A Place of Peace and Comfort

Written for the prompt : Blake's 7, Avon, instruction manual

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He finds a peace, a logic in them that the rest of the world rarely provides; memories of a time gone by when he was sure of himself and his path. He remembers a childhood filled with things, not people; of parents who were distant or absent, but gifts sent or money provided to assuage their guilt. It was a childhood without playmates, a childhood of never fitting in, of never being enough to be of interest to the people around him. He was an unwanted burden.

He took solace in his things, his gadgets and toys, his textbooks. He read and researched and learnt things, information. He could never be what the people round him wanted, but the books asked nothing and shared their wealth freely. There was nothing better than an instruction manual and the sense it gave him of a new world unleashed as it led him step by step through the process of mastering some new piece of technology.

The demands made on him by the crew of the Liberator are almost overwhelming at times. Their search for companionship, for counsel, for assistance are a burden he doesn't even want to adjust to. So it is that he seeks his peace in the instruction manuals that he accumulates as they travel.