Posts: 8,213
Threads: 733
Joined: Aug 2008
Staff roles: Moderator
He snickered a bit at her praise. "Unfortunately, this is the extent of my electrical knowledge." He then motioned to the many non-working things about them, "what little I do know is from field repairs on my ship or maybe something around the house. On more than one occasion I've taken a hard asteroid on my ship, a cruise disruptor or stray gun fire and it was either learn quick or die."
Then he thought about what she asked. What I can't do started ringing through his mind. He had accomplished much in his life but he was far from being God.
What couldn't he do? Well, he was failing at marriage, failing to keep his practice alive on Canaria and he had, in his mind, failed to keep TAZ alive after the death of Malaclypse. A voice inside his head scolded him, "and now look at the company you're in." Doc's mental discipline stood firm however and he ignored it.
"Well, there's little else we can do here, where to next?" he asked of Thing.