Hayate sat on the observation, drinking some (not too) hard cider she'd cooked up earlier that evening. At any time she was either reading a small paper back, or staring down into the amber liquid in her mug. Occassionally, she'd refill the mug with a thermos.

No matter what she was doing, though, she was a little sullen looking. With Nanoha and Fate gone right now, well... it was the first year in about a decade that Nanoha, Fate, Vita, Shamal, Zafira, or Signum ... weren't around. It made her realize that she hadn't really made much in the way of new friends here.

 Alex hadn't realized how used to having Tavros as a roommate he had gotten until Tavros had to leave for a mission. It was odd waking up in the middle of the night from a nightmare without his friend there to remind him it was just a dream.

By the second night he couldn't sleep in the room, and by the third night, he had taken to studying the manual Revus had gotten him in Engineering until he fell asleep. It meant a lot of kinks in his neck and pain in his back, but that seemed better than being in the strangely empty room. 

Alice wasn't the most thrilled by this decision either, and had taken to doing rounds around the department to burn off energy, in between naps ontop of the laptop.