[Elle likes her new job. She likes her new job a lot. Honestly, next to Mojave living back home, this is the best possible lifestyle for her, she thinks. Being able to go out and explore, find new things, solve puzzles... touch places that haven't been seen or known by people in who knows how long. Bring all of that information back, in doing so, helping uncover the history of this place, its people. And, at the end of the day? She can come back to a community. To friends.
And, hell, today, she even gets to come and hang out in a desert. It's not the same kind of desert she's used to (doing some reading tells her that it's closer to an African desert than the Mojave), but it's a desert all the same. Sand and hot sun and cacti, that's what she cares about. Could use with some Joshua trees, though. She misses Joshua trees. But she knows she's not exactly allowed to bring one in and plant it, or anything. They've kind of made a big deal about invasive... species...]
Hey, what's that sound? [she asks the others on her team as the rumbling starts.
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And, hell, today, she even gets to come and hang out in a desert. It's not the same kind of desert she's used to (doing some reading tells her that it's closer to an African desert than the Mojave), but it's a desert all the same. Sand and hot sun and cacti, that's what she cares about. Could use with some Joshua trees, though. She misses Joshua trees. But she knows she's not exactly allowed to bring one in and plant it, or anything. They've kind of made a big deal about invasive... species...]
Hey, what's that sound? [she asks the others on her team as the rumbling starts.
And then... she turns around.] Oh.
Shit.