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Ronnie Thurkell
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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie 
Squinting at her name plaque...and then squinting some more because it was proving to be a little more difficult to read from where he stood floating for some reason...Airey decided to save opening up that can of Sorting Hat worms for another time.
Especially given the questions Ensign Kettleburn was asking.
Sweet solstice, she was going to be one of those anti uniform appealers someday, wasn’t she?
“We don’t always get what we want in life, Ensign Kettleburn,” he replied cooling with a playful smile. He wanted to be an astronaut, for example. But he was not going to go down that road either. Nope. “But we all must start somewhere and trust me, Ensign is a much better thing to be than a redshirt.” Seriously. But since she had asked… “Which is a term coined from the original Star Trek muggle television series which aired from 1966 to 1969 and refers to a stock character in fiction who dies soon after being introduced as in the series red-shirted security personnel frequently died during episodes."
Oh sweet solstice! Time to get this show on the road!
Swim!floating his way back towards the center of the space, positioning himself in the middle of the semi circle of desks in front of the blackboard, he cleared his throat twice and then clapped his hands together loudly.
"If all of you will please hang on to your seats, we'll get started," he announced with an unnerving twinkle in his blue eyes. "WELCOME TO ASTRONOMY! Which is NOT to be confused with Astrology which is nothing but pseudoscientific hokum. For those of you who do not know me or have forgotten, I am Admiral Flamsteed, but you may also refer to me as Admiral Airey. Outside of class you may revert back to Professor Flamsteed or Professor Airey if you wish, or keep the Admiral." He was rather fond of the sound of it now. Or maybe it was the uniform that was just making him well up with pride. "BLAHBLAHSOMUCHBLAH"
Alright, now that those pleasantries were over and done...
"Forgive the irregular classroom arrangement, but as long as you all remember Newton's First Law, we shouldn't have any problems as we proceed through the lecture portion of things. Now...to get things started..." he chuckled to himself as he removed his wand from his enchanted breast pocket and waved it towards his desk to summon Pebbles to his hand and showed her off to the class. "Pebbles, my Number One, is a rock. Several of her companions will be making an appearance later in the lesson and are up for adoption for anyone interested once class has been dismissed. Now, rocks have many very important links to the field of astronomy and the history of our planet. Who would care to venture a guess as to one of these links?"
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"We don't?" Charlotte asked in genuine astonishment. Really? She usually got the things she wanted eventually, and if she didn't then she was PRETTY SURE it was because she stopped wanting them, and not because she couldn't have them. But oh now she was TORN because Davie seemed happy enough about being a sign, and Char wanted to be what Davie was, so she had to be one TOO. DILEMMA. She WAS wearing the pip though. She didn't think they looked like any pips she had ever seen, however. Probably they were vegetable pips. That would explain why she hadn't seen them, because she avoided eating her vegetables or LOOKING at the vegetables that she had to eat, if she could help it.
Aaaaaaand all this redshirt stuff went over her head. Totally. "Oh, its a muggle thing, okay." Nod. That was explanation enough. Muggle meant weird, and also almost entirely outside of her realm of experience, and also usually pretty easily dismissed. ESPECIALLY if it was super OLD muggle things. That was even before her MUM was born! Even before DAVIE's mum! AND probably both their dad's combined! so old. "Don't worry, I won't die. My mum warned me about people dying here, and I won't do it." She said this last part to be reassuring okay? It was COOL. She was PREPARED.
And she was FLOATING and enjoying it. Also she WAS wearing a skirt, but since she had stockings on underneath, it was okay.
Charlotte commenced making puzzled faces at her head of house though. Because okay, who would confuse NOMY and LOGY? Dumb people, that was who. Also what did he mean about pseudoscientific hokum? Astrology was magic, not science.
Probably he didn't have the inner eye. That was okay though, she didn't either. At least probably not. She was pretty sure. Her mum was a seer after all, so if she DID have the inner eye she would know by now maybe.
This was irregular? Char looked around. Okay so she didn't get to float in what was prooooobably an anti-gravity mist very often, but it didn't seem THAT weird to her.
She was FAR too busy a) puzzling over adopting rocks, and b) internally gushing over how SMART her best friend's answer was to properly volunteer one of her own (She gave him a very enthusiastic thumbs up). Besides, most people were saying stuff and Char already knew some of it and was bored by the rest.
Instead she started doodling costumes on a piece of parchment.
... pet rock costumes. Pebbles would look stunning in a cape.
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