A Break in the Weather

[stands_for_something]

There's an old man sitting at a table in the Forum, reading his way through a pile of mail and enjoying one of the first balmy days this part of the Nexus has had in a while. To all appearances, the letters are a series of magazine-publisher sweepstakes entry forms, if anyone feels like reading over his shoulder.

Setting one down, he sighs, then looks up and turns a question toward whomever might be around and inclined to talk. "Does anyone have a story of a particularly satisfying way they quit a job? Or if you're management, a satisfying way you dealt with a problem employee?"

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[brave_heart_verity]

Is it magic that makes a cup of coffee appear next to his pile of mail? No, it's just Verity, lurking nearby and definitely getting noticed when she puts down the little cup of milk and packets of sugar if he hadn't seen her coming with the coffee. "I wasn't sure how you like it," she explains quietly.

"Someone I went to college with once quit a job through interpretive dance." She pauses a beat before adding, "Theater major," like that explains things.