Oh. Yes. It’s been out for some time now. [ Long enough that he’d been feeling the loss of the electric fan system that had kept the house warm. ] I assume it has something to do with the snow.
[ He hopes it’s fixable. Does this always happen with electricity? Is it common? He’d still been using candles and oil lamps in Petersburg, not electric anything. For all he knows, losing power is a regular occurrence.
He doesn’t say any of that, though. Numbers doesn’t need to know how out of his depth he is here, a century later than he should be, surrounded by technology and people that don’t make sense. ]
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[ He hopes it’s fixable. Does this always happen with electricity? Is it common? He’d still been using candles and oil lamps in Petersburg, not electric anything. For all he knows, losing power is a regular occurrence.
He doesn’t say any of that, though. Numbers doesn’t need to know how out of his depth he is here, a century later than he should be, surrounded by technology and people that don’t make sense. ]