i ordered two coffees, one is for you

[whattigerscanchange]

Who: Odessa Wander and you, maybe!
What: Coffee break and downtime.
Where: The Glory Shada.
When: Various points throughout the workday.
Notes: This is an open thread for those who have reason to be at the Glory Shada.
Warnings: None as of this posting. Will update if that changes.

When Odessa Wander was told decided she would become a surgeon, it was for a very select organisation. It meant that barring some sort of disaster - and those were known to happen - she didn't actually have to work that often. She found it dull, and never imagined she'd savour the time between surgeries.

She definitely savours it now, like the cup of coffee cradled in her hands. Working with and for the public is more hectic than she ever expected it to be. And if she were a better person, she'd actually find it to be more rewarding. At any rate, she's thankful for her pay, and that she's doing the work she loves, and that she's kept busy, but Christ she wishes she could be more selective about her cases. It's made her glad she didn't pursue working Emergency.

It can't be comfortable in those heels she's wearing, but she isn't sitting in the break room. She leans her back up against the wall, staring across the room sort of at the wall opposite her, but also past it. If uncertainty were a palpable feeling, it would be properly radiating from her. Beyond obviously wool gathering, however, she takes great care to ensure that she doesn't appear to be outwardly sulking.

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[cerebral]

Someone else seems to have had the same idea, although Charles has chosen tea as his beverage of choice (although he's not completely integrated with English behaviours, just incredibly particular about his coffee). He'd quickly learned that it wasn't a good idea to take breaks in his office, otherwise people kept interrupting him for odd tasks around the hospital. Having a telepath in the building was handy, and he didn't mind doing things outside his job description, but there was the emotional drain that came along with it. Especially in a place like this. He needs moments to himself like everyone else.

Upon opening the door, he falters for a moment. Someone else is here. Do they want to be left alone? He should have checked ahead.

"Ah, hello." Although relying on verbal cues also works.

[asklepios]

It's a testament to Odessa's sentiment that it's taken most of Benevenuta's day to day colleagues several days to realize that she isn't blonde any more and that that does mean she changed something. Given they do work in Emergency, it's not anything she's especially inclined to take personally, and it's hard to expect a minor style change to register when one of your other colleagues changes color with the weather temperature and pressure. Successfully inuring yourself against startling at that in surgery (or even registering it) tends to have a flow on effect.

--and it's not exactly her own highest priority, witness: "Is that a fresh pot?" Coffee is much more immediately important than aesthetics or even 'who it is she just asked about the coffee'.