without looking he grabbed a book from either side of where the other had taken his and pulled them to his chest "any more or just those two?"

"Just these two." Samuel said. "None of the others where interesting enough." Not that he really cared either way but it was nice to pretend occasionally.

he nodded and walked in front of the other, when they both passed through he had the man lock back up and they ascended the stairs

Samuel was already at the top of the steps and reading when the other came up. He declined commenting on how slow Leslie was and continued reading his book. It was a mechanicle encyclopedia; the closest thing the reference library had to what he liked.

the other was perched on the landing so he could nearly see the spine, he took the last few steps and tipped the book up with a finger "encyclopedia of bioengineering ba-du" well, it did seem appropriate for his sort though he was still unsure that the other was actually interested and not simply putting up a front. pulling the book back to it's original spot he stepped onto the landing and went through the door looking around as he did. better safe than sorry

The book was interesting and Samuel zoned out for several hours while reading it. Most of it was only theory, biopengineering not really having much attention put to it. Some if it provided thoughtfull insight and Samuel made a few mental notes.

he spent the silence in quiet meditation, for the first time in a while he felt himself relax

Unfortunatly the book did not hold out to long and Samuel was not intrested in reading another right now. He attempted to pace quietly as not to disturb Leslie's meditation.

a niggling feeling started up in the back of his mind and he opened one eye in exasperation, the tech was passing now. he sighed to himself, it would be his luck that the other would not be able to hold out "ok, what would it take to calm you down?"

Samuel paused momentarily in his pacing to process the other's question. "I'm not sure." He answered semi-truthfully. He was not going to answer excersie because of what had happened last time.

this time he sighed aloud "well you can't keep pacing and i am not going to sedate you, what did you do before?"

Samuel leveled the other with a glare, "Fix something." It was rahter obvious in his profession that that was what he was always doing. It had become a rahter calming exercise for him.

he looked around for something breakable, on his second sweep he saw a little radio. picking it up he slammed it against the wall once and handed it to the other "fix this"

Samuel raised an eyebrow and stiffled a laugh but got right to work. He did not have all the nessisary equipment on him but enough that would do. "And of all things you pick up an old radio." It was rather ancient compared to the other items in the room even if it was not all that old in design having only come ot five years ago.

he shrugged, there was nothing else that could be spared "you did not say what you wanted to fix"

"Yeah, yeah." Samuel said clearly dismissing whatever the other said as not important. He was focausing completly on the project at hand, someone could blow the door in and he probably would not notice.