Trooper Station, Thursday

[craftyladyparts]

There were a lot of alien wild flowers in the station today. Apparently the troopers had gone out to explore the planetoid and liked what they saw in terms of plant life. Jessica decided to play it safe and run some tests on the flowers to make sure the pollen wasn't deadly or the flowers wouldn't sprung to life and start choking everyone, but that

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[fjordicswagger]

"Has anybody out here actually checked out the new part of the island?" Tamsin asked of no one in particular and everyone all at once. "I've been getting patrol reports full of cooing about daisies."

[craftyladyparts]

"Some of the guys have. The report says that the fields are very," Jessica grabbed the report from her desk and read through it quickly. "...Pretty. That's the official word."

[fjordicswagger]

"I don't know whether to call that a good thing because at least nothing came up and ate them," Tamsin said dryly, "Or smack them over the helmets for being a bunch of ten-year-olds."

[craftyladyparts]

"I'm going with the former," Jessica decided. "Especially since tests have been run and the flowers seem to be both non-sentient and non-lethal."

[throughaphase]

"Well, this looks... flowery," Kitty said when she walked in, failing to accurately describe it.

[craftyladyparts]

"Sometimes this job is hard work, Kitty," Jessica suggested.

[throughaphase]

"And you need flowers to make it happier?" she asked. "Mind you, I'm on board with that."

[craftyladyparts]

"Oh, no. The hard work is picking flowers on slow days," Jessica said. "Especially when there's a non-zero chance that they'll try to kill you."