"Do you -- do you want to know more about where I got it?"
And before Ms. Rasputin can say anything to the affirmative, the words are pouring out of Peter.
"I found two of them -- the one on FTL and the one on time dilation in this weird little thrift shop in the kinda seedy part of town. This weird fish-person was the one who sold it to me, and they didn't seem to really know much about it when I asked."
And Peter did ask.
"The three novels, I got them from this regular bookstore near where the portal let out. I read the back covers, and none of them really seemed like the kind of thing I'd like to read, but I thought someone might enjoy it, and they were also on sale, buy 1, get 2 free. The lady at the front desk told me that it was a really popular series a few years ago, but the bookstore overstocked and now they have a bunch of excess copies that no one will buy because they already bought it."
And lastly--
"I found the cookbook in the trash. I wasn't like, looking for books in the trash, but I was trying to find some busted tech in the dumpster outside this tech shop and I just found it while I was in there." A beat. "I don't know what a cookbook was doing in their dumpster though."
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And before Ms. Rasputin can say anything to the affirmative, the words are pouring out of Peter.
"I found two of them -- the one on FTL and the one on time dilation in this weird little thrift shop in the kinda seedy part of town. This weird fish-person was the one who sold it to me, and they didn't seem to really know much about it when I asked."
And Peter did ask.
"The three novels, I got them from this regular bookstore near where the portal let out. I read the back covers, and none of them really seemed like the kind of thing I'd like to read, but I thought someone might enjoy it, and they were also on sale, buy 1, get 2 free. The lady at the front desk told me that it was a really popular series a few years ago, but the bookstore overstocked and now they have a bunch of excess copies that no one will buy because they already bought it."
And lastly--
"I found the cookbook in the trash. I wasn't like, looking for books in the trash, but I was trying to find some busted tech in the dumpster outside this tech shop and I just found it while I was in there." A beat. "I don't know what a cookbook was doing in their dumpster though."
That... was kinda weird.