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[like247]

So...

[The image behind Wendy is of a wall that looks a bit like a log cabin. Sprawled as she is, it's likely she's laying on a bed, half slumped against the wall.]

For those of you that lived with other people back home, how do you get used to the quiet here? I mean, like there's all the craziness and madness and all but like at night, when things are all slow, and it's just you... Whaddya do?

[Nope, she's not missing all that noise of brothers and all. Of course not.]

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[angewiesen]

Brothers and sisters or something?

[While Jean is very familiar with living in a barracks, he's an only child, so he doesn't understand the unique cacophonous camaraderie of family.]

There're more books here than I've ever seen in my life. And most of them aren't even about anything useful. They're just... stories.

[like247]

All brothers. All younger. It was fun!

[And while she says it with a bit of sarcasm, there's enough fondness in the way she looks away, that she's missing their loudness this much, to prove that is being a teenage girl and nothing more.

This time though she nods, getting a bit more where he comes from.]

Sometimes you need both in books, you know? Besides you can learn things from the stories too. Just sometimes the lesson isn't as clear.

[angewiesen]

Younger brothers? Sounds more like a pain.

[He thinks about having to be in charge of a bunch of rowdy underclassmen, and-- yeah, that really sounds like a pain to Jean.]

I kinda have a hard time with them. Sometimes the ideas go right over my head. I don't know what they're trying to get at.

[like247]

Yeah, well... they are. [She laughs as she says it, smirking though.] They're not horrible, I mean, for small male children.

I was kinda glad to be without them, but it's been like six months now. It gets quiet sometimes. [Yep, that's all it is. Quiet.]

Naw, I get that. I feel the same with my brothers. I mean, I didn't even spend that much time at the house, what between my job and friends but, sometimes you miss the noise.

[angewiesen]

If you're used to it, yeah. I used to live in a barracks with a bunch of other soldiers before I came here. But now I've been here so long, I've nearly forgotten what it's like.