[ John Gaius knows how to pick his battles, and so he tries to look relaxed and encouraging as Alecto prepares to crack through the stick and chew it. This is normal. Everything is fine.
He shakes the android's hand, all the same. For the first time in twelve deeply stupid months— a rarity in ten thousand years— he says, like this is a fun fact, instead of a profoundly banal name: ]
John.
[ He tips his head to the woman-shaped thing beside him. ]
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He shakes the android's hand, all the same. For the first time in twelve deeply stupid months— a rarity in ten thousand years— he says, like this is a fun fact, instead of a profoundly banal name: ]
John.
[ He tips his head to the woman-shaped thing beside him. ]
And Annabel.