✏ ( oo1 ) | dictated ; action | even if you're little you can do a lot

[revolter]

[ As some people may have noticed, a few colorful ads have been hanged about the castle, mainly in the most crowded areas. Now you may hear the voice of the girl who hanged them, as she'll read the content of one. ]

Needed: a teacher.

To teach one of the following subjects!

Math; mostly including algebra and geometry, geography, history, literature and poetry, foreign languages of any kind, law.

I know there are people from many worlds in the castle and would appreciate learning of other worlds and their cultures, not just my own.

My name is Matilda Womrwood, I am six and half years old and can be found in the library. I would be very grateful for any help at all.

[ maybe she wrote down that little speech.

action; Matilda can be found sitting in an armchair in the library, surrounded by books of various subjects. Some of them are study books, others are novels. Currently, she's reading Hamlet. ]

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dictated;

[nukeoleptic]

[ Jade's tone is sleepy, warm. She has pretty clearly just recently awoken from a nap. ]

Do you still need a math teacher?

dictated;

[revolter]

Yes, please, if you can.

[ a beat. ]

I'm sorry for waking you.

[nukeoleptic]

It's okay. I woke myself up, honest.

[ Jade's voice is warm, pleased. ]

I can come to the library, if you'd like.

[revolter]

Yes, please, if you're not busy. I'm on the armchair, but I can go sit at a table.

[nukeoleptic]

I'll be there in just a few minutes.

[revolter]

I'll be waiting.

[ can you hear the grin, Jade? ]

What's your name?

[nukeoleptic]

[ She can, and she likes it. So she'll simply mimic Matilda's introduction: ]

My name is Jade Harley, and I'm fifteen and a half, almost.

[revolter]

It's nice to meet you, Jade Harley.

[nukeoleptic]

And you, too, Matilda Wormwood. I'll be up there soon- I'm tall for a girl my age and I have really long black hair and fluffy white dog ears. I am hard to miss!

[revolter]

Dog ears?

[ She may be a child but she's not a judgemental child towards new people. Especially when they're nice. ]

I'm in the armchair, the blue one. Next to the shelves with the Shakespeare books.

[nukeoleptic]

Then I'll see you in a minute.

[ She shuts the journal and will be there, a few minutes later, in the library. Jade hadn't been lying; she does have dog ears, fluffy white ones that are perked with curiosity as she peers around the seat to where Matilda is sitting. ]

Have you read any Shakespeare before?

[revolter]

A little.

[ she tries not to stare. She was told there would be people here from all sorts of places but dog ears. The question about Shakespeare helps. ]

A few months ago I read A Midsummer Night's Dream in the library. It's about fairies.

[nukeoleptic]

I've never read that one.

[ Jade doesn't mind the staring, if Matilda breaks down and does so- she's used to it, and she smiles as she slides into a chair across from her. ]

Could you tell me about it?

[revolter]

There are the fairy king and queen and they are fighting over a child, they both want to raise him but they can't agree on how and then there is Hermia and her father is trying to tell her who to marry and she's in love with another boy - I think his name is Lysander.

[ a beat. ]

He's not very smart.

[nukeoleptic]

It sounds like a pretty complicated story. [ She has her head tilted back, considering the books. ]

Was it good?

[revolter]

It was funny. One of the fairies changed the head of someone to a head of a donkey and the queen of fairies fell in love with him. Because of magic.

[nukeoleptic]

Maybe I could teach you math and science and you could tell me which books to read, huh?

[revolter]

I'd like that. It can be like a trade, right? What do you like to read? I read a lot of books at home. Romance and adventures and some that were scary and others that were funny.

[nukeoleptic]

I like adventures! I haven't read so many romance books, though. And I like funny things, too.

[ Jade just wishes up a sheet of paper and a pen- she's sketching out little lesson plans, excited. ]

[revolter]

You should read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It's by Mark Twain. I read it before I came here, I thought it was wonderful. Ivanhoe, too.

[nukeoleptic]

I'll take them back to my room and start tonight, then.

[ And she will, too; Jade hasn't read a lot of literature, but it's not as if there's much more to do here. ]

[revolter]

You can tell me what you think. And I can work on what you'll teach me. You can give me homework, I can work on them in the morning.

[nukeoleptic]

That sounds perfect. I'll make a worksheet for you here, okay? And - do you think you'd like chemistry?

[revolter]

[ she nods eagerly, clutches her book to her as if she had just offered her to go to Disneyland. ]

Yes, please. That would be wonderful.

[nukeoleptic]

Perfect!

[ Matilda's delight is mirrored in Jade's own face. ]

I'll see you soon, then, with some homework.