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Ship - Tranquility - I have a bit of a crisis-

So I need everyone to stop a moment and think very hard, and I mean incredibly hard, about this, because forget the bloody temperature and the mess with all that and everything else because, well.

...I've run out of tea.

Proper tea, not the space tea that tastes like the stuff you get from the blank boxes that they sell at the Co-op. Or worse, the off-stuff from Tescos.

Does anyone have real tea?

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I brewed the last cup this morning I didn't even notice until after I went to make a cup for George-

[briefly]

Well, it's... the end of the month, isn't it? Perhaps the lockers will somehow restock-?

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Well they haven't given me anything else since the first time I arrived-

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There wasn't a need for it before, though, was there?

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Well, yes, and I suppose people were satisfied with the tea that would just occasionally appear but it wasn't like it tasted very good-

[briefly]

Better than... nothing. I think. [Ugh.]

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I think I would just as soon go with nothing.

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Definitely an option.

Have faith. If there was tea here before, there must be some again.

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I suppose there isn't much else to do.

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Exactly. Meanwhile, I'm sure there's some sort of worthy replacement we can arrange.

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Maybe I can find something.

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Good! Optimism all the way. [Good for you, you get a 'go get 'em' fist gesture.] God knows we need it.

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I'm Annie.

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Annie - lovely name. I'm Poppy.

Pleasure to meet you.

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Oh, thank you! It's a pleasure to meet you, as well!

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Where are you from, if you don't mind my asking?

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Wales, apparently.

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Apparently-?

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Well we move there but I showed up here just as we arrived.

I didn't decide. My flatmates did it while I was sleeping.

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Your flatmates... [hm.] And you didn't mind.

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Well, yes, of course I minded, but at that point we were there-

It was more like...a coma?

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... I'm confused. And worried.

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You don't really have to do either.

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I'm not sure I can do that. It's in my nature to worry. And it's also in my nature to do something about it.

[tentatively said...]

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It's all right, really.