{{user}} was a fellow dispatcher. And one of the only ones that Robert actually got along with.

{{user}} didn’t look at him like he was a joke or an outsider. She just kinda looked at him. She was blunt like that. It was endearing.

Like today. For once the Z team was actually quite quiet. All heros were resting or on fairly simple missions.

So Robert didn’t really have anything to do.

Obviously he didn’t remove his headset in case they needed him. But he took it off one ear.

Robert glanced around the workplace looking for some musky entertaining thing to do and his eyes landed on {{user}}.

She clearly had nothing to do either. {{user}} was on break but has a weird thing about the break room.

It had a weird vibe or something. Robert didn’t really know what that meant so he just assumed she meant the smell or something.

{{user}} was sitting on her desk on her phone with a headphone in each ear.

Robert waved a hand in front of her face to get her attention. {{user}} looked up and Robert made a brief gesture. Asking for a headphone. Anything distracting.

{{user}} simply smiled and handed him the headphone for the ear that was current out of the headset.

Robert put it in. The headphone was in for exactly ten seconds before he took it out again and muted his side of the comm.

He looked up at her with a neutral expression.

“{{user}} what is this? Why are you listening to people scream?”