Fourth floor common room, Monday afternoon-evening

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

There were times that Sky let his inner dork out in public.

They were rare, but it happened.

Today was one of those times. He had decided to take his much-neglected model of the Protector into the common room so he could spread out more and finally get a good amount of work on the thing in rather than having the clutter of pieces set in piles all over his desk and half his bed.

Currently, he was using a pair of tweezers to place weetiny crew members into their weetiny seats on the weetiny ship's bridge. He was so focused, he didn't notice that his tongue was sticking out the side of his mouth, or that he was peering at the weetiny pieces with all the intensity of a hawk eyeing a mouse for his next meal. This was a delicate, serious procedure, after all.

A pitcher of tea and some cups sat out for anybody who might be passing by.

[Open as a common room tends to be.]

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[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

Ami was done with classes and was walking to her room when she noticed someone was in the common room. She peeked in, and watched the wee-tiny figures getting placed.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky looked up and smiled when he noticed someone peeking in, setting his work down and stretching.

"Hello," he said pleasantly.

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"Hi." Ami waved. "I don't think we've met, My name is Ami, i am down in 421" She eyed the model and its little people curiously.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"It's nice to meet you, Ami," said Sky, returning the wave. "I'm Sky, and I live in 407." He noticed her looking at his model and explained, "I'm building a model of the Protector from Galaxy Quest. Building model planes and spaceships is one of my hobbies."

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"It is very nice to met you as well." She looked at the model, this time realizing it had something to do with a TV show she had seen once. "Oh cool. May i take a closer look?" She walked over a little hesitantly.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"Sure," said Sky, picking up the tweezers and weetiny cockpit again. "I don't have too much of it done so far, but you're still welcome to look at it."

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"Did you paint all that?" she indicated the tiny crewmen.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky shook his head.

"I only wish I was that good," he said, still smiling. "No, I just put it all together."

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

Ami nodded. "What do you do with them once you are done?"

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"Put them on display in my dorm room, mostly," said Sky. "I don't build them very often so I don't run out of room."

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"I think..." she said slowly "I had a bunch i would hold mock battles."

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky pondered this for a moment.

"Hmm," he said. "I never thought of that before..." Space battle strategy might be useful for when he finally learned how to pilot a Zord. Yes, he told himself that it had everything to do with his training and not with his inner dork.

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"You could... calculate the vectors and trajectories and stuff. Maybe on a grid or something." Because really, everyone had an inner dork, especially the Japanese girls who love to study more then most things.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"I like that idea," said Sky, sounding pleased. "Thanks for the suggestion." Yes, of course he would do all of that. For training purposes. Naturally.

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"If... if you do that... can i watch?" Ami asked a little plaintively. She figured it would be good practice of vector analysis. Yeah, that was it.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"Sure," said Sky. "After all, it's a good way to develop battle strategy." And not because he's a dork deep down inside.

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"Are you a warrior?" Ami asked carefully.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"I'm an intergalactic police officer, actually," Sky explained, warming to the subject. "I'm not a high enough rank to get involved in space battles yet... I'm not sure I ever will do much of it... but any knowledge that helps me in my work, I consider beneficial."

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"Oh wow. That is... really awesome." Ami's eyes got very wide. "Do you go on space ships and such?"

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"Yes, but not too often," said Sky. "Mostly just for travel. Before I came to Fandom, I was training at another base in outer space, though."

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"Neat. I have been on a spaceship once." she shuddered "but that involved being abducted by aliens."

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

"Really?" said Sky, raising an eyebrow. "That sounds scary." He dealt with plenty of aliens, of course, but he'd never been abducted by them.

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"It kind of was... These were the ugly kind that liked to cut people up. And mess with their heads. And then try to kill them..."