He falls quiet for a bit, staring back with not quite as much vacancy, but still about as much as the average bug can muster.
"Hm," he says.
He is not back to square one. The inkling of something is there, though what it says about every other fragment of information he's got has yet to become clear.
The trouble with discoveries like this is they're very hard to believe and commit to. Plus, making any sort of wild claim in a scholarly pursuit like Relic Seeking needs evidence and reason and peer review and well-dressed fact and context, context, context.
What he has is not context. What he has is a lot of work to do and a strange little masked shadow sitting in his shop doing... what are they doing?
"You're very still," he points out, not as unkindly as he could. What are you thinking-? no, What ARE you-? no, no, no. Get out of my shop already. Absolutely not, no, he shrinks from that one with a barely-noticeable shake of the head. "...Paying attention?"
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Date: 2022-11-05 03:02 pm (UTC)"Hm," he says.
He is not back to square one. The inkling of something is there, though what it says about every other fragment of information he's got has yet to become clear.
The trouble with discoveries like this is they're very hard to believe and commit to. Plus, making any sort of wild claim in a scholarly pursuit like Relic Seeking needs evidence and reason and peer review and well-dressed fact and context, context, context.
What he has is not context. What he has is a lot of work to do and a strange little masked shadow sitting in his shop doing... what are they doing?
"You're very still," he points out, not as unkindly as he could. What are you thinking-? no, What ARE you-? no, no, no. Get out of my shop already. Absolutely not, no, he shrinks from that one with a barely-noticeable shake of the head. "...Paying attention?"