“Procras- what?” “Exactly.”
But this time Amartia didn't intervene. It was Muko who swallowed his irritation and defined the word: “Procrastinate means to put off till later what you could do straight away.”
Then he turned to Paidia and asked earnestly: “What makes you think this might be a school?”
“Well,” responded Paidia. “There's all the strange mathematical symbols. Then we look like children in a school class. We're all about the same age.”
Suddenly they were all talking, sharing their ideas about the place and trying to work out what was going on.
“Maybe it's all a dream,” suggested Gelio. “We'll wake up and it'll have disappeared. Poof. Just like that.”
Paidia had a more bizarre idea. “I've heard about people being abducted by aliens from space. Perhaps that's what's happened to us.”
They all laughed.