 omg i totally missed that Derf sat by him ;-; Lovely™ | Captain Hurted | Ariana's Bane | Resident Antagonist | Unparalleled Delight
Whether or not it was a good idea, Abra had spent the last few minutes of the first activity swinging his tiger's eye back and forth in front of his face, watching it go back and forth and back and forth and waiting for the class to move on. When Derf returned to his own seat nearby, Abra flashed him a grin but tried his best not to distract him from his work, and then all too soon it seemed they were moving on anyway.
Right... calibration. Okaaaaay. Abra had assumed that there would be universal 'answers' in the pendulum's movement for yes, no, or maybe, and it looked like he'd been wrong. It made sense, though, that they would have to calibrate the pendulums themselves.
Sitting up in his chair again, Abra held the pendulum out and briefly steadied it with his other hand. He opened his mouth to ask it the first question that came to mind ('Am I sitting on a chair?'), when Derf's question made him stop and look up.
Abra paused, grinned again, then looked back at his own pendulum. "Am I Derfael Ashburry-Hawthorne?" He paused, waited, tried not to breathe too obviously in case he moved the pendulum or his body moved to much and affected its motion. Then, it moved. Side to side, left, right, left, right, just as it had done when he'd held it up in front of his face.
So that was probably a 'no', but he'd obviously check it with a few more questions before writing anything down.
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