day trip

They've barely stepped back through the gate, and already Teyla is scheduled for a full day of meetings with half a dozen committee members from the IOA. The usual bureaucratic hostility aimed towards aliens who have no perceived reason to be loyal to Earth has seemingly vanished in the face of the engineering report about the substantial and easily-mined veins of uranium, copper and weapons grade naquadah which run thick-seamed through Athosian soil. Teyla is suddenly much in demand; though not, she tells Rodney as she hands Torren over into his waiting arms, much inclined to accede to their requests.