*backdated to sometime after the bennet Ball*

[lt_blade]

She'd left an message in Jane's mailbox. It was true that she and Sonya had little in common, but she still enjoyed talking with her. Most of Sonya's friends were guys and though she had no problems with that fact, she also saw nothing wrong with having at least one 'non career oriented' female friend. The main problem was trying to find ways to relate to them: for all the contrasts between them, at least Jane gave the impression that she wasn't judging her, and she was also honest-both of which were things Sonya greatly appreciated. Especially right now, when she felt she needed to talk to someone female, if nothing else, an afternoon chat would've been just as welcome.

It had been little over a week since the Bennet ball, and Sonya found herself still mentally torn about Scorpion. She had long since come around that after Lance was killed, she'd remain single for the rest of her life: back home in the army, that was perfectly fine for her as there wouldn't have been any time to devote to family, but here, even with both of her jobs in the club and the ITF, it was entirely possible to 'start over'. From her time with Scorpion, he was more than open to the idea himself.

She arrived at Jane's home that afternoon, as she said she would on the paper. It didn't feel right to just to arrive there, even if she did ask first, so she stopped over at her own hut for a container of dried raspberry leaves. As a tea, Sonya found she enjoyed it more than regular because it didn't have the caffeine content of the regular black kind, but it also didn't taste as bitter as green tea either. 

Sonya knocked on the door and waited.

One could argue that was she was doing in general was crazy, but then Sonya never denied that she was every wholly sane.

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Re: ooc: gah..I really tried to condence this

[bennet_beauty]

"I've been well," Jane assured, as she did not wish to take up Sonya's attentions with her own life. "Lydia is healthy and I am as well. We have merely been sprucing up the houses now that school has begun and Lydia is out of the house for a good portion of the day."

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[lt-blade.livejournal.com]

Sonya thought back a moment.

"You're taking classes then, right? I remember seeing you at the school last term, but all of my classes ended during the day."

Because of training and bounching, Sonya was only able to teach one of her courses, but then no one signed up so she exchanged teaching for being a student.

"What classes are you taking?" She couldn't help but feel some interest in learning what Jane was interested in learning.

Re: ooc: gah..I really tried to condence this

[bennet_beauty]

"I'm evaluating some to see whether they will be fit for Lydia in several years and I'll be taking one class to learn more about modern times," she concurred, not wishing to overload herself with education when she was far happier when she focused on more domestic tasks.

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"I think by the time you finish those sorts of classes, Lydia will definitely be old enough to attend the school." She laughed.

"Have you tried any of the art classes? Some of the art classes take in younger children as students." She thought a moment. "I heard that very young kids have an easier time learning different languages." Hell, they usually repeated whatever you said anyway. "Could have her take one of those eventually." She suggested.

Re: ooc: gah..I really tried to condence this

[bennet_beauty]

"I do not think of art, much," Jane dismissed with a shake of her head. "It seems something quite messy and I would much rather Lydia was much improved of the mind rather than endowed artistically. It does make her a far better prospect when she is old enough for such a thing to matter."

[lt-blade.livejournal.com]

"So find her some water based paints, put her in a large t-shirt you don't mind getting dirty and let her have at it. So long as you tell her what she can and can't paint over." Sonya didn't bother holding back a smile, remembering the times when she was around Lydia's age and playing around with finger paints-what kid didn't enjoy that. "She's nearly three years old, right? She'll have plenty of time to be clean and neat."

Thanks to-or rather just because of- Lydia getting chicken pox, Sonya's always going to remember the month of her birthday.

She did become serious as she thought a bit. "I think your best bet is number games to get her used to math, then learning letters and colors. That sort of think." She tried to think back. "I don't remember learning anything science related till I was six or seven years old, but she might enjoy something like a nature walk."

Sonya was just going over personal experience and the few times she babysat, but it all seemed practical enough.