First Video

[crazyoldbat.livejournal.com]

[The video is side ways, and the women shown in it is peering down into the camera as if it might jump out and eat her.]

Is this blasted thing even on? What's it doing? I think it's doing something.

[She turns, screen careening to the sky.]

You. You there! Would you help me work this contraption? Better yet, tell me where on God's green earth I am?

[There's a boy's voice answering her for a second, and then the sound of someone running off after a short, rather primal shout.]

Where in the hell is Prospero? I bet one of those little brats did this. Just wait until I get back there. I'll have them in detention until they have kids.

[The video is now mostly obscured by dark, checker print cloth. She's holding the device to her hip.]

Honestly, how rude can those kids be to a little old lady?

Comments

[crazyoldbat.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised with that.

[greyerrant.livejournal.com]

The sciences are interesting. Were you more on the theoretical or practical side of teaching, in general?

[crazyoldbat.livejournal.com]

Mostly theoretical. I was working with teenagers who couldn't control their often destructive powers. Practical work could be disastrous with those kids.

[greyerrant.livejournal.com]

Quite so.

I thought you might be teaching them how to dissect frogs or the like. I understand that is what children mostly learn in science class.

[crazyoldbat.livejournal.com]

We've done the dissections a few times. But you get a child who can change forms into small animals like that and the whole place gets into an uproar over whether continuing the practice is ethical.

[greyerrant.livejournal.com]

I would imagine that would certainly cause them [ garviel looks mildly amused by the row that must have provoked. ]

[crazyoldbat.livejournal.com]

Believe me, nothing is easy when dealing with super powered youngsters. I have a thousand stories on the hardships of being their teacher. And being a mother of one.

[greyerrant.livejournal.com]

I can sympathize better than you know, I suspect.

Hm.... what is parenthood like? Family ties of this nature are unknown among the Legiones Astartes.

[crazyoldbat.livejournal.com]

That sounds like an interesting tale to be told.

Both the most amazing and the most frustrating thing I have every experienced. [She looks off, chuckling to herself.]

[greyerrant.livejournal.com]

I taught young gene-hanced warriors to deal with their transhuman abilities and bodies. I suppose the battles they fought in are specifically of some interest, but it was first and foremost a job of instruction.

[ Garviel considers that. ] I wonder if the Emperor and my Gene-sire Horus Lupercal would say much the same thing about their ties... [ His face darkens. ]

I suspect... not anymore.

[crazyoldbat.livejournal.com]

We had trainers of a similar sort at the school. They didn't get them ready for any battles, we weren't in need of soldiers, but they did teach them how to most effectively harness their powers.

Some bad blood come between them?

[greyerrant.livejournal.com]

That is one way of putting it, yes. I would call it treachery and a war that split the galaxy asunder.

[crazyoldbat.livejournal.com]

Those things will certainly tear a family apart. I'm sorry that the results of their fighting have caused such a lasting, and I am assuming that it was lasting, effect on your people.

[greyerrant.livejournal.com]

I can't say. The war has only been ongoing for about a year. But... it has already set the Galaxy aflame.

[crazyoldbat.livejournal.com]

That seems all war is ever good for.

[greyerrant.livejournal.com]

I cannot speculate on the uses of war, aside from the protection of humanity. That is the only reason I ever took up arms.

[crazyoldbat.livejournal.com]

And a noble reason, at that.

[greyerrant.livejournal.com]

But even that was perverted by our leaders, in the end. Pride and power are a dangerous mixture.

[crazyoldbat.livejournal.com]

Those two things have never brought a good outcome, I'm afraid.

I would say I hope things improve, but things like that often don't.

[greyerrant.livejournal.com]

Indeed. They did not.

[crazyoldbat.livejournal.com]

At least this place can give you a brief break from all that.