[It's a lot to chew over, before giving a response.
First is the implication that the kid from New York City is . . . a hero? Jack has to go back and listen a second time just to be sure his mind isn't playing tricks on him, but no, most of us is right there, so perfectly easy in its delivery that the three little words become a bit uncanny. They're an odd mental backdrop to pondering the next question, even while they put into perspective the troubled tone of the whole message. But even if Jack isn't from a world where things like extraordinary powers actually exist, the question's built on a foundation that he's fairly certain most of their worlds share. Whatever the world of origin, human beings all run on the same hardware.
It's enough to make his normally-light tone somewhat pensive, when he finally picks up his journal to answer.]
Sad as it is to say, I wonder if it's a question of being thought of as actually human. Do you know what I mean?
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First is the implication that the kid from New York City is . . . a hero? Jack has to go back and listen a second time just to be sure his mind isn't playing tricks on him, but no, most of us is right there, so perfectly easy in its delivery that the three little words become a bit uncanny. They're an odd mental backdrop to pondering the next question, even while they put into perspective the troubled tone of the whole message. But even if Jack isn't from a world where things like extraordinary powers actually exist, the question's built on a foundation that he's fairly certain most of their worlds share. Whatever the world of origin, human beings all run on the same hardware.
It's enough to make his normally-light tone somewhat pensive, when he finally picks up his journal to answer.]
Sad as it is to say, I wonder if it's a question of being thought of as actually human. Do you know what I mean?