I'm not an actual time agent myself, but I have done tours and helped out which looks really good on my stats.
Looking good on the stats is the most important thing in the world!
Today we were hanging out at the quad, we go there a lot. Quad 78, because there are lots of quads around, but we just say the Quad because it's closest to our dorms, a lot of people who go to this area are destined for your time because it's a simulation of a downtown area, with some fountains, and some stairwells leading into buildings although the buildings aren't like most of what you find around your time, the simulations only go so far, and a lot of things for skateboarding too, a couple half pipes, stone benches by the fountains, it's nice. Your time really had some nice things, it's pleasant to hang out in.
Nervé who is supposed to go a bit before your time, to Shakespeare and London and all that, is a bit the odd one out here, but I guess he just likes hanging out with me and Sausalito more than he likes constantly preparing for his future, which I worry about, he already has the downside of only one body, he doesn't focus that much, it could go bad.
Sausalito was talking to this girl from underclass - Animita Verité - and they were drawing things on each others arms, constellations, fluid dynamics calculations, hearts, stuff like that.
I was practicing my skateboarding tricks as usual, and Nervé was, I think partly to annoy me, talking only in iambic pentameter (which funny thing is I know a girl named Iambic, and a guy named Pentameter)
I'm not the only one that boards here, which is sort of fun because you can tell who has a particular time they are planning to visit by the skill they are working on, and even how close they are to going to that time or if they have been, for example that Iambic girl I told you about - she's pretty smart in business hacks and crimes of your time, and she boards and she is here and her board has two stickers on them which she obviously picked up from your time.
One sticker says Alien Workshop with a gray Alien,
And the other is a Tardis - which is a time machine from one of your fictions! It has the words Bad Wolf on it which I don't what means, I should ask her but I am sort of intimidated because she has an attitude and because she is also very skilled when I am total newb in our physical skill - that is skateboarding.
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Anyway these are both pretty funny because the Grays are (mostly) just us Time Travelers, generally main recon and data collection teams sent to do quick intelligence gathering on the temporal landscape, not concerned with integrating into the society for longer terms projects, and like I said the Tardis is an idea of a time machine in your time. I wrote about it in the last chapter, it's basically one of those fantasy disguised as science things where the time machine is a big box that has an alternate dimension in it. And the guy who owns it is an alien too, but sometimes he's a girl, so also a lot like us from the Momentarium because we have multiple bodies of both physical genders - but he only changes body when he dies although we could decide to change if we feel like it.
Damn, now I am starting to wonder if the person who wrote that show even knew any time travelers, the coincidences here are uncanny.
Thinking about that, and looking at her board as I'm doing a drop in off of the slope of the hill I lost my balance and fell off, damn, real smooth..Iambic looks over for a sec and gets a smile, yeah funny.
Of course Nervé stands up and takes a posture like giving a speech on stage and says
"Boards and Boredom do not mix
For Noiruzi when she trips in tricks
Her mind elsewhere her thoughts are gone
Her eye go sideways she steps wrong.."
"Yeah, yeah" I said, getting up "thanks for the audience when I bomb"
Nervé gave me a hand up as I climbed up the side of the half pipe.
"You, dear Noiruzi, always bomb with such aplomb, by my god I must applaud."
Sausalito shouted from the bench she was sitting at "I swear you rhyme one more time I'll lose my mind"
I flipped her off which is an insult that you could also use to your friends from your time, Nervé bit his thumb at her, which is a thing where you put your thumb on your front teeth and then flick it out which was popular in the time of his intended destination.
Why? Not sure.
I can sort of understand the flipping off thing because the middle finger is supposed to imply an erection although when I've been in my male body having one of those was generally a good time so that is also strange, I guess flipping the thumb on the teeth is supposed to imply you have some food in your mouth and you are flicking it at them? It is a pretty weird insult. Maybe all insults are weird. Especially these friendly insults.
I saw then that Iambic was walking over "Be cool" I said to Nervé under my breath, he rolled his eyes. Then she stopped and she was looking to the side and she had an expression on her face that was at the same time sad, and angry, and maybe scared, and she turned and walked away.
I turned to look where she had looked, and it was Malburger, the meanest teacher and top level time agent, he was looking around and then he saw me, and he motioned with his finger as if to say I want to talk to you