50 Minotaur Lane, Wednesday Afternoon

[drjcovington]

She could have gone home for Christmas, but Mel would have been spending it with her family in South Carolina, and well -- to put it mildly they'd never liked Janice's company very much. So she had stayed here, and had spent the past couple of days hauling trunkloads of artifacts off to her contact on the mainland, netting a nice price for them

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[l1ttle_billy]

Billy was out for a run, the exercise keeping him warm despite the chill. He spotted Dr. Covington and decided to risk the possible damage to his sanity by talking to her.

"Morning!" he called.

[drjcovington]

"Hey, kid," Janice called back, waving her cigar at him. With the prospect of a dig coming up very soon, she was in a pretty friendly mood. Might as well enjoy that while she could -- it was going to be back to the backstabbing and suspicion of her real line of work as soon as she stepped through that portal. "Enjoying your break?"

[l1ttle_billy]

"Yeah I am." Billy replied, coming to as stop the better to speak to her. "How's life treating you?"

[drjcovington]

Janice blew a pair of smoke rings into the air. "Pretty damn good at the moment, kid. Pretty damn good."