OFA: In the library

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Nikola is getting rusty.

But he has a good enough memory that despite the fact that it's been a good twenty years since he sat down at a piano, he's doing a fairly decent job of making his way through Au Claire de la Lune.

He doesn't play well, but he plays with great expression.

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She shrugs back. "I never learned to play it..."

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"It's relatively simple once you learn the basics."

Not that he'll offer to teach her, of course.

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Of course. She holds back the little laugh, and just watches his hands.

"Most things are. And what are the basics of learning to play the piano?"

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"Rhythm and notes, basically. Once you understand them, you can play just about anything."

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"Would you teach me if I asked?"

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"No," Nikola says simply. "I don't have the patience for teaching."

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"Piano, anyway," she says, with a shrug and an amused grin. She could figure it out if she wanted to, but playing music has never been something she needed to learn.

"I assume you're not going to keep me from listening to you."

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He grins. "Oh, I never object to an audience."

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"Oh, I wouldn't have doubted that," she grins back, swinging her crossed ankles as she listens to the music, brushing at the skirt over them.

"What do you object to?"

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"Ignorance and stupidity, mostly."

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"Well I'm glad I don't fall into either of those two," she says lightly.

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He smiles. "Not yet anyway."

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Raya looks surprised, and raises an eyebrow. "Yet?"

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"I've learned never to underestimate the human capacity for stupidity."

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"I'm not human, I don't have the same capacity," she laughs.

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"True," Nikola agrees. "Your capacity could be much greater."

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"Smartass," she chuckles. "But you have a point, unlikely as fulfilling that possibility may be. Though as you're not human either, wouldn't yours be the same?"

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"No. I'm fully aware of my potential for stupidity, and it's nowhere near human levels."

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"Meaning it's that much lower or higher?" Raya finds the conversations amusing, with Nikola. At least they're different.

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"Far, far lower. I'd have to really work to be that stupid."

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"Enlightening," she says, still idly swinging her legs. "Did you ever actually get those jeans?"

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He laughs. "I did. I'm just waiting for an occasion to bring them out on."

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"There needs to be an occasion?" she asks, laughing. "They're only jeans. Most people wear them every day, and in that I'd think you're a little more like the rest of the world."

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"My wearing them would be an occasion of itself. I don't want it to be on a day when all I do is putter around the labs."

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"So what would you do in them?"