[Jaunt] Not long after the beginning of Week Four

[awondrousplace]

Can anyone tell me what in the bloody hell is going on? One moment I was a professor, and now I am... myself, but also still somehow Professor Cavour.

Also, whoever decided I should be called bloody Cavour has some explaining to do.

At any rate, darlings, I'm back. What's been going on?

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[leftbehindagain]

Well, that at least startles a laugh out of him. "No need to hold back, okaa-san, tell us how you really feel."

He's completely in agreement that microfiche is stupid, though.

"I know, and I don't know why it's bugging me so much this time. Probably because most other things that required a fight, it's been easier to find a place in the fight."

[awondrousplace]

"Mr. Edison was the worst sort of so-called inventor. He did not have an original thought in his entire life." She laughs a bit, shaking her head. "Sorry, darling. This is not the time for a discussion of my original contemporaries."

There's a long pause before she shakes her head. "Sometimes the best way to support a fight is to stay out of it. In this case, your friends know you have their back, and there is nothing wrong with creating a new drink or two for them for when they get back. Too many cooks spoil the broth, after all. No one would ever accuse you at this particular moment, at least, of not caring."

[leftbehindagain]

"Kanji must be rubbing off on me. He's usually the one worried about being in the thick of things." Or maybe it's because the stakes are so much higher now.

"...I think you're right. I've done all I can for now, I'm just not used to running out of things I can do so quickly."

[awondrousplace]

"It can't be all bad, darling. Sometimes you could use a bit of a jump start." She's teasing. Mostly.

"It happens that way. There were more than a few collections at home in which I was fairly unhelpful after a time." A pause. "Especially one particular one in Jerusalem after Wooley refused to allow me to pretend to be his wife."

[leftbehindagain]

"What's that supposed to mean?" There's no venom in the protest, though, since Naoki knows it's absolutely true.

"...Why would you have wanted to pretend to be his wife?"

[awondrousplace]

"We were in a very traditionally Jewish part of Jerusalem, that did not appreciate unattended women walking about. No one would tell me anything as a woman of my age if I was unattached." She shrugs. "Wooley did well enough in the end, though."

[leftbehindagain]

"Ah. One of those situations. Did you manage to come up with anything to do, or were you stuck waiting it out?"