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Michael, if he had known Marcus thought of him as older, would not have been surprised. He had always been a little bit mature looking for his age which he may or may not have used to his advantage at less ID happy bars. But, he did not, so when Michael went to meet up with Marcus what he was thinking about was how nice it was to have another guy around his age in his division willing to show him around because asking someone younger than him would be weird and all the older Hunters where, well, slightly intimidating.

“Nice to meet you too, thanks for agreeing to do this again.” He looked over to the coffee maker with amused look as Marcus pointed it out, “I was always more of a tea person but if those are our hours I’m sure I’ll grow to love its miraculous properties.”

<<Blah, Blah, Blah who cares about drinks ask him to show us the best training grounds! Or where we’ll be doing missions! You know, exciting stuff.>>

Michael released the quietest huff of irritation he could manage, automatically reaching up to tug on the glow stick that hung around his neck in reprimand. He hadn’t realised it at the time but their first few days of lazy comrade and banter where Nucha giving him time to adjust to his sudden new life style. Now the bloody pest wouldn’t leave him alone about fighting and missions and well generally doing stuff. Maybe he’d ask Marcus later if there were any easy missions for newbies to do to see if it would get Nucha to shut up about it for a while.

“I guess I’d just like the highlights? Anywhere you think is important for me to know about, especially for our division.” He shrugged a bit here, “You probably know better what I should get a look at.”

Michael reacted immediately to the mention of the good doctor and his assistant, shuddering and pulling a slightly horrified face. He really, really could have done without that intro. Seeing someone carry their own corpse was disturbing on a deep, deep level.

"Yeah- ah just one. Is there anything in particular I should avoid around the Doctor? After his... demonstration I have the deeply inspired need to never get on his bad side."

He was also tempted to ask if there was any alternative to heading to the labs for healing so he could just avoid the bloke all together but... if he was injured he honestly wouldn’t care who took care of him.

That all sounded like good common sense advice Michael, and would hopefully be easy to stick to.

"Hmm, no the main complex sounds fine to m-"

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"-e. Though I wouldn't mind going to the training grounds after that. Is it just like sparing facilities or something more complex?"

"I'll make sure to look him up at some point then." Moon was all about defence after all right? And Marcus's wouldn’t tell him about a bad teacher he was pretty sure, he got the vibe that Marcus really loved his division. Michael was starting to get that.

"Hm? Nope? Would they take us out this early?" he would have thought they'd need more training on like, everything.

"Caelius?" Michael mused softly vaguely remembering someone mentioning him straight after he'd woken up. Eh, he was sure he'd find out. "But, ah, thanks for the warning then. I'll try to be ready for it." he shrugged.

Michael listened along to the explanation of the cafeteria; the food thing made sense and hey if it meant he didn’t always have to walk out here for food that'd be good too. Though he did wonder what had happened to the nice old lady. Actually, on second thought, knowing what he did no he didn’t.

"So, what's up with Julie? You mentioned her at the party as well."