[ He's on one knee, at what a parent might call eye-searing proximity to the screen. Like everything else, nothing seems amiss but the format itself. They're observing a commercial, an aproned mother with her arms crossed speaking to two frowning, freckled children at the table. He guesses the ending, that they'll all be saved by cereal or soup or detergent, and turns the dial. It's another bespectacled man, though much better dressed, standing in front of a physical map of what he presumes must be the local area. Still Maryland. Cold fronts on the way, he reports. Another channel flip, now a slow zoom toward Trinidad on a map, dissolving into shots of the ocean, then a boat. Rising to his feet, Edward makes for the phone. ]
Feel free— [ A vague wave to the television set, more a sign he's not planning on returning to it immediately. Let her enjoy what must be at least something like a luxury. ]
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[ He's on one knee, at what a parent might call eye-searing proximity to the screen. Like everything else, nothing seems amiss but the format itself. They're observing a commercial, an aproned mother with her arms crossed speaking to two frowning, freckled children at the table. He guesses the ending, that they'll all be saved by cereal or soup or detergent, and turns the dial. It's another bespectacled man, though much better dressed, standing in front of a physical map of what he presumes must be the local area. Still Maryland. Cold fronts on the way, he reports. Another channel flip, now a slow zoom toward Trinidad on a map, dissolving into shots of the ocean, then a boat. Rising to his feet, Edward makes for the phone. ]
Feel free— [ A vague wave to the television set, more a sign he's not planning on returning to it immediately. Let her enjoy what must be at least something like a luxury. ]