Clemente
the difference between a garden
and a graveyard
is what we choose to put in the soil
Clem stares at Amun for a long moment, blue-screening behind the eyes. Which is probably something The Voice lets them do, who knows. "You can take the books? But...isn't that like, stealing?" Clemente had never had a steady address or an adult to sign off on a library card, so they had firmly stayed inside the library doors. A fact that had been stressed to him multiple times by sharp-eyed asshole librarians who looked down on his ratty clothes, aware he was only there for the warmth and the free internet. Though he tilts his head, birdlike, and stares around at the books towering around them. "Huh. I mean, kinda gotta be able t'read before it's free knowledge, but yeah!" Ah, and the eager grin is back, matching Amun's though for entirely different reasons.
Clem's nose wrinkles sharply at the mention of Sam, immediately disrupting his smile. "Nah, he's the reason Rex lost her eyes. Plus he's like, super wimpy. I dunno." His eyes flicker away, suddenly uncomfortable, not wanting to bad talk another Ascended when The Voice wants them to draw together so badly. But Clemente loves Rexanna, and he had been devastated when he had found out not only how close she had been to death, but that she had lost her eyes. She had told him they'd be returned eventually, but even that isn't enough to ease his hatred towards Sam. He's a pretty decisive kid, at least. Though he brightens immediately again when Amun spins the book around, loudly hopping his hair closer and bending towards the book. "Yeah! You'd be a way cooler teacher!" He hesitates, squinting his eyes at Amun as if suddenly questioning his own enthusiasm. "Like, kinda." Then he immediately jabs his finger at one sentence he'd been struggling with, particularly underlining the word 'lichen'. He'd just kinda grabbed the first book with pictures, which had ended up being on plants. "What the hell kinda noise does c and h make? Like uhh chocolate?" At least he knows how that word starts. Even poor he'd still been a kid.
