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Three days on this bloody rock and Declan's no closer to cracking it than when he showed up. Sure, he should give it some time, Tesla's been here for two months and Magnus and Zimmerman's been here for over a year but he's not the sort that wants to sit around and twiddle his thumbs when he could be doing something to make things better.
He's conceded to a hut, at least, but it was on the far stretches of civilization because he's not willing to throw in the towel just yet. At least Kate and Tesla seem to agree with him on that front. Today, though, he's chanced the Compound kitchen for decent tea (and found it, it seems, small miracles) and is combing the bookshelves for some sort of literature on where the damned place is since his compass is telling him nothing.
He's pulled out three novels by Patrick O'Brian that tell him nothing other than someone was a fan of Aubrey and Matarin but he doesn't put them back as they could be a palate cleanser later. There's a book on navigation written entirely in what looks like Arabic and he puts that one to the side too for Magnus to translate later.
All those were remarkably more useful than the set of Dora the Explorer books that keep multiplying every time he pulls a book from the shelf.
"Bloody hell, can't you give me anything useful?"
He's conceded to a hut, at least, but it was on the far stretches of civilization because he's not willing to throw in the towel just yet. At least Kate and Tesla seem to agree with him on that front. Today, though, he's chanced the Compound kitchen for decent tea (and found it, it seems, small miracles) and is combing the bookshelves for some sort of literature on where the damned place is since his compass is telling him nothing.
He's pulled out three novels by Patrick O'Brian that tell him nothing other than someone was a fan of Aubrey and Matarin but he doesn't put them back as they could be a palate cleanser later. There's a book on navigation written entirely in what looks like Arabic and he puts that one to the side too for Magnus to translate later.
All those were remarkably more useful than the set of Dora the Explorer books that keep multiplying every time he pulls a book from the shelf.
"Bloody hell, can't you give me anything useful?"