ep10 - do sirens wiggle their fins in ice?

So just before heading out into the blizzard to deliver the voice transcriber device to Alexander Voss on board MS Svalbard, man, I, I had just put my mittens on when Ingrid came by handing me yet another letter.

Perhaps not a letter as much as it was a note, but it's...

I still had to remove the mittens, which takes some time.

[laughs] They're great mittens, by the way.

Warm as a bonfire without getting third-degree burns.

You know, practical.

But yeah, I, I read the note.

Ingrid had already translated it, of course, uh, and this note said, "Your task, which is more accurately a duty, has not been discharged to the standard your government demands.

We shall con- convene upon the matter at four o'clock this afternoon.

Punctuality is not optional.

T.A. Grind." So obviously I am feeling a little bit nervous.

You know, I have no idea who this man or, or this thing is, and I'm, I'm not very keen on finding it out, if I am to be honest with you.

I thought I was, but now that I will, I won't, but I must.

I mean, what if he, what if he really is the mean, lean devil in jeans, you know? I'm not keen on meeting the devil.

I mean, there are so many things I'd like to do before I perish, and I, and I always thought I had more time to do them.

You know, I'd like to paint the, the common room, for instance.

I'd like to learn how to do a backflip.

I'd like to build a miniature model of the Deep Earth Anomaly Department.

It would look great.

And most of all, I'd like to celebrate the solar flare radiation celebration once more, you know? Like I said, many things.

But now I am being summoned by what is most likely the devil to answer for my faults.

Which I also wonder, what are, what are my faults? You know, I have been doing a pretty thorough job as a facility manager, and I don't think I have been sloppy in any way.

So hopefully he's just being dramatic and that I'm only being summoned to get yelled at, you know, before learning that Tomas Grind is not really the devil after all.

That is my hope, and I will, I will try to hope until I don't.

So yeah, I still have a whole night ahead, uh, then I'll go to sleep in the morning and get up in time to meet Tomas Grind, the overseer.