This is just a request. I'm the herald of the story, not an editor. So when they leave their work it's for approval of the concept, not my fine-tuning skills.

[Dustin wasn't sure he even had much in the ways of literary fine-tuning. He's great with mechanical things, with reverse engineering work, but he doesn't consider himself an artist so much as a surveyor of the arts.]

It does need more, though. I might leave a note, along with a blessing. I just don't wanna stick around and get caught up at the altar.

[Last time it happened things had gone from well-intentioned to awkward fast and never being one for praise, Dustin had blipped away without so much as word leaving some confused looks in his wake.]

That'd be a boring book, dontcha think? A book about a person that loves books. Reading about someone reading about someone.

[Dustin laughs, the circles in the equation making him feel just as confounded as the notion itself.]