Probably not as surprised as you'd expect me to be.
[ There's a touch of levity to his tone, albeit a fairly subdued one. He has to admit, it's a safe assumption to make that most humans from 2018 would be unfamiliar with sapient non-human species. But most people have never spent a morning negotiating with a venomous 8-year-old girl with a penchant for sneaking into the zoo through the alligator enclosure.
It takes him effort not to get lost in the information the scans did provide. The energy readings might not mean anything to him, but he can gather at least some idea of what passes for an ecosystem around here with the atmospheric, heat and life signs. If Alex didn't like his timeline unbroken, Bashir would have to be watching that tricorder.
The question about publication catches him almost off-guard. He unconsciously adjusts his glasses in a momentary stall to weigh how much of the truth he tells. Given the circumstances, the family rules about secrecy can probably be bent. ]
I do, just uh, not under my own name. This, [ he gestures to the earlier, frog-related pages ] will be the work of Dr. Alexander Preston, visiting researcher at the West Columbus Zoo. Once I'm done there, I'll move on to another position with another name. There are... let's say, certain kinds of attention I can't afford to bring on myself or my family.
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[ There's a touch of levity to his tone, albeit a fairly subdued one. He has to admit, it's a safe assumption to make that most humans from 2018 would be unfamiliar with sapient non-human species. But most people have never spent a morning negotiating with a venomous 8-year-old girl with a penchant for sneaking into the zoo through the alligator enclosure.
It takes him effort not to get lost in the information the scans did provide. The energy readings might not mean anything to him, but he can gather at least some idea of what passes for an ecosystem around here with the atmospheric, heat and life signs. If Alex didn't like his timeline unbroken, Bashir would have to be watching that tricorder.
The question about publication catches him almost off-guard. He unconsciously adjusts his glasses in a momentary stall to weigh how much of the truth he tells. Given the circumstances, the family rules about secrecy can probably be bent. ]
I do, just uh, not under my own name. This, [ he gestures to the earlier, frog-related pages ] will be the work of Dr. Alexander Preston, visiting researcher at the West Columbus Zoo. Once I'm done there, I'll move on to another position with another name. There are... let's say, certain kinds of attention I can't afford to bring on myself or my family.