antagonize someone already on an uneven keel. ]

[Whoever that might be, it's certainly not him. Noh-Varr regards this with a certain amount of amusement and curiosity, mostly because he's always wanted an excuse to make one of those jokes and because he's never actually been a teacher of something so...mundane before.

He stands out. For one thing, he's the only man under 50 with purely white hair. For another, he's the only one with a borrowed math textbook.

Which he may or may not have "borrowed" from the university where his friend the odd Dr. Covington works.]

[ Borrowing from universities sounds legitimate. Annie's had others do something similar, but probably more official, for her since she first asked for assistance.

Noh-Varr isn't hard to pick out. The math textbook is what convinces her, though she doesn't have much more than an introduction in mind when she approaches him. Just another teenager in a hoodie and loose-fitting pants, possibly of the sort used by some in yoga. (So she finds it comfortable. Government assigned work might have one very unintentional benefit.) ]

Noh-Varr?

That's me.

[It's not that he necessarily cares one way or another when people stumble over the oddness of his name, which fits no norm of any human language. But it's always interesting when people don't. When maybe they don't know it should be weird.]

Aren't you hot, wearing that?

[These appear to be the Florida fashion rules: always wear flipflops. No hoodies in summer, unless paired with the shortest shorts imaginable.]

A little.

[ Annie won't pretend she's totally comfortable, but indoors now, she's really much less bothered than running around outside. Not that she runs much of anywhere... heat exhaustion is a real and present danger. ]

But it's not so bad.

I see.

[He doesn't. His uniform breathes really well. And Kree do things differently, feeling temperature. Everything is different for them.]

Do you want coffee? I'm not sure if we'll be here awhile.

Tea would be preferable, if you don't mind.

[ She's very slowly cultivating any sort of appreciation or tolerance for coffee; tea, on the other hand, is the kind of luxury she knows from her world. She looks around, surveying the coffeehouse crowd. ]

I'm slow in learning to appreciate coffee.

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somewhere I have a calculus textbook I should really find

i wish i still had the ones i've had over the years...

you never think about using your textbooks again until years after you hocked them for coffee money

then you remember how good the coffee was and regrets are mixed

ah yes, when coffee was fresher and newer and you weren't addicted for years

when caffeine also seemed to still do something for you in lesser amounts