Damien nodded at his friends first comment; true enough, their professional sense of duty would have to come in to play, they couldn’t knowingly see a student thrown out onto the street with nowhere to go and not a penny to her name.   For a while he studied the menu with a similar attention to detail as he had been thumbing through the papers in the car on the way over; but all through it he was working over ideas in his head.<br/><br/>“A motel would be one option.  I have some put aside for that trip I am planning on taking; I guess I could always dip into that; go halves with you or something.”  he slowly turned his glass round and around leaving a pattern of concentric circles of moisture on the tabletop.  “Motels are expensive though; and that would only be a temporary stop gap.”<br/><br/>Damien cast a furtive glance across to his friend;  “There is another option.” even as he spoke he was feeling unsure and slightly uncomfortable at the suggestion he was going to make. “My place;” the words hung for a moment, “Well its big enough and ever since I inherited it I have been rattling around that place on my own.  There would be enough room, could make up one of the spare bedrooms.  Tali could stop there a couple of nights until we can get something more of a permanent solution.”  He frowned as he continued looking across the menu; he wasn’t sure if it was even right for a teacher to offer to put up a student.  “Actually Austin, you are more than welcome to stay over too; we can go through these papers and I can get the pictures printed.”  He felt more comfortable extending the same offer to his friend.