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2021-01-10
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Tea, Earl Grey, Hot

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This was written for Birthday Bash, a goofy fic exchange with a minimum of 69 words (nice).

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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Picard was so tired his eyes ached. He lifted his mug out of the replicator and inhaled deeply as the bergamot scented steam wafted upward.

Temporal causality loops. Alternate realities. Politics. The pending threat of Borg assimilation. Q.

All these impossible things were his responsibility. Disasters untold lurked if he made the slightest misstep.

But this: tea, earl grey, hot. It made sense. Picard drank deeply, and let go.

Notes:

I wanted to try my hand at hitting the minimum, but I take my tea seriously, and a surprising amount of Earnest Tea Feelings snuck in. Also, a surprising amount of Picard feelings. Poor guy has been through a lot.