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[instars]

[When she speaks, she sounds young; her voice is definitely that period right when someone is starting to develop a personality, the point right after teenagehood, although she speaks with a relatively calm tone. More telling is her accent, which hinges between South African and just slightly German. Anyone who knows the region might know she's from Windhoek.]

Are we under any obligation to keep the jobs we have been assigned? I would much rather find something more suited to my particular talents. Although it's only terminally boring, instead of altogether unpleasant.

[A pause.]

Also, how unreasonable would it be to ask if my credits from university transfer? Is there such a thing as interuniverse credit transfer to the same institution? I would rather not go anywhere except whatever the version of MIT is, here.

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[aberth]

you can apply for any job you want. i did.
but i don't think they transfer credit for schooling. they haven't mentioned it.

[instars]

How annoying. No one wants to take beginner courses more than once.

What do you do?

[aberth]

i work for a paper during the week.
on saturdays i'm at a mechanics.

[instars]

A mechanic?

For cars?

[aberth]

yeah.
they have hover cars here. so i'm learning.

[instars]

Yes, I have seen them.

Is this shop hiring?

[aberth]

i think so.
i only work here on saturdays but i'm pretty sure they need someone full-time.

[instars]

Which city is it in?

Also, hello.

My name is Saya.

[quaerit]

There's an import liaison officer who could probably advise you on that sort of thing. You should ask.

Do you attend MIT at home, then?

[instars]

I suppose that will have to.

I do. For mechanical engineering. Do you?

Voice

[chasedtherabit]

If you don't like your job there are many other options for you. [Mako happens to love hers, but they played right into her skills and what she did back home...]

[quaerit]

No, no. I'm not quite there yet.

[ He says that as if he's ever likely to be. Massachusetts is a long way away from Virginia. ]

I attend the imPort school - Xavier's. It's a good place, and the students there are all similarly...displaced. I understand wanting what's familiar, though. You're concerned about falling behind on your studies?

[instars]

I don't like to be bored. And do build engines, I need a degree in mechanical engineering. So the two things combine.

That's a high school, isn't it?

Voice

[instars]

What option did you go with?

Voice

[chasedtherabit]

Oh, I happened to stay in my assigned job. [But still, she knows others who hadn't.]

Some of my colleagues went to StarkTech to work.

Voice

[instars]

What does StarkTech do?

And what do you do?

[voice]

[puppydoctor]

I switched last month and it's worked out fine. I say go for it.

And I don't know anything about the schooling, but they transferred my residency credits. It's pretty creepy how much stuff they have on us, but kind of useful. I guess.

[voice]

[instars]

Good. Crematorium technician is not my speed.

And it doesn't pay enough.

[puppydoctor]

That doesn't sound like anyone's speed.

What are you planning on instead?

[instars]

I want to build car engines. I'll have to start with a mechanic position, I think.

What kind of doctor are you?

Voice

[chasedtherabit]

I believe they have quite a few departments and research projects. [Mako pauses for a moment.]

I'm a mechanical engineer.

[puppydoctor]

Car eng- wow, that sounds awesome!

[It's surprising based on how young she sounds, but George is impressed. Most of the girls in his life could bench press him, probably, and he's already imagining that this one could too.]

And I'm a surgeon. Well, a surgeon in training.

Voice

[instars]

What's your specialty?

[She says it and it sounds almost like speciality]

[instars]

[She's very skinny.

But yes she could.]

Do you have a specialty?

[puppydoctor]

Not yet. But I'll probably go with trauma.