Smell the Coffee

Kada · Aug 12, 2016

The evening air around the campus was filled with the gentle din of students leaving their late afternoon classes and the stirrings of those getting ready for night classes. Clèment had found his way to his favorite coffee shop on campus, a small but lively place called the Blend. He liked to come here when he was done grading papers, before his next round of classes started, and read a book. He always bought a coffee, though he of course never tried to drink it. The warmth in his hand and the smell helped create a relaxing ambiance that he thoroughly enjoyed. Sitting at one of the small tables scattered around the shop, he thumbed lazily through his book.

The book that Clèment was reading was an interesting little tome about a religion that had cropped up just a handful of years before, based on a a cult film he had never seen. It was very Taoist, with a charming Epicureanism to it. But on the whole it was a very plain language philosophy, so he could see the appeal that it had. But it was nothing he hadn't read before and he was mostly reading it now simply to have something to do; hoping that someone who wasn't busy and who wasn't too put off by his appearance might engage him in conversation. Every now and again, Clèment would glance up, seeing who entered and exited the coffee shop. He appreciated the minds, young and old, that gathered to this place to learn. He could also tell the students who were new, as they tended to instinctively shrink from his skeletal appearance.

Kaya · Aug 12, 2016

Trent Evensman

It had been a usual day in class, another test to take here, a pop quiz there. Plus the mirade of complaints that some students thought 'original' it could only make Trent sigh in displeasure as he held a stack of papers needing grading under his arm as he walked into the coffee shop Blend for some tea. It didn't take him long to order his tea and as he waited for it he took a look around he found a familiar face...well a familiar skull as it were...

It was then that his order was called and he got his order and he began to walk over to his fellow teacher and looking to the empty seat. "Is this taken Lamont?" As he asked his question Trent pulled out some leaves from a pocket in his long mage robes and sprinkled into the cup in his hand. "You seem to be quite bored my friend."

Kada · Aug 12, 2016

Clèment looked up and opened his jaw slightly, imitating a smile as bet he could as Trent walked closer. He had noticed Trent come in, and shut his book in response to the other man's approach. "Oh, of course not, Evensman. Please, sit down." His voice echoed out, somewhat louder than he might have intended.

Taking his cup of coffee in both hands, Clèment leaned forward a bit and gave an exaggerated shrug. "Do I now? Hm, I suppose perhaps I am. So many students today are more concerned with the numbers on their papers than actually learning something."

"But I suppose you know that well enough," he said, gesturing to the stack of papers that Trent carried. "How have you been though?"

Kaya · Aug 12, 2016

Moving at his own pace he sat down after the simple prompting of the lich. "Thank you, been a long day." It took him a second to settle the stack of papers down on the table as well as he used a bit of his magics to stir the cup of tea there in front of him. Pulling the top most paper off the stack and pulled it in front of him. "I can agree with that. I keep feeling like they don't sleep enough, don't eat enough, and gods forbid they actually do their work and turn it in too."

Trent couldn't help but smile himself as he said it though. "I've been good myself. Miss my young days though sometimes with all these young kids around having their adventures down in the town. I use to have to walk weeks to find half as much excitement in my day." Trent gave a lower chest chuckle at that though. "But I guess we two immortals could go on all day about glory days long past."

looking over the paper he found it lower then par and graded it accordingly before taking a sip of his magic enchanced tea."How's your own kids doing this semester? Mine seem to have found their brains during class but now their not even trying it seems." He took the next paper of the stack as he moved his first paper to the side.

Kada · Aug 12, 2016

Clèment let out a chuckle and put the coffee cup down onto the table. "True enough. I wish my students would understand just how nice it is to sleep. I can't even remember what sleep feels like."

"It is good though, I think, that the commodities are so close. It's exciting to see how we have advanced. I too remember when anything I wanted was at least a half a day's travel away." Clèment shook his head and gave a wave of his hand. "As for my own students, I find that not as many people want to take philosophy any deeper than the introductory courses. And the ones who take my introductory course want the information watered down into bites of content that they can memorize. Philosophy isn't something you can just regurgitate mindlessly." The lich couldn't help but let the disappointment drip from his voice.

