The Great Round World

“Wow. You really did it, man.”
“Yup. I decided that if I’m gonna get into historical re-creation as a hobby, I shouldn’t mess around. No expense spared. It was even kind of fun, since I had to forge a couple of things by hand. There just wasn’t any other way.”
“So it really runs on gasoline?”
“Yeah. I [...]

She handled it well, asking a couple of snarky questions about gnomes, hobbits, and dragons, which he’d answered to the best of his ability. (“Snotty little pricks who charge too much for their work”, “No, only that ultra-conservative freak could’ve imagined a race of tiny, idealized British peasantry”, and “Well, you have nuclear weapons. We had our own ugly little cold war.”)