Long Overdue Explanations

[Nailah Weaver]

"Bion? Like the Greek philosopher?" Nailah asks, quirking an eyebrow.

[Roland Sackville]

"Believe me, I am no philosopher. Or would you like to see my large collection of swords."

[Nailah Weaver]

"No one has to be just one thing." she just says with a slight shrug. "Especially someone that old."

[Roland Sackville]

"Most people are, I'm afraid you'll find."

[Regan Rourke]

Regan rolls her eyes, but keeps her mouth shut this time.

[Roland Sackville]

"So, erm, if there are no, uh...more questions for today...I don't actually, erm....have anything else, um, planned, so, I guess, erm, class would....be...dismissed?"

[Calvin Strong]

Cal, meantime, was deep in internet searches. "Huh. Thebes..."

[Roland Sackville]

"Did you say something, Mr. Strong?" Roland said, surprised.

[Calvin Strong]

Cal shrugged. "From Thebes... cursed by the gods... man, the internet sucks for this sort of thing... Especially without being able to filter out bullshit that Sophocles made up..." For once, he seemed to be too intent on figuring something out to make wise-ass coments.

[Roland Sackville]

"If you continue your studies in history, Mr. Strong, you'll find that's a common problem -- people lie all the time, and history is written by the winners.

No one ever talks about Alexander's pederasty, for example."

[Calvin Strong]

"Well, they probably did, but the ones who did probably all got killed," he said, still searching for all he was worth, but coming up rather fruitless.

[Roland Sackville]

"Erm, some of them, yes..."

[Regan Rourke]

"And the others had to live a torturous existence where their friends were all killed or died, leaving them constantly alone," Regan says.

[Calvin Strong]

"And didn't just about everyone do it anyway back then? It's like 'Oh, Obama? He totally went five miles over the speed limit wherever he went.'" And, in his distracted state, Cal didn't think about the fact that someone in the room had BEEN one of the people 'back then'.

[Roland Sackville]

"And others of us...no, Miss Rourke, I'm going to choose NOT to sink to that level."

[Regan Rourke]

"The emotion I am registering right now is dull surprise."

[Roland Sackville]

"Really? That's different than your normal hate and disdain, are you feeling quite alright?"

[Regan Rourke]

"You don't deserve my hate."

[Roland Sackville]

"Keep digging."

[Calvin Strong]

"Actually that's better than anyone else has gotten," Cal put in, settling back to keep his internet searches up. "Take what you can get, man."