I have been for the past five minutes. [ Q answer comes crisply, coupled with the faint murmur of deft fingertips upon a keyboard. ] But since you and I were busy exchanging pleasantries—
[ Information streams across the various screens of Q's station — a custom job, one petitioned and executed by special request. Facts, figures, triangulation schemas; they all flicker here and there, keeping independent times to an elaborate dance. Random and unchecked to the untrained eye but to Q, a certain kind of poetry, like every note of a single symphony played simultaneously and left for him to sort through.
Q pauses, but only briefly, before shuttling off the relevant information in a burst packet to Bond's location. ] If you'd turn your attention back to your computer. I think you'll find everything in order.
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[ Information streams across the various screens of Q's station — a custom job, one petitioned and executed by special request. Facts, figures, triangulation schemas; they all flicker here and there, keeping independent times to an elaborate dance. Random and unchecked to the untrained eye but to Q, a certain kind of poetry, like every note of a single symphony played simultaneously and left for him to sort through.
Q pauses, but only briefly, before shuttling off the relevant information in a burst packet to Bond's location. ] If you'd turn your attention back to your computer. I think you'll find everything in order.