Aim for greatness... that makes her swallow back a scoff, a faintly humorless sigh escaping her despite her efforts. Her father, he aimed for the top, was the best of the best in his field... and look where that got him. Working for criminals, killed in cold blood.
"There's nothing wrong with aiming for mediocrity, as long as it's what you want." She means it, too -- to aim for greatness, it requires a certain type of person. It means there's so much further down to fall.
She hums in response, noting the girl's lack of response -- but then, she was pushing it, wasn't she?
"This and that. But right now, they were lacking a physics teacher in the Institute... so they called me." She pushes her sunglasses at the top of her head, revealing a pair of bright eyes, keen and ever-changing in colour-- it's hard to pin down whether they're brown, green or grey.
"I'm not really teacher material," she admits with a light tone; her own failure in this doesn't seem to upset her much, and certainly never factored in to her decision to accept the job. (Of course it wouldn't have-- her job here is far more than simply teaching.)
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"There's nothing wrong with aiming for mediocrity, as long as it's what you want." She means it, too -- to aim for greatness, it requires a certain type of person. It means there's so much further down to fall.
She hums in response, noting the girl's lack of response -- but then, she was pushing it, wasn't she?
"This and that. But right now, they were lacking a physics teacher in the Institute... so they called me." She pushes her sunglasses at the top of her head, revealing a pair of bright eyes, keen and ever-changing in colour-- it's hard to pin down whether they're brown, green or grey.
"I'm not really teacher material," she admits with a light tone; her own failure in this doesn't seem to upset her much, and certainly never factored in to her decision to accept the job. (Of course it wouldn't have-- her job here is far more than simply teaching.)