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[a1enzo]

A boy walks into a bar and abruptly loses half his vision.

"Huh? Is it another holiday?"

It probably is, if Bar's dressing people up. And here Enzo just intended to supplement his Academy lunch with something that doesn't make him gag. Holidays, though, are always fun and novel, so he may be taking a longer lunch than planned!

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[a1enzo]

"Yeah, but they don't want to let me help 'cause it's dangerous, so they don't want me to be there anyway."

You've hit a bit of a sore point here.

[fiery_ring]

"Yeah, being a kid can be hard. School won't let me go riding alone."

[a1enzo]

"Even sitting down?"

[fiery_ring]

Carlotta nods ruefully.

[a1enzo]

"But you just rode standing up."

[fiery_ring]

"I know. I've been able to stay on a horse on my own since I was two."

[a1enzo]

"And they still don't think you can?!"

[fiery_ring]

"They say even if I can they can't have one rule for me and another for everyone else."

[a1enzo]

Pfft, like that explanation ever flew with a kid Enzo's age.

"But you've already got the function!"

[fiery_ring]

Shrug. "Like I said, rules are annoying."

[a1enzo]

Enzo nods vehemently. "Maybe I should be a renegade like Matrix. Only then they wouldn't train me." That is problematic.

[fiery_ring]

"You mean like a rebel?"

[a1enzo]

"Kind of. He's still a Guardian, but he... had to teach himself. And some stuff happened that made him real mad with the Guardian Collective anyway. So he still mends and defends, and he's great at fighting and at Games, but there's a lot of stuff he doesn't know, and he's only got a version 1 protocol."

[fiery_ring]

"Sounds like his impatience didn't pay."

[a1enzo]

"It wasn't impatience, there was a war and then he got lost in the Games, he couldn't go to the Academy!"

[fiery_ring]

"Oh. Sorry, you implied he left."

[a1enzo]

Enzo shakes his head. "I wouldn't do that. Not really."

[fiery_ring]

"Lost in translation then." Shrug. "It doesn't matter either way."

[a1enzo]

Enzo nods and shrugs as well. Then he smirks. "Though I might if Cathode keeps assigning huge docs to write."

[fiery_ring]

"Miss Jenks gives a lot of prep too." Carlotta says sympathetically.

[a1enzo]

"What class's she?"

[fiery_ring]

"She's my form tutor."

[a1enzo]

"Form tutor?" Tutor by itself, he would get.

[fiery_ring]

Carlotta leads the horse back in for a quick groom.

"Yes. In charge of the second form."

[a1enzo]

"Is that like second term?"