[ it really doesn't take very many seconds worth of this story for John to realise he's made a mistake. not the worst mistake, not a mistake it's impossible to recover from, but a mistake regardless. Puddles the horse comes and goes and John is, mercifully, busy with the kettle. busy with silently expressing to the kettle just exactly what a questionable decision he's made. How many horses do you know who could've successfully faked their own death? Christ.
the plus side of this situation is he's kept busy and not currently obliged to look dirk in the face while it's being told, it gives him an apparently substantial amount of time to decide which of his own stories to recount and, above all, the introduction of a mastermind horse means that he can deftly and expertly wraps himself in enough layers of suspended reality that he can listen to it as if it were fiction without really applying any actual judgement to whether or not it is.
so, accepting that at this point in his life literally absolutely anything could be real but could also just be a really dodgy multi-genre novel, John nods as the kettle screams and is lifted off the heat. ]
Two machines that will be three machines but are all actually one machine, date 1886.
[ it's a summary, not a question. got it, listening, on you go ]
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the plus side of this situation is he's kept busy and not currently obliged to look dirk in the face while it's being told, it gives him an apparently substantial amount of time to decide which of his own stories to recount and, above all, the introduction of a mastermind horse means that he can deftly and expertly wraps himself in enough layers of suspended reality that he can listen to it as if it were fiction without really applying any actual judgement to whether or not it is.
so, accepting that at this point in his life literally absolutely anything could be real but could also just be a really dodgy multi-genre novel, John nods as the kettle screams and is lifted off the heat. ]
Two machines that will be three machines but are all actually one machine, date 1886.
[ it's a summary, not a question. got it, listening, on you go ]