exsiliumlogs | EMERGENCY DAY CARE is a go

Date & Time: Jan. 19th – Feb. 1st!
Location: Training Room (Leave your weapons and sharp objects at the door please.)
Characters: EVERYONE // OPEN TO ALL
Summary: DAY CARE! Glitter and glue and arts and crafts and snacks and naps and story time. This is basically a chance for kids to run amok and stay safe and for the unexpected parent to be relieved of such tykes while characters wishing to have some bonding time with little ones run the place. Or attempt to.

Warnings: UM. I certainly hope not.

[Welcome to make-shift Day Care. All equipment one would usually see lying around the training room floor has been scooted off to the side and blocked to prevent children from attempting to climb (although lets be honest nothing is stopping them).

There are tables for crafts and for snacks and some rugs laid out for rolling on. Toy boxes... who knows who set all of this up.

For the older crowd there are at least books to read and maybe some FUTURISTIC nerf guns, bikes, something. Go crazy. Just don’t tread on any toddlers please.

To those willing to give supervising a go, good luck.]

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["You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart--"

Someone speaks, and Lelouch loses the thread, frowning just a little before looking up. He doesn't especially mind the interruption, not with how friendly the people he's met so far have been, but the voice isn't one he recognizes. There's probably no reason to be wary, but it's a tough habit to break.]

I am.

[The briefest possible answer and therefore likely the most dismissive, but he isn't thinking of that as he examines the newcomer, still drawing a blank as to her identity. Long red hair, green eyes, and that smile... should he know her?]

Do you enjoy reading, too?

Yeah, I do. It feels like it's been a while since I've had the chance to read. [pulling up a chair to take a seat] What would you recommend?

[And now she's joining him? Again, there's no reason to be wary, but... no, stop thinking like that. She's just being friendly.

He lowers his book and glances toward the rest, resisting the urge to fidget.]

Well, there's... have you heard of Fyodor Dostoevsky? I found one of his books in the stack, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet. It's supposed to be a classic.

[NO DON'T BE NERVOUS LELOUCH she won't bite, really!!]

The name sounds a little familiar, so I probably have. [probably in class or something like that] Which one of his books is it?

[HE'LL BE NERVOUS IF HE WANTS OKAY]

Crime and Punishment. It's-- here.

[He picks out a thick volume from the hoard and holds it out. He's already quite sure that it isn't the sort of thing Shirley would normally read, but she had asked.]

I was thinking of taking it back to my room. A daycare isn't really the right setting to read a book like this.

[He's definitely right in that... But oh man is this really what royalty is like?! Reading books like this at so young an age? Or maybe it was just because it was Lelouch it's honestly hard to tell.]

I hope you have fun when you read it then! But are you sure you don't want to try playing with the other kids here?

[Spoilers: it's just Lelouch. He is, after all, the sort of child who knows that six-sided dice were invented by the Romans. Why? Because. Shirley's question makes him shrug, at any rate, and looking slightly uncomfortable, he glances to the aforementioned other kids. He could play with them, probably, but...]

I'm mostly here to supervise. Besides, I'm not really interested in most of the activities they have set up.

Supervise? You must be pretty responsible. [Or more like Lelouch did you ever change the differences between tiny kid Lelouch and the one she knows are getting harder and harder to find.]

[He shrugs a little at that, glancing away. There's quite a lot he could say on the subject, but to a total stranger like this girl...]

I'm used to it.

[In spades.]

Wow, now I'm really impressed... [She couldn't ever imagine being this studious and serious when she was that age how did you do it Lelouch, HOW?! Ah, but on that note.] Oh, I hope I'm not bothering you like this then. I did interrupt you from your reading after all.

[Royal upbringing + trying to impress some of his older siblings, mainly. Oh, and trying to show up the people at court who thought that just because his mother was a commoner, he and Nunnally were somehow second-rate. But anyway.]

There's no need to apologize. I've actually read this one before.

[He holds out the slim volume so that she can see the title. Someone's interest in Shakespeare started out early, it seems.]

Have you?

[taking a peek at the title...] Oh, I have actually. It's been a while, but I definitely remember reading it at least.

[May or may not be visibly brightening. Brace yourself.]

Do you read a lot of Shakespeare? Which play is your favorite? Have you read any of his sonnets at all? I've read some of them, but I'm not sure I understood them.

[This is probably because, genius or not, certain topics are not really meant for ten-year-olds.]

[SHE'S STRUCK GOLD...! Unfortunately it's not something she's actually too well versed in, but she'll try her best regardless?! Just don't expect insightful replies dissecting the meaning and themes of his works, Lelouch, Shirley's a good student but not that good.]

Well, I wouldn't say a lot, but we had to read some of his works before in class, both his plays and his sonnets. As for my favorite play... I liked Hamlet a lot.

[Don't worry; Lelouch won't be drilling her on specifics at this age, not when he's just happy to have found someone to talk Shakespeare with. If he had been, say, an eighteen-year-old boy taking said classes with Shirley and the topic were to come up while they were studying the plays, well, that would have been a different story.]

Hamlet? I wouldn't have guessed that. You didn't strike me as the sort to like tragedies. [She seems fairly bright and happy, after all, but he shrugs, accepting it.] Which scene is your favorite?

I think it's hard to find a play of Shakespeare's that isn't a tragedy. [Okay, maybe not that hard, but as far as Shirley was concerned that was what he was most known for.] It might seem weird, but I liked the scene when Queen Gertrude announced Ophelia's death.

[A sad scene, then, but one with beautiful imagery. He can understand, in a way, but... no, she'd already said that it might seem weird. He's not going to judge.]

I like the word play in the scene with the grave digger and most of Hamlet's soliloquies. He has the best lines.

EMERGENCY DAY CARE is a go | OPEN TO ALL

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I'M NOT DEAD....

YOU CAME BACK TO LIFE...!

WAKE ME UP INSIDE wait no

CALL MY NAME AND SAVE ME FROM THE DARK oh nvm

also i am so sorry about him and also shakespeare AHAHADFLGJKH

NO WORRIES just watch me possibly butcher shakespeare what is memory

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