His voice hardens a little as he protests,] It is for me.
[The sounding like wikipedia thing, and this place, in some ways.]
I'm not used to being... without exams or a project.
[A downside of being something of a prodigy is that you're both encouraged and expected to always be working on something or studying a new, difficult subject. You skip grades and spend time with people older than you and miss out on things that are normal to your age group. You develop differently.
Facts, meanwhile, are always the same. They hold life together. Hold his life together. And they make him look like he excels even in the minor, trivial things of life -- hence the word trivia.
Anyway. He shakes his head, the flare of anger gone.] Sorry. I, erm-- you have lovely hair.
[He knows facts about hair dye, but he keeps them to himself. He'll need another coping mechanism if he intends to stay here a while and not annoy people.]
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His voice hardens a little as he protests,] It is for me.
[The sounding like wikipedia thing, and this place, in some ways.]
I'm not used to being... without exams or a project.
[A downside of being something of a prodigy is that you're both encouraged and expected to always be working on something or studying a new, difficult subject. You skip grades and spend time with people older than you and miss out on things that are normal to your age group. You develop differently.
Facts, meanwhile, are always the same. They hold life together. Hold his life together. And they make him look like he excels even in the minor, trivial things of life -- hence the word trivia.
Anyway. He shakes his head, the flare of anger gone.] Sorry. I, erm-- you have lovely hair.
[He knows facts about hair dye, but he keeps them to himself. He'll need another coping mechanism if he intends to stay here a while and not annoy people.]