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[tucky]

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[tucky]

We do, but maybe they ain't the same as what you have.

[mentornomore]

Where children live with teachers to watch them?

[tucky]

Like school? Boarding school?

Those are only for rich people where I come from. Or orphans, maybe. If they get a scholarship.

[mentornomore]

Lessons too, when they're older, yes. Though more complicated things you learn from whatever caste you're in, or from mentors.

[tucky]

Do any kids live with their parents?

[mentornomore]

They spend plenty of time together. There's just bowers for children in the nurseries.

[tucky]

So they just don't live together?

How do they look out for their kids if they don't live together? Is it not their job?

[mentornomore]

It's not like they're very far away. Most of the court sleeps in the teachers' bowers right now, since there aren't many of us.

[tucky]

Do they still feel like yours?

[mentornomore]

Yes. Maybe if I was used to doing it a different way?

[Sometimes there's just a wall of incompatible experience.]

[tucky]

Yeah, probably. And if I was used to your way it wouldn't seem weird to me. It's, like... culture shock now, though.

[mentornomore]

I'm starting to get used to that.

[tucky]

It gives you a more open mind. Or maybe you already got one. I didn't.

[mentornomore]

I'm getting better at it. Having Stone and Moon around you can't help knowing at least a little bit about what other people do.

[tucky]

You miss them a lot. I can tell.

[mentornomore]

I do, but I'm here on purpose. Home will be better when I'm me again.

[tucky]

Did they do the same thing you did, and switch groups?

[mentornomore]

No, just me. Moon didn't even know me back when I was a mentor.

[The sudden question of whether he'd like the change is surprisingly distressing, but not enough to shake Chime's resolve.]

It doesn't happen often. We had to beg at a few different courts' libraries to even prove it had happened before.

[tucky]

Are you still gonna be able to be friends with them?

[mentornomore]

I'm sure things will change, but I liked things better before.

[tucky]

How long has it been since it happened?

[mentornomore]

Almost four turns. Enough time for the court to be more or less saved. No need to turn anyone else into a stupid waste of space.

[tucky]

... Do you know what months and years are? Weeks? 'Cause I don't know what a turn is.

[mentornomore]

Turn of the seasons?

[Which is not quite the same timeframe as on earth, and not a universal way of marking time in the Three Worlds, but close enough.]

[tucky]

Do you have four seasons?