Night 41: F11-20 Hallway

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As usual, the doctor's announcement was vague and led her nowhere as far as figuring out what his intentions were went, but definitely foreboding. There was no way to tell what exactly he had in mind when he was cutting himself off like that among all the static, which was frustrating, but ... she supposed sooner or later, they would all see what would happen-- if it did.

For now, however, Naoto knew there were other important things she had to wait for, so the riddle can be further sat on later. Setting her journal back on the desk, she went to prop the door to the room open and sat back on the edge of her bed, then set the flashlight up to give the best lighting around the room she could get it to. Anyone else wouldn't be wandering around the pitch black halls without their own light, but Naoto figured it would be best if those dropping by could see easily in the room, as well.

Now, all there was to do was wait. She didn't care when in the night her radio delivery came in, but she wanted Yousuke and Kanji to hurry. There was a lot to talk about, and Naoto didn't want any of this time wasted.

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"I could show you a great many things in a proper unison," Rein said with a sad shake of her head, "But this ability is as I said a corruption. It has no such pleasant uses."

She had always been a device to learn first and teach second, but the gap between the two had grown far too wide when she'd been broken.

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"So you can't show me anything with it?" Raine tried not to look too obviously depressed... the experience had been unpleasant, but she was very willing to repeat it for a learning experience!

...if they were able to stay together for any length of time when not under this limiter, Raine suddenly had a few ideas for what they should do.

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Rein was thinking along the same lines, and pulled Raine into what she hoped was a comforting huh. "When I'm restored I'll teach you as much as you like."

It was an unusually optimistic thing for her to say, but for some reason the renewal of her magic hadn't brought with it the fears of the old cycle. If anything, she felt closer to Hayate's purpose than she had before, now...

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Raine chuckled slightly, and managed to hug her back; affection was still something she wasn't used to. "That would be marvelous. Half-elves live as long as full elves, about a thousand years, but I still don't think it's enough to learn even a fraction of what I'd like to."

She didn't even care that much of what Reinforce might be able to teach her might turn out to be essentially pure theory; at least some of it HAD to be useful, and the rest was too fascinating to pass up!

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"A thousand years..." Less than she'd lived, but a long time even by her reckoning. "You can learn a lot in that time, Raine... and forget a lot. I think it's more important to think about what you'll do with that much knowledge than worry about having enough."

She didn't usually think about these things, much, but somehow she found herself giving her opinion anyway.

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"I'm a scholar," Raine reminded her dryly. "It's not about what I'll do with it." Although all knowledge was potentially useful, and that was why she was so adamant about preventing things from being lost to time.

No matter what, she intended on getting home as soon as possible, because she was needed there. But, once the crisis was over, if traveling to worlds beyond the two she knew was possible... she just might have to look into researching immortality at some point.

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"There will always be more knowledge, though. I think if you only preoccupy yourself with what you haven't learned yet, it will be hard to be satisfied. Things like teaching, writing... using that knowledge for others, are important too."

But then, as a penitent, she had a bias towards the importance of good works in an individual's life.

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Raine nodded. "Passing knowledge on to others is a pleasure, as well." It was one reason she was a teacher, after all.

She felt reasonably recovered, so she got up carefully; thankfully, she found she was no longer shaky. "I'm ready to go if you are."

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Rein nodded back, signaling both her agreement with Raine on the joys of teaching and her readiness to leave. She'd delayed Raine long enough for this... they had other responsibilities to fulfill.

"Are we going to be working on our own tonight?" she asked. So far as she knew the clinic was without a set location for the night.

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"I don't know," Raine admitted, going for the door. "I was planning on just going to M35 and figuring out the plan from there."

Picking up her closet rod reminded her that another broom would be nice, but that had to wait. Hopefully she could just ask someone nicely to get her one.

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