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[agardener]

Sym is waiting in the common room, sitting with his pink tentacled creature on his shoulder in the chair. He has a DVD and Feldspar's file with him.

[getfeldsparred]

Feldspar shows up sans spacesuit, tattered clothes barely hanging together loosely clinging to their frame. They should get new clothes - these are clearly ruined - but they’re still doing the job, aren’t they?

They take a single glance towards file in Sym’s hand and then decides to promptly ignore it. “Hey, what’ve you got for us?”

[agardener]

"They call it a documentary," he says, holding it up. "It has information about Earth. I thought it would be good for both of us to watch."

[getfeldsparred]

“Since there’s more of them than us that seems like a good idea.”

In their younger days they might have flopped down into the couch beside Sym, but they grab hold of the arm and lower themselves down slower, just out of caution.

[agardener]

Sym starts it automatically and blinks a little at the greenery. No matter how many times he sees it, he can't get used to it. It's so - big.

He sits forward, taking it all in.

[getfeldsparred]

It’s a big planet, a really big planet, and diverse to boot with all of it’s big forests and tundras and deserts and oceans and lakes and —

Feldspar sits back quietly and watches, hands between their legs as they lean forward.

[agardener]

Sym blinks a little at the creatures in the water, about the strange and beautiful things hiding in the deep.

"It's so - big. And diverse," he mutters. "Is Timber Hearth like that?"

[getfeldsparred]

“Big, yeah,” they frown. “But not that diverse. We’ve got forests and mountains, some snow at the poles. Nothing like this.”

The fish are fascinating, at least until the fish living deeper in the sea are introduced. Feldspar visibly tenses as a small anglerfish, different yet somehow so similar, swims across the screen.

[agardener]

Sym, as usual, notices the reaction but not the intent behind it.

"That one has very sharp teeth," he observes. "And what an interesting way to capture its prey."

[getfeldsparred]

Feldspar’s unable to look away as the anglerfish lures a smaller fish right into its mouth.

“Yeah,” they exhale, “yeah, ain’t that something?”

They have to tell themselves to relax before they’re able to do it. It was just jarring to see a similar creature suddenly pop up on screen.