[ Right. If Tewkesbury is impressed by vacuum cleaners then of course he wouldn't be familiar with space travel.
Amos absentmindedly wonders how his life would have been different without it. Probably worse, really. ]
Yeah. Or technically, above it. You go high enough, there's no sky anymore.
[ He can remember being a little younger than Tewkesbury though, watching rockets and ships take off from when he was stuck on the ground, and maybe recognizes some of that wonder again. He'd had a friend kind of like that, growing up.
Amos pauses as it sinks in that Tewkesbury is offering to make him something. He's. Not used to being around someone like this, at all. Someone who... wants to be around him, do something for him, maybe.
Amos takes a minute to reevaluate the kid. ]
If you want. [ He's being cold. He shouldn't be. ] I mean, you don't have to. But knife work's a good skill, too. You can show me what you can do.
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Amos absentmindedly wonders how his life would have been different without it. Probably worse, really. ]
Yeah. Or technically, above it. You go high enough, there's no sky anymore.
[ He can remember being a little younger than Tewkesbury though, watching rockets and ships take off from when he was stuck on the ground, and maybe recognizes some of that wonder again. He'd had a friend kind of like that, growing up.
Amos pauses as it sinks in that Tewkesbury is offering to make him something. He's. Not used to being around someone like this, at all. Someone who... wants to be around him, do something for him, maybe.
Amos takes a minute to reevaluate the kid. ]
If you want. [ He's being cold. He shouldn't be. ] I mean, you don't have to. But knife work's a good skill, too. You can show me what you can do.