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powerispain

The first class Milan's decided to audit is a half-hour before Odette's first class, but she can get up early and show him the way, if he wants.

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"Guess so."

powerispain

"It's sort of weird how many things have been developed but only for one branch."

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"Mm?"

powerispain

"Oh, it's something I see a lot of--there's a special library where you can look up--how to do things, basically, and there's a lot of cases where the instructions will be for only on branch, or sometimes two but not the third, or it looks like there's only one but the others are there just more obscure and complicated."

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"- huh. Yeah, that's weird."

powerispain

"I think it's mostly that on aggregate a lot of people find certain things easier to do using certain mindsets but I'm not sure."

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"And then there's people like me who can do Sympathy and Conquest simultaneously without particular difficulty."

powerispain

"That's still really weird. I mean, not bad weird, but still way unusual."

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"It seems perfectly natural to me! They're the same thing, from a certain perspective!"

powerispain

"And it's a weird perspective!"

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"I suppose."

powerispain

"Milan, does it surprise you that you're exceptional?"

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"Well. No."

powerispain

"Well then."

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He smiles.

powerispain

She grins back.

"So," she says whimsically, "you can't sing, but can you dance?"

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"Yes, actually!"

powerispain

"Ah, but can you dance at normal speeds, or just very fast?"

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Snicker.

powerispain

"Better question: do you want to dance?"

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"Sure!"

powerispain

She grins and holds out her hands as the strains of dancing music pick up out of nowhere.

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Dancing!

powerispain

Dancing! Odette has a better sense of Milan's style than he has of hers, at first, since she wasn't actually dancing that first night, but it shouldn't take him too long to get an idea.

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