Yay! You are really burning up the 'net with these updates! I'm thrilled! Especially as I have a long weekend off to read and digest them.
I have to ask about this: "The knee, but not your lower leg," Claire clarified without missing a beat. because I'm dense and weird and just don't get it sometimes. One of my teachers in high school tried to joke to us that his lower leg was wooden, but his foot was alive and real. It seemed impossible and much more likely that he was trying to pull our legs. I decided this apparent lie was another of those joke things I didn't see the point of. My mother has had two knee replacement surgeries, so the idea of a prosthetic knee and the rest of the body being alive (below the prosthetic) doesn't strike me as automatically impossible. Yet you use 'without missing a beat' which is usually a cue that it's a joke. So I would suppose his whole leg is fake. But then later Claire mentions his injury as only affecting the knee.
I'm confused.
But aside from that, I agree that it was time for more time jaunting or whatever the heck Javier gets up to! The story also benefited from that paragraph of recap you snuck in there! Thanks!
I am left figuring that future!Javier smuggled Konrad out of the station and I imagine he arranged for a chaperone for him ... or maybe just called Claire and connected Konrad up to her ... or something like that. I eagerly await the future chapters to find out!
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Date: Friday, 31 August 2012 10:52 pm (UTC)From:I have to ask about this:
"The knee, but not your lower leg," Claire clarified without missing a beat. because I'm dense and weird and just don't get it sometimes. One of my teachers in high school tried to joke to us that his lower leg was wooden, but his foot was alive and real. It seemed impossible and much more likely that he was trying to pull our legs. I decided this apparent lie was another of those joke things I didn't see the point of. My mother has had two knee replacement surgeries, so the idea of a prosthetic knee and the rest of the body being alive (below the prosthetic) doesn't strike me as automatically impossible. Yet you use 'without missing a beat' which is usually a cue that it's a joke. So I would suppose his whole leg is fake. But then later Claire mentions his injury as only affecting the knee.
I'm confused.
But aside from that, I agree that it was time for more time jaunting or whatever the heck Javier gets up to! The story also benefited from that paragraph of recap you snuck in there! Thanks!
I am left figuring that future!Javier smuggled Konrad out of the station and I imagine he arranged for a chaperone for him ... or maybe just called Claire and connected Konrad up to her ... or something like that. I eagerly await the future chapters to find out!
I love the clues. They make me think!