Natalie's Duplex, The Hegemony Compound, Brazil, Monday Evening

After about a week in the Compound, Natalie was starting to feel like maybe she was settling in. The post-election reality was still giving her the occasional emotional dizzy spell, but nothing unmanageable. Maybe soon enough she'd even feel comfortable to get her cat back to live with her. She was already finding more and more time to miss him.

But generally speaking, she felt a little less alone here than she had in Port-au-Prince. Okay, a lot less alone. Peter wasn't a universe away half the time, anymore, and as much as she had ambivalent feelings towards his parents –– in some very small way it was a comfort they were around too. Not everyone was a staff member with no other connections to anyone else.

And yet with this comforting sense of company, she was finding herself liking the privacy of her nicely sized apartment. Even if all she was currently using it for was lollygagging around in a too-large t-shirt she'd stolen from Jim and trying to teach herself Klingon.

Nerd.

[ooc: NFB, but open for all the usual stuff. Idk I watched a movie that made me cry, this is my consolation.]