[Phil, Hope and Dawn are not what he expected Guy's friends back home to be named, and he grins with entertainment at that. Hope and Dawn, he guesses, make some sort of sense. 'Phil' just feel link he's been joked at.]
Smart folks. I'd bet ninety-five percent of the folks here never invented nothing in their whole lives, much less a way of sustainably feeding a family.
[Guy taking his time and slowly working out word by word is light years ahead of Dan, who still signs his name with an X. He smiles, genuinely, to see that Guy's got more capacity here than he would have assumed. It's a nice way to be proven wrong.]
Oh, ah...that's the meat and bones of the chicken boiled in water. [He bites his lip, hoping that Guy's not a vegetarian who just downed a bunch of bone broth unwarned. That would be silly in Guy's time period, wouldn't it? It's hard to get enough fuel to function on plants and nuts you find scavenging alone.]
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Smart folks. I'd bet ninety-five percent of the folks here never invented nothing in their whole lives, much less a way of sustainably feeding a family.
[Guy taking his time and slowly working out word by word is light years ahead of Dan, who still signs his name with an X. He smiles, genuinely, to see that Guy's got more capacity here than he would have assumed. It's a nice way to be proven wrong.]
Oh, ah...that's the meat and bones of the chicken boiled in water. [He bites his lip, hoping that Guy's not a vegetarian who just downed a bunch of bone broth unwarned. That would be silly in Guy's time period, wouldn't it? It's hard to get enough fuel to function on plants and nuts you find scavenging alone.]