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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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You poor thing. [He's not at all sarcastic. That is some proper sympathy, right there.]

I have a small handful of varieties, and one jar of very good English Breakfast. I promise it's above and beyond anything Tescos ever stocked.

Do you really?

[Pause.]

I.

Hello, I'm Annie.

[HELLO, NEW FRIEND.]

Hello Annie, I'm Ianto. You're welcome to pop by any time and I'll brew you some.

[COME BE COMFORTED, NEW FRIEND.]

I-

Yes, really? Thank you.

By and by-

Is that a Welsh accent?

Born and bred. I figured my name was a bit of a giveaway, too.

I just moved to Wales! Well, in theory. I got there and then I was here.

I haven't even seen the house, to be honest about it.

I'd say welcome, but under the circumstances...

Cardiff?

No. Barry.

[Yeah she's not exactly thrilled, considering.]

Oh.

Well.

It's probably safer there, in any case...

I didn't think Wales was very dangerous....

It's not really, just Cardiff... But then, that may not be the same in your world.

Really? Why is it dangerous?

In my version of Cardiff, there's a temporal rift that dumps out right above it. The other end isn't fixed, so you never know what might come through. The average resident doesn't know about it, and the organization I worked for was tasked with making sure they lived on in ignorant bliss. We'd deal with whatever came through before it got to them. Unfortunately, things sometimes work better in theory than in practice.

Oh-

Yes, I don't think we have that problem.

You lucked out, then. I'd advise moving to Cardiff at the soonest possible opportunity. Or at least Newport.

I would if I were in charge of those kinds of decisions, but no. I'm not.

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