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Sherry was spending eating in a distracted sort of way, more picking at her food than not. Her notebook was also on the table, and she was idly re-reading some old notes she'd taken. It wasn't overly important stuff, but something to fill the time.

She looked up at the voice, noting a person headed her way. "Oh, yeah," she said, looking at the girl. "That was me! Good to see you again!" Sherry closed her notebook to give the girl her full attention. "I'm Sherry. How are you doing after all that? Any word on our friend Kai?"

"Sherry," she replied with a nod. "No, please join me!" Sherry gestured at the table. "I was just reading up on some notes to pass the time. I'd like the company, actually."

She was at this point putting her notebook away, just to emphasize the point. "Food is usually better with company."

Sherry smiled as she watched the girl go to get her food. A bit of company would be good, and Joy seemed like a nice girl.

She was still smiling when Joy returned. She frowned a little in thought at Joy's words. "Folks can be odd. I mean, I come to the cafeteria to be around other people. Makes no sense why someone would want to be alone, unless they were having a bad day, maybe. Groups though," she paused and shrugged, "well I don't know."

She looked at Joy. "Do you come by at the same time every day?"

"I see," Sherry said with a nod. "That housing thing does seem like a good deal, I hope you get into that quick." They'd not had that when she was a trainee, but Sherry also hadn't had to live in the dungeon. She'd heard stories about those rooms.

"I'm here a bit later than normal today." She shrugged and took a little bite, thinking. After are few moments she continued. "My routine is fairly usual. I like to help out with shifts and things in the morning and spend my afternoons on my personal work." Perks of being a full hunter - time to devote to specializations and things. "But I like to stop in for lunch or a snack."

Sherry took a sip of her water. "You're finding time for training in between all your duties, I hope?"
She worried about the young ones. Had to make sure they could handle themselves and such.

"Oh, that's good!" Sherry was pleased to hear Joy already had things mostly sorted about the apartment.

"Excellent!" Training was very important to survival here. It was good to know Joy was on top of that. Even working on her runic permissions. Great! Sherry wasn't exactly sure what the other gal said when she ended her sentence, but Sherry caught the basic meaning just fine, she though. "Yeah."

Sherry had to smile. "I'm okay with that! Lunch buddies!" She took a sip of her drink, spending the moment contemplating what lunch buddies talked about.

"You can!" That was a topic Sherry could easily talk about. "I've been in Life about five years now, a bit more, I think. Five and a half, maybe? Been a full Hunter for the past two years or so." She shrugged. "I think it's something like that. That's how long I've been able to focus more on my own projects, at least."

She smiled at Joy. "How about you? How long have you been around the island?"

Sherry nodded. She'd been podded for a bit, too, before starting her new life. "Oh! Grats on your promotion!" Sherry genuinely meant it. It could be tough to move up the ranks sometimes.

"Oh, I do field research. Digging around in old ruins and things. Kind of like archeology, but where there are Fear spikes. It's not too exciting most of the time, but I think it's fun."

She gave Joy a questioning look. "That's good. It's much nicer out in the field once you are actually allowed to do things." Sherry took a small bite of her food. "What kind of things do they have you doing in the field? You enjoying it?"