WHO: patroclus WHERE: pontius, isthmia deck WHEN: kalavria summit, day three WEARING: margaret howell (x)
He’s heard all sorts of complaints about the various panels and presentations, starting well before they arrived on Pontius, and in true diplomatic fashion has offered whatever response seemed most appropriate at the time; sympathy, commiseration, redirection. What Icarus has yet to do is tell anyone the truth: that he wishes his schedule were a little more packed. At least when he’s sitting in a seminar he has something to focus his mind on, fingers flying across the analog keyboard he refuses to swap for the latest holo-model as he takes a truly unnecessary amount of notes on the most minuscule of details. At least in an auditorium he’s not constantly being offered drugs or alcohol that he’s already running out of polite excuses to decline less than three full days after arriving. At least numbers and charts and slideshows don’t want to touch him or talk to him or take him away to another pocket of festivity he knows he’ll have to pretend to enjoy.
Unfortunately he’s somehow ended up with several free hours in the middle of the day and absolutely nothing professional to occupy them, which is how Icarus finds himself in an elevator heading down towards the Isthmia deck. Strictly speaking, he ought to have reached out to concierge services and booked an official tour, but that carries the strong possibility of having to join a tour group which is the last thing he wants to deal with right now. The gardens are fairly easy to find anyway, an array of helpful signs and maps posted throughout the deck providing a clear path towards the keel.
Outside a set of glass doors, through which Icarus can see glimpses of vibrant green foliage, there is a small office with a name plate reading Patroclus Cirillo, Ph.D. They knock lightly on the frame despite the open door, but when the man in question appears he comes from around the corner, not inside the room.
“Doctor Cirillo, hi! So sorry to just show up unannounced, but I have some unexpected free time and I was hoping to take a look at the gardens if that’s alright? I can come back later if you’re busy, I don’t want to interrupt anything.”










