[ti]Ep 2.5[/ti]Field Trip (Dart, Closed)
Feb 9, 2018 3:14:07 GMT -5
Post by Dart on Feb 9, 2018 3:14:07 GMT -5
Dart thought about Raf's question.
It was one she honestly didn't know if there was one single answer for. Why did people go to these places when they obviously had no interest in them? It wasn't just kids, either, she'd seen so many bored adults walking on the Hoover Dam, as if they were just shuffling through the motions of the day, one more task to get through, one more wonder of the world to check off the bingo list.
She'd seen and heard people in the woods; they'd brought with them their RV's, fired up the satellite TV, and never left the confines of their protected camper before they drove back home to park themselves right back on the sofa. That wasn't learning a thing about the world around you. It wasn't stopping to look at the amazing parts of it you might miss. Like the sniff of mint next to a cow pasture, or the feat of human engineering that spread a star map out under your feet and turned a river into a lake in the desert.
Or lifting up a fossil and realizing that your fingers were touching something that was living millions of years ago. Holding something that perhaps no other living thing had come across in all that time, buried until that one moment.
Between the faded white lines, the Trans Am peered out around herself, and watched a group of kids heading up a path. Most of them were on their phones. Only one or two of them were talking to a friend, or focused on something around them.
"Probably," Dart admitted thoughtfully to him even as she hitched her pack up higher on her shoulder. "It's not part of the curriculum needed for a passing grade, is it? If not, I guess yeah, parents making you go here thinking they're getting you out of the house for a while makes the most sense to me too."
"Well, hey, I'd rather be out here than in a classroom. Don't get me wrong, I love learning stuff and I love reading... but I like outside, hands-on learning better than lecture halls," she chuckled.
Especially long lectures dedicated to conquering the world, she thought, but was careful to keep that inside her head where it belonged.
His smile though - it lit up the spaces between them and drew her right back into the here and now and far away from dwelling on those Decepticon moments. Instead, it let her be thrilled about the fact that she was just standing here, talking to someone who was just as delighted about a simple fern fossil as she was.
"Oh awesome," she said, glancing over at him as she slowed down slightly to let him catch up alongside. She retraced her steps carefully, scanning the side of the path. "As long as it's okay, we can just enjoy what they are all missing."
A pause. "Hey, you read a lot, right?"
He seemed like he sure did. Anyone who knew what a Yutyrannus had to. Dart was an avid reader herself; getting her hands on books had been one of the absolute best things about having an avatar projector. Being able to go in and read in the book store, heck, buying books to read later was her one guilty pleasure. When she found she could trade them back in for credit, it had been absolutely wonderful; a library that she didn't need an identification card to take a book out of. She could save up, buy it, return it for credit, and get a new one. Paperbacks were cheap, and so were last year's textbooks.
Curiously, she inclined her head and eyed Raf as they walked along. "Read anything lately you'd recommend, I'm always on the hunt for good books. Any authors or genres you really like?"
It was one she honestly didn't know if there was one single answer for. Why did people go to these places when they obviously had no interest in them? It wasn't just kids, either, she'd seen so many bored adults walking on the Hoover Dam, as if they were just shuffling through the motions of the day, one more task to get through, one more wonder of the world to check off the bingo list.
She'd seen and heard people in the woods; they'd brought with them their RV's, fired up the satellite TV, and never left the confines of their protected camper before they drove back home to park themselves right back on the sofa. That wasn't learning a thing about the world around you. It wasn't stopping to look at the amazing parts of it you might miss. Like the sniff of mint next to a cow pasture, or the feat of human engineering that spread a star map out under your feet and turned a river into a lake in the desert.
Or lifting up a fossil and realizing that your fingers were touching something that was living millions of years ago. Holding something that perhaps no other living thing had come across in all that time, buried until that one moment.
Between the faded white lines, the Trans Am peered out around herself, and watched a group of kids heading up a path. Most of them were on their phones. Only one or two of them were talking to a friend, or focused on something around them.
"Probably," Dart admitted thoughtfully to him even as she hitched her pack up higher on her shoulder. "It's not part of the curriculum needed for a passing grade, is it? If not, I guess yeah, parents making you go here thinking they're getting you out of the house for a while makes the most sense to me too."
"Well, hey, I'd rather be out here than in a classroom. Don't get me wrong, I love learning stuff and I love reading... but I like outside, hands-on learning better than lecture halls," she chuckled.
Especially long lectures dedicated to conquering the world, she thought, but was careful to keep that inside her head where it belonged.
His smile though - it lit up the spaces between them and drew her right back into the here and now and far away from dwelling on those Decepticon moments. Instead, it let her be thrilled about the fact that she was just standing here, talking to someone who was just as delighted about a simple fern fossil as she was.
"Oh awesome," she said, glancing over at him as she slowed down slightly to let him catch up alongside. She retraced her steps carefully, scanning the side of the path. "As long as it's okay, we can just enjoy what they are all missing."
A pause. "Hey, you read a lot, right?"
He seemed like he sure did. Anyone who knew what a Yutyrannus had to. Dart was an avid reader herself; getting her hands on books had been one of the absolute best things about having an avatar projector. Being able to go in and read in the book store, heck, buying books to read later was her one guilty pleasure. When she found she could trade them back in for credit, it had been absolutely wonderful; a library that she didn't need an identification card to take a book out of. She could save up, buy it, return it for credit, and get a new one. Paperbacks were cheap, and so were last year's textbooks.
Curiously, she inclined her head and eyed Raf as they walked along. "Read anything lately you'd recommend, I'm always on the hunt for good books. Any authors or genres you really like?"