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[dr_orpheus]

[He's been trying to take the high road when it comes to the antics of the tiny god of mischief. Not a peep out of him over the candy corn! Did you see that? Not a single word! He may have even managed a chuckle and a thought of "well played", once he finally unclenched his jaw. More recently, he didn't once accuse him verbally of the sex swapping in the days before the culprit came clean.

But today, Dr. Byron Orpheus has had enough.

Maybe he's been called Count Chocula by one too many passersby, as if a cape isn't a perfectly acceptable thing to wear. Maybe holidays focused on family give him an extra dose of missing his daughter and the fact that it's THANKSGIVING IN OCTOBER just further emphasizes the fact that he's not at home.

Regardless of the precise reason, he has set the NV at one end of his dinner table while he sits at the other. There's a faint haze around the food items as he levitates them over the table, making mashed potatoes, rolls and green beans spin and somersault around his reanimated turkey.]

I can make my food dance, too. I fail to see how it's that impressive of a feat.

Comments

[madeinoblivion]

Yeah, right, except none of them actually want to instruct newcomers.

[dr_orpheus]

The education would be all the more precious for having been hard-fought.

[madeinoblivion]

I fight for enough. I don't want to fight to sit at a desk for hours and hours a day and listen to some teacher blah-blah-blah.

[dr_orpheus]

Perhaps you would be better suited to vocational education?

I hear that TV/VCR repair is a lucrative field. Well, whatever it is called now that we no longer make use of VCRs.

[madeinoblivion]

What is that even?

I've got a tech job. I do sound and lights at the stadium.

[dr_orpheus]

What if you could be the one designing the lights and the sound systems?

[madeinoblivion]

Why would I want to do that? It's not like they're building a new stadium.

[dr_orpheus]

But someday there could be OTHER STADIUMS AND LARGE VENUES.

[madeinoblivion]

And it's not like I won't have plenty of experience hands on, by then.

[dr_orpheus]

I just hate to see a young person limit his options so soon.

[madeinoblivion]

What makes you think I've got so many limits! I can be whatever I want!

[dr_orpheus]

What if you decided you wanted to become a doctor?

[madeinoblivion]

Why would I want to do that?

My friends could just teach me cure.

[dr_orpheus]

A marine biologist, then?

[madeinoblivion]

A who?

[dr_orpheus]

Taking care of sea animals and...I...er...I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but my Pumpkin wanted to be one after a trip to Sea World many years ago.

[madeinoblivion]

Oh.

Well, I could do that. If I wanted to. It's not hard, feeding them fish, and...what, swimming with them, in front of people?

[dr_orpheus]

There are much more scientific elements to it that require a thorough education.

[Maybe]

[madeinoblivion]

Well I've had it with science.

[dr_orpheus]

I find the care and feeding of animals to hardly be controversial, but I have to say that I agree with you.

[madeinoblivion]

Anyway. School costs munny I haven't got. And who knows if this world'll get rid of me tomorrow. So I need to make every minute count, doing the stuff I like.

Not homework.

[dr_orpheus]

I'm afraid the father in me will never be able to completely agree with your thinking.