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Ambrose Goldstraw: Inventor, dancer, part-time genius and defective-for-hire. Now teaching at the OZ School of Science!

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@Wyatt_Cain There’s going to be a Solstice Faculty Ball...

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@Wyatt_Cain Maybe. It just looks weird, light under his door after hours. Someone could be stealing teeth!

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@Wyatt_Cain Old Mildew’s light is still on. You think he’s taken up midnight dentistry?

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@SwidgeyJake I know! I saw you at the school today. Who’s looking after Echo while you’re out?

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@Wyatt_Cain Yes please! I’ll be home soon - late meeting with a student. Table in the corner? I love the window seat, but it’s so distracting!

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There’s a faculty lounge at the School. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to go in there or not - the other staff seem okay, but they’re kinda stand-offish. And nobody else wears a hat all the time...

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I wonder if Mrs H could knit me a zipper-cosy?

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Today we are going to design a self-loading repeating snowball cannon.

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Had a very satisfactory snowball fight with several students in the Quad. Try to knock my hat off will you, kiddos? Oh no. I don’t think so.

I have science on my side...

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It’s snowing!

Uayatte, come and look - it’s snowing!

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But in my Glitch-self, I found a capacity for happiness that exceeded anything I thought possible. Perhaps it was a preservation mechanism. Perhaps some unexpected by-product of my injury.

I won’t question it.
I will learn from it.

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I’m still not used to being connected to the Archive outside Anapolis Place. In a way, it’s less... fun. Levaba take me; that sounds ungrateful. But when I’m only working with my Glitch-brain, I find the strangest things bring a rush of endorphins.

Ducks.

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I remember, after the eclipse, how hard it was to leave the Sunseeder, the Khuadelin viewers who could make me, briefly, whole again. I remember how ashamed I was of that ‘other’ self, so reduced. So limited.

I know better, now. I have known joy. I have felt delight.

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They’re kinda quiet, and they sit right at the back, away from the others. I don’t teach a fledgling class, so I didn’t see them last year. I wonder if they’re okay?

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There are two Munchkins in this year’s class! I think this is the first time the School ever admitted Munchkin kids (well, other than me, but mjesanca don’t count).

@Wyatt_Cain isn’t it wonderful!?

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@Wyatt_Cain I better keep my hat on when they read that line!

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@Wyatt_Cain So you can say that I’m respectable, and have no vices, except for the big one in the Archive, but that’s just for holding things still.

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@Iz_Dizzy Could be!