Where are you? [ it, too, is a short, quick message. ]
Biology and chemistry, mostly. [ there's a pause and a muffled sound of rustling and a a quiet, indistinct mumble, before— ] It was at my old high school. There was an administrator— [ julie. julie. ] I'm pretty sure she's immortal, sustained by a petty hatred of competency. [ beat. ] I asked her to order a book, once — The Poetry of Science. D'you know what I ended up with?
[ does he wait for a reply? no, not really. another message comes, a few moments later. ] The essentials of cooking with fowl, pig and cow. I still have nightmares about it.
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Biology and chemistry, mostly. [ there's a pause and a muffled sound of rustling and a a quiet, indistinct mumble, before— ] It was at my old high school. There was an administrator— [ julie. julie. ] I'm pretty sure she's immortal, sustained by a petty hatred of competency. [ beat. ] I asked her to order a book, once — The Poetry of Science. D'you know what I ended up with?
[ does he wait for a reply? no, not really. another message comes, a few moments later. ] The essentials of cooking with fowl, pig and cow. I still have nightmares about it.