[He hardly talks about it, and people never seem to ask. Studiously avoids the topic, around Red especially. He does, yeah. Though he gets the feeling that's not necessarily by design.
(The Country, or so he sometimes thinks of it. To himself. Secretly, not without some gallows humor, defensive irony...or something a little more apropos than he'd like to think. After all, it is just...calm. Quiet. Enough that he can almost forget it, when his focus is directed solely upward and outward, to the place outside the Transistor. Blue sky and gold grass as far as the eye can see, when he isn't.
The Country...or as good as he's going to get, now.)]
Don't think I'm supposed to be out here, though.
[Unlike her, it seems, who had been given her territory with her imprisonment. Every other Trace they found just got quickly filed away. Asleep. Themselves but not themselves. Capable of no real thought or sense or speech after they were integrated. And he's never been able to find them, here. Not Lillian, or Mr. Moyle, or Sybil. Or...anyone.]
no subject
[He hardly talks about it, and people never seem to ask. Studiously avoids the topic, around Red especially. He does, yeah. Though he gets the feeling that's not necessarily by design.
(The Country, or so he sometimes thinks of it. To himself. Secretly, not without some gallows humor, defensive irony...or something a little more apropos than he'd like to think. After all, it is just...calm. Quiet. Enough that he can almost forget it, when his focus is directed solely upward and outward, to the place outside the Transistor. Blue sky and gold grass as far as the eye can see, when he isn't.
The Country...or as good as he's going to get, now.)]
Don't think I'm supposed to be out here, though.
[Unlike her, it seems, who had been given her territory with her imprisonment. Every other Trace they found just got quickly filed away. Asleep. Themselves but not themselves. Capable of no real thought or sense or speech after they were integrated. And he's never been able to find them, here. Not Lillian, or Mr. Moyle, or Sybil. Or...anyone.]