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He was thanking her for her honesty instead of pulling out a bowl of ice-cream and handing it to her for his lame joke just now? You couldn't eat honesty. She tried to tug the corners of her lips so there would be something resembling a smile but that 'joke' just now killed her.

It was just as she'd thought. She'd never heard of him before.

Lex propped her elbows on her knees and rested her chin on her palms as she watched the Professor correcting everyone and finally talking more about the man she didn't know. Question. If she didn't know him, how was she meant to know what he'd done involving polaris? The theory part of any lesson usually never went well with her and it didn't help that she felt dejected.

Professor, don't kill her mood every again. While she waited for everyone else to answer she tried getting her bounce back. She needed her enthusiasm for this class. Come on Lex, think bouncy.

She would make an attempt, if only for the sake of getting to talk. "Was he the one that discovered that the star never moves but is a fixed point?" Someone had to have figured it out. Maybe it was him.