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[slantedcross]

I was a teacher.

[Funny how giving the real answer never occurs to him, even when it would make a damn lot more sense.]

You would be surprised how many secrets they have to keep!

[bon_bon]

Teacher?

[ Konzen looks at this guy anew, as if he can't believe it. Teachers, he thought, looked more like Hakkai. Not that this one doesn't seem smart or anything, but he just had a very different air about him, somehow. ]

What kind of secrets do teachers keep?

[slantedcross]

Mainly what the other teachers get up to in their off hours. Or what the students do... that's not always supposed to be a secret, but sometimes it is.

[The slight look of surprise, though, he sees it, and reassures Koznen:]

Art teacher, though. Nothing actually important.

[bon_bon]

[ He snorts. ]

What do you consider actually important?

[slantedcross]

Well, certainly not the future wellbeing of our children, clearly.

It's easier to define the lack than the presence of something, in some ways.

[bon_bon]

Maybe you need to look harder, [ he says with amusement. But he doesn't really mean it as judgment. Not everyone can be like Goku -- aware of that which one can't see. It's not that there is a lack there. It's that you don't have the perspective to notice what is present. ]

[slantedcross]

Work smarter, not harder.

[He rubs his head.] Or don't work at all. I'm about to fall over.

[bon_bon]

[ Konzen's not feeling so hot, himself. Is it the sakura trees? They smell so floral and cloying, he's noticing. He sighs and rubs his head too. ]

You gonna be all right?

[slantedcross]

Usually I drink more before I get to this point, but I think so.

[Noticing Konzen rubbing his head, too...]

At least it isn't just me.