Chapter 2 – Align
His lectures were always in the morning. He had tutes at the weirdest of times. And in the weirdest of places. He'd met Professor Huntley at the Balfour Library last week. They'd had to walk from Pitt Rivers back to college, so most of the conversation was done in motion, which had been rather awkward to say the least, although the majority of his time during the day was spent in libraries when he was out of rehearsals anyway, so it was sort of convenient. Her lectures were at a range of times. Her tutes and classes and lab sessions were in the afternoons. But she came to the theatre. She'd seen a lot of his productions. He hoped that might mean more than similar tastes in plays. The issue was he only ever spoke to her at dinner or in people's rooms. There were always other people around, always several conversations at once. He was a little worried that nothing would ever happen between them if he just let things develop naturally. But he couldn't see how he could force their spending more time together. He wondered why he always used gerunds when he thought about the two of them. Hector would have approved. Hector would have said there was something of sharing in it, something of wanting them to both have ownership of the same thing, and so be involved in it together. Well that was true. But he still couldn't see how to bring about any such ownership of time. They had different subjects, different routines, and different friends. They even lived in different buildings.