Okay, so imagine for me, (gesturing my arms to the whiteboard) wait hang on, (rubs away the Irina x Murderess yuri doodles on it)
That Dome fic I wanted to write was about the surface population disappearing because of the fuzzy ooze. Now imagine Inspector Cole gets the report about the incident on their desk at 7am and Alexa, probably the last Inkling alive atp, is in their office, and they're now trying to keep the news from her to protect her. Unfortunately, the Octobot has just came in for repairs after being excavated from the desert, which means there's a pretty high chance someone's gonna spill the beans the longer Alexa spends time in the Engineering Division's hangar repairing it. So what does Cole do? They isolate her and make her take the night shift. But wait! Prof. Hakt is also on the night shift! And he ends up spilling the news and Alexa has a spiral.