He shakes her hand in a boisterous and friendly manner. "Glad to have you here. I have to get back to work, but don't let Tils overwhelm you with too much stuff on your first day." He leans in conspiratorially, speaking in a stage whisper that Morrison can obviously hear. "Don't tell her I said this, but she likes showing off." He lets go and returns to his normal voice. "We're on for cards on Tuesday still, right?" he asks Morrison. 

A ghost of a smile can be seen on the corners of Morrisons lips. "We are. Barring unforeseen developments, of course." 

"You're just trying to get out of me winning back what you took from me last week," he says, turning to head back to his work. "See you there. And see you around, April." 

Imagine that. There's at least one person on this island who doesn't talk like a PowerPoint presentation.

"See you," she agrees, proceeing toward the hydroponics lab in a slightly improved mood. Actually, how do you get to the hydroponics lab from here?

There's a big sort of cargo elevator in the back, which Morrison leads the both of them to, presses a button, and waits. "They used it for moving heavy-duty equipment around," she says, by way of explanation as they wait. "We do too sometimes, too, for that matter. My point is it was installed quite some time ago, and it had to work, not be fast. So it may take a minute." 

"Sure." She doesn't really mind waiting. She can look back at the kitchen and think about the people chopping vegetables and how they probably don't talk like PowerPoint presentations either.

After a minute or two, the elevator does finally show. It's large, and padded inside, as cargo elevators are wont to be. Morrison leads them inside, and presses the button for the bottom floor, and the elevator begins its slow descent. "We needed a big room to put all the hydroponics in," she says, by way of explanation, "and the biggest we could find was the shooting range where they tested experimental weaponry. And that room is at the bottom of the base to keep it as far away as possible from people in case something went wrong." 

"Makes sense, I guess."

"It'll still be a bit of a walk when we get down there, unfortunately. We tried to put the canteen in a sensible place, since it wanted to be near to the place where we get supplies from elsewhere, near where most people work, and near where we locally source food, such as the fish and the hydroponics lab. Unfortunately this meant it meant it ended up somewhere equally inconvenient to all of them." She smirks a little at the joke. 

"Heh. Yeah. I don't know, it doesn't seem so bad."