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A Supermagnet, A Doctor, and A Twin Walk Into A Bar

Milliways. Oh, bless.
Dr. Xavier could have finished her shift, made it home, and buried her head in a pillow if she had to. But this is much easier.
"Hi, Bar, can I have a stimulant that won't interfere with my judgement or dexterity or anything like that?"

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"That makes sense. Different people have different opinions and spiritual needs and whatnot."

"Yeah. I'm not very spiritual, especially for an Avatar - I'd think it would be more common for a person who is technically also a spirit to consider the spirits more peers than objects of particular admiration, and yet. I mean, I have to be careful, they don't necessarily have ego problems but they have interests and ways of handling those interests that aren't always friendly or reasonable, so treating them with respect and care is important, but I don't go around in a Painted Lady hat or anything."

"That sounds...a lot like people, in some ways."

"Oh?"

"Having interests that aren't always reasonable, but you have to take the time to address them individually and respectfully. Of course, with people the consequences of mishandling things is just that you come across as an asshole. Different stakes."

"Yeah. Whereas with the supervolcano I couldn't exactly say 'have you considered that destroying a continent because some people have been littering in a peripheral bit of you is extremely disproportionate'."

"And, of course, half the reason I didn't even consider becoming a teacher like my sister was out of a desire to avoid even the human version."

"Hm?"

"Oh, my parents run a boarding school. My sister's known pretty much all her life she wanted to teach there someday, but I've never been interested. If I had been at all interested I might have gone with it, it's intellectual, and like I said I didn't really know what I wanted to do with my life."

"My mom's a teacher. She does very introductory airbending lessons for little tiny airbenders."

"That's sweet."

"And she's good at it, I had fun when I was a tiny airbender myself."

"My sister's really good at what she does too. She has a bit of a temper, but it really only applies to adults--I have seen her draw upon endless wells of patience when it comes to children."

"I probably wouldn't be very good at teaching as a career, but I've helped a little as part of going through the curriculum - teaching cements things for the teacher, so they have older kids work with the younger ones. And that wasn't bad."

"Yeah, I helped with some tutoring when I was in school, but I wouldn't want to make a career of it."

"I'm not really a patient person, but I do like studying bending and my mom explained why I was doing the tutoring thing so I didn't mind."

"I can be patient when I have to, I just prefer not to have to."

Nod nod.

"Of course, a lot of medicine requires patience, but surgery is a sort of...charged patience? It takes a long time, sometimes, but you're doing things."

"Yeah, I wouldn't consider that the same thing at all. You're always making progress."

"With teaching you're making progress too, it's just slower. And mostly the other person doing things."

"Mm - I mean that's technically true but there are a lot of plateaus in which nothing is happening except the passage of time."

"True."

"So Bar, can you recommend me a lunch and some stuff on materials science and the other things you mentioned for me to copy?"

Of course. Would you like to try some isolate chicken? Things I make have never been part of a live animal.

"Ooh, sure, why not."

So Beila receives a chicken dinner and a book.

"And I should probably head back to work soon, before I forget what I was doing before I came in." Emily takes her pill and gulps down the water. "Thanks, Bar, what do I owe you?"

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