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[boughtabookstore]

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[boughtabookstore]

[ you are a child her instinct is to feed and water you and then figure out how to make you grow. in this... metaphor. ] Precisely. I doubt the data will be any real help, but there is always the chance.

[nanite]

[ but that's what you do for plants. ] So why are you doing it? If you don't think it'll help?

[boughtabookstore]

[ Excuse you she did a very good job raising her brother. ] Because there is still the chance that it will. I wouldn't want to miss that if it did.

[nanite]

[ don't doubt that ] So you must be working on something else at the same time you think will be more helpful?

[boughtabookstore]

I haven't stumbled upon anything that I think would be more helpful yet.

[nanite]

Weird.

[boughtabookstore]

Which part's weird?

[nanite]

That you're spending more time on this than looking for something better. That there doesn't seem to be something better - makes it just seem. Random. I don't know, a lot of it's weird.

[boughtabookstore]

I've considered a few other options, but in general for the moment I think gathering data is all I can do. I'm afraid it's fairly boring, though.

[nanite]

So what do you do in the meantime.

[boughtabookstore]

Collect data. Drink. [ wait no whoops ] Continue to live my normally and do my job.

[nanite]

What's your job?

[boughtabookstore]

I'm a police officer. Upholding the law, keeping the peace. Getting shot at occasionally, though not very often here.

[nanite]

And you're just doing all this paperwork for fun? [ what ]

[boughtabookstore]

Not strictly speaking for fun, though it can be very relaxing. [ Mildly amused. ] I can't imagine any version of you would find it interesting.

[nanite]

Like... Doing the same thing over and over becomes.... zen, not boring? [ It's a thing he's heard before but still doesn't understand, as is apparent by the way he says it. ] Well that's because it's not.

[boughtabookstore]

That's one way of putting it, yes. It works well enough. [ Lightly, kind of amused. ] Differing tastes, and all that.

[nanite]

Are we actually friends or do you try to teach me things when I'm grown up too and you're just hoping it'll be easier when I'm not grown up yet?

[boughtabookstore]

I almost never try to teach you things. [ Mildly amused. ] It would, I'm afraid, be a lost cause.

[nanite]

Hey, I'm great at learning, I'm a child prodigy, I'm awesome. Teach me something. [ Pause. ] Interesting.

[boughtabookstore]

I don't think you'd find much from my skillset interesting. Basic martial arts routines perhaps?

[nanite]

You know martial arts?

[boughtabookstore]

Primarily what's taught in the Navy and FBI, but yes.

[nanite]

[ He considers it. ] You're like, five times as big as I am. That doesn't sound like fun at all.

[boughtabookstore]

I'm not suggesting an actual spar. That would be highly irresponsible. Simply demonstrating techniques and practice motions.