[ Boots hit the ground and he smiles to himself absently. ]
It's a book - and comic strips too. [ - a delay - ] Illustrated stories. [ He doesn't go into how it's also a radio show - and he doesn't yet know that it will later be developed into a television show. ] There's a few of them back at the Station. I can lend them to you. [ Not that they were his to begin with. The pages of the comic were old and yellowed, as though they'd spent many years in the rec wing before he dug them out from under a pile of even older anatomy textbooks. He liked the smell of the paper.
Too much of the Station felt sterile, like a hospital.
He waits in the room he's dropped into, scanning it. Sharing information about his world, once removed from the personal, is much easier for him to manage. ]
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It's a book - and comic strips too. [ - a delay - ] Illustrated stories. [ He doesn't go into how it's also a radio show - and he doesn't yet know that it will later be developed into a television show. ] There's a few of them back at the Station. I can lend them to you. [ Not that they were his to begin with. The pages of the comic were old and yellowed, as though they'd spent many years in the rec wing before he dug them out from under a pile of even older anatomy textbooks. He liked the smell of the paper.
Too much of the Station felt sterile, like a hospital.
He waits in the room he's dropped into, scanning it. Sharing information about his world, once removed from the personal, is much easier for him to manage. ]
What do you do for your King?