St. Remedius Radio: “Love In The Air”

The Ultimate St. Remedius First Date Experience

(Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?)

Love knoweth not a specific location nor season, and the assembled students and faculty of St. Remedius Medical College never let a particular location dictate whether they felt the world move. However, when asked for perfect places to meet that perfect individual or colony, most agreed that the best places were the various activities and events on campus instead of dealing with the vapidity of local bars and restaurants. When it came to turning initial attraction into confirmation that a second date was in order, though, almost everyone agreed that a first date at Mendellosian Books was the only rational choice. The secret wasn’t the incredible book selection and variety, although that was a contributing factor. The absolute secret were the selection booths: anyone not sure about exactly what they wanted, or who had already read everything in a particular category, sat in one of the available cylinders for about two minutes, and the seeker received a crystal certainty in their mind as to the book they needed, its location, and the price. The real secret was that sometimes the book was a lure, to get mutually compatible people in the right place, sometimes reaching for the same book. Some of the greatest collaborations, the greatest friendships and partnerships, and some of the greatest punch-in-the-throat rivalries in St. Remedius history came from those selection booths, and it was exactly what the participants needed at that time.

One of the most famed of those was the meet cute/rivals-to-lovers/cultural Ragnorok involving Bennett, the head of the Advanced Technologies department, and Calliope Pendergast, the head of the Metaphysics department, as they literally collided over the same book on maser technologies. Theirs was a great love, a truly spectacular dedication both to each other as partners and a determination to keep the other guessing at work, and one that, unbeknownst to them, directly threatened the entire universe with total nullification. The universe would have been destroyed if they had not met, but their meeting, cojoining, marriage, and eventual promotion to the heads of their departments simply stabilized the path, and the final days of St. Remedius were a testament to their love and a testament to their ability to give each other grief at every available opportunity. Without their instincts for taking the piss out of each other, the ultimate destruction on that final day would have been so much worse.

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