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But at least Rowan seems dazzled.
“Careful where you walk,” I warn him as he approaches me.
I have a tendency of leaving discarded projects on the ground. The only reason I have a cleared path to the desk is because I didn’t want Nova to trip when she visits me.
Rowan steps lightly over a box of metal rods and joins me at my worktable. I push my goggles away from my face.
“You ever use a blow torch before?”
His eyes light up. “No.”
“Well, you’re not going to use one now.” I put the torch away, far from his reach.
He pouts, but it’s not like I’m dumb enough to feel sorry for him. The kid caused an explosion just by pressing a few buttons in the lab. He might blow up half the neighborhood if I give him a real weapon.
“What is this place?” Rowan mutters, shoving a hand into his pocket and looking around.
“It’s my lab. I come up with inventions and work on prototypes here.”
He squints at me as if I’m talking another language.
“Want to help me build this thing?” I motion to the hover-bag.
He shakes his head.
“It’ll be fun,” I coax.
He doesn’t seem that interested.
“Are you any good at science?” I ask, hoping to drum up a conversation.
“No.”
“Like not at all? I’m open to medical science too.”
He sticks out his tongue. “Blood makes me woozy.”
My hope withers to ashes.
Since I’ve decided to try and get to know Rowan better, I was hoping to take a shortcut and find some common ground. It’ll be much easier to connect with him if we can talk shop.
“What about construction?” I ask hesitantly. “Woodwork? You any good with your hands?”
“Nope.” He shakes his head.
“Come on,” I insist. “You must have some kind of inventor bone in your body.” My tone is brushing on desperate.
He shakes his head.
Would a son of minenotbe interested in science? If he keeps this up, Rowan’s on his way to being demoted back to ‘definitely not my kid’ territory.
I cringe inside, but outside, I plaster a smile on my face. “That’s fine. You might grow into it.”
“Science is boring.”
Sacrilege.
He touches my robot arm like ET, one finger pointed out and connecting with the metal digit.
