“You seem to have put some thought into it too. I really just miss my children and wife Andrea,” Talia chuckled. Before now, Talia hadn’t realized how much company could calm the nerves. Especially when it was a professor who gave her reassuring words. “Yeah I am.” Talia had never thought of her friends being worried. It made her feel selfish only thinking of her own safety. That wasn’t what teamwork was about. “Oh well I can probably just text them. I’m not really sure where they are at the moment.”
“If you do, add a thumbs up or a flower emoji or something. That should be reassuring,” she suggested. There seemed to be no chance of a storm on the horizon, but Skye still found herself unusually alert to the phone in her pocket, expecting things to turn bad any minute. If anything, she needed a distraction in the form of a conversation. “So, I feel like an introduction is in order. I’m Skye and strategic keyboard smashing is kinda my thing.”