[Whoa! Carter jumps with a yelp when he gets an actual answer, his shoulder bumping into one of the shelves.
Some of the books flip and tumble to the ground. He tries to catch them. He makes it worse.
Eventually he just pulls his hands back and waits for the dust to settle.]
Ah. Hi!
[His shoulders slump with visible relief. A person. An oddly dressed person with pretentious eclectic book taste but hey, he's seen worse during a graveyard shift.]
Oh, thank God!
[He suddenly laughs, embarrassed. Finally. Now all of this would just stop and he'd get an explanation and now that there's an actual person with him he's sure that it's all just some... really dumb thing.]
For a moment there I thought I was the only person left in the world? How crazy is that!
[Super crazy, and he laughs again before he trails off. Wait.]
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Some of the books flip and tumble to the ground. He tries to catch them. He makes it worse.
Eventually he just pulls his hands back and waits for the dust to settle.]
Ah. Hi!
[His shoulders slump with visible relief. A person. An oddly dressed person with
pretentiouseclectic book taste but hey, he's seen worse during a graveyard shift.]Oh, thank God!
[He suddenly laughs, embarrassed. Finally. Now all of this would just stop and he'd get an explanation and now that there's an actual person with him he's sure that it's all just some... really dumb thing.]
For a moment there I thought I was the only person left in the world? How crazy is that!
[Super crazy, and he laughs again before he trails off. Wait.]
Uh. What do you mean, 'new'?