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[ecphrasis]

[molly is at rossum!! really, where else does she spend her time? she's wearing her lab coat over a hideous kitten jumper, and there's an almost empty mug of coffee beside her (only obviously almost empty because there's little steam coming from it). she's got a bag of crisps and is clearly on some kind of break. nutrition yeah!!]

So in about a week I'll have been here for a year! It's silly, but I never imagined I'd get to come some place like this. I mean, I never thought I'd be in America, but I also never thought I'd be in a completely different dimension.

[she picks up her mug which is suddenly!! full of coffee again. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN HM]

Are there any sort of celebrations people usually do? It's close to my birthday too [AWKWARD HINTING] so I thought it might be sort of a double thing.

[she glances over at the clock and her eyes widen a bit.]

O-oh, I hadn't realized it was so late! I thought it was still early in the evening. Well, I guess someone will see this in the morning, won't they?

[and as she continues to talk to herself about this and that, she ends the feed.]

[ooc; this is forward-dated to 2 am]

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[professorlionface]

[She's not the only one sipping coffee at 2am.]

You know, I never really looked into the celebratory procedures for it. But then, I've never really been sure it's worth celebrating, either.

permavid.

[ecphrasis]

[all these insomniacs are coming out of the woodwork]

Why not? It's sort of like--like an adventure, I suppose.

[professorlionface]

[He makes an amused hmph.] More like a vacation!

But there's still the feeling of being separated from home it brings along, isn't there?

[ecphrasis]

Or that!

--There is, yeah. But it helps when you have people you know here.

[professorlionface]

Maybe that's what I'm missing. Too many people I know here are from one social circle but not the other. Too many friends and not enough family.

[ecphrasis]

That must make it hard. I mean, not that I'd expect any of my actual family to be here, but I know what you mean.

[professorlionface]

Of course, but there's the family you were raised with, and then the one you adopt when you grow older. [And can't visit the other one because they were mindwiped to forget you exist for ten years.] I don't think I'd want to put my parents through the experience of the City!

[ecphrasis]

I wouldn't either. I mean, dad's dead anyway, but--oh, sorry, I guess that's sort of awkward. Um, no, I definitely wouldn't want my parents here!

[professorlionface]

[He laughs a little, more nervously than anything. It was a bit awkward, Molly, very much so.]

Getting them in the City would be like a fish on land, anyway. Even if the danger weren't more than I care for.

What does your mom do?

[ecphrasis]

[she can't help it]

She's a doctor! She's the reason I wanted to become one. I guess I didn't exactly... pick the most common practice.

[professorlionface]

There's no problem with that, if you're going to make a life for yourself, you have to find a way to make it your own. Following your mother's path while still escaping her shadow.

[ecphrasis]

I've never considered that, but it's definitely a good way to think about it.

[professorlionface]

I think it's a form of legacy that tends to weighs on us all, if we aren't careful.