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[zealouspeter]

Who: Shiroe and Daedalus.
When: Monday morning.
Where: Ye olde Diner.
Summary: There are ... a lot of things they need to talk on. Especially after the cherry blossoms.
Warnings: Anger and general unhappiness.

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[gaveherwings]

Routines were a comfortable crutch. Daedalus relied on them like anchors and way-stations, to keep him mind refocused, harnessed to the present by the passage of time, moving from one scheduled thing to the next

[zealouspeter]

Of course, of course. College - University - Hillsdale, and the second year was already going smoother than the first, if he had to say so; he didn't want to think on it, however, not with how he'd only lasted eight months in his 'real' world's school and yet was going onto a second year here. It was how things were, and he could accept that-- but while he'd thought he could just accept and move on before, now, that seemed... a bit shattered to pieces.

"No trouble. Textbooks get more and more expensive, though, I think." Daedalus had the bright cheer (night shift, too, never a break --) instead of Shiroe, for once; the Mu wasn't sulky so much as just rather dispassionate, speaking like a... well, a normal person. Since he had the tendency to be extremely pointed or verbose at all times, it maybe was a slightly startling difference. His eyes flitted upward, quick (make sure he's alright, make sure he's alright), then went back to his miniature pyramid of creamers. "How about you and work

[gaveherwings]

"I heard there's a way to get electronic copies of academic texts for free." Daedalus mentions with a deliberately offhanded, one-shouldered shrug, glancing down at the neatly piled creamer stack. It was his way of saying he certainly wouldn't mind quietly condoning textbook pirating. Not with what they were charging for them.

On the surface he seems at the worst a little uneasy, but for all his breezy, focused list of things to preoccupy breakfast which pointedly don't include the events of last week, the doctor carries a restlessness, an unsettled feeling deeper with him. His glances are cautious too

[zealouspeter]

"There's a lot of ways." Still with a bit of tightness, but he was trying his best to unravel, and it was somewhat working out. His smile was lopsided, forced, but, "I'm pretty sure half the people releasing those are SERO students. And they probably put trackers in them."

Plus, I hadn't thought you'd approve. But Daedalus had odd quirks, here and there - such as with that bottle-sending, something that had even been emphasized as illegal, and yet there hadn't been a single complaint. It'd been enjoyable, actually. A memory Shiroe would've liked to take a picture of and added to his album, possibly; if only there wasn't this new --

"Finally." The comment to the work part, and his lopsided smile was gone: now he was watching Daedalus the way he watched interesting people when he was sure they didn't know he was paying attention to them, with a clinical eye and potentially destructive ideas cropping up. Except the doctor was most certainly watching back, even when- especially when the hologram popped up, and Shiroe had to admit that