[He's talking to himself as much as Clara, turning on the spot and scanning the horizon for any signs of smoke and dust billowing up from an impact. There'd been no boom and none seem to be following the tremor, so he tentatively rules out a bomb from the last generation going off thousands of years after they warred themselves to extinction.
Absently, he waves a pointing finger at Clara.]
This isn't proof of your theory, so I don't want to hear it--
[Below their outcropping of red rock, the tip of a massive drill has speared through the earth. One of the pools begins to drain into the unstable earth around the metal.]
no subject
[He's talking to himself as much as Clara, turning on the spot and scanning the horizon for any signs of smoke and dust billowing up from an impact. There'd been no boom and none seem to be following the tremor, so he tentatively rules out a bomb from the last generation going off thousands of years after they warred themselves to extinction.
Absently, he waves a pointing finger at Clara.]
This isn't proof of your theory, so I don't want to hear it--
[Below their outcropping of red rock, the tip of a massive drill has speared through the earth. One of the pools begins to drain into the unstable earth around the metal.]