33. backspace no more, human!
[video comes on. Ardent's room is relatively well lit. For Ardent's room. Meaning about three, four candles dotted around the place. He's tossing two pieces of plastic between his hands as he talks,]
I am really quite sick of ports which make me human. Apologies to anyone I was rude to, I think that might have come with the territory of losing three hundred and eighty one years of my life at once.
[He grimaces a little,] I haven't behaved like that since I was one hundred and sixty.
[He stops tossing the bits of plastic and looks at them curiously, then shows them both to the screen. They're the 'backspace' and 'delete' keys off a keyboard.]
I'm fairly sure he can do without these, though. I think it's a fairly decent exchange for his vastly improved metalwork.
[Private to Narvin]
I am still sorry I woke you up.
[Private to Sveta]
I've got something for you.
I am really quite sick of ports which make me human. Apologies to anyone I was rude to, I think that might have come with the territory of losing three hundred and eighty one years of my life at once.
[He grimaces a little,] I haven't behaved like that since I was one hundred and sixty.
[He stops tossing the bits of plastic and looks at them curiously, then shows them both to the screen. They're the 'backspace' and 'delete' keys off a keyboard.]
I'm fairly sure he can do without these, though. I think it's a fairly decent exchange for his vastly improved metalwork.
[Private to Narvin]
I am still sorry I woke you up.
[Private to Sveta]
I've got something for you.