Wait, what? There were men like that here? Clearly Reeve has call to meet this ‘Tony’ in the near future if his mind laid in such mechanical venues. Perhaps he could be of assistance. If nothing else he would know more about what tools might be available for contructing things. All of which would be relevant to him.

“I wonder if they have gleaned the particular source of our power. Coal or hydroelectric or the like. I will have to see. Though I can say that, in the grand scheme, electricity is now always all it seems cracked up to be.”

And then there was the matter of Cait. He was part old stories, part Reeve’s fondness for cats, part cute.

“People like fluffy animals?”