"Was he hard to make? He's so neat!" This is from one of the swarm of tea seeking Metodoids, directed at Hatter in tones of happy admiration.
Metody grins. "Taking a raw world and making it better suit people's needs. Improving things and making them more efficient. It's kind of poetic. And it really makes me wish I'd gone into a different field, sometimes." Oh, wistfulness. "...oh, wow. How do you avoid temporal paradox?"
"It's very nice to meet you." She smiles and studies the pool cue. "I'm also called Ruth, even though the 'Ru' prefix has been co-opted for the night. How does it work..?"
She doesn't even bothering asking the point. Science! is a point in and of itself.
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Date: 2008-10-25 05:10 am (UTC)Metody grins. "Taking a raw world and making it better suit people's needs. Improving things and making them more efficient. It's kind of poetic. And it really makes me wish I'd gone into a different field, sometimes." Oh, wistfulness. "...oh, wow. How do you avoid temporal paradox?"
"It's very nice to meet you." She smiles and studies the pool cue. "I'm also called Ruth, even though the 'Ru' prefix has been co-opted for the night. How does it work..?"
She doesn't even bothering asking the point. Science! is a point in and of itself.