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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]

"Apparently she does," Gordon says. "We should be hearing from her soon."

Any port in a storm and based on her track record, she's a damn good port.

[vance_prime]

"Oh good. That makes trying to make sense of Aperture's cloning tech slightly less pressing."

[acts_of_gord]

"One look at that stuff and I become very, very glad I wasn't a biologist," Gordon agrees fervently. "Got a preference what to start with? The Fort Collins frozen germ plasm covered a lot of species."

[vance_prime]

"Chicken and dairy cattle, I think," says Alyx after a moment's consideration. "Having a steady supply of eggs and milk will help extend our supplies quite a bit."

[acts_of_gord]

Gordon nods. "I'll mention it to her when next I see her," he says. "And this way we won't have to take a chance on those two-headed cattle, either."

[vance_prime]

"Yeahhh." Alyx grimaces. "I trust Ellen's word that they're a viable species, but can you imagine trying to deliver a calf like that?"

[acts_of_gord]

"I try very hard not to think about delivering calves at all," Gordon says. "I read an early twentieth century veterinarian's memoirs once. Once. If you don't mind, I'd rather stick to helping people raise the chickens."

[vance_prime]

"Well, either way, there's going to be a lot of feces involved. Fair warning."

[acts_of_gord]

"I've swum through worse than that," Gordon says. "I can handle a little animal output."

[vance_prime]

Alyx looks back at Eli. "On that note... we should seriously start potty-training the twins pretty soon here."

[acts_of_gord]

"You're probably right," says Gordon, looking down at the sleeping toddler. "Well. That should be interesting."