Funny how the guy who taught Arthur everything he knows about investigative work is fucking good at his job.
So he doesn't give anything away. Not how utterly fucking jarring it is to hear this guy talking about the 1999 like Parker would have lived to fucking see it, or the fact people are just- going to space like a goddamn sci-fi dreadful.
Instead he just takes a long sip of his drink, without flinching or breaking eye contact.
"That's an awful tall tale, Spaceman." No commitment, no agreeing or denying, but a certain level of healthy scepticism. Maybe it'll milk something else out of him if he tries to justify it. "We only got people in the air maybe thirty years ago - honest to God you're telling me we get even higher in just another thirty?"
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So he doesn't give anything away. Not how utterly fucking jarring it is to hear this guy talking about the 1999 like Parker would have lived to fucking see it, or the fact people are just- going to space like a goddamn sci-fi dreadful.
Instead he just takes a long sip of his drink, without flinching or breaking eye contact.
"That's an awful tall tale, Spaceman." No commitment, no agreeing or denying, but a certain level of healthy scepticism. Maybe it'll milk something else out of him if he tries to justify it. "We only got people in the air maybe thirty years ago - honest to God you're telling me we get even higher in just another thirty?"