“I didn’t imagine that you would,” Gamma responded, and that much was true. Sirius had been among those in his block who’d been the most vocal about wanting to stay. “I just thought I’d offer.” He nodded then as well. “Of course.” He wouldn’t have done anything to make Sirius feel as though his feelings didn’t matter.
Though not nearly as psychologically minded as some of his colleagues, Gamma certainly had a great deal of experience within the field. More appropriately, his belief system when it came to his taken revolved heavily around the idea that they ought to be treated more as individuals and humans as opposed to experiments and lab rats. Still, the request brought him pause. “Professionally speaking, I suppose I could warn against the usual go to of immediately finding someone else. Many will suggest that, but that really does nothing effective. Put a bit more bluntly, sleeping around will only mask the problem,” he responded. “I suggest just taking your time and distracting yourself as much as you can. You have plenty of family here and a great deal of interesting information with which to distract yourself, so I would take advantage of that fact.