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Fandom Island Museum, Thursday Daytime

First day on the new job was, Steven felt, very exciting. The Fandom Island Museum didn't have an Egyptian section but the sections dedicated to fish, bugs, art, and Fandom history were still quite nice, really.

None of that was his area of expertise, to be sure. Luckily Blathers had provided a guidebook to help Steven get up to speed while his new boss slept through the day.

It was a very thick guidebook. Labeled Volume 1. Blathers liked to write as much as he cared to chat, apparently.

Steven made sure all the brochures and maps were properly tidy, put on his name tag, and settled in behind the Welcome desk with his new reading matter. He had no idea if anyone might stop by but it was clear he'd have plenty to keep him occupied regardless.

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Connor had spent the better part of yesterday wandering the island and trying to get the lay of the land. He had finally found the museum but it been late so he just made a mental note of where it was then headed back to the hotel to try and get some sleep.

He hadn't been too successful between the mix of jet lag and excitement over his new job and assignment. And so, as soon as the museum opened, Connor was walking in through the door, stopping to look around and give an appreciative whistle.

"Pretty impressive for such a small place, eh?" he asked Rex, who was perched on his shoulder and seemed to be looking around with interest as well.

A moment or two later, Connor was walking up to the front desk.

"Good mornin' mate" he said with a grin. "Was wondering if you could point me in the direction of a Blathers, by chance?"

A patron already! Or, based on the question, perhaps not a patron?

"He's, ah, asleep at the moment," Steven said. "Is there something I could help you with?"

"Ah, maybe" Connor said. "I'm here for me first day of work." He suddenly looked a little worried. "I had spoken with Blathers on the phone last week when he hired me. Said I could start this week whenever I could get here. If... If I need to come back later, I can."

"Oh! Sorry. He didn't mention a new employee showing up today." Which was surprising given how chatty Blathers was but then maybe he had mentioned it and Steven had forgotten. "His office is over there. It's all right to wake him up if you need. I'm Steven, by the way. New as well. My first day, actually."

"No need to wake him unless there's some orientation or something I need to do. Oh, and I'm Connor" he said as he held out a hand towards Steven.

"And this here is Rex" he said nodding towards the dragon-like creature on his shoulders.

"Hope it's ok I brought him with me. Didn't seem fair to leave him caged up in a strange hotel on our first full day here."

"Steven," Steven said as he shook Connor's hand. He'd already introduced himself, but it never hurt to be clear about names. "Not up to me but I think it'd be amazing. What is he? Some kind of dragon?"

Rex gave a happy chirp and jumped off Connor's shoulder and onto the table. He chirped at Steven and seemed to be showing off a bit.

Connor laughed as he spoke. "Sort of. Rex here is a coelurosauravus, a type of flying dinosaur from the Late Permian period."

Connor made himself stop there, knowing that not everyone was a huge dino and science nerd like he was.

Steven held his hand out, palm up, near Rex. He didn't know if Rex would want to sniff like a dog or cat would but hopefully the gesture translated as friendly.

"Hello, Rex." To Connor, Steven said. "Dinosaurs? Suppose you'll fit in all right on the island there. Anyone told you about the area's... unique qualities?"

Rex loved attention and pets. He sniffed at the offered hand and gave a trilling chirp and the gave a gentle head butt to the hand, asking for pets.

"I've heard some stories and rumors about things around here. Not sure how much truth there are to them..." Connor admitted. "But that's what I'm here to do. Back home, my team investigated strange anomalies and creatures. Curious to see how unique this place is, as you put it."

He paused for a moment, watching Rex and then turned his attention back to Steven. "What kind of things have you heard about so far?"

Steven wasn't sure what sort of attention Rex might like so he tried using his fingertips to pet where Rex indicated.

"Oh! Well. For starters it's 2022. I suppose if you do work with different time periods that might not surprise you as much. Then there's all sorts of different types here. Vampires, Lucifer, people sworn to be the avatar of Egyptian gods."

Steven threw that last one out casually. If he and Connor were going to be working together it was probably wise to start preparing him for any strangeness Konshu might try.

"So actual like gods, demons, and such?" Connor said, a little skeptical, but he had seen his share of strange things, though granted still definitely part of the actual physically world. "I mean, I always figured it was possible.. that things like that were real... (said the person who wrote his thesis in college about aliens seeding life on earth). "But if its actually real and can be proven..."

"Very real," Steven assured him. "Some unfortunately so but the vampire and Lucifer seem all right."

Irene was right, there were things you said in Fandom that you never said in your life before.

"Hummmm" Connor pondered for a moment before nodding. "Definitely think this place is right up my alley. I mean dinos and monsters and what not were great but the anomalies back home have be quite for over a year now... been itching to get me hands on some new mysteries to unravel!"

His brain then caught to something Steven had said just a moment ago.

"What was that, about Egyptian gods and such?"

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"Those are real too," Steven said. "Or at least they are where I'm from. So that's, ah, that's another one."

Something belatedly occurred to Steven to mention. "Also Blathers is a talking owl. Not sure if that came up in your phone conversation so word to the wise there."

