Room 401, Saturday Evening
Oct. 20th, 2012 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nottrivialIt was officially way too loud everywhere. In town, in the common rooms, just everywhere. In the world. Ever.
All Alec wanted to do was quietly read his book on demon poison, but no. He had to be subjected to an endless loop of child shrieking. And, considering he'd only ever gotten along with one or two children even when he was a child, it was probably for the best that he keep his distance.
So for the sake of not going crazy, he was fiddling with that weird mundie music device they'd given out in Seven Deadly Sins class one week and trying to figure out how to make it work. It didn't look like it had any music on it, which couldn't possibly be right, because what was the point, then? And anyway the headphones fit strangely in his ears and the whole thing was just a disaster. Maybe he should go to the library or something. Or New York. Or overseas. Just to be safe.
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All Alec wanted to do was quietly read his book on demon poison, but no. He had to be subjected to an endless loop of child shrieking. And, considering he'd only ever gotten along with one or two children even when he was a child, it was probably for the best that he keep his distance.
So for the sake of not going crazy, he was fiddling with that weird mundie music device they'd given out in Seven Deadly Sins class one week and trying to figure out how to make it work. It didn't look like it had any music on it, which couldn't possibly be right, because what was the point, then? And anyway the headphones fit strangely in his ears and the whole thing was just a disaster. Maybe he should go to the library or something. Or New York. Or overseas. Just to be safe.
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Date: 2012-10-21 01:30 am (UTC)"Thanks," he said, mildly surprised that that had worked. "I haven't used one of these before. I thought it'd be easier than this."
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Date: 2012-10-21 01:37 am (UTC)His mother would have told him that was a rude question, but she wasn't there.
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Date: 2012-10-21 01:44 am (UTC)Oh, Alec. That was the wrong way to refer to a seven-year-old. Really now.
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Date: 2012-10-21 02:05 am (UTC)His mother, again, might have disagreed.
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Date: 2012-10-21 02:08 am (UTC)"Well," Alec said, "do you know what to do now? I guess it's... on."
He held out the iPod. Sure enough, it was on, but there was no music on it, seeing as how he hadn't set it up yet. Plus it seemed to want him to calibrate some settings, which was just... way out of his league.
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Date: 2012-10-21 02:16 am (UTC)Alec, wee Victor thinks you are a dumbass.
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Date: 2012-10-21 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-21 02:38 am (UTC)IT WAS A LOGICAL QUESTION.
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Date: 2012-10-21 02:46 am (UTC)"A teacher was giving them out," Alec said, shrugging. "I didn't know it didn't do anything."
And now he was fixing that iPod with an unhappy glare. COME ON, IPOD. BE SMARTER.
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Date: 2012-10-21 02:56 am (UTC)He did not have a computer. Or, rather, the one his older self used was tucked snug in a carrying case, and was password protected anyhow.
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Date: 2012-10-21 03:05 am (UTC)It was not password-protected. It also lacked iTunes. Whoops.