( marc's expression is that of a man trying to working out what 'and all that encompasses' means in the context of 'time', and then what 'keepers [of]' means, and—
his brow furrows and he's silent. he's never claimed to be a smart man (quite the opposite), but he's pretty sure that the doctor's response doesn't really tell him anything — which, frankly, is fine. he's not going to press the matter and if the roles were reversed and someone asked him what 'human' meant, he'd probably just shrug. )
Hmm. ( marc doesn't always ask questions. it's perhaps not difficult to see how he's gotten himself in some of the situations he's ended up in.
wryly, dryly, he says— ) Sounds like a very fancy way of saying 'historian'.
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his brow furrows and he's silent. he's never claimed to be a smart man (quite the opposite), but he's pretty sure that the doctor's response doesn't really tell him anything — which, frankly, is fine. he's not going to press the matter and if the roles were reversed and someone asked him what 'human' meant, he'd probably just shrug. )
Hmm. ( marc doesn't always ask questions. it's perhaps not difficult to see how he's gotten himself in some of the situations he's ended up in.
wryly, dryly, he says— ) Sounds like a very fancy way of saying 'historian'.