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"Girls sneeze differently when boys are around."
Coppo stared right at Suleiman as he said it, and his expression was one of a man conveying pure fact. Suleiman, however, blinked several times, looked about their dorm as he gave a moment's though to it, and then replied: "Nuh uh. No way. That can't...I don't know, that doesn't sound right."
"It's true."
"But how? How do you just change the way you sneeze? You sneeze, you sneeze."
Coppo just smirked a little, held up his hands and wiggled his fingers, and said, "Magic."
"Pffffff! You just made this all up, didn't you."
"I was joking about the magic part. Not about the sneezing part. It's true."
"I don't think it is."
Coppo shrugged, not at all from uncertainty, but from indifference to Suleiman's disbelief. "That's fine. You can think what you want to think. But if you pay attention, you'll come back to me and you'll say, 'Coppo, you were right all along.'"
"Doubtful, man. Doubtful."
And yet, despite himself, Suleiman found that the relatively simple idea, one he so vociferously denounced in Coppo's presence, kept a firm hold in his mind. It probably wasn't good that he found himself debating the idea inside his head in class, losing awareness of what the Professor or Maester was saying for five, ten, fifteen minute stretches, as though he had skipped over or lost all memory of those periods of time. There was no way Coppo was right. No way. This was stupid. Why was he still thinking about this!? He needed to be learning the arts of magic, and the curriculum of education, not having endless, round and round, mind-fogging debates about this!
Enough was enough. He couldn't think his way out of this, since the splinter quite evidently was difficult to dislodge from his mind. No, what Suleiman knew he had to do was put it to the test. Somehow.
As luck would have it, as Suleiman during the free time on the weekend went about the halls of the College, thinking of this very means of testing Coppo's assertion, he spied the horned twins, Elyon and Eshara. And then...he felt like he was slipping off a cliff. He knew what he was going to do, and knew he wasn't going to stop himself. He'd never really made the acquaintance of the strange twins before, and this might be a weird way to make an introduction.
But Suleiman marched right up to the twins in the hall, like a man on a mission, and said, "Can I ask you two a really dumb question?"
Elyon and Eshara
Coppo stared right at Suleiman as he said it, and his expression was one of a man conveying pure fact. Suleiman, however, blinked several times, looked about their dorm as he gave a moment's though to it, and then replied: "Nuh uh. No way. That can't...I don't know, that doesn't sound right."
"It's true."
"But how? How do you just change the way you sneeze? You sneeze, you sneeze."
Coppo just smirked a little, held up his hands and wiggled his fingers, and said, "Magic."
"Pffffff! You just made this all up, didn't you."
"I was joking about the magic part. Not about the sneezing part. It's true."
"I don't think it is."
Coppo shrugged, not at all from uncertainty, but from indifference to Suleiman's disbelief. "That's fine. You can think what you want to think. But if you pay attention, you'll come back to me and you'll say, 'Coppo, you were right all along.'"
"Doubtful, man. Doubtful."
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OUT AND ABOUT IN THE COLLEGE
OUT AND ABOUT IN THE COLLEGE
And yet, despite himself, Suleiman found that the relatively simple idea, one he so vociferously denounced in Coppo's presence, kept a firm hold in his mind. It probably wasn't good that he found himself debating the idea inside his head in class, losing awareness of what the Professor or Maester was saying for five, ten, fifteen minute stretches, as though he had skipped over or lost all memory of those periods of time. There was no way Coppo was right. No way. This was stupid. Why was he still thinking about this!? He needed to be learning the arts of magic, and the curriculum of education, not having endless, round and round, mind-fogging debates about this!
Enough was enough. He couldn't think his way out of this, since the splinter quite evidently was difficult to dislodge from his mind. No, what Suleiman knew he had to do was put it to the test. Somehow.
As luck would have it, as Suleiman during the free time on the weekend went about the halls of the College, thinking of this very means of testing Coppo's assertion, he spied the horned twins, Elyon and Eshara. And then...he felt like he was slipping off a cliff. He knew what he was going to do, and knew he wasn't going to stop himself. He'd never really made the acquaintance of the strange twins before, and this might be a weird way to make an introduction.
But Suleiman marched right up to the twins in the hall, like a man on a mission, and said, "Can I ask you two a really dumb question?"
Elyon and Eshara