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Lyn𝛿is
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does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? ✯

Nibblers [Saph] Jan 27, 2019 0:06:09 GMT -5

Post by Lyn𝛿is on Jan 27, 2019 0:06:09 GMT -5

I swing by the grocery shop on my way home. It had been a long day - we'd been flooded with reporters the minute Calliope and I had stepped out of what was supposed to be a secret meeting, talking over each other to ask about what usually boiled down to two things: 1) whether some rumor or another was true about Calliope or 2) what a schoolteacher was doing running for Mayor.

I'd told them it was less different than they imagined, fighting a school board to balance a curriculum between students' learning styles, or trying to balance the different factions and interests of the district. At least a few of them had walked away unconvinced, but I'd managed to get one of the newspaper representatives deeply enthusiastic about publishing my speech.

I'm leaving the corner shop, cinnamon and cloves bagged neatly in my hand, when I spot one of my students. "Hi Descartes!" I wave at the young man. "How did you enjoy the mice-and-rats puzzle I gave you after class yesterday?"

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Nibblers [Saph] Jan 27, 2019 13:24:39 GMT -5

Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2019 13:24:39 GMT -5

Descartes was on his way home from the block of government buildings where his parents worked, having just updated himself on the status of the mayoral election. There were no newcomers to the race and no revolutionary changes to anyone's likelihood to win, according to the journalists who always swarm the stone steps of the justice building, waiting for news. He'd have to keep waiting for anything interesting.

Politics was what Descartes loved best - he loved the drama, the debates, and the intricacies of how each candidate had to present themselves to each other and to the public. While he didn't think he would ever enter the fray himself (for who would ever vote for such a bookish person like himself), he always toyed with the idea of working as an advisor when he finished school.

He was at a street corner when he heard his name. Ms. Verma, a teacher and one of the candidates for mayor, was waving at him. "I haven't started on it yet," he replied honestly to her. He had been invested in checking the journalists' polls yesterday and hadn't worked on it yet. "I'll bring the answer in the morning. How's the mayoral race going for you today?"

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Lyn𝛿is
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does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? ✯

Nibblers [Saph] Jan 27, 2019 20:23:11 GMT -5

Post by Lyn𝛿is on Jan 27, 2019 20:23:11 GMT -5

I'll bring the answer in the morning. How's the mayoral race going for you today?

Yep, that was Descartes; the one thing that captures his interest more than math is politics. (I'd contemplated giving the whole campaign a mathematical slogan, when I'd made the posters, but 'integrating the district' just didn't seem to have quite the right ring to it.)

"It's hard to tell at this point," I say, knowing that he was always eager for details on the election. "I don't know what Mayor Bloom's campaign is like, but a lot of it you don't see in the papers - asking businesses for support, or occasionally fending off journalists." The one who'd shown up to one of my classes the other day had been rather unnerving. "I have to say, it rather surprised me to get pulled aside by a group of Peacekeepers for a physical inspection."

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