十 三 ; shí sān

[getsomesleep]

This is unexpected.

Comments

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

I am a dull soul, to whom all things appear equally strange and marvelous.

[white-disciple.livejournal.com]

I actually meant how long you'd been here, but such a quality hardly makes one dull.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

I was born into the Sphere some four months ago; and it's true that in that time, my unfortunate ignorance has made my life all the more interesting.

[white-disciple.livejournal.com]

What sorts of things have surprised you then?

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Marvelous geographies, fantastic machines; mysteries to confound even the greatest sages.

[white-disciple.livejournal.com]

Something I think many of us grapple with, from the few people I know well here.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Some grapple; others live their lives in peace, and yet others forgo some mysteries the better to study others.

[white-disciple.livejournal.com]

Study? Like in a college or academy of some kind?

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

For myself, I've had the good fortune to gain wise teachers. That is, I believe, how knowledge is mostly exchanged here: from one to another.

[white-disciple.livejournal.com]

That sounds... pleasantly familiar, in honesty, but I didn't think of that as 'studying.'

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

I understand your meaning; yet conditions here aren't well-suited for the formation of a proper institution.

[white-disciple.livejournal.com]

I think I prefer the one-on-one style to an institution, actually.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

A dish lasts longer when one feasts alone; though it may be a silent and gloomy feast.

[white-disciple.livejournal.com]

To which option did you mean that to refer?

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Please forgive me, my pen sometimes outruns my thoughts: I meant to say that it is good to enjoy a teacher's undivided attentions, yet the absence of fellow students is to be regretted.

[white-disciple.livejournal.com]

I can't be sure if it's due to this geas or my personal preferences, but fellow students... I can't quite fathom what that would be like.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

I can call up no memories one way or another; yet it feels, at least, as though that would be an experience I heartily recommend.

[white-disciple.livejournal.com]

I'll be sure to ask Gai about that then.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Has he been teaching you? I seem to recall that Gai-jūn has a number of pupils.

[white-disciple.livejournal.com]

I've not started training with him formally just yet. We agreed to do so when we were both feeling better. Undead and all that.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

I wish you good fortune and success, then; he is a most enthusiastic teacher.

[white-disciple.livejournal.com]

Good fortune and success to you as well, then.