Re: facetime:connie/patrick
[Connie recognizes some stuff on the ball, but there's a lot of unknowns.] If anything, this design looks archaic. Something long before dad was even born. [The Gunsters were not the first to attempt making a time machine. There was theories that even Galileo tried to make his own and whether or not he succeeded was lost in the sands of time. She stared at it and the shook her head.] Maybe it's harmless. [Connie pulled her face away from the phone and worried her lip with her teeth.] I always suspected he liked to prank. Our whole childhood felt like one big joke, right?
[She laughs and it sounds like she's trying to ease the tension.] Maybe it's a toy. What if he got this as a present as a boy and then it got him dreaming about time travel? It'd make sense that he'd try to inspire you, Patrick. He wanted us both- [She shrugs because Connie is glad Patrick has other shit going on in his life.] he was pretty selfish.