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Syd(ney) Barrett (_donttouch) wrote,

"Eliminate the impossible and you get the answer, however improbable?" In a world where impossible things happened, that was a lot of elimination. But she got the gist and nodded. She glanced at David, smiling wryly. "We're just full of hypotheticals."

But the Science Talk, like when Cary did it, made Sydney grow intent on understanding, so she stuck with the present tense of the memory rather than jumping to future tense, trying to remember what she had been feeling as she reached out. "The normal amount of anxiety -- touching is..a work in progress." With the help of David. Where would she be without that man? "But nothing over that. Curiosity as to how it would work -- and a little bit of pre-emptive guilt at probably ruining your wife's comfortable pillows."

"I've been a man, so nothing about the changes themselves. Except for amusement at being tall." She rested her head on her shoulder for a moment, thinking. "But afterward, there was like..an earthquake. Which was weird and unexpected." That was when they played Musical Chairs.

"Is there just a possibility that this is how it progresses?" She asked, trying to figure out if that were the case and, if it was, why it got set off now. "Brought on by the nerves?"