He grabbed a beer for himself and popped the cap off with his robot arm. It was handy like that. Then he plopped into a chair and got all cozy. Just kicked off his boots and socks and wiggled in, pulling his jacket up a little more tightly around him and digging his toes into the sand.
"God, I can't even remember the last time I was at the beach. When was it --?" He looked genuinely perplexed as he tried to remember and took a sip of his beer. "Five -- no four -- no five. Five years ago. Went with the team. I remember the Toothpick's jaw nearly fell out of his face 'cause he found out Nita had even skimpier bathing suits in her ward-drobe than her everyday wear," he laughed. "Geez."
He dug his toes even more into the sand.
"Hell, one of the last times I was Earthbound I didn't even take off the suit the whole time I was there. Had to quarantine because I was carrying alien pathogens. Actually, to be honest, I didn't take the suit off that often in general. Always working, y'know? I was hardly ever in civvies."
From the outside, it looked little like someone learning to be human again. He looked at the ocean with something like wonder, like he'd forgotten what it looked like. The last of the sun was setting and the lunar debris field still reflected light to Earth like the moon had -- more of it even, because of the wide spead. That light rippled on the water. Legion World reflected light, too, a second, more complete moon in the sky.
"It even looks the same. I know the ocean's supposed to be like that, the same thing forever, but you'd think in the future it'd be, I don't know, purple or something. It looks just like it did back when I was kid, when we went to my aunt's summer house on the Point. Ain't that the damnedest thing? Different universe, 1000 years in the future, and it's the same damn ocean. Geez."
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He grabbed a beer for himself and popped the cap off with his robot arm. It was handy like that. Then he plopped into a chair and got all cozy. Just kicked off his boots and socks and wiggled in, pulling his jacket up a little more tightly around him and digging his toes into the sand.
"God, I can't even remember the last time I was at the beach. When was it --?" He looked genuinely perplexed as he tried to remember and took a sip of his beer. "Five -- no four -- no five. Five years ago. Went with the team. I remember the Toothpick's jaw nearly fell out of his face 'cause he found out Nita had even skimpier bathing suits in her ward-drobe than her everyday wear," he laughed. "Geez."
He dug his toes even more into the sand.
"Hell, one of the last times I was Earthbound I didn't even take off the suit the whole time I was there. Had to quarantine because I was carrying alien pathogens. Actually, to be honest, I didn't take the suit off that often in general. Always working, y'know? I was hardly ever in civvies."
From the outside, it looked little like someone learning to be human again. He looked at the ocean with something like wonder, like he'd forgotten what it looked like. The last of the sun was setting and the lunar debris field still reflected light to Earth like the moon had -- more of it even, because of the wide spead. That light rippled on the water. Legion World reflected light, too, a second, more complete moon in the sky.
"It even looks the same. I know the ocean's supposed to be like that, the same thing forever, but you'd think in the future it'd be, I don't know, purple or something. It looks just like it did back when I was kid, when we went to my aunt's summer house on the Point. Ain't that the damnedest thing? Different universe, 1000 years in the future, and it's the same damn ocean. Geez."