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[ex_bloodcakedarmor707]

[Behind the Youth Center, past the basketball court there are several massive oak trees. Awhile back, Piglet had asked about carving out a tree trunk for a home for himself. And that's exactly what Derek is spending the morning and into his afternoon doing. Having picked one of the trees close to the center out, he's slowly but surely carving out the hollow of it to fashion what will be the first 'room' of the home for Piglet. This is exactly what the video feed shows him doing from the perspective of the device he's left sitting by a toolbox just a yard or two away. Anyone is free to bug him, both in person or over the device.]

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[ex_bloodcakedarmor707]

I would. You two would hit it off. He was here for awhile but the City sent him home. He helped keep an eye on the Youth Center with me while he was here.

[Derek tries hard not to get upset about Reid leaving. He'd lost two people in the City that he was very close to in a very short amount of time. It had been hard and he was just now starting to get over it.]

Yeah I did. I got a criminal law degree but everything else I either learned outside of school or taught myself. Was a cop, detective, agent... [He indicates the carved out tree.] This kind of stuff is my hobby outside of work, building things, knocking things down... building them back up.

Tell me about what you did back where you're from.

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[candothat]

[Chekov has been here long enough to miss the people who aren't in the City and recognize the sentiment in others; he doesn't press, hoping to turn the topic in a more cheerful direction.]

Did you teach yourself? The last things, is what I mean... building things.

[He smiles.] Everything that I could--physics, engineering, mechanics, theoretical sciences, programming, mapping. But I am told that all of those count as work and not hobbies.