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☼ sciel ☾ ([personal profile] searingbond) wrote2025-09-15 09:47 am
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-13 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The doctrine of aspiration, or even one of iterative improvement, is not an easy thing to swallow. Yes, Jasnah can imagine — without knowing the details of Sciel's group — that some might be disappointed in a challenge for it's own sake. Jasnah herself doesn't love the idea of wasted effort. But it's a practice, day in and day out, to remind herself of her oaths.

Her thoughts catch and snag there for a moment longer, idly shelving books, until Sciel says something else that's just a bit more tempting to chase. Her students? ]


I didn't realize you were a teacher.

[ She doesn't mean to sound so...doubtful. It's just that Sciel isn't quite like the scholar-tutors common to Alethi culture. Or even Rosharan as a whole. ]
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-14 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ If Jasnah feels a pang of shame for the question she doesn't ask — but Sciel nevertheless anticipates — she does well not to show it. It's not that Sciel isn't clever or capable...but. Well. Perhaps Jasnah's expectations are unfairly high for tutors as it is for wards. For what it's worth, she doesn't consider herself to be a terribly good teacher either. There's a reason why she's accepted so few students in her lifetime. ]

I have no doubt you did well by those children.

[ Easy to tell the truth. Jasnah understands, now, that it's not just about the information you can put into someone's head — but how you put it there. ]

And — [ a pause like she's testing out the way empathy tastes on her tongue. ] I'm sorry. I won't complain that you're here, now, but I imagine it's hard to consider what you've left behind.

[ Before the Expedition or otherwise. ]
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-15 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ She accepts Sciel's recognition — you've been a bit part of that — with grace and a wordless nod. Not everyone in Urithiru, nor on Roshar as a whole, might be so...well-adjusted to the idea of a visitor from another world. There had been some unfortunate smoothing-over that had to happen during Sciel's earlier days. No fault of her own, just good old xenophobia.

But Jasnah had spotted the pattern. A woman, disruptive to the cultural norms, striding fully against the flow of their insular society. Even when taking into account the different groups of refugees in the tower. From there, it had been a quick and easy decision to try and bring Sciel under her purview.

Deflecting some of the darker topics, she goes back to the notion of Sciel teaching. ]


What was your favourite subject to cover?
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-15 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's so...different. Different from what she knows. Different from what she expects. At that age, so much education happens within the home — laying a solid foundation of scholarship before an adolescent is placed with an older woman for her wardship. What chaos it must have been, with a class of small children... ]

— Don't you write any of your own?

[ Poetry, that is. It's such a second-nature type of thing. Jasnah can hardly be accused of being poetic, but she's written plenty. It's part of that same expectation so subverted by the idea of classes of children.

Although she does at least agree with Sciel on the distinction between boring subjects and boring methods. ]
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-15 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ At Sciel's question, she glances over her shoulder. Her more prized personal library isn't present in this particular reserve library, but there are a handful of old copies of Jasnah's work. Some with water damage, some with someone else's marginalia scribbled into the corners.

Storms. It's been a long time, yes, since she's done much writing of her own. Whole books, rebuttals, the odd ketek. Like the poem she wrote for Shallan and Adolin... ]


I have my favoured essays. [ She confesses with a sly, near-smile. ] Arguments I'm particularly proud of.
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-17 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. Certainly. Jasnah feels little to no compunction over recommending some of her own published work — it's peer reviewed! She can vouch for how well-researched it is! And while she tries not to be boastful about it, she's proud. ]

I can have a copy or two sent to you. If you're curious. [ ...Sciel clearly is, or why else would she ask? ] There's a short essay on women's roles in Vorin societies. And a longer piece about Dawnchant linguistics.

[ Girl's got range! ]
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-18 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ Okay. Look. Sciel may be joking, but... ]

I'd — I'd welcome your thoughts. [ Her annotations, her marginalia. ] I'll be sure to source fresh copies. With lots of space for commentary.

[ There's a kind of careful eagerness to the not-quite-request. She's quite genuinely eager to engage in some kind of literary back-and-forth. ]
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-18 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It can sometimes be hard to see the fondness in her careful, curated expressions. It lurks there — a slight softening of the eyes, a press of the lips. ]

Your current and everyday instincts will suffice.

[ Sometimes it's nice just to exchange thoughts, theories, debate tactics. As if she doesn't expect Sciel to extend herself so much as share herself. ]
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-20 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ A thoughtful hum. Jasnah stands among her pillars of books, deciding carefully which one to next entrust to Sciel. None of them are particularly precious, so she doesn't have to interrogate the choice too deeply.

With a pointed finger (right hand, bare) she indicates a particularly numerous stack by the edge of the room's desk. ]


That one. Same shelf.

[ Sciel's help is far from a distraction. ]

— Have you considered doing any teaching here?
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-22 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Classrooms are — [ she pauses, thoughtful ] — an unconventional approach for Alethkar. Closer to Azish methods, I think.

[ So, good thing they're not actually in Alethkar. :| ]

Perhaps it's optimistic, but with my uncle learning to read and write — I wonder whether we'll see more, hm, flexibility in which children might get sent to a shared classroom. And you have a good enough grasp on our language.

[ Somehow, Mystically, Magically! But still. ]
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-23 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jasnah pauses, canting her hip against the desk — one arm crossing over her body, the other (left, natch) hanging unused out of habit. ]

Yes, that.

[ She concedes Sciel's point. It's a good one. Integration wouldn't hurt, given they've got to make peace with one another. ]

But I also wonder whether little Alethi boys might actually feel encouraged to read and write. If they were in the same classrooms.
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-24 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Now is the time to sow change.

[ Jasnah has no patience for things remaining agreeable. Moments like these, when the tower itself is like a furnace of opportunity, she's inclined to stoke it. ]

And I imagine there are plenty who might be inspired hearing about how things are handled in other kingdoms, other worlds.
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[personal profile] elsecall 2025-12-25 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
The right words? There's your issue.

[ She can't help it. Taking it on herself to diagnose Sciel's writer's block on the spot. ]

Better to get down any, and revisit them later. Books, notes, journals. They're just storage containers. They can be packed, unpacked, repacked as necessary.

[ Contrary to what one might think, Jasnah isn't precious about it. And perhaps she comes at this from the privileged direction of being someone whose first choice of words is often more than adequate. Still, she means it. The words on the page are tools. And some output is better than none. ]

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