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Connor's sitting at a table, with an open textbook, several pages of notes, and a milkshake.

He alternates between watching the observation window, and the people in the bar. Very occasionally he reads a few sentences from the textbook, but that never lasts long.

Come say hi.

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"Greetings, again..."

Connor looks up at Serena and smiles. "Hi."

"How have you been, Connor?"

"Good. The bar makes great shakes. And that..." He nods to the observation window. "...is amazing. Even if it's kinda disturbing to watch."

"You get used, after a while." She smiles to him.

"I can imagine." People can get used to nearly anything, after all. "How've you been?"

"Well, very well indeed..."

"Do you spend a lot of time here?"

"I like to think 'not too much', but yes, Milliways is a way to multiply my free time..."

"What do you do back in your normal world?"

"I study, mostly... several subjects."

"Really? Me too. I'm a student at, um..." He isn't sure how education works in her time. "...a big school. One of the biggest in my country."

"A University? There is one in Prague, one of the best in the world..."

He nods. "It's called Stanford. My country didn't exist back in your time, it's only a few hundred years old."

"The 'United States of America'. I have heard about it. Sounds much like a confederation, not a country..."

"I guess it is. I like it, though."

"I find it somewhat strange. It is hard to rule, if there is not a really strong central power." A nod.

"We do call ourselves the land of the free. And there's always a bunch of people who hate our President and like that it's hard for him to rule."

"But, what is freedom? What it is, to be free?"

He shrugs. "In a philisophical sense, I dunno. For the country, it's about being able to say whatever we want, follow whatever religion, things like that."

A nod making a mental note... "I see." Not wanting to extend the talk into philosophy too much.

(oh, connor can sense supernatural things?)

"What country do you live in?"

"Central Bohemia... the city of Prague. it is in Europe"

(takes while to notice, but her heartbeat is there, but very slow.)

He nods. "What's it like there?"

"It is... at once, wonderful, and terrible. It is the Dark Ages: the Long Night of human knowledge, where wonders happen in secreat places, and the Church hunts those who do not submit..."