[ Hilda withdraws her hand to rest her chin against it in thought. She'd never claim to be the brightest bulb in the box, but she has an inkling that there's more than was being said.
Luckily, her reading between the line muscle was one she used frequently by consequence of spending a lot of time with Claude. Couple that with her recalling their conversation about Viktor's distrust of politicians when it came to their use of the technology that he and Jayce made, and the glimpse of distress she had seen before she had announced her presence in their apartment before it had been tucked away makes the last pieces of her hazy, 10,000 foot image falls into place.
She can't ever imagine anything she makes to ever be important enough for anyone official to care, but making anything still requires effort. And to see it destroyed, well. ]
That should have been the last thing you had to deal with after your surgery. I wish you didn't have to. [ The telltale clatter of a tea tray jolts her from her gloom and she bolsters herself. ] What matters is that you'll build other inventions — cooler and better ones! And if the only thing you were able to do with your device was save yourself, then I think that was the most important thing it could have done.
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Luckily, her reading between the line muscle was one she used frequently by consequence of spending a lot of time with Claude. Couple that with her recalling their conversation about Viktor's distrust of politicians when it came to their use of the technology that he and Jayce made, and the glimpse of distress she had seen before she had announced her presence in their apartment before it had been tucked away makes the last pieces of her hazy, 10,000 foot image falls into place.
She can't ever imagine anything she makes to ever be important enough for anyone official to care, but making anything still requires effort. And to see it destroyed, well. ]
That should have been the last thing you had to deal with after your surgery. I wish you didn't have to. [ The telltale clatter of a tea tray jolts her from her gloom and she bolsters herself. ] What matters is that you'll build other inventions — cooler and better ones! And if the only thing you were able to do with your device was save yourself, then I think that was the most important thing it could have done.