Hey, I read things. I know things. I can learn. [ Sheepish, ducking his head as if she's here in the room with him, and Luther's now eyeing the toes of his shoes. They're a little scuffed, probably from the last mission. He bends his leg and tries to rub the boot against the back of his calf to clean it. ]

I maybe, possibly, saw you in one of those little bubbles on the cover of People magazine, and one of the back stories had a little feature about it and the people who were getting closer to it. It was talking about how Whoopi Goldberg had gotten it the most recently. I didn't even know what it was until then, though, or that she'd gotten all four. I liked her in Star Trek.

[ People was absolutely not his usual reading material. It wasn't aeronautics handbooks or science textbooks or even poetry. But if he passed the magazine rack and he saw Allison's face— well. He bought the stupid magazine, and he read it cover-to-cover like it had been assigned to him for homework. ]