Ori: Treachery, Fakery and Other Adventures
Gio found me in the schoolroom.
I’d been in there talking to the students. Some of them had spent rather more time with Dan, Tynara and the like than the rest of us had; I suppose I was harbouring hopes they might have picked up something useful over the course of their lessons. I mean, besides what they were supposed to be learning.
I was destined for disappointment. Susa frowned and said: ‘They didn’t talk to us.’ Faronni echoed that, and elaborated: ‘Actually they barely spoke at all. Mostly they gave us books.’
And so I was reminded. A person might be an expert in a given art, and yet have no aptitude whatsoever for teaching it successfully. Books? We could have given them books, and left them to study the texts alone. We’d requested help
