Room 502, Tuesday Afternoon

[withoutverona]

After talking to Edward and fighting a whale in management class, Romeo went back to his room to lounge on his bed with his Japanese notebook.

He was trying very hard not to think about ... well, about anything he and Edward had spoken of. It had been an unsettling conversation.

[OOC: For one, but open before her!]

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[withoutverona]

Romeo thought about it. He hadn't been of two minds in the same way, but he wasn't a king's son, just the spoiled child of gangsters with pretensions. "I can say," he ventured, "that life here is easier when you do make the effort. I dreadfully missed home until I stopped comparing."

Well, mostly. He still thought the colors in Fandom were too dull, but that wasn't something he'd ever been able to explain.

[bitchprince]

"It is not so much about compare," he said, "As it is about respect. But it seems even that flows in strange ways."

It was that Arthur had rather a lot of experience with Merlin's impertinence.

[withoutverona]

"I think most people here believe respect is earned rather than granted," Romeo ventured, grappling a little with putting it into words. "Even for teachers; I have only one this term I would say I respect, and that's solely for the way he carries himself."

[bitchprince]

"It makes you wonder how any of them keep discipline at all," Arthur said, and if his tone was a bit dry, he'd foist the guilt on Yzma.

[withoutverona]

"That," Romeo said, leaning back, "would be an excellent question. It can't be fear alone."

[OOC: Fleeing for home.]

[bitchprince]

"Structure," was Arthur's analysis, even if it was a bit wry. "Although even then, they're oft-lacking in the right pomp."

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[withoutverona]

"Perhaps if you have structure and habit on your side, you don't need pomp," Romeo suggested. "Or perhaps we're as mad as they are, to sit through their classes."

[bitchprince]

"Perhaps," Arthur said, with a raise of his brow. "I wouldn't consider myself as such, but every minute in this place has me doubting that more and more."