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[solvethepuzzle]

"This is Nathan Brooks. My apologies for being currently unavailable, but please leave a message and I will return the call as soon as I am able."

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[brotimaeus]

[Nate's manner has never been something that Richard has found particularly offputting. Rather, he's something of a point of calm in a world that never seems to want to allow people like them a moment of rest.

Still, he sees that spark of interest and can't help but smile.]

No problem. Y' can make it like that or use the pieces, I don't mind.

[solvethepuzzle]

[Richard is one of the rarer folk on that score. The impassivity that Nathan affects has often unsettled people around him. Most do not actually say anything about it anymore -- at least not where they think he can hear it -- but he'd gotten unpleasant commentary on it from his peers as he'd grown up. ("Creepy", "robot", and various other descriptors in that vein.)]

Of course, building it as intended will be the first task. [Said as he opens the box, pulling the pieces out and setting them on the nearest table. Notably, he leaves any instructions inside the box. He doesn't need them. It's better this way, more like a puzzle.]

[brotimaeus]

'Course.

[He hadn't really expected Nathan to take the instructions out of the box. For Richard, half the fun was figuring out how to make something without needing to use them and he had to wonder if it was the same for the kid.. or if he just didn't need them.]

You mind some company?