video: un; Deja Boo

[schrodingersghost]

WHO: Danny and anyone
WHERE: Network Post
WHEN: Late August
WHAT: Help???
WARNINGS: None


[Danny looks more than a little stressed and tired today. He is slumped down against the back of his chair as he opens the video feed.]

So... this is kind of a funny request. But does anyone have any advice on learning how to cook? Since it kind of turns out that that's something I need to learn. Long story.

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[jackdawvision]

They’re not? That’s a surprise, I had thought they might be aware.

[A beat, while he processes what Danny just said. Then, slightly incredulous:] College? If you could afford that you could well afford to have a cook of your own. Unless that’s changed in the last couple of centuries.

[schrodingersghost]

Well, I've been dealing with all the nonsense for a year, and they still haven't been able to see any of it. Not even some of the really obvious stuff.

[Privately, Danny had been thinking for a while that maybe it was better this way. After all, he'd seen what his life could be like with parents who could see him as a ghost.]

Oh, right. Other times. Well, college is still pretty expensive. But you've still got to do it for some kinds of jobs. A lot of kids my age have to start thinking about it.

[jackdawvision]

How is that possible, to miss even some of the more obvious strangeness?

Aye, other times, and new to this world besides. [The idea of college being so widespread that it's a requirement for some jobs, as well as a given that people start considering it so early, is a frankly wild concept to Edward. Although the expensive part isn't new.] You're not being sponsored, then, are you? [That's one way for somebody to get into a university, back in the 1720s.]

[schrodingersghost]

I've got wings sometimes. They just look right through them like they're not even there. Its the whole veil thing. If it doesn't make sense to them, they can't see it.

[He frowns.]

You mean like scholarships or something? I'll probably apply for them? But most kids just have to take out some loans and pay them back once they start working.

[Explaining the college experience wasn't what Danny was expecting to do today. But he'd manage. He'd researched the industrial farming revolution for other friends. ]