“Okay,” said Harry, trying for a smile,” why don’t we head out and see if they missed a spot while patching up that wall.” He tried for his usual chipper tone but it came out much flatter than he would've liked.
Aria seemed to have notice because she just nodded solemnly and then they were off, headed towards The Hall.
They found themselves in a hall that was partially empty for the first time in a long time. The only people who were there were the ones that were returning from finishing their shifts. The biggest surprise came in the form of a head of fiery red hair visible at a time that was very out of character for the person that the head belonged to.
Daisy saw them coming and turned. She gave a little wave. Harry frowned. It looked like yesterday's news was still affecting her too. Her usually radiant smile was noticeably absent. Well that wouldn't do at all. He tried to shove all his thoughts as far down into his mind as they'd go and managed a smile.
"Daisy Danvers has been spotted awake ten minutes before she is supposed. Experts believe this is a sign that the world might end," said Harry, in his best news anchor voice.
That did the trick. Daisy managed to crack a small smile as she weakly retorted,"You use the same joke every single time. It's gotten a bit boring."
"He has no creativity," added Aria.
"He does," replied Harry.
"And he refers to himself in the third person so he's also mad," continued Aria, getting into the swing of it.
Daisy beamed at both of them. "Thank you for that."
"Anytime," said Harry, "so, let's get an early start then shall we?"
"Yes...we're almost certainly going to be assigned an impossible amount of work," said Aria," They might very well extend our times for the foreseeable future, so the early we get there, the better it will be."
"Okay, let's not think as far as extending times. We can't be sure of that," said Harry.
"Well how about we stop discussing it and go actually find out at the hub," said Aria. "Let's go," She began walking, the other two following close behind. One long trek through the corridors later they found themselves at the Hub where Aria went over to check the screens as usual.
Today there was clearly something special going on because some of the names on the board were highlighted in red. Red was never associated with anything good in this place.
Aria returned a few minutes later to confirm this.
"Yes we are on the list of highlighted names," she said before Harry could even open his mouth to ask the question.
"So are..." began Daisy.
"Yes it is to indicate the ones that will be assigned to the spaceship cleanup operation," she replied.
"Ohh, that's not as bad as I thought it would be. I thought it meant time extensions," said Harry.
"Right. That, I probably should've opened with it. They have extended it by a couple of hours."
Harry let out a sigh, "So I guess we are going to be missing breakfast?"
"Seems to be the case," replied Aria.
"I suppose then we should just get going. Best get this thing over with as soon as possible," said Daisy," talking about it won't change anything."
"Yup. Come on," said Aria.
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