"No, never. I... ah, I have a talent for understanding systems."
He still blushes when he says it. It's an honest-to-goodness superpower, after all. At least according to Steve, and Steve knows everything.
"Try moving this--?"
A short gesture in the direction of one of those cables, which appears (to Gabriel at least) to be connected one aperture too far to the right. Not an impairment in the function of the mechanism, exactly, but certainly... off. Describing this is tricky, even inside his own head. A watchmaker's mental map of metaphors contains no marked point for something that's wrong without being broken; timepieces are intensely unforgiving of error.
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He still blushes when he says it. It's an honest-to-goodness superpower, after all. At least according to Steve, and Steve knows everything.
"Try moving this--?"
A short gesture in the direction of one of those cables, which appears (to Gabriel at least) to be connected one aperture too far to the right. Not an impairment in the function of the mechanism, exactly, but certainly... off. Describing this is tricky, even inside his own head. A watchmaker's mental map of metaphors contains no marked point for something that's wrong without being broken; timepieces are intensely unforgiving of error.