[ Cisco considers himself something of an expert when it comes to names, and he knows a good one when he hears it. His eyebrows raise slightly when she tells him she hasn't even been here a month. He nods slowly, drawing the obvious conclusion: ]
Makes sense why you're looking around at yard sales rather than having one of your own, then. And yeah, I did use all of 'em. When I was a newbie like you I wanted to learn, like, everything I could about all the different worlds everybody was from. I couldn't get enough of it. See, the world I come from... people don't know about parallel universes, there. There's no interplanetary travel, no moving between planes of existence, nothing like that. It's just- our planet, and that's all. So getting to meet people from all sorts of realities, getting to learn about the places they came from... it was all so new and exciting.
[ From the quickness of those words and the brightness in his eyes, it's all still very exciting, to him. He's just moved on from studying in textbooks to talking to people, asking them questions, and learning that way. ]
That? It's... here.
[ He picks up a similar spinner, just in a different color, and demonstrates to Zelda how to set it moving. He even does a couple of quick little tricks with it - nothing too elaborate, just a few basic things. ]
It's to give your hands something to do, when you're trying to concentrate. You know, if you're one of those people who ends up fidgeting with stuff or biting your nails or tapping on things. Or you can just sort of use it as a toy.
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[ Cisco considers himself something of an expert when it comes to names, and he knows a good one when he hears it. His eyebrows raise slightly when she tells him she hasn't even been here a month. He nods slowly, drawing the obvious conclusion: ]
Makes sense why you're looking around at yard sales rather than having one of your own, then. And yeah, I did use all of 'em. When I was a newbie like you I wanted to learn, like, everything I could about all the different worlds everybody was from. I couldn't get enough of it. See, the world I come from... people don't know about parallel universes, there. There's no interplanetary travel, no moving between planes of existence, nothing like that. It's just- our planet, and that's all. So getting to meet people from all sorts of realities, getting to learn about the places they came from... it was all so new and exciting.
[ From the quickness of those words and the brightness in his eyes, it's all still very exciting, to him. He's just moved on from studying in textbooks to talking to people, asking them questions, and learning that way. ]
That? It's... here.
[ He picks up a similar spinner, just in a different color, and demonstrates to Zelda how to set it moving. He even does a couple of quick little tricks with it - nothing too elaborate, just a few basic things. ]
It's to give your hands something to do, when you're trying to concentrate. You know, if you're one of those people who ends up fidgeting with stuff or biting your nails or tapping on things. Or you can just sort of use it as a toy.