This dinner table was magnificent… plenty of space, feet in every direction, it was fantastic. Normally Sophia never got tables like this to use, and if she did, it wasn't for very long, this 2 AM in the morning thing was working out beautifully. Granted a person like Sophia loved to pour over data in to the wee hours, but generally her craziness of books, two laptops, no fewer than a dozen files and a spare no pad would never fit on her desk back in her room, or even her apartments, which never suited the giant table anyways. But the sheer volume of her work demanded it, and as a result, demanded that she have the proper tools laid out in a very wealth sized space.

But granted, it was 2 AM in the morning, these notes were vital to research regarding the shifting of stars and planets. Sophia wanted to believe that even the most minute of details over the span of any given time could calculate the exact positions of stars from times before. This meant that she could postulate the distance the light traveled, if the light was traveling, and which starts had disappeared meant that she could even theoretically calculate the distance. It was somewhat wild speculation, but the data pouring in on a light basis from research telescopes needed to be analyzed properly and scientifically. Which mainly meant Sophia looking at lots of star charts online and pouring over recovered from about a dozen different observatories that she was working with. Granted she may have not been the most well known astrologer yet, but she was well respected in the community, and one she believed she'd be on top of in the future. But light traveling billions of millennia was not something you could track in one night, or even over a life time. This had taken Sophia years of hard work, trying to match up star charts of old with more modern, high definition ones, see if anything changed… thus far not a whole lot, but Sophia was getting closer, it just took time.

Time she had, a bladder she did not. Right now, the effects of multitude of water were taking her effect. Granted the cookies from the kitchen probably didn't help either; a plate of them left out for anyone to eat, Sophia took a few, consider them a midnight snack that had gone past its prime at midnight was well worth a 2 AM snack instead. She leapt from her seat though, turning around the corner to a nearby restroom that so vividly called her attention right now. It was enough to get her attention, enough that she was willing to depart from her work. She'd be one for only a few minute, the liters of water shooting out of her, and with a wash of her hands, it was back to work. And upon returning to her work, she couldn't help but say, "Get away from those papers and computers! That's important research."

Serena was up late, what time was it? Midnight. It was certainly very late, she had already splashed her face with water about six times to keep her self awake. She didn't want to fall asleep, not yet.

Serena picked up her biology notes and text book from next to her bed, she then straightened up and set out.

Serena poured herself a glass of water. And drank slowly. She then topped it up and thought to herself, well she had better study for a while because there is no sense in being up this late and not doing anything with her time.

She walked into the dining room, thinking that it would be empty, she was wrong.

Serena hadn't even noticed the notes or the computer across from her, she was also a good meter or two away from them. "Hi there, sorry, I wasn't going to go near them anyway. I was just looking for somewhere quiet that I could study as I can't sleep" Serena held up biology work as proof of her statement.

"A quiet place to study would very likely be your own bedroom, assuming it offer's adequate light, a comfortable seat, and a sturdy notebook to work on. The dining room isn't quite the place for studying," said the woman who was clearly tracking celestial bodies in the night's sky. Granted, Sophia was here for a good reason, the ample room provided by the dining room table would surely offer much more space for her star charts and other research notes, along with the various small folders and two computers. Sophia's efforts were different, someone else's were less so, especially Biology…

Biology was a useless field, assuming you weren't aiming to be a doctor. How animals, plant life, and other such creatures operated were no more than important than why a chicken crossed the road. You couldn't necessarily learn anything new from them at all, and as a result, the benefit they offered was minimal. As well, why did it matter if it worked? A duck quacked, a plant grew, and dogs bark, who cared about the inner workings so long as they did work. If you wanted to specialize in them, you could, but it was pretty boring research that didn't offer any sort of insight in the nature of the universe.

Which needed to be called out upon, noticing the book on Biology, Sophia first rushed back to her research to see if anything had been edited or changed, or at the very worst, the upload with the observatories had been interfered with. Thankfully, nothing had been from what Sophia could see, so it was safe to plop herself back down on the chair and go over her data once more. But while a program was running, it would take a moment to compile the data, and so it was a moment Sophia could pull off her glasses for a moment and question the nature of studying in the dining room so late in the evening, "So… you planning on becoming a doctor?"

Serena noted the way that the blonde woman spoke. She deduced that she was probably mainly logic driven, also judging by the sheer amount of work on the table, Serena guessed that she was a Scientist or a Mathematician or something.

She shook her head. "It's not as simple as a light source, I have a roommate and she has a pet, I don't want to wake either of them up, so I decided to find a table somewhere else in the school that I could study at."

Serena noticed how the woman rushed to her work as to check if it had stopped working? She wasn't quite sure what she was doing. But, it must have been very important to the woman for her to defend the work so... Fiercely.

Serena shrugged. A Doctor? She hadn't really thought about that. She was good at the sciences for her age, but she wasn't entirely sure where she wanted to take that yet. "I'm honestly not sure, I am passionate about Biology, and I enjoy science subjects in general, but I haven't had much time to look at my future recently, this year has been a little crazy."

Serena settled down at the opposite end of the table, and set down her book and her notes. "I'm Serena by the way, nice to meet you." The British girl waited for a response while she flicked through her notes.

“Professor Sophia Stratford. Cookie?” uncharacteristic of the blonde, but a cookie was a cookie, too many of them would have gone right to her hips, and the last things she wanted to do would be to go jogging for any extended period of time. It was that or fast for a few days and see if that got the weight done. No what was she not going to fit in to her skirts and dresses.

“But if you like science physics is a much better field. Physics has far more applications world over than Biology, and who wants to be playing with things that will make your hands dirty. Disgusting work that stuff is,” considering the worse you could get in physics was a paper cut from the practical work, if you actually wanted to do some of the more practical work, the worse you could do was destroy a bunch of stuff. Still, it was a lot less disgusting that muddling around in the dirt and playing with human or animal body parts, especially the blood. Sophia even visible cringed when considering blood, thinking the stuff horrible, despite how useful it really was, it just crept her out.

“Besides, you’ll use physics far more often than you would biology. How long it takes to break in a car, how far something will go if you throw it, and even things move around you. All vastly more important than any plant or microbe you might study about, but never ‘actually’ use,” implying that by actually, there was little merit in studying how thing moved and the science behind them than trying to study why a tree grew a certain way, or how a duck’s bill actually worked to its advantage in some obscure way.

"Thank you." Serena took a cookie and nibbled on it while drinking small gulps of water and reading. This woman seemed friendly enough, even if she was overly logical.

Serena smiled, a Physics professor. Things were starting to make a little more sense now. She didn't like getting her hands dirty? Serena found this amusing.

She nodded to Sophia. "It's true that Physics might have more obvious practical applications. But I enjoy biology, especially anatomy, I wouldn't go into something that I only found interesting when I could do something that I feel that I could truly enjoy doing."