Aurelio Sakon Igre - Winding Down

[Aitas]

((Shared rooms, Second House Estate))

The rooms were nice. Aurelio didn’t have a lot more to say on them than that, he’d tired himself out quite thoroughly in the competitions with the other teams and generally found Betazoid architecture familiar enough to be unworthy of other comment. 

And no one from the Second House had paid too much attention to him when they’d beamed over there. Sometimes people would look at him like they were trying to figure out things about his parents but they were usually far too polite to ask.

But the Second House was the House of Science and Mysticism, so he hoped they’d get to see something cool there eventually. 

And Jeremy wasn’t in the room to bother them. To bother Molly, really, even if he seemed to be a little mean to everyone else on top of it. 

Molly: Who wants the top bunks?

Aurelio: I’ll take one. Unless someone else really wanted it?

He liked the feeling of being up high. It felt a little like flying. But he didn’t like the feeling of other people being grumpy over the beds. And he was too tired to worry about that. 

M. Skyfire/K. Skyfire: Response

Molly opened up her bag and started to mess with things in the meantime. 

Molly: My best friend on earth had this loft bed, with her desk underneath. We used to always sit up there telling stories or watching holofilms whenever I went for a sleepover. 

Aurelio: Do you have any favorite films?

There was someone sort of familiar just outside the door, though Aurelio wasn’t quite sure who. Just that he didn’t feel nervous about it.

M. Skyfire/K. Skyfire: Response

There was a knock on the door and then it opened, revealing Doctor Orrey.  

Orrey: Is everyone ready to bed down for the evening?

Aurelio: Maybe. 

M. Skyfire/K. Skyfire/Molly: Response

Orrey: Anyone require anything for the night? Glass of water, sliver of light, tucking in, bedtime story?

Aurelio: I could go for a story.

Was he too old to need a bedtime story? Of course! But he wasn’t going to turn the chance down either. He liked stories, and you could learn a lot about people from the sort of stories they told. 

M. Skyfire/K. Skyfire/Molly: Response

Aurelio: What are our story choices? 

Orrey/M. Skyfire/K. Skyfire/Molly: Response

Aurelio: I like station stories. And science stories. But I’ve heard all of my mom’s already, and Uncle Taelon’s, and Mirra’s, so I would like some new ones.  

And those were old, even if he’d been there for parts of them. Too early for him to remember, really. Just the faint impressions of long distant emotions, concern, affection, the feel of Fureri beneath his fingers.

And even that was probably his mom’s memories, warm and familiar until they felt again like his own.

Orrey/M. Skyfire/K. Skyfire/Molly: Response

Aurelio wasn’t going to be too particular. 

Aurelio: Ok! ::he settled down into his bunk.:: I like hearing how different people tell them.

He didn’t feel like he was very good at that. Though a lot of stories tended to involve people getting in danger, so maybe that was part of it. He didn’t want to learn that part from experience. 

Orrey/M. Skyfire/K. Skyfire/Molly: Response


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Aurelio Sakon Igre

Child

Amity Outpost

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