[ Visualization and belief? The look he throws at Gregor is involuntarily skeptical. This sounds like...Well, it sounds like a lot of crap, honestly, where it'll end with him standing with his eyes closed and Gregor snickering behind his hand. Except that he can't really envision Gregor snickering. So so much for that.
Okay. A portal. So a door, right? He doesn't have experience with sluice-gates - he doesn't think he could even identify one - and windows, likewise...He didn't grow up with windows. But of the doors he knows most intimately...The doors at the creche back on Jackson's Whole fill him with anger, for memory of that place, and the doors at the safe-house on Earth fill him with dread, for knowledge of what that closed door might mean, the days of hunger it might entail. No. Instead, he pictures the doors on the shuttle they'd used to get from planet to planet when they were chasing Miles. When he'd first proven his worth by figuring out Admiral Naismith. Until this, that period on the ship had been the happiest of his life, when he'd been confident and capable, when he'd helped. When he'd talked with other people. When those people had treated him like a person.
He gives a little brief nod, envisioning that irising door on the space shuttle. ]
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Okay. A portal. So a door, right? He doesn't have experience with sluice-gates - he doesn't think he could even identify one - and windows, likewise...He didn't grow up with windows. But of the doors he knows most intimately...The doors at the creche back on Jackson's Whole fill him with anger, for memory of that place, and the doors at the safe-house on Earth fill him with dread, for knowledge of what that closed door might mean, the days of hunger it might entail. No. Instead, he pictures the doors on the shuttle they'd used to get from planet to planet when they were chasing Miles. When he'd first proven his worth by figuring out Admiral Naismith. Until this, that period on the ship had been the happiest of his life, when he'd been confident and capable, when he'd helped. When he'd talked with other people. When those people had treated him like a person.
He gives a little brief nod, envisioning that irising door on the space shuttle. ]
Okay.