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Offline Zero Undead

New Pilots Sometimes Crash [Open]
« on: August 03, 2017, 10:55:32 am »
How were you supposed to feel in this moment?

Excited?

Hopeful?

Sashi wasn’t sure. Maybe most people felt like that when they were finally picked out by their dragon. It seemed logical to be full of adrenaline and ready to do just about anything with your newfound freedom. As she stood alone in the middle of the living room of her new apartment, all she felt was lost.

The place was almost barren. Sure, the kitchen had the appliances all set up for her, but the place was lacking in any real life. It looked like someplace abandoned and forgotten. Sashi could almost have called it depressing. The walls were even a drab, neutral grey. Aside from the emptiness it was a very nice apartment, especially when compared to her dorm room of the very recent past.

It didn’t feel like hers. There was no connotation of home with this place. She knew it was her responsibility to make it her home, but she honestly didn’t know where to even begin. After spending the last six years with every aspect of her life dictated by Pilots and the program, it was really hard to just switch to being one of those Pilots. Instead of running and leaping to embrace her newfound autonomy, she felt overwhelmed by it – without someone telling her exactly what to do next she simply didn’t know what should come next.

If someone had actually been watching her they’d have undoubtedly thought her insane. Sashi wondered aimlessly back and forth through the place, going to the kitchen, opening the empty fridge to peer inside, then closing it and shuffling back through the living room to look around without really seeing the apartment. More than once she actually walked out the front door, looking even more confused, and turned around to walk back in.

At that moment she was in one of the standing outside the front door phases of her confused wandering. Sashi pinched the bridge of her nose and let out a very deep sigh.

She could do this.

All she needed to do was break this down into steps. The furnishings were plain, but probably nicer than what she’d grown up with. She didn’t need furniture right now. Maybe in the future she would develop enough of her own personal style to decorate and furnish her dwelling, but for now – baby steps.

Sashi needed food. The fridge was empty, as were the cabinets. That was a task she thought she could do. Buying groceries should be simple. Never mind that she had never been shopping for herself in her entire life. Sure, gone with her mother to stores, but not been the actual adult in charge of buying food or anything else, for that matter.

Shoving aside her incompetence, she entered the elevator and headed down. She’d never been alone in the upper levels of Haviah before. This should be a fun adventure.

Sashi just kept telling herself that.

Offline Marjorie

Re: New Pilots Sometimes Crash [Open]
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2019, 03:59:39 pm »
Exciting new adventures, and new opportunities - was it even Enrys who had believed in that, had been so excited and so honored to join the Pilot Candidate program all those years ago. The boy who had been so elated to follow in his father's foot-steps no longer existed. The training had taken his joy and his exuberance, and left a cold and detached man in it's place. Besides that, it had been eight years sense Emrys had been a Cadet.

He also had never had an issue with being indecisive. He also was not aware of the recently graduated Pilot's issues when the elevator stopped and the doors opened to let Sashi enter. He did sense, without even trying, the trepidation floating around her, though, as she stepped inside. The petite girl had lavender eyes, which he noted as attractive. Emrys also noted that she was young - a bit young for his tastes even. The nervous energy around her made him think she was recently graduated.

Emrys stood tall and straight, hands clasped before him. He was in his dress uniform because he'd just been giving a detailed report and debriefing with his superiors about his most recent visit to Edanith. It was starched and pressed, and one could imagine it snapping when he walked for how strait the creases were. Somehow, he straightened a little further when she stepped inside, his hands falling to his sides, to give the waif of a girl a little personal space. He didn't usually like going out in his dress uniform because people paid too much attention to him - sometimes they even asked him to pose for selfies, really. It was ridiculous. He was on a scheduled though, even though he was technically off duty now.

Emrys hadn't been home in months. He didn't... well maybe he missed his children a little, but missing them was not the main issue. He wanted to check on how their studies and other various endeavors that he deemed to be of importance were progressing. Jillana, his eldest daughter, was a teenager now. Her birthday had come and gone while he was on assignment, and today she was participating in a martial arts tournament in the city. She didn't even know he was home yet, but he wanted to attend, and if he hurried, he'd just make it. So he hadn't taken the time to change, despite hating going out in his dress uniform...

"Afternoon," he said, in greeting, his voice was gentle and low, and there was a depth of warmth in his tone that was miss-matched compared to his appearance. "I haven't seen you here before," he said, just to fill the silence, they had many floors further down to go, and it might help to ease the stranger's nerves a little, "are you a recent transfer?"

 

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