"Wait.. he's what now? Really?" Connor said as he stared at Steven, half expecting him to start ribbing on him for falling for that so easily. But no.... he seemed totally serious. "A talking owl.... huh. And here I thought all the 'hooo' sounds were just a nervous tick or something."

Steven was glad he'd thought to mention it now. "Yeah, actual owl. Very nice though. Better than my last boss, that's for certain."

"You worked for many animal bosses?" Connor asked with a chuckle, unable to help himself. "Or... its not one of the gods or vampires or whatever is it?" Because really that would be insane. Really cool if he were to be honest with himself. But still a bit strange.

"I meant my last boss at a museum," Steven said. "She was human. At least she was as far as I could see. After being here almost a week I guess I can't rule out maybe she wasn't."

"Hard to say where a talking owl would rank..." Connor said. "I'm sure Cutter would be put out if I ranked an owl, even a talking one above him!"

"But this place though" he said looking around the lobby area again. "This is impressive for such a small island. What all do we have here to take care of so far?"

Steven pointed in the various directions. "Fish, art, history of the island, insects. Watch the insects when talking to Blathers, by the way. He's not a fan. Think it might be a phobia or something."

"Aye, noted" Connor said with a nod. "And I think we best be keeping you away from the insect exhibits eh mate?" he said, giving Rex a look. "Don't need you trying to eat all the specimens after all."

Rex replied with an indignant sounding chirp and what almost looked like an insulted look.

"Good idea," Steven said. "It's pretty open. The dangerous ones are in glass cages but the rest are sort of free flying. It's lovely but probably tempting if that looks like a meal."

"Well, considering he was munching on a dragonfly as soon as we got here... I'd say that's definitely a no go area for the guy. But sounds like it will be a great place to work and all."

There was a slight pause before he continued. "So what about you? What brought you out here to this out of the way place? You said you used to work at a museum, right?"

"British Museum, yeah," Steven confirmed. No need to mention he didn't work there anymore because he got the sack. He drummed his fingers nervously against the countertop. "And, ah, change of life, I guess? You know how it is. Decide to try living with someone and all that."

"Good for you then mate!" Connor said with a grin. "Me and my best mate back home, Abby, we use to be flat mates and all too!"

Sorry Steven, Connor was very much going to assume you were talking about moving in with your girlfriend. Or boyfriend- no judgement on his end!

"Don't see many houses and such around here. Assuming it's just the apartment complexes then is it?"

Steven was oblivious to the added meaning since as far as he was concerned "best mate" wasn't a wrong way to describe how he felt about Marc these days. So as far as Steven was concerned Connor was congratulating him on having a good friendship, which was something he and Marc had needed to work on so, again, still apt.

"Thanks. It's new. We're figuring it out. And yeah, the apartments. There's still flats available where we are. It's the building right by the causeway, easy to find."

"Ah yes, saw those when we arrived. That's convenient" Connor said. "Once I get some money saved up and all will have to check it out. Who knows? We might end up being cop-workers and neighbors!"

Exciting proposition? Terrifying? Only time would tell really.

Steven didn't look like the prospect bothered him, at least. With sympathy he said, "Yeah, bit easier for me having someone to split the cost with. There's a fair few places that opened up in the building though, so you might be able to find one for yourself before you know it."

"Good to know. Hopefully they have no problems with..." Connor lowered his voice and leaned a little close so Rex wouldn't hear... "with pets in the apartment."

Luckily Steven knew the answer to that one. "They don't, I checked. I've got fish myself. Well Marc and I do, now. He bought two of them, one for each of us."

"Ah good, that makes things easier. Much better than back home. Seriously, landlords were such a pain, cat or dog- no problem. A lizard who just HAPPENED to be able to fly? They loose their bloody minds!"

"I mean it's no different from birds then, is it?" Steven said. Not that it was his area of expertise but he knew as much about ideas of evolution as anyone. "Birds coming from dinosaurs and all that? If you can have a bird why not a flying lizard?"

"Exactly! Ya get it mate" Connor said with a grin. "It makes total sense. Shame there are so many uneducated types out there, ya know?"

Oh Steven, you just made one science geek very happy right now.

They didn't share an area of interest but Steven could certainly understand the sentiment. "Oh I know. You present them with some great finding and it's all 'Actually I just wanted the location of the loo.'"

"Right? Or you try to talk to them about your grand thesis idea, about aliens influencing the evolutionary path of our entire world. And they just look at you like you're thick in the head." (No, he would never forgive you for that snub there Cutter.)

"So...." Connor said as he glanced over at Rex who was exploring the top of one of the shelves. "Anything I should do or work on before me first official shift next week?"

Steven thought about it. "Nothing official far as I'm aware? Blathers is a pretty easy boss. Plus he wrote everything down."

Given the thickness of Volume One in front of Steven it was possible that Blathers had quite literally written everything in the world down.

"Alright, good to know." Another cautious glance to Rex who was chirping excitedly from the top shelf. "Rexy, come on, time to head back to the hotel mate!" he called as Rex jumped off the shelf and landed on his shoulder again. ""It was great meeting ya, Steven and I look forward to seeing ya around!"

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