Starting to eat as Amy was answering her question, Cecily noted that her roommate was very good at making breakfast. She counted herself lucky - she might have a crazy roommate, but the cooking skills and willingness to share her breakfast were definitely a big plus. The eggs tasted just as good as they had smelled.
She was about to voice that when Amy's answer filtered through to her brain that had been fully occupied with enjoying the meal and she almost choked on a piece of egg as she had to laugh. Had this self-proclaimed demon just described hell as "fine"?
When she stopped coughing, she couldn't help but ask further. "Hell is fine? Isn't it supposed to be kind of the opposite of that? You know, eternal damnation, torture, terror, all that stuff?" She paused for a moment, considering. "I mean, that might all be something awesome to demons, but really, fine? That's how you'd describe it? Sounds a bit mundane to me, somehow - you'll have to do better to convince anyone you've actually been to hell."
She decided that she didn't want to push her roommate too much, especially considering that she had been very nice to her in making her breakfast and this was the first time they were really spending time together. So she let go of the topic and answered the question that Amy had posed afterwards, leaving it to her if she wanted to talk of hell further.
"My classes are nice so far. It's very early to tell much, since most of them haven't really covered much material yet, mostly given an overview of what they'll be about, but at least the professors mostly seem good at talking and passionate about their subjects. That will probably help a lot." Well, except for one of them. Professor Trumill had seemed pretty weird actually - he had refused to use a microphone, opting to shout from the top of his lungs for two hours instead and raging about how most of his colleagues were doing really irrelevant or bad research. You couldn't fault him for lack of passion, though. She frowned, remembering that she'd have his class later in the day and wondering what he'd be up to this time.
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