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A // UNIVERSITY // OPEN

Being transported to that other world delayed classes … once more … but at least the university understood it was against her will and let her have her job back.

Feel free to find Jane in her classroom, pop in on a class, catch her on a lunch or coffee break, or find her in her office working on lesson plans and grading. She might even be working on some live demonstrations with gravity! If you get trapped in the gravitational pull, she apologizes and will work on refining the equations a little more next time.

B // STUDYING MAGIC // OPEN

At the library (pick any one, she can use the porter without restriction once more), Jane has selected a number of books on magic. Anything from mythology to the literature of magic to some actual serious scholarly research into it. There is one particular book, though, that is just out of reach on a top shelf … across from where she currently is … on a ladder.

We all know where this is going.

C // TAKING A WALK // OPEN

Sometimes, Jane just really needed to clear her head.

Sometimes, that meant walking around her neighborhood in the middle of the night without any real purpose. Where she ended up didn’t matter. It was what she thought along the way. Of course, sometimes, that might include some ranting about the universe and paperwork or students being lazy after all her efforts to help or stupid songs getting stuck in her head.

She really needs to apologize to her neighbors.

D // WILD CARD

I probably forgot a plot somewhere, so feel free to put that here! Feel free to do that even if we didn’t plot anything!

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"Mm." She gives the woman a small squeeze, then steps back with her hands resting on Jane's shoulders. A glance goes up to the bookcase, and she lifts both eyebrows quizzically.

"Are you doing research?"

Jane laughs and juts her chin over to a table that is already laden with books. "A little bit. I was trying to get a book Newton wrote."

"Oh!"

Despite not having the title or any notion of what Jane might be looking for, she looks up to the shelf she'd been reaching for and narrows her eyes to squint slightly at the titles up there.

"Well, if you move the ladder, you can get it easily."

"I know. I guess I was asking for trouble, trying to reach it like that."

Wow. She would have not been able to make that reach at all. What was she thinking?

"What brings you to the library?"

"I'm here all the time!"

Oh, does that make her sound too much like a bookworm? Does she really mind if it does?

"There's a project I keep trying to find my feet with, in between all the things that happen to us here."

If someone does, then who cares? Jane is in the same club.

"Yeah? I think you mentioned a project the last time we spoke. What are you looking into?"

"It's been months since I noticed that there were people arriving here with absolutely no idea of what to do once they left the Porter building."

She isn't in the right section for this, but she'd been heading for it when she'd seen Jane engaged in her dangerous reaching.

"I nearly found myself under a car within two minutes of walking out of the door. And the amount of children who seem to end up here with no life skills at all is unacceptable. I want to do something about it."

"Yeah, I remember you talking about that! Were you able to meet up with anyone from a community outreach program or something?"

There should be plenty of other resources too. Maybe she could run a life skills workshop in the library once a week, encourage people to come here after being Ported in and instead of going to the Swear Ins!

"Oh, I wish I had been. With everything that keeps happening here I've barely had the chance to find out who I need to speak to."

She huffs out a sigh, planting her hands on her hips for a moment.

"And then when I do, I find they're no longer here, which is another problem entirely."

"Yeah, it's hard to keep a track of everyone."

Who left, who stayed ... who came back with no memories of having been there. It was a mess, so it was a wonder the government was able to help.

"Maybe you should reach out on the network some more, see if there is anyone with more influence in this world who would like to help you. Maybe the Wayne Foundation?"

Batman might no longer be there, but what he left behind still was.

"Oh, I don't know..."

Maybe she's right, but Jane has found herself frequently overwhelmed by the technology at her fingertips here. The last time she said anything about this, she got so many responses she could barely keep on top of them all, and no doubt said some very foolish things.

"Would anyone really have reason to listen to anything I said?"

"Well, I'm listening," she replied. "If you're helping some of the older kids, like teenagers about to be adults, I could help with college education or internships or something. I've done that once for a friend and I helped someone else get some counseling resources through their school."

It was hard to keep up with everything, but she was sure Jane would adjust to it if she were given some more time.

"There's a lot of people who would want to help, who do care. You just have to get them coordinated and on the same page."

"Oh, I don't know about that... I'm barely out of my teenage years myself." If she'd been born in a different time, perhaps she'd be studying in some prestigious university now. Pursuing a career that would see her taken seriously in her field, not just seen as the eccentric only child of an equally eccentric professor.

"But I do believe that there are a lot of people here who want to help. And a lot who could benefit from that help. It's just... such a mammoth task."

Jane shrugged. If any of them had been born during a different time, they might have been viewed in all sorts of different ways. “And I’m fairly young myself. At least, compared to most others in the university. But don’t get discouraged. You’ll figure something out.”

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