Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-3991308-20151213205604/@comment-3991308-20151217064804

"Maybe I will. Maybe I won't. Or maybe I will in a couple thousand years. If I keep this job for that long, that is," Polynices chuckled. The future seemed so far off. "You got faith in me and we've only talked for a couple of minutes? You're trustful, kid." He paused. "Sorry, it's a natural instinct to call people kids. I mean, I know you're not a kid, and I'm probably not great enough to call you a diminutive..." Nick made a sound along the sounds of "ehhh" and "arghh", as he struggled to find words.

Thankfully, the other conversation topic broke Polynices out of his word-struggle. "Oh! That's terrible!" he said with a frown. "You mean, like, high level algebra and stuff? Because I never did get the point of that until you were going to become an engineer or something. And science was always my failing point. It's so frustrating how it's seen to be the subject that determined whether one was smart or not!"

That part of the education system always struck a nerve for Polynices. "So, for example, you learn like, alchemy when you don't need alchemy, or something along those lines? That sounds just as stressful as I found it when I was an adolescent, memorising carbon isometric structures even though I dreamed of being a lawyer!"