I'm a doctor, not an engineer

[bornsnarky]

[there's a massive conglomeration of junk that somehow looks like a solar-powered MACHINE of some sort, off under the trees

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[lol_intertubes]

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[lol_intertubes]

A... space ship?

[bornsnarky]

[examining VERY surreptitiously; is worried]

Yeah, it travels through space. It's pretty cool.

Huh, you don't have an older brother here, by any chance?

[lol_intertubes]

How does it do that? It's not like an airplane, is it?

No; why?

[bornsnarky]

Just wondering if maybe you... weren't you.

No, it's not like an airplane. It's science, but the science is beyond me, I'm afraid. As is most science.

[looks ruefully at drinks machine]

[lol_intertubes]

[looks a little worried] I'm not me?

[also looks at the machine, briefly] Is it dangerous?

[bornsnarky]

[gentle] No, I think you're you. But you're smaller.

I don't think so? Ornery, maybe, but it hasn't done anything actually dangerous. Yet. Doesn't seem to be cranky at anyone except me, either.

[lol_intertubes]

[a little confused at your line of questioning] Oh. That's good, then.

[considers this for a moment] I don't think I want to get it angry at me.

[bornsnarky]

[gentle grin] Never mind.

No, that'd probably be a good idea. You could end up standing in puddles, too.

[lol_intertubes]

...I don't think I'd like that at all. [considers] Well, maybe if they were rain puddles.

[bornsnarky]

You like jumping in puddles?

[lol_intertubes]

......Sometimes.

[bornsnarky]

I used to like that, too, when I was a kid.

[lol_intertubes]

You did?

[bornsnarky]

Sure. All kids do, I think.

[lol_intertubes]

Oh.