Office #26; Saturday [09/28].

[died8yearsago]

Unlike some people, Rosa didn't have a handy box of apparently self-replicating contraptions to work on to stave off the boredom of keeping office hours this weekend, but she did have an impressive arsenal of guns that could probably use some cleaning, so that's what was spread out on her desk as she waited for guests that would hopefully just not show up at all. But, if anyone did, at least the guns would get a chance to say a little something about her before she even had to open her mouth.

Of course, she also knew that her office shared a wall with Blackstone's, and that Blackstone was also doing the office hour trudge that morning, she occasionally took a break to throw a small rubber handball against the wall in code. She'd then wait and, not long after, a series of thumps would respond back, Rosa would snort, and then go back to work.

What? Shut up.

[[ and this one's open door, open post, too! And yes, I put them in adjacent offices for exactly this reason ]]

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[died8yearsago]

See? The guns were already doing their job, and perfectly.

She looked up to consider the woman talking to her.

"We haven't done guns yet," she offered, perfectly in time with jerking the pieces of a heavy pistol together. "I like to save the good stuff for the end of the semester."

[scoffs_at_tchalla]

"Will they have to assemble them from scratch before using them?" Okoye asked, "or modify them?" She shook her head. "Because if you give Shuri any time, she will modify them."

[died8yearsago]

"That's...actually not a bad idea," Rosa said, after a moment of considering it, "especially assembling them in the middle of a high pressure intensive situation."

So here was an untapped resource for class ideas when she couldn't think of anything, apparently.

"I'm not so sure about doing modifications, though. I'm not sure everyone would be quite at the same level on that."

But there was potential...

[scoffs_at_tchalla]

Okoye nodded. "Perhaps not. Shuri designs weapons for fun."

There was an undertone there of "I have no idea why she thinks that's fun."

[died8yearsago]

That tone made Rosa grin, just a little, even if it did kind of annoy her that she was now actually thinking of asking a student about something they were interested in.

But she couldn't help being a little curious.

"Are they any good?" she asked.

[scoffs_at_tchalla]

"They are exceptional," Okoye admitted. "She runs the entire nation's science and engineering division and not because of who she is related to."

[died8yearsago]

"...who's she related to?"

Rosa paid attention.

She was honestly wasn't even sure she knew which student they were talking about right now. An idea, sure, but even she'd hesitate to put money down on it.

[scoffs_at_tchalla]

"Her brother is King of Wakanda," Okoye said. "Shuri."

[died8yearsago]

"Oh, right," said Rosa, but only because that sounded like something that someone should probably know. "of course. That Shuri. Good for her."

[scoffs_at_tchalla]

"She had not mentioned her brother," Okoye concluded. "That is wise of her."