Carving. [He supplies after a moment where he looks over the hunk of wood he's shaving away at. It's starting to look like a bird - but that could also be a woman.]
It was a way to pass the time at sea. Like when one couldn't sleep. [Hoho, so clever.]
[Bush wants very much to gently remind the child - who should be a man - that he is not his father, despite the fact that Horatio well knows that. He didn't want to have the same things expected of him, things he couldn't do or possibly didn't want to.
The one book Bush can remember reading as a child was Norie's. He wasn't much of a reader.]
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It was a way to pass the time at sea. Like when one couldn't sleep. [Hoho, so clever.]
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[Who's surprised the boy had a childhood of reading? No one? Oh, good, then.]
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What kind of stories?
[Bush wants very much to gently remind the child - who should be a man - that he is not his father, despite the fact that Horatio well knows that. He didn't want to have the same things expected of him, things he couldn't do or possibly didn't want to.
The one book Bush can remember reading as a child was Norie's. He wasn't much of a reader.]
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Sometimes it's his medical books, but I don't like those too much. Can't really understand them.
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[When do you ever, Bush?]
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[Because that was what his mother and father wanted. He was too young to think he could stray from that path.]