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[acts_of_gord]

It's awfully busy back at the Greenbrier. Gordon's taken the opportunity to get little Eli out of his mother's hair. He'd meant to take him somewhere out of the way in the complex itself, but Milliways showed up, so-

"One winter morning, Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen..."

-there is a one-eyed, battle-scarred physicist with a crowbar on his belt, seated by the fireplace reading Ezra Jack Keats' The Snowy Day to the dark-skinned, reddish-haired toddler on his lap.

Not that he couldn't be interrupted, if someone else wanted to talk. Just give them a heads-up first.

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[acts_of_gord]

Gordon nods. "Turns out our children aren't the only babies around now," he says. "It's not just humans these days, I mean. The Vortigaunts started being able to hatch out their own children again after the Combine field went down. They started coming out into the sunlight just around Christmas."

[wheatencrown]

"Wonderful and how are all the children getting along?"

[acts_of_gord]

"Pretty well," says Gordon, "as long as we keep enough extra toys around to distract them when two or three of them all get interested in the same toy. My niece is making a lot of crocheted tools and things like that for the kids who like to play with hammers."

And crowbars. There's a lot of soft toy crowbars out there. It's weird.

[wheatencrown]

"Places to play can be good too. Gardens, spots where they can put their hands in dirt and sand and other things. I can help you put something like that together if you'd like as well as find more toys."

[acts_of_gord]

"Might not be a bad idea," says Gordon, resettling Eli on his knee. "Sergeant-Major Shephard made it to the Doomsday Vault and came back with a lot of different seed stocks."

[wheatencrown]

"Wonderful and I can help get them growing for you."

[acts_of_gord]

"We'd appreciate that," says Gordon. "Say, you don't by any chance handle things to do with farm animals, do you? We've got some frozen genetic material, but most of it won't do us any good without at least one or two adults to use it on."

[wheatencrown]

"I do, I have many good friends who are farmers and could help."

[acts_of_gord]

Gordon nods. "We'd be grateful," he says. "I don't have the specific species on me, but... I can show you what we've got to work with the next time I come in."

[wheatencrown]

"Thank you. I'm glad to do whatever I can to help."