Office hours

[actingreaper]

Daisy had only gotten the flowers she ordered for herself, yesterday. This? Was a travesty.

So she's watching old 30s movies and sniffling when she thinks no one is looking.

But she's also here for whatever you might need of her. She's cool like that.

[ooc: open! Especially for her mentorees!]

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[stykera]

Stark supposed that it would be a good idea to meet his assigned mentor, so he'd gone looking for her office.

"Hello?"

[actingreaper]

Daisy looked up from her movie, hitting pause quickly. "Hello! Come on in."

[stykera]

Stark gave a little nod and stepped into the office.

"I'm Stark. You called me. About the mentoring thing."

[actingreaper]

"Ah. So good to get to put a . . . face to the name. I'm Daisy, Daisy Adair. Have a seat, Stark."

[stykera]

"Good to meet you, Daisy," Stark said, a little uncertainly, before he sat down. "I'm, um, not sure what it is we're supposed to be doing."

[actingreaper]

Daisy smiled. "You know, I'm not sure, either. So I say we do what we want and call it mentoring. What are your goals for the future, Stark? Maybe we can start there."

[stykera]

"Goals?" Stark echoed. "I...haven't really thought about it."


[I think I'm disappearing for a few hours shortly. Meep.]

[actingreaper]

"You haven't thought about what you want out of life? Other than to do a wonderful re-interpretation of the meta-d Phantom of the Opera in the steam-punk genre?"

[stykera]

"Most things, things I really wanted, I've gotten," Stark said with a little shrug. Not that he'd wanted much. Just not to be chased all over the universe and for a certain blue plant to come back from the dead. "What's steam-punk? I just haven't thought so much about, ah, long-term things. Usually right now has been more important than sometime in the future."

[actingreaper]

"That's a very wise philosophy, Stark. Live every day like it'll be your last, because you never know when someone will throw a spike heel at the woman next to you and accidentally impale you in the forehead with it."

[stykera]

Stark gave Daisy an odd look before nodding. "Right. Well, except for the heel. Have you heard of that happening?" It sounded like a very unpleasant way to die. "For me, it was more you never know when whoever it is that is chasing your ship this time is going to catch up with you."

[actingreaper]

"I was sitting next to a guy it happened to," Daisy said matter-of-factly. "I don't think he felt any pain. Is someone after you, Stark?"

[stykera]

"Oh. You're very calm about that," Stark said, still looking at Daisy a little oddly. "And...they weren't so much after me as they were after, um, everyone else on the ship? Maybe a little after me. One of them anyway, but he wasn't really chasing me I was just sort of there. But right now, I don't think anyone is. At least not that I know of. It's been peaceful here, except for the invasions."

[actingreaper]

Daisy nodded. "I've noticed that, too. Do you want to stay here, then?"

[stykera]

"I do," Stark said quickly. "Here is a good place to be. Better than most I've been to."

[actingreaper]

"Well, what do you think you'll do here when you graduate?"

[stykera]

"I...I don't know." Stark frowned, then reached a hand up to toy with the buckle at his neck. "I don't know if there is anything I could do here. Well, of course there are things I could do, but I don't know if there is anything that would be useful."

[actingreaper]

"Let's start with the things you know you could do."

[stykera]

For someone who had never actually seen a deer caught in the headlights, Stark had the expression down cold.

"I work in the clinic now," he said finally. "That's something."

[actingreaper]

"That's something very important, actually. Do you enjoy it?"

[stykera]

"I do. Yes. It's a good change, from before. And I'd rather be doing something that helps someone than just doing nothing. Or doing something that doesn't help."

[actingreaper]

"Good! I'm glad you've found something like that. Perhaps you should continue with it when you've graduated, then."

[stykera]

"I'd like that," Stark said, finally cracking a smile. "If they would let me stay."

[actingreaper]

"Where do you think you would go if they didn't?"

[stykera]

"Back to Moya. If I can find her again."

[actingreaper]

Awww! He was in love!

"Well, that's very sweet. Have you tried calling her?"

[stykera]

Well, yes. Just not with the ship!

"I don't think comms would work from here. And I haven't got one with me."