Mailbox of Nines

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[onlydoubts]

Probably ... at least five years, would be my guess. [ Bodhi shrugs, making a face as he looks around. so many books. the books that he's picked out for 9s remain on the table, under which there's a random book...

... full of human jokes. ]

At least if we're stuck here for that long we'll at least have something to occupy us.

[twoaffirmations]

If you read one book a day... [9S mumbles, counting the books by bouncing his pointer finger over them.] ...carry the two...

[Somewhere along the way he must have just lost interest, because he never gives Bodhi his results.]

Yeah, boy am I glad you unlocked this! I was getting pretty stir crazy, you know?

[He starts to sort through the books Bodhi's given him.] Now I'll be able to properly educate myself to provide medical aid to you humans.

[onlydoubts]

[ Bodhi just watches, waits - he's actually curious, and looks a little thrown when the subject gets changed as quickly as it does. ah well. ]

I know the feeling. [ with all this literature, maybe he can find some good information. ]

The more that know a thing or two about that, the better. We're surprisingly short on medics here.

[twoaffirmations]

Alucard is training a few of us, so... We're working on it.

[9S picks up a book and begins to flip through it.] Human medicine is a lot more complex than I realized. To work on an almost microscopic level, and-- Huh?

[He pauses to stare at the page.]

[onlydoubts]

I only have basic medical knowledge, I can do some decent stitches... patch a head wound, maybe. Nothing that advanced. [ why waste time teaching a mere cargo pilot anything that could be useful, beyond only basic things? ]

What is it?

[twoaffirmations]

"What did the fish say when it swam into the wall"..."dam"?

[9S narrows his eyes at the page.]

That's stupid. Fish don't talk.

[onlydoubts]

[ Bodhi to his credit, keeps a straight face throughout the joke but it's the reaction that has him chuckling. sorry, 9S, he couldn't help it - and had hoped you'd find the book amusing as he did.

maybe not, though. ]

Well, yeah. But it's a joke, see.

[twoaffirmations]

I thought jokes were supposed to be funny.

[9S is a tough crowd, but despite not finding the joke funny he couldn't help reading on.]

Looks like there's more in here, let's see...

"What do you get when you combine a rhetorical question and a joke?" ...Huh? There's no punchline here!

[onlydoubts]

[ Bodhi shakes his head at the second joke.. ]

That's because it is the punchline. A rhetorical question is one that there's no answer to, you know?

[twoaffirmations]

...Oh! [He can't believe he missed it.] Heh, that one's kind of funny.