caughtinanetwork | 9th Combo

[The feed comes on with Lloyd looking off to the side, talking to someone off screen.]

-sure wish I could have turned homework in like this back home! Then even if I waited until the last minute I could still-

Oh, hey, it's on.

[Lloyd looks into the camera, looking incredibly pleased with himself.]

Professor, we did it! We got our homework done! And we're even getting it in early.

[Before the original two week deadline, in fact! ~~Are they trying to give Raine a heart attack?~~

He doesn't seem to realize that this isn't locked to Raine at all, that everyone can see this.]

Here, you can read it now. I wrote the stuff in blue, and Luke did the stuff in black.

[That said, he turns the starfish around so that the view takes in a table with five pieces of paper on it.]

and no one would be confuzed. You need ~~apo~~ ~~appo~~ appostrofees to becos they show were your missing letters like in don't.

"apostrophes", I think. We're supposed to spell right too, right?

There's some other ones in here too, but I don't think it's important.

Anyway, yeah, lists are better. But like, if you can't do a list, then it's better to use them. You know, stuff like "Anise, Natalia and Tear went to buy things".

There's also this thing

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That's like a period but not. But I don't use it unless I feel like it.

(Note off to the side next to the line about spelling -> I dont think so she just sed we were suposed to write about gramer)

I don't evan know what that is. Why do you need an extra thing for a peroid if its just a peroid?

You have to use capitel letters to becos that's for names and things. If you don't use one than you don't know if your talking about Colette's dog Carmel or about carmel candy. You also have to use them at the begining of sentances but I don't know why.

(Beside the previous note -> I don't know, she sounds pretty strict. But if you say so.)

… You know, I don't know either. Maybe it's just to let people know you're starting a sentence, but shouldn't that be obvious enough with all the periods and stuff?

But yeah, you also have to capitalize the I. "i am Luke" isn't right, but "I am Luke" is.

Apostrophes can also shorten words, so they're good to have. You can shorten up "is not" to "isn't", and would of to "would've".

Or wait, is it would of or would have? The last one sounds right, but…

(And a small note -> Guy would know, ask him.)

They both sound fine to me.

Any way that's why grammer's importent. Its also importent becos profesor Raine seys it is. Their's probabley more stuff we forgot but we only have to write five pages so that's it!

Lloyd Irving
Luke fon Fabre

(Note at the bottom -> Man I'm so glad thats over.)

(Me too.)

[OOC: Replies may come from either Luke and/or Lloyd. o/ Context for those interested.]

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[Lloyd blinks, utterly nonplussed.]

Yeah, don't you? I mean, you spend all that time around all those people anyway. That's plenty of time to make friends.

[... Oh. That would explain the essay's quality, right?] If they aren't focusing on school work, I suppose. I myself didn't have to deal with such distractions. [And that turned out really well, huh?]

Friends aren't distractions. They're friends.

[Lloyd just can't wrap his mind around the concept that Leon is trying to express.]

What about before class? Or after it? What about during lunch? Don't you talk to people then?

Naturally. A friend knows not to distract you from your goals. [Not that Leon has a good track record of listening.]

Why would you be in school before or after class? [Actually gives some consideration to the lunch comment.] Talking to people during meals... Well, depending on the environment.

Why wouldn't you? You're there, they're there. What, do you just ignore people and go home as soon as you can? What do you do all day besides study?

Actually, I've finished my studies sometime ago. I had private tutors, but I don't see how it would have been different from going to a school.

[His expression softens a little.] I was happy with the friends I already had.

...private tutors?

[If he sounds like the concept is foreign to him, that's because it is. There was only one teacher in the entire village for almost all of the grade levels. He can't even imagine one teacher for just one student, let alone multiple ones.

But that last comment is enough to ease some of his bafflement.]

Well, at least you did have friends. You made it sound like you didn't have any friends at all.

[Raises an eyebrow.] I was to inherit a large business. They didn't want to take any chances.

[... Huh? Was that how it came out?] I just had no reason to look for more friends.

No, that's not what I-

[Actually, that's confusing, too. Lloyd shakes his head, trying to stick to one confusing thought at a time.]

You had teachers who only taught you? They didn't teach anyone else?

I like to think we can use all the friends we can get.

[Is that really so strange?] Most of them worked for my father exclusively. They could have taught other kids I guess – they did seem to have some ideas of their own about how children should be – but I never heard about it.

[His thoughts briefly turn to Stahn and the others.] That might not be such a bad way of thinking.

Whoa.

[That's the best way he can sum it up.]

Professor Raine had to teach all of us - all the kids in the village. I can't imagine having that many teachers, that you could have one for just one kid.

[Hm, a small village? His thoughts briefly turn to Cresta, and he might just regret his ignorance of Rutee's circumstances a bit.] Mine was an unusual situation, but yours sounds unusual as well. Did no one try to bring more teachers to your village?

I don't... think so? [He's not too sure, but then he's never thought to ask.] Iselia's pretty far away from other places. Most people don't want to travel that far, especially with more and more monsters appearing.

[Geographical isolation, huh? Figures.] I see how that would be a difficult situation to change. That you have a chance to continue your studies here is even more fortunate than I'd imagined.

[Lloyd makes a face at that.]

I don't feel so fortunate. I hate homework. I guess it's better than what you had, though. If you had all those teachers, I bet they all gave you homework.

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