“I have been here all the time.” He [Needles] replied.
Was that answer existential or literal? She pondered.
“Well, very glad to meet you in any event,” Eve beamed, holding out her hand for him to shake.
Plop. He dropped a diamond into her palm - same diamond that had been lost in a rock pool some centuries before.
He smiled. He liked her. He felt her warmth. And it had been a very long time since someone had seen him, and been nice to him at all.
“It's a mystery,” he said.
“You mean, everything?”
“Yes” he nodded, “everything”.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Finding Self - Second Guesses- Azlander Series
“Well, very glad to meet you in any event,” Eve beamed, holding out her hand for him to shake.
Plop. He dropped a diamond into her palm - same diamond that had been lost in a rock pool some centuries before.
He smiled. He liked her. He felt her warmth. And it had been a very long time since someone had seen him, and been nice to him at all.
“It's a mystery,” he said.
“You mean, everything?”
“Yes” he nodded, “everything”.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Finding Self - Second Guesses- Azlander Series
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