Jon frowned hard. "You keep fishes in containers? That's mean. What's glass?" He watched his other roll around, and quickly forgot his frown to roll as well. "We've got a Peter the Fifth an'a Peter the Sixth! But my brothers and I are really old. The Walters are really young though! Only two hundred years old! Can you imagine only being that young again?!" He had no idea how old Bubbles was or wasn't.
He shrank a little at the frown.
"Well, some fishies are supposed to be in containers, `cause they'd die out in the water.. and glass is, um.. that thing!"Â
One hand extended, pointing in the general direction of one of Flint's many blown glass ornaments that he'd hung up in his room. The automaton grinned at the way they reflected light, bubbles drifting from his hat. Blue eyes snapped back to the fishy version of himself seconds later.
"Two hundred?"
He let out a dramatic gasp. Although not entirely sure how old he was himself, he knew for a fact that two hundred was a long, long time ago.Â
"They're like babies!"









