[She is familiar with the title, then. Acquainted enough with the idea of humanity to be aware of it, so perhaps that set of assumptions had been acquired too hastily. There is a careful veneer overlapping something darker, more intensely and uncomfortably visceral, an odd conflict of distance and unreadable propiniquity.]
Mathematics.
[It is a mild relief to bring himself sharply back to well-traversed territory. Numbers, deceptively impersonal, endlessly more decipherable to Rush than the variegated social nuances of which he has very little grasp. Some of his former crispness and cerebral poise returns with the quiet snap of a wrist as he continues writing.]
Cryptography, largely. [Then, in flickering hesitation, he makes a slight, careful addendum.] Wormholes were certainly involved in my latest work.
considering it! got a lot on my plate at the moment unfortunately :P
Mathematics.
[It is a mild relief to bring himself sharply back to well-traversed territory. Numbers, deceptively impersonal, endlessly more decipherable to Rush than the variegated social nuances of which he has very little grasp. Some of his former crispness and cerebral poise returns with the quiet snap of a wrist as he continues writing.]
Cryptography, largely. [Then, in flickering hesitation, he makes a slight, careful addendum.] Wormholes were certainly involved in my latest work.