Team Dad

The only guy in his dorm had made an appearance, but hadn't actually bothered to introduce himself. That was fine - none of them seemed overly talkative anyway.

Minnie was... alright. Well, she obviously didn't want to be there, but what teenager did?

"Not often," he said. "The point was more to do introductions. You should know who you're living beside. If you need something, your roommate and your neighbors are the first people you should be talking to."

He wasn't going to call them siblings. They were too close to being actual adults. But that was part of the idea of the whole dorm parent thing.

"Don't have any house rules yet," he answered Bel. "If I come up with any, I'll..." He glanced over his shoulder. "Put them up on the board, probably." He reached back, tapping his knuckles on the whiteboard on the wall.

Euphemia--Mia, his brain autocorrected--was pretty neutral. Wary? Skeptical? Something like that. It was hard to tell if she had no emotions, or if she was just hiding them from others.

"Minimal," he answered. "You're all almost adults. The oldest of you ages out of my care in less than three months. If you need help, I'm here for it. If everyone's following the rules, there shouldn't be much of an issue. This isn't an elementary dorm, so we're not going to be doing regular group activities or anything. If someone wants to set up a TV night or something in the common area, we can do that, but I'm not planning on trying to force you all to be friends."

Agnes. Khalid was good with names, and he was making mental notes of all his dorm kids. Technically speaking he had a stack of who was who and what their dorm requirements were, but that didn't help much with putting names to faces. The files didn't exactly have passport sized photos or anything. The only person they really helped with was Theo, and even then? Not very much.

So there was Minnie, Bel, Euphemia, Agnes, and Theo. So that meant he was missing two kids - he'd just have to look for them later.

"That's all," Khalid said, "more or less. If I need something, I know where you all live. Try and check in every so often so I don't think any of you have wandered into the woods. If you want to stick around and chat, you can. Otherwise, you can do as you please."

There had been some amount of introduction from others, so he opted to do a bit of introducing himself.

"For those who don't know, I worked extensively as a scout in the field for the last half a decade. I've been asked to shift to a more managerial position, organizing other scouts rather than being in the field myself. This means I'll be more available to you. If I need to go out in the field for some reason, someone else will take my place for a day or two, but that shouldn't have to happen."

Maybe once or twice a year, tops.