Tau'ri-Furling: Pegasus Galaxy Collaborative Effort
A/N: I saw I could utilise the Furling characters further in my Atlantis fanfic. I plan to do my best to give the Furling characters a distinct '[Stargate Atlantis]-ish feel' to them.
A marvelous, elegant beam of pale golden-yellow light descended down into the embarkation room. A Furling who Elizabeth Weir could only recognize immediately to be Althidon himself stood in palce of the now-vanished beam, beaming with great contentment and excitement. He smiled with a slight bow of his head at Elizabeth Weir, who he had respected to the utmost as a fellow diplomat.
Elizabeth Weir bowed back slightly and smiled the characteristic 'Weir-style-smile' she displayed for when she saw an old friend and ally after ages. "Althidon, great to be meeting face to face again and working with and learning with you."
The soon-to-be Furling Assisting-Delegatory-External-Affairs Executor, who was about Elizabth's age in human years, looked Elizabeth in the eye with a bright sparkle and a look of agreement. "Elizabeth, I am no less than equally thrilled that your United Nations of Earth organization has allowed me, as well as my Pegasus Galaxy Objective Collaboration Contingent to reside in and study in this marvelous city of the Alterrans. I hope our peoples, in the spirit of friendship and cooperation, will experience a most fulfilling time spent together and end with much-enriched knowledge of each others' cultures. My senior staff should be beamed down any moment now."
"Splendid, Althidon. May I introduce you to my highly-capable expedition second-in-command, Colonel John Sheppard? There's no lieutenant specification in his military rank anymore, since we received news from Earth , just yesterday, that he's being promoted to a Full-Ranked Colonel."
"Hello to you, Colonel Sheppard. I'm very pleased to meet Dr. Weir's highly competent second-in-command finally. When Dr. Weir was away helping to negotiate with the Erri, in as much as nations may actually be able to, she left you in charge of the city and expedition and you performed phenomenally during her absence. You clearly highly-earned this recent promotion."
John Shephard, not having such a large ego, begged to differ. "Well, thanks, Althidon but Dr. Weir tends to be pretty generous in dishing out praise sometimes. I just try very hard at my career and am not competent, so I tend to do fairly well in my job. "
"Are we actually speaking of the same Elizabeth Weir, you and I Colonel Sheppard?" Althidon refuted Shephard's praise-diminishing argument with an amused chuckle, intending to refute him and make him take the credit. We both know the lady has quite high standards for leadership for herself, so perhaos she was ony being an infinitesimally small bit generous."
Sheppard non-verbally conceded he should take at least some credit for his good work.