It feels wrong to admit to it now. As if he was too lazy to investigate more. When the truth is, he really was. Back home, Kell was content with simply having a unique magical object. Now he regrets he didn't dig deeper.
"Thank you, I don't want to interfere with your current projects too much."
Kell didn't bring all those silly trinkets from the other London, risking getting caught, because clever mechanisms mean nothing to him. Jayce and Victor are inventors, people who make such mechanisms. Quite naturally then he's interested in their work. Even if he's pride might make him pretend he's not really that interested. So there's a moment of hesitation before curiosity, inevitably, wins.
"I must say, I'd like to hear more about what you're working on now, if that's not a secret, of course."
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It feels wrong to admit to it now. As if he was too lazy to investigate more. When the truth is, he really was. Back home, Kell was content with simply having a unique magical object. Now he regrets he didn't dig deeper.
"Thank you, I don't want to interfere with your current projects too much."
Kell didn't bring all those silly trinkets from the other London, risking getting caught, because clever mechanisms mean nothing to him. Jayce and Victor are inventors, people who make such mechanisms. Quite naturally then he's interested in their work. Even if he's pride might make him pretend he's not really that interested.
So there's a moment of hesitation before curiosity, inevitably, wins.
"I must say, I'd like to hear more about what you're working on now, if that's not a secret, of course."