[They have a plan. That plan makes best use of the resources they have and anticipates the likeliest breakdowns in the initial stages. This is good. This isn't, say, anything worthy of an actual smile, but it's better than where Horatio had thought they would be.
There are a handful of children to cluck at softly, with the odd reassuring touch of a shoulder or comforting mutter as their classroom's ecosystem begins to shift and change around them. That has most of Horatio's attention when Daylight speaks again.]
...as you like, Mr Daylight.
[That's sorted, then, surely. It will be a bit of a struggle against his instincts to keep 'sir' off his tongue, but that's an infinitely survivable struggle.
And his own name isn't terribly important, so they can just skip straight over that the way Horatio has skipped straight over 'all-around sensors' and 'upgrade.']
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There are a handful of children to cluck at softly, with the odd reassuring touch of a shoulder or comforting mutter as their classroom's ecosystem begins to shift and change around them. That has most of Horatio's attention when Daylight speaks again.]
...as you like, Mr Daylight.
[That's sorted, then, surely. It will be a bit of a struggle against his instincts to keep 'sir' off his tongue, but that's an infinitely survivable struggle.
And his own name isn't terribly important, so they can just skip straight over that the way Horatio has skipped straight over 'all-around sensors' and 'upgrade.']