Puffin A1 Wed. Afternoon

[grand_fallguy]

After my earlier wanderings, I returned to my bunk, and found a postcard on the mattress.

I looked at the picture. Chinese countryside. T'ing. I debated not reading it.

"Dear Tim,

Your mother told me what happened, please write and let me know how things are.

T'ing"

That's it. no Love, no Sincerely, no Your Friend. Just, T'ing. Okay so it's a postcard, how mushy can those things be?

open for interaction. come prevent the emo outbreak

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After Astronomy Workshop

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn dropped down from a tree near the Puffin cabin and knocked lightly. She hadn't really seen Tim since the move and she wanted to say hello.

Re: After Astronomy Workshop

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

now that's what I call preventing an emo outbreak! btw are we now in after dark then?

Tim had been moping sulking angsting brooding on the couch in the common room when the knock came.

His mood lifted significantly when he saw who it was. "Gwynn! Hi!"

Re: After Astronomy Workshop

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. And yes, after darkness.

Gwynn smiled. "Good evening, Tim. How are you?"

Re: After Astronomy Workshop

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Better now." he said. Oh yes, he was smooth. "You?"

Re: After Astronomy Workshop

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn was happy that he was smiling.

"I just got back from the class where we talked about the stars."

Re: After Astronomy Workshop

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim was curious. "Find out anything interesting?" Inside or outside? "I'd invite you in but I've spent most of the afternoon in there." he stepped outside and let the door shut behind him.

Re: After Astronomy Workshop

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"That there are still a lot of stars in the night shy even this far from home."

Re: After Astronomy Workshop

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim smirked, and glanced up at the sky. "You're lucky to see any from where I'm from." he said. "too much light. But out here..." he glanced at her. "Learn anything shocking about the nature of the heavens?"

Re: After Astronomy Workshop

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"The stars never change?"

Re: After Astronomy Workshop

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"They don't?" Tim said, not certain what she meant. He'd been thinking more about things that were now accepted as fact, that got people like Galileo excommunicated.

Re: After Astronomy Workshop

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn smiled at him and then looked up at the sky. She pointed up.

"The north star... it's always in the same place, no matter where you go."

Re: After Astronomy Workshop

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Oh!" he said, leaning in a bit to follow along where she was pointing. and for no other reason. really "yeah. I knew that one." he squinted. "I think I might take astronomy next term." he said idly. "Like I said you can barely see any back home."
The sky, out in the preserve was really quite spectacular. in his opinion at least.

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn looked into his face and smiled. "Why would they care that the Earth was not the center of the universe? I don't understand what a heretic is?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim swallowed. "Well now we're getting into territory that I'm not quite clear on." tim said. "As far as I know, a heretic is a witch mun knows better. And I couldn't begin to guess why the church would have any problem with that notion other than being completely full of themselves."

Did his hand scootch closer to hers? If so it was acting independant of his brain.

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"The fact that the church is full of themselves is not a thought that surprises me, after all, they started the Crusades."

She looked at him. "You are really smart, Tim."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Wait'll they get to the Inquisition." tim muttered.

He blushed. "Well I have my moments." he said grinning. "Now you teach me something." cue beavis and butthead laughter

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"The Inquisition?"

She thought for a moment and then looked back at him. "The wind makes a different sound passing through each tree... like a voice. Not every tree sounds the same, even if they look the same."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Very bad time in the Church's history." Tim said. "It involved burning people at the stake."

He looked at the trees around them. "Huh," he said. That's something that never occured to him. "Do you mean like, an oak sounds different than an apple tree? or is it like how no two snowflakes are alike?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn nodded. "No two oak trees sound alike... just like the snowflakes are complete individuals." She might have put her hand on his shoulder. "My father taught me that if I'm in the woods and I can close my eyes, I'll hear the wind differently."

Actually, it was the Uncles who taught her that, but she didn't want Tim to know that her father had rarely been around when she was a child.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim's shoulder was very glad that she'd put her hand there. He closed his eyes and listened. At first he couldn't tell any difference.

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"Listen with your inner ears and not your mind. Your mind tells you what you should hear while your ears do not lie to you."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Well for a moment all he could focus on was her voice. He started to wonder if he had a thing for girls with accents.
Then he relaxed a bit, though still acutely aware of her hand on his shoulder.
His head tilted suddenly when he did detect a difference in the sound of the wind. "Woah," he said. sounding nothing like Keanu

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn sighed in happiness. "I'm so glad you can detect the difference!"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Just barely." Tim said, opening his eyes and looking at her admiringly. "I'm a city boy, I kind of learned to just tune out any background noise. Although earlier I was trying to tune in instead."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"I am sorry that you have had to deal with such horrible things, Tim. I will not let anything else attack you if I can help you while we're here."