Chapter 22
“If I understand the symbolism correctly,” Neph was saying while he and Al worked together in the upper branches of our tree, “the reason we all like Mickey Mouse so much is because he’s supposed to represent the best of us. Our inner hero, you might say. Most of us have times when we feel sort of small, or underestimated, or otherwise play the role of the underdog, and it’s at those times that we most want to show everyone just what we can really do.”
“Sort of like Clark Kent vis-à-vis Superman,” Al responded while holding a board in place, letting Neph hammer in the wooden pegs we’d crafted out of tree branches, with the occasional metal nail made from wrecked robots for those spots that needed some extra support; those metal nails were hard to get, and are pretty ra
