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One ka-mai in the bar with coffee and a thoughtful look on his face. Have at.
[Summary: Cuthbert talks about Cort's visit to the bar with Roland, who seems a bit disappointed that Bert didn't get hit, with Lilly, who finds the idea of apprentice gunslingers having to prove their manhood by beating Cort up and taking his stick amusing, I can't imagine why, and with Susan, with whom he is angstily nostalgic about Gilead.]
[Summary: Cuthbert talks about Cort's visit to the bar with Roland, who seems a bit disappointed that Bert didn't get hit, with Lilly, who finds the idea of apprentice gunslingers having to prove their manhood by beating Cort up and taking his stick amusing, I can't imagine why, and with Susan, with whom he is angstily nostalgic about Gilead.]
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"Relax, Koosh, he didn't seem to mind. We actually had a great conversation once I found out we had friends in common."
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"Cort was...is...not exactly the sort of person who has friends."
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"Well, not you guys. You were his students, and apparently some of you," and she pauses to grin at him, "were not the best students you could be."
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"Well, what's a teacher without an unruly student here or there? If I hadn't kept him on his mettle, he'dve gotten rusty."
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"I don't know, if he could figure out you were making faces by the reflection in another student's eyes, it doesn't sound like he was in any danger of getting rusty to me."
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"Well. For the record, what he probably didn't tell you, considering he was here from an earlier time, is that I kicked his ass good and proper when I was fifteen. So there."
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"Were you supposed to kick his ass when you graduated or something? Because I think that is a tradition that my high school was totally missing out on."
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"Oh, yar. Not when we graduated, precisely--we had a ceremony for that once all of us had done it--but it was how we became gunslingers. Where'd you think he got all those scars from?"
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And no, that's not Freudian in any way.
...Shut up.
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"Ohhhhh, that kind of 'trial,'" she says in between gigglefits. "Why didn't you say? I understand so much more about you guys now."
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"What? It was a tradition going back centuries."
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And then catches up.
"Your mind is going places it shouldn't, young lady."
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"What do you mean, Koosh? I shouldn't think about ancient traditions?"
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He just eyes her.
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"Would you believe attempting to respect your traditions no matter how giggle-inducing they might be?"