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[dr_temperance]

If there is one thing that Brennan excels at, it's compartmentalization. It's a useful skill, especially during otherwise hectic times.

Next week, she and her father are flying out to Ohio, to participate in their first official family Christmas in over fifteen years. Brennan is looking forward to it, but it does leave her with a lot to get done.

On a number of fronts.

She started out this evening in the bar with work from the lab--a shattered skull in need of reconstruction. The skull is now pieced together, resting on a stand while the glue sets.

Its eyeless sockets are watching Brennan as she moves on to her next task--wrapping her nieces Christmas presents.

Brennan measures out a precise square of red and green paper (just enough to wrap a crystal-growing kit from the Jeffersonian gift shop) and sheers her scissors neatly through.

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[ostro_goth]

"His name is Timothy McGee," Teja says. "He is easily confused and worried, but a good man, overall."

Pause.

"But even if she is missing -- how can you match the bones with a living face? If there is no hair left, and not personal items with the skeleton, there is no way of telling who was who, or even telling friend from foe, in my time, when one would bury the dead of old battle."

[dr_temperance]

Brennan hasn't heard of Mr. McGee. It was a long shot that it would have been someone she knew, but professional courtesy had nudged her to inquire.

"My friend, Angela, is a forensic artist. She works with me in the Medico-Legal lab."

"She can feed the dimensions of this skull into a computer, and use that information to reconstruct her facial features. From there, it's just a matter of matching those features to the features of an individual in the Missing Persons database. Assuming that she is there."

"The rest of the skeleton will provide us with additional information that can help us narrow our search, as well."

[ostro_goth]

"She can put a face back on a skull?" Teja says, amazed. "That is truly a strange art, and a noble one. You live in a truly peaceful time, then, that every dead man, woman, child will have such care taken over them?"