[ Precisely. You need specificity as a series of stepping stones, otherwise all you're looking at is a vast expanse with no direction and lots and lots of natural disasters pending.
Right now, it's stepping stones so close together that it might as well be a paved walkway, but that's how he needs it in order to reach even a moderately uncomfortable status, anything low enough to actually talk. It's sort of like coaxing a story out of a small child, in terms of mechanics. Of course, there's very little about this that is like that in context. He pauses again, for a fair while, after that question, clearly not wanting to actually get to the specifics he's forced her into asking him for, and so it should be little surprise that when he does answer, it doesn't start off as much of one. ] They stopped hitting me after one of the wires to the magnet accidentally disconnected. Which - it sounds bad, but it was a good thing. Yinsen learned how to use it to stabilize bouts of v-fib, which was useful later. [ And suddenly he feels like he needs something to do with his hands. He's been fidgeting with them anyway, but he needs something to actually handle now, and he glances over the desk before leaning forward for some random part to roll over and over in his hands. ] I mean. Who has that much disposable water in the middle of the desert? You'd think they'd want to save it or something.
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Right now, it's stepping stones so close together that it might as well be a paved walkway, but that's how he needs it in order to reach even a moderately uncomfortable status, anything low enough to actually talk. It's sort of like coaxing a story out of a small child, in terms of mechanics. Of course, there's very little about this that is like that in context. He pauses again, for a fair while, after that question, clearly not wanting to actually get to the specifics he's forced her into asking him for, and so it should be little surprise that when he does answer, it doesn't start off as much of one. ] They stopped hitting me after one of the wires to the magnet accidentally disconnected. Which - it sounds bad, but it was a good thing. Yinsen learned how to use it to stabilize bouts of v-fib, which was useful later. [ And suddenly he feels like he needs something to do with his hands. He's been fidgeting with them anyway, but he needs something to actually handle now, and he glances over the desk before leaning forward for some random part to roll over and over in his hands. ] I mean. Who has that much disposable water in the middle of the desert? You'd think they'd want to save it or something.