You can poke at it if you want. I don't really care.
[Then, thinking, she takes a water bottle out of her jacket, gets up, and sprays it in an arc landing in a big puddle some ten feet away. Then she spills some on the ground next to it, stares at the spill for a second, and-
-totally steps out of the spill ten feet away, looking dry, if a little ruffled. She dusts herself off.]
That's as far as I really want to go with the rabbit tricks. If you don't accept that there's science-fiction stuff going on here, you'll keep being confused and upset and nothing anybody says will make any sense to you.
[She scuffs a foot against the ground, crossing her arms loosely.]
I know how unbelievable it sounds, trust me. I have nothing to gain by lying to you. My job here, what I get paid to do, is find people who are new and scared and tell them what's really going on.
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You can poke at it if you want. I don't really care.
[Then, thinking, she takes a water bottle out of her jacket, gets up, and sprays it in an arc landing in a big puddle some ten feet away. Then she spills some on the ground next to it, stares at the spill for a second, and-
-totally steps out of the spill ten feet away, looking dry, if a little ruffled. She dusts herself off.]
That's as far as I really want to go with the rabbit tricks. If you don't accept that there's science-fiction stuff going on here, you'll keep being confused and upset and nothing anybody says will make any sense to you.
[She scuffs a foot against the ground, crossing her arms loosely.]
I know how unbelievable it sounds, trust me. I have nothing to gain by lying to you. My job here, what I get paid to do, is find people who are new and scared and tell them what's really going on.