[wryly amused]

Okay. Christmas season. Great.

Anyone else celebrating Yule instead?

Did I...

I did.

I turned into my grandmother for a week.

I think I need to go read some tech manuals.

Um. Sorry to anyone I - yeah.

Especially you, Xander.

[a frustrated sigh is heard among sliding paper]

This is ridiculous. I can't even touch the keyboard.

I'm reduced to organising a card catalog. Some of which really needs replacing.

How someone could choose this over a simple, accessible database is completely beyond me.

[a sharp gasp, followed by a dull thump and rapid, heavy breaths]

What...

[the whisper of a trembling hand sliding over a neck]

This...isn't what I expected the afterlife to look like.