find gainful employment

[mrmage]

The following day, Sadde goes to town at a reasonable time to buy a tiny cactus with some of the proceeds from his terribly tedious job, and sneaks it into the bag with his clothing he brings to Isabella's room. It is inside a cute little box, which he offers Isabella the following morning when she wakes up, saying, "Happy three-month anniversary!"

Comments

[eclipsi]

"I might get curious enough to look for porn at some point - maybe I'll send you to find me a good example, I didn't really have a good time looking for an instructional video for caning and that I felt a little more urgent about learning."

[mrmage]

"Not a good time? What was wrong with caning instructional videos?"

[eclipsi]

"I'm just really not a porn person! I spent the entire time thinking 'this part is just you reciting your introductory paragraphs, did you have to do it while your sub's already tied up in the background' and 'why did you take off your shirt, what fraction of your audience for an instructional video on caning wants to look at shirtless doms' and 'okay, you've demonstrated the thing you said, you don't need to give her another five swats'."

[mrmage]

He cracks up.

[eclipsi]

Snort.

[mrmage]

"I just had the best mental image of you being annoyed at your computer and raising your eyebrow at it."

[eclipsi]

"I may have done."

[mrmage]

He giggles some more. "Well, thankfully I'm not exclusively nondynamic and I'm perfectly fine with having you tie me up and cane me and edge me and have your way with me however you want."

[eclipsi]

"Good. Nondynamicism even once I figure it out is no more than an occasional."

[mrmage]

"That's perfectly fine by me."

[eclipsi]

"Good boy." Snuggle.

[mrmage]

Snuggle! "I love you."

[eclipsi]

"I love you too."

[mrmage]

More snuggles!

"There's the annual job fair the day after tomorrow," he comments.

[eclipsi]

"I was planning to skip it. Are you going?"

[mrmage]

"I think I am. Why are you skipping it?"

[eclipsi]

"It's a lot of walking around and I already have a career plan that won't need to get any more specific until they have yet another career fair. I might go with you, I guess, but we wouldn't be looking at many of the same booths."

[mrmage]

"Fair enough. I haven't actually looked at any prospects, I only have this vague notion that people will pay me a lot of money to fix them and de-age them once I can do that, but."

[eclipsi]

"Yeah, my advantage is that there's a centralized place I can sign up with."

[mrmage]

"Also I'm not sure what I'm going to be doing in the time between graduating and actually being a competent healer. And I'm wondering if they'll let me, like, intern somewhere, or something."

[eclipsi]

"They might. I honestly don't have a great interim plan either. College perhaps."

[mrmage]

"Prrrobably community college in my case, if that."

[eclipsi]

"There aren't magic colleges as such the way there's magic high schools but you could look into scholarships," she says. "I think the government likes giving scholarships to eclipsed, if nothing else, and you're bright enough to pick up more, write some essays, ace some tests."

[mrmage]

"Oh the joy of standardized testing and essay writing."

[eclipsi]

She prods him in the chest. "They're pretty joyful if you get a few thousand bucks a pop, I think."