Spiritless Life

Social Life

After a while Dolph and Karam went to find her classes

"To awaken a kinship between students and to allow them to create connections, the principal created a room where everyone can eat together." Dolph explained without being asked.

"So it's not normal for schools- I mean academies- to have a cafeteria?"

"No. Was it for you?"

"Yes. Because you go to school early in the day and than stay until just before dinner, the school sometimes takes care of your meals. Of course, one is allowed to bring their own."

"Go to school early?"

"Ya. Most of the time you would commute everyday to school from your home. But sometimes, if you lived to far away, schools would have dorms. This school follows that practice, it would seem."

"I see."

"Hey, let me down?"

Dolph and Karam had become used to carrying and being carried, respectively. Though Karam felt that it wouldn't be natural for the other students and would instead drag attention to herself. Because Karam had never been one to favor attention, she had asked to break their regular practice. Due to this, Dolph was required to slow his pace to match Karam's.

"Are there people that live here? It seems very barren." Karam asked as they walked down yet another hallway of doors.

"Yes, I would imagine that their would be?"

"We are on the third floor, maybe there are just less people here than on the ground floor."

Eventually, they made their way down to the first floor. "Oh, you think that's it?" Karam drug Dolph down a hallway.

"No princess that's a training hall."

She stopped at the open door to a large room. "Wow. what is this a Gymnasium?"

"I'm not sure what that is, but we call it a training hall."

Inside was a two story room. It had tools and protrusions on the walls and mats on the floor which were being used. On each mat were two students fighting and a teacher instructing them.

"Oh, is there a club practice? We better not bother them." Karam and Dolph turned away to begin their extrusion. "Wait, we should ask them where it is!"

Karam turned back to enter, but Dolph stopped her. "They are having class, it's probably best not to interrupt them. We should wait for them to finish."

"Oh. I was already planning to do so... but thanks." Karam smiled at him. She went inside and sat against the wall to watch them. Dolph scolded himself for saying unnecessary things and sat next to her.

"What's a club?"

"Extra curricular activity." By now, Kara didn't even look at him to see if he was joking. She realized earlier that their worlds really are different. Before, she could ignore that fact because she had been sheltered in her own little world, but now that she was coming to understand more about the world in which she now lived she was no longer able to ignore this fact.

"Curricular?"

"Um..." Karam turned away from the fight she was watching to explain it to Dolph, "The curricular of a school is a the general knowledge that all students must learn. But there are also classes out of that, classes which the students themselves have a little more control over. For instance, sports. There are many sports that people learn and play and compete against others with as their activity. Others might be book clubs or occult clubs or... what might you understand better... skinning animals or learning to cook them or hunting or learning how to fight with a sword could also be" Karam made air quotation marks, "'extra activities' as well. The students are allowed to choose what they wish to have as their club. Sometimes they are just for fun, and other times they will help the people in that particular club to excel in life."