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Jamie's feeling quite a bit better when Adam comes to wake him up for dinner - well enough that he's able to quite easily cover up his uneasiness at what Adam and Vanessa were discussing earlier. Well enough, too, that he manages to ask the other boy, in quite a sane way and hardly babbling at all, who the lady with the hat is in the photo over the couch. Something about her is nagging at him, and he can't think what.
"Oh, her," Adam says, pushing his glasses up his nose. "That's my great-grandmother they've bored me with ever since I can remember. She was one of the first ever women doctors, or something. There's more pictures of her in that album over there, if you want to look."
"Depends how soon supper is," Jamie says. He's all of a sudden aware that he's starving. Even for a Homeward Bounder, healing up takes a bit of energy, and that ham sandwich was long enough ago.
"Ten minutes," Adam says, and goes to bring back the album. "I warn you, they're all either her and a potted fern, or her cutting up a corpse," he remarks. "She only looks human in the first one. She was about fifteen in that one. They say she probably looked quite like Vanessa. Red hair photographed as black back then."
He watches for a moment as Jamie opens up the album, and then wanders off.
Jamie's glad he doesn't stay longer; he doesn't want to think what his face must look like, after he's looked for a second at the first picture.
By the time Helen comes in, he's closed the album up, and is looking quite fixedly at the wall beneath the photograph.
"Oh, her," Adam says, pushing his glasses up his nose. "That's my great-grandmother they've bored me with ever since I can remember. She was one of the first ever women doctors, or something. There's more pictures of her in that album over there, if you want to look."
"Depends how soon supper is," Jamie says. He's all of a sudden aware that he's starving. Even for a Homeward Bounder, healing up takes a bit of energy, and that ham sandwich was long enough ago.
"Ten minutes," Adam says, and goes to bring back the album. "I warn you, they're all either her and a potted fern, or her cutting up a corpse," he remarks. "She only looks human in the first one. She was about fifteen in that one. They say she probably looked quite like Vanessa. Red hair photographed as black back then."
He watches for a moment as Jamie opens up the album, and then wanders off.
Jamie's glad he doesn't stay longer; he doesn't want to think what his face must look like, after he's looked for a second at the first picture.
By the time Helen comes in, he's closed the album up, and is looking quite fixedly at the wall beneath the photograph.