[Even though Athena's mostly just thinking aloud, Kaoru nods along in quiet agreement anyway. Since they had more or less been starting from scratch, it had been pretty chaotic. Small, but still chaotic. Not to mention the visit from Julius and those damn plague burgers...]

Yes, I began to attend one of the jobs that was listed for me. I'm a little too old to attend the school... [This said somewhat sheepishly.]

It was a difficult adjustment to make on top of everything else, but being able to settle into something like a schedule made things a little easier to handle. The predictability was nice.