The truck shuddered to a halt, they were at where they were suppose to be now. The others in the truck seemed to be chatting with each other; Admittedly Harry wasn't really paying too much attention to anyone else, they had earphones in as they listened quietly to the lo-fi beat to get through the entire 4 hour trip within a cramped vehicle.
As soon as the trunk door opened, Harry quickly scrambled out into the world again. Their feet hit sand and instantly caused them to slip and crash into the ground underneath them, a couple of the other scientists laughed before one helped them up.
"Careful kid." The older scientist said to Harry calmly, "You can't just scramble like that all the time." They said before they offered some stuff into Harry's arms as they started to get more things from the truck. "You gonna be alright to help with assembling with the tent?"
Harry nodded at his words, before easily carrying the armful of stuff over to the place others had already marked out.
Sure, they had scouted out this place for months, getting the go ahead to set up camp here for a few months to study the ecological things of the beach. There were a couple of rumours of things living within this coastal area.
Harry, of course, was the first to offer to help with this assignment, never having been to the ocean. The older Scientist, Talon, had made sure Harry had learnt how to swim before he accepted the Elf into the assignment.
"Surely the rumors are wrong." A female scientist spoke to another beside her, both of them moving to attach pole pieces together. "Probably just a manatee or a shark that people saw." The second scientist gave a shrug as she was struggling to attach her pieces together.
Harry placed his things down before moving over to help her, offering his arms out to take the poles. It never really clicked to Harry that some of the fellow scientists didn't see him as an equal, and some of them were still uncomfortable with the fact that he worked along side them.
It took a few hours but the large circus-like tent was put up, Harry even offering some vines from the forest to keep the tops from tumbling over in the wind.
The other scientists were enjoying a few drinks in the tent once everything was finished. Harry on the other hand was sitting in the sand out by the sea, looking to the horizon with a neutral expression. He wasn't bored, he had just zoned out, thinking deeply.
He was startled by a seagull squawking loudly at him as it waddled up to him.
"I have nothing for you!" He called to the gull, who fluffed its' body an kept making noise before Harry moved to grab it, slipping and falling into the sand again as the gull flapped into the air with another squawk. "Yeah yeah, laugh at the oddball." Harry grumbled softly.
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