So much trouble," their leader muttered under his breath as they pushed the door open and watched as the creatures running about screaming and carrying on in the room all stopped dead as they were spotted.
The weirdest part of the whole thing was how, after a long long mutual silence, every one of the people in that room seemed to look relieved. They exchanged confused glances as the people they'd expected to get very upset about seeing someone not of their own species arrive out of nowhere instead started organizing themselves into various groups, some going to check on the bodies, some comforting others, and a couple heading their way.
"This is weird, right?" the comms operator hissed out the side of his mouth as they watched one of the odd creatures stop in front of them, look them up and down, then hold out his hand.
"It's very weird," the leader replied as quietly, while he inspected the offered hand, all of them wondering what it was for. It took a while to work it out, and a certain amount of miming and demonstration, but in the end all four of them shook hands with their new apparent friends, while wondering what the alien words 'The Family' actually meant.
The linguists were definitely going to have their work cut out for them, that much was certain.
And the scientists were going to lose their minds when they got these recordings.
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Emily put the phone down, stared at it for some time in total bafflement, then got up and walked over to the window. She looked towards the DWU compound, miles away across the city, wondering what the fuck the lizards had done this time, before she headed off to have a large coffee, talk to her people, and call Saurial, in that order.
She just knew this was going to be a bizarre one. And around here, that was saying something.
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Taylor gazed at her phone, then at Amy and Lisa, who were staring in bemusement. She glanced at the Varga who shrugged. "Well, I didn't expect that," she commented after some time.
"We probably should have," Amy replied with a shake of her head and a strange smile. "It's on brand at least."
"In the most insane way possible, yeah," Lisa agreed, sighing faintly.
"Well, we should probably go and greet our cousins from long ago," Taylor said, grinning. "Before the humans get too confused."
"Because we need to confuse them first, right?" Lisa chortled.
"Of course. Come on, I've always wanted to visit Wyoming."
The four of them made their preparations, and shortly were headed out for the most interesting field trip so far.
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Dropping her phone on the table Rebecca put her hands over her face and squeezed hard enough to turn coal into diamonds. "More fucking lizards," she moaned. "I can't take much more of this. Where are they coming from?"
Eventually she dropped her hands, groaned in complete resignation, and got up to find something to do she could deal with. Let someone else handle whatever the fuck was happening this time.
She really, really needed a vacation, she thought despondently.
As soon as possible...
