book club 2

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still no memes i'm bad at finding them

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It's good to have goals.

[ man, speaking of goals and futures... ]

... I'm going to have to job hunt again.

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... Did something happen to your current job?

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I'm not running Spirius Corporation.

[ he'd rather die uproot Elle and move into the wilds, thanks ]

The cafeteria job is kind of... out the window, down the road at this point? They'd probably laugh at me if I tried to reapply there. And I probably shouldn't keep doing job board bounties.

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You can't change what the cooperation does?

[Tilts her head.]

Job board bounties? Are people hiring you to get rid of monsters?

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I... could. I just don't want anything to do with it. I'm not interested in the "family business."

[ sigh! ]

That's the most common one, yeah, but people post delivery or item requests too. The most lucrative jobs involve Gigantos hunting - and you really have to be on your A-game for those. And given...

[ he gestures at his blind eye ]

... It'd be dangerous for me to go back to that anytime soon.

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Bad memories...?

[That's more than fair.

She's pretty sure the wish document had people being repaired, but if he doesn't want to do that then that's kind of it.]

How much do you need to make?

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Well, I didn't know I was part of the "family" until the job got dumped on me...?

[ very Awkward memories, at least ]

... That's a good question. I've never raised an eight year old before.

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[ Sorry. Hold on, she's doing some mental math. 20-8=12? 12 year old father? ]

... Did you adopt?

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Nnnnnnnnno. Not yet.

[ ... ]

Technically, I'm probably her closest living relative. Due to, uh. Her being my daughter from an alternate dimension.

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[. . .]

I didn't know something like that could happen to people.

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I don't think it could happen to anyone else but us.

[ for Reasons ]

But since she's from a different dimension... it does make adopting harder. Since she has no identification.

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Oh... Does everybody always have identification? [ That's true for the TRC, but that's an extremely enclosed environment. ] How unusual is it to not have it?

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Well... pretty much. If you don't have some sort of ID, then there should be record of birth or something like that.

[ ........ what ever happened to his birth record, actually... ]

But Elle doesn't have that either, given her situation. So it makes things complicated. I might have to ask Marvin how he managed it...