@wcterwithin (for Camille)
Seoras has done their utmost to make the Glasgow base welcoming for the team’s new computer expert. Namely by putting together a gift basket, which they’ve left on her desk; it includes a map of the city, a can of Irn-Bru, a Nessie sticker, as well as a good raincoat. (Umbrellas, they know, are useless in this city.) They’ve stuck a bright ASK ME ABOUT MY PRONOUNS pin on their denim jacket, alongside the colourful assembly of other science-y and political pins. They got to work early, so the new arrival doesn’t show up and wonder why the base is empty (or at least, that’s what they tell themself. It’s not because they woke up and 5:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep.)
And despite their best efforts, they don’t hear the door when it opens. They’re hunched over the piece of alien tech on their desk, and the 20% of their brain not studying the metal disc is otherwise occupied by singing along, under their breath, to the Dolly Parton album playing through their headphones. You know. Important things.












