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“You have been working hard.” The understatement seemed to Starfire like saying that the noxious tar pits of Gorkon Twelve smelled bad. It seemed that all his efforts were catching up to him. Oftentimes, Starfire would retire to her sleep cycle, bidding him goodnight as he worked on a project, only to awaken the next day-cycle to find him still at work on that same task. He had been igniting copious amounts of nocturnal petroleum in his endeavor to bring their headquarters to operational status. “Robin? You are ill-functioning?” she asked. “Give me a minute.”Ĭoncern, not annoyance, shone in Starfire’s eyes. “Sorry,” he said, breaking her narrative dream. His gloved fingers worked at the bridge of his nose just beneath the edge of that accursed mask of his. “When Atticus asked…” She looked over at Robin as he cursed under his breath, seated next to her with the book seated atop his legs. “When Atticus…” and he stopped with unnatural pause that pulled Starfire’s eyes open. She could have asked Robin to approximate the room for her, but disliked the notion of interrupting his engaging voice from its story.Īs it turned out, she needn’t have worried Robin’s voice faltered of its own accord. Images from the pictocube in Ops helped somewhat. Eyes closed, she tried to imagine the courtroom exactly as it would have been almost an Earth century ago. The disappointment she had felt at discovering that the bird on its cover was no robin had ceased to be when the world of Maycomb came to life and invited her to take part in its adventure. Her legs jittered over its side with rapt excitement as Robin read from the book she had chosen herself. Starfire sat atop the velvety, violet folds of her new bed.

She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years.” “As Tom Robinson gave his testimony,” Robin read, “It came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world.

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