Tao | please indulge me

[inlets]

[Pick your poison:

• A reputable high school, populated by students in white uniform. Are you perhaps a transfer student? A teacher? A new addition to the security guards?
  
• You're on a computer or some database or another when the screen behaves strangely. You are now being hacked.
  
• An electronics store. Tao is picking up a copious amount of parts, almost at what looks like random, and not bothering to be quiet about it.
  
• Your choice.

Mmhahahaha.]

Comments

[inlets]

[If only.

"Get straight As, receive a free hoverboard!"

Maybe he can suggest it to the principal, once he manages to make a few. Nothing is impossible, for he is Tao!]

It would give them an incentive, for sure. We've got so many kids coming in, there's always the handful that trickle in later than expected . . . and then there are the ones that sleep through everything . . . That's right, I'll see what I can pitch to the boss.

[uncalled]

[That's the sort of thing that Sakon likes to hear! He's brightened up quite a bit now that there might be some fruition to his suggestion-]

See? That's the sort of the thing I mean! Awesome!

If you can sleep through a hoverboard, then I dunno, man - those are some serious issues you've got to work out.

[inlets]

[Bingo.]

Haha, some people can sleep through anything. Isn't that amazing?

[uncalled]

I dunno, it sounds like a bit of a waste. An amazing waste, maybe?

[that's his idea of compromise]

[inlets]

That they're sleeping through everything they could be experiencing?

[uncalled]

That they can't think of anything better to do with their time than sleep!

[inlets]

[Shinwoo, if only you were here to hear this . . .

Tao's words are mirthful.]

I don't think they feel the same way.

[Then, hauling his loot toward the counter – ]

Right! All set. Finally found that last one.

[uncalled]

[Sakon tilts his head in response. He'd respond to the sleep thing but alas, he's still really easily distracted-]

Soooo hoverboard?

[he's mostly joking]

[inlets]

– and the wrist phone.

[Yup.]

[uncalled]

So one really cool thing and one not really useful thing!

Yeah, sounds like they balance each other out.

[inlets]

Yeah. I'll give my coworkers both of them, so they don't feel cheated out of the deal.

[uncalled]

Meanwhile you get a laptop of your own, efficient yet not too ground-breaking!