"Thank you," he said. She even sounded a little like River. The tone was off, her speech pattern wasn't fractured like River's was, but ... it wasn't so far off from how River's had been before the Academy. It made him miss her all over again, but there was no sense to it. She wasn't here, she might not be here, and he couldn't bank on anyone he knew showing up, ever.
"I ... posted on the boards, looking for a job. For anyone in need of a doctor. I've been ... following up on that." Sporadically. He was still trying to decide how much ignorance he thought he could put up with and still be a good doctor, and whether he'd be better suited at the big General hospital, or if a smaller but still busy place was the one for him.
"I haven't ... had any experience with magic. Before I came here, that is." He was still having trouble wrapping his mind around it completely, but ... there it was. It was part of life here.
"I was just ..." Simon gestured down the street. "Going to try to be helpful. If there were injuries caused by the snow or slipping or ... the cold." He exhaled, watching his breath plume the air. Maybe going inside somewhere wasn't a bad idea. "That ... sounds fine," he said. "I didn't think to eat lunch before I came out."