Kaya · Aug 13, 2016

"I think now a days hatchlings just don't see the gain they could have from such courses. When I was still gallivanting around my home country side the gods were quite active in my world. Philosophy wasn't so much a... i guess 'Theoretical' science there. it was more mixed in with Theology and well, When there are avatars of gods in every other city it wasn't a lot of hypotheticals running amock for mortals to question." Trent took another sip of tea as he looked at the next page in front of him. It was from one of his more bright student and it was excelling much better on paper then some of his other students.

He glanced up at Lamont for a second and gave a toothy grin as he remembered something. "I dated one actually. Avatar to the Goddess of Fertility. She was quite lovely but we both knew it was temporary, I was young and a rare breed at the time. Now? I'm not even sure if that goddess is still worshiped in my world any more it's been so long." Letting out a lamented sigh he looked towards the young people in the coffee shop. Seeing them be so energetic and free.

"Though I guess, I myself haven't gotten much into Philosophy honestly. I've been distracted with my side projects and then my travels before finally setting down some better roots here. Though trying to get the students to pay attention to a Magical Creatures biology has been quite off and on depending on the species..." Trent moved his pen over a couple more pages while he talked, more to himself outloud but still to his current conversational companion.

Kada · Aug 13, 2016

Clèment nodded along with Trent, watching the man grade papers intently. "I have not enjoyed any particularly noteworthy romances in my time. But I imagine that your dalliance was interesting to say the least."

"But I don't see philosophy as theoretical at all. You are a biologist, Evensman. You have so much fascinating knowledge, and I thoroughly enjoyed that lecture you gave on the divergent evolution of merfolk. Fascinating, truly. But the question itself of why this has that or why that is like this; that is philosophy. How and why and what we think, are, and do; all of it. I simply can't fathom why students seem to care so little for it. Back when I first entered scholarly pursuits, that was all that we had. We had particular sciences, but it all fed back to philosophy."

Clèment put his hand to his temple and shook his head, clicking his teeth together lightly. Slumping back in his chair, he added, "My apologies. I am rambling again. You did not sit with me to hear me gripe. Which of your courses are you grading for right now?"

Kaya · Aug 13, 2016

"It's a good thing to ramble. Keeps the mind flowing. Plus we are both teachers, so i think of anything we should understand the need to monolog when needed to get a point across." Trent had even finished a couple more of the papers while Lamont lemented the younger generations inadequate need for proper philosophical quandries.

"To be honest on that lecture though it was more a spur of the moment to allow me to properly explain why a Rust Monster evolved the way it did. But the model I have found to hold up to quite a bit of other different such divergence in other races as well. Though I have had a terrible time trying to put Dragons into the same divergences pattern. There are just so many different types its hard to find the common ancestor of all if them." Giving a rye chuchle again as he raised his tea again and took a sip.

"And there I go on my own tangent. We certainly are old farts aren't we." Trent smiled some more as he looked down at the paper in front of himself again.

Kada · Aug 13, 2016

"Old indeed. Though if I recall you've got a great many more years on you than these old bones." Clèment responded in kind with his own chuckle, shaking his head slightly. Leaning forward momentarily, he grabbed his cup of coffee once again and held it close to his face with both hands.

"Off the cuff as it may have been, it was a masterful piece of rhetoric. Perhaps I should replace my standard written assignments with formal debates. I'm sure the headmistress would hear no end of complaints."

Kaya · Aug 13, 2016

Trent gave a small loud laugh at the suggestion of debates between students while they were in the class room then any written tasks. "I would pay to see that. Though they will not admit it most of the children these days live for the debate or an argument."

"I have heard of 'flame wars' on the Internet over something as little as if their favorite dessert was cake or pie. I'd say go for it, let them argue it out and have at each other." It was hard for Trent to repress his laughter at the thought of it though. "I would do the same in my class if it was something they could argue about. But alas biology doesn't give form to much debate then a group consensus on what certain parts of a body do what."

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