[center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/190711/87008b871fd60a65defb1b3dec454b29.png[/img][/center][right][hr][color=gray][b]Smith's Rest, New Anchorage | Inside HQ[/b]
January 16th, 2677[/color][hr][/right]
[indent][indent][indent]It was almost [i]exactly after[/i] the door shut behind him that he realized he didn't have any idea what he could do. All Graham said was that he wanted [i]all personnel to look busy[/i] before the new pilots got here. But exactly [i]how[/i] he was supposed to [i]look busy[/i], he wasn't sure. It wasn't like there was a lot he could do - or, rather, there was [i]plenty[/i] he could do, but he'd likely break it and the someone with any actual skill that was hired to fix it would have to both correct his mistake and then fix the original problem. It's happened before, it's likely to happen again. Really, like, he [i]could[/i] try to repair the half-dead and flickering lights that he's currently walking under, but if he did it was likely that he'd accidentally snip the wrong wire and [i]whoops[/i], the whole building has no lights! Again, it's happened before, but instead of the lights it was his heater. In the middle of winter. Yeah, that wasn't a fun few days.

With a shiver of remembrance, Percy simply picked a direction to walk and... walked. If he walked with purpose, he'd look pretty busy, wouldn't he? Actually, what does [i]a walk with purpose[/i] even look like? Walking quickly? Shoulders back, up straight? Making sure every step has that distinct contact with the floor? Honestly, don't all walks usually have [i]some[/i] purpose behind them? Whether it's just to getting from point A to point B, or to get out of the house, or to clear your head after an argument - who just [i]walks[/i] for absolutely no reason? There's always at least a small purpose to it. Who just decides that they're going to walk and.. that's it? Well, wait. That's sort of what he's doing right now, isn't it? Walking with no purpose. He's walking just to walk, in some hopes that purpose walks into [i]him[/i], and not the other way around. All he did was choose a direction and decide [i]let's go this way.[/i] Why, he didn't know.. But now that he's thought about it, what even [i]is[/i] this way?

You'd think after basically [i]living[/i] in the base a while he'd have learned where everything was, but all he was sure of was where the barracks are, where the mess hall is, where the [i]hangar[/i] is, and (more recently) where his and Ana's room is. If someone asked him where a bathroom was right that moment, he'd have no fucking ide- Oh, wait, he just passed one, actually. Cool, now he knows. Or he'll forget as soon as he's turned this corner after reading the sign above the arch reading 𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙶𝙰𝚁. Maybe he could find something to do in there.. and hopefully not break anything.[/indent][/indent][/indent]