Office Hours; Office #3. Saturday [09/25].

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Because of course Summer got to the be the special snowflake with an office that existed outside of a certain cluster of offices held by people with some mysterious unifying force, she got to also have her own post. Not that her mind was actually on meeting with the guests of her students very much that weekend, since she had her own to focus on, and the whole weekend was going to be all sorts of talking and planning and probably a few drinks and manicures in there, too.

It helped, though, that this office did hold kind of a special meaning for Summer, and one that was pretty appropriate to why Beth was even here in the first place, and it opened the door to tell her mom a little bit more about her time in space with the jello shop, what she was doing out there, why she had to come back, and, subsequently, the times she got to help with Rey and the resurgence of that empire, not to dissisimilar to the resurgence of the empire that Beth was dealing with.

There was, of course, also the issue of Summer's dad, who Summer was starting to suspect hadn't come to see her at all, and that, actually, he was here to latch onto Barry. Which was really sad and pathetic and not at all surprising, and Summer almost felt as if she should do something about that, but, look, she had some important stuff to talk to her mom about, and, really? Barry had to learn somehow. This is what you got, Ween, if you wanted to be a part of this family, and the best way to teach that lesson was to just let him suffer.

Beth, meanwhile, was still rather fascinated by the mural on the wall.

"So you said it's called a loth-cat?" she asked, turning back to her still-beaming daughter behind her desk. "I can't decide if Squanchette would be offended by this or not."

"Wait," said Summer, "Squanchette? You have a Squanch on your team??"

"Well, I mean," Beth sounded casual, but she had to chuckle a little, "it was her planet that got razed during the wedding massacre, remember? She's got even more of a beef with the Federation than most of us. But it's a good team, Summer, I think you'll like them. And..." She paused to give her a fond smile. "I think they'll like you, too."

It was a good thing Summer had been working on keeping all of her excitement about all this bottled tightly inside, because otherwise, she would be releasing a high-pitched happy squeal of just one long, sustained sound that would carry all the way over to that big clump of offices.

Goddamn, her space mom was so cool!!

[[ open door, open office, open post! Same SP vibes apply here as with all those losers in the clump ]]

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"What kind would you like?" Summer asked, pulling the drawer open and shifting through what was in it right now. "Hard candies? Chocolate? Gummy bears? Looks like some little cookies and cupcakes, too, if that's more your jam ...."

[solanakitan]

“I’ll have chocolate please,” Solana said with a smile because some things were universal.

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"Chocolate it is!" Summer declared brightly as she plucked a good piece out and gave it a gentle toss toward Solana.

"Toss me one of those licorice whips while you're in there, Summer," Beth requested from the bean bag.

"You got it, Mom!" Summer complied easily, digging one out and tossing it to Beth before then grabbing a lollipop for herself, and turned her attention back toward the visitor.

"So....I'm sorry, I just realized, I don't think I caught your name! Obviously, you're here because of one of my students, right?"

[solanakitan]

She nodded, “I’m Solana Kitan,” she offered, “I’m Alara’s sister,”

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Summer nodded, because she sort of assumed that last part, but, also, you didn't want to just, you know, assume. "And I'm Summer," she offered, just to put it out there, "which you probably already knew because you're here, but...anyway. What can we do for you? Did you have questions about the class, or how Alara's doing, or anything like that? Just kind of making the rounds?"

[solanakitan]

“A bit of both,” she told her, “Mostly to check up on her and see how she’s doing in her studies, our parents are too busy to make the journey so I’ll be letting them know of her progress as well when I get back,” that was assuming they were interested at the time, it was hard to tell with their parents sometimes when it came to Alara.

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"Well," Summer offered, "you can tell them she's doing great in my class, she always seems pretty willing to give things a shot, which is, you know, pretty crucial to my whole thing. How're things going so far? Do you have a lot of teachers to hit up other than me?"

[solanakitan]

"They'll be pleased to hear that," Solana smiled, well she may have to be a bit creative with the description of what class Alara was taking, "It has been quite an interesting experience, Alara's taking quite a wide variety of different classes," she said, "I have have met a couple of teachers already," she said, "I have a couple left to try and see this weekend, a Shane Gooseman and Stark and also I thought I'd check in with the Dean of Students as well,"

Solana was if anything very thorough in making sure to follow her sister's academic progress.