High Literature

[Grand Moff Hissa]

It was great to be able to talk about all this stuff, great to be able to dig into the nuances of multiple areas of both of their interest and their points of intersection. Lavender enjoyed being the educated one when the topic turned to law, the person who knew the score and could explain things, but she also relished the opportunity to learn more about what interested Camille. Just as the other girl approached law through the lens of written pornography, so too did Lavender grapple with the world of erotic literature from the perspective of policy and statute.

A fine afternoon, on the whole.

Of course, it did mean that Lavender didn't actually finish writing her essay at The Blue House. By the time Camille departed, Lavender was more than ready to be gone herself, the presence of others having lost its energizing quality. That night, in her own room, she slogged through the rest of her paper, settling for a tone of "dull" instead of "passive aggressive." Ultimately, it would earn her a B.

She was helped in her motivation, just a little, by imagining what Camille's writings would look like. It wasn't sexy, of course, but it was certainly intriguing, funny, and iconoclastic. On the whole, Lavender was pretty sure she'd have a better time reading Great Expectations erotica than she'd had with the source material.

((Lavender Ripley continued in The Good in Everyone))