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[littletonoidea]

"This is the audio log of Communications Officer Doug Eiffel of the-- previously of the U.S.S Hephaestus, leave a message and I'll see if I can bear to drag myself away from whatever utterly engaging task I must be doing to not notice my comms--"

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[cactusy]

Shaw goes quiet, listening to the log for as long as it plays, no matter how long that ends up being. When it finally ends, she's silent for a few moments longer before saying, "And you just... have that. Lying around. Do you have logs of every day?"

[littletonoidea]

Eiffel lets the whole episode run, and he's completely silent for it, but not... unreactive. The longer Hera talks the more a quiet melancholy starts to settle on his shoulders, and his fiddling hands still; and when Minkowski starts talking a heavy smile flickers briefly across his features.

When the log ends, he's still and quiet. Until Shaw talks, and then he sniffs, abruptly, and shifts his shoulder so he can wipe his face on his sleeve. He's not crying, he's fine. "Uh-- yeah, pretty much. It's my job, y'know? Communications Officer, switching on the TV to pick them up on channel 2. I recorded all my outgoings, right up until I got shot into deep space."

[cactusy]

"I really don't know what to do when people cry," she warns him, just in case he's used to being comforted or something. "You listen to them a lot?"