Her hair was green as seaweed, her skin was blue and pale

[sgt_c_lenoir]

Her face it was a work of art,
I loved that girl with all my heart
But I only liked the upper part
I did not like the tail.

Chuck crawled out from under the console he'd been fixing - a few parts had been jostled out of alignment, and, while the console wasn't particularly important to the city's function, it disturbed his sense of aesthetics to

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[elisabeth_weir]

Elizabeth walked forward, "What is it?" She asked as she walked across. "Are those..." She trailed off amazed staring at the screen. "Where are they exactly?" She asked.

[dr_macgregor]

Rae shut her laptop and walked over from the console she'd been working on. She took a look at what Chuck and Dr. Weir wwere looking at...

"Huh. Underwater sensors, that's good to know... Holy... Are those mermaids? Well, and mermen, too, it seems." She looked stunned. "Wow, that's... Wow. Is it just me, or do they seem to be arriving in a procession?"

[sgt_c_lenoir]

Chuck stared at the display, tracing the path of the strange beings with a finger. "Merpeople, I think, Dr. MacGregor...we might as well try for politically correct on this one."

He counted them. "Thirteen of them...and definitely moving in some sort of formation, and heading towards Atlantis. This is the point where I'd offer to open a comm channel if they were an approaching ship, but, well, they're merpeople..."

[david_parrish]

David scratched the side of his face with his stylus, then tucked it behind his ear, still glaring down at the laptop in his hands. He'd been working in the ZedPM labs all morning, fine-tuning the new manufacturing processes. Finding Rae had been easy, she'd been in the command center all morning--they'd shared tea at breakfast as usual and left to their respective work areas after. He found her bent over Chuck's shoulder eyeing a console.

-ere an approaching ship, but, well, they're merpeople..."

"Rae, I can't get the energy-output data to corre-wuh?"

The last word filtered through the subspace-compression data and the myriad of other facts buzzing around in his brain--surely he'd misheard.

"{tell me you didn't just say merpeople, Sergeant Lenoir..}"