It was fairly busy actually, when she arrived, people bustling around, looking busy.
But then something ... or rather someone, caught her eye.
Not wanting to attract too much attention, she sidled up to the pale skinned elderly gent standing there deep in thought.
Um, excuse me?
He apparently hadn't heard her because he failed to reply.
Pardon me, I don't wish to be rude .... but you look ... familiar to me. have we met?
He looked suitably confused and baffled as he studied her face.
I don't believe we have, my name is Derrick Powers, the young girl over there playing with her virtual toy is my granddaughter Tina Acker.
She has a very vivid imagination too. Often likes to pretend she's in medieval Simland addressing her subjects.... oh there she goes again.
Did you say .... Powers?
That I did, yes. Why?
Why I am Shannon Powers, you must be my descendants!
Derrick blinked a couple of times before realising what Shannon had just said.
Oh my! Tina would be so happy to meet you! She's a big big fan of yours, always bragging about her beautiful fairy queen. It's a shame none of us inherited the wings, the ears yes, but sadly not the wings.
Shannon had noticed that but remained quiet. Maybe, just maybe those genes had skipped a generation and may possibly crop up a little later along the family tree.
Please excuse us, we have to go, Tina has scouting to go to and I've got my dominoes club to go to. Hey, it was nice meeting you. Maybe we could meet up one day, have synthesised coffee and reminisce?
With that they were gone, leaving Shannon alone in the workshop/store. She soon found out that it wasn't that simple, getting a Robotics skill. She had to learn the first level of Advanced Technology skill to begin with. So, with nervous shaking hands, Shannon played around with the virtua screen, moving images around and pulling information from files. It was quite unlike the computer they had back home where you used the keys to type in anything.
But her family wasn't far from her mind. Even after fatigue got the better of her and she had to go back to her temporary home to sleep, she had nightmares about her descendants and worried that meeting them maybe wasn't such a good idea to begin with.
Maybe Emit was wrong, that in some way she'd caused a rift in the continuum and it was going to affect her own family back home.
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