(no subject)
Temperance Brennan had a plan.
This plan was well-tested in a variety of media, the epitome of how to hide in plain sight.
If asked why she was sitting on the floor, surrounded by books as she tried to grasp a fuller understanding of child-rearing in a variety of cultures, she would simply say it was for a friend. The beauty of the plan, as she understood it, was that the friend could be anybody. A female anybody, but by maintaining a fuzzy sense of anonymity as to this female friend who needed a cultural perspective the challenges of raising a tiny person, she would never have to be specific.
Dozens of people did it in movies and in books and on television, and many of her own co-workers and associates followed the advice of these fictional people all the time. Didn't she get made fun of for not acquiesing to this logic?
No longer. There was a small parasite of her own making firmly attached to her uterine wall, and Temperance was going to lie about it.
This plan was well-tested in a variety of media, the epitome of how to hide in plain sight.
If asked why she was sitting on the floor, surrounded by books as she tried to grasp a fuller understanding of child-rearing in a variety of cultures, she would simply say it was for a friend. The beauty of the plan, as she understood it, was that the friend could be anybody. A female anybody, but by maintaining a fuzzy sense of anonymity as to this female friend who needed a cultural perspective the challenges of raising a tiny person, she would never have to be specific.
Dozens of people did it in movies and in books and on television, and many of her own co-workers and associates followed the advice of these fictional people all the time. Didn't she get made fun of for not acquiesing to this logic?
No longer. There was a small parasite of her own making firmly attached to her uterine wall, and Temperance was going to lie about it.