8th Dusting

[makeitquick]

[Voice / Action]

[You know she almost, almost signed on for that one mission. A guard, surviving, she knew she could handle it. But then when she saw that "desert" thing. she has no idea what a desert is, so today she is at the library researching that, mostly because she really doesn't have much better to do today. She is clearly in a better mood though- all her earrings are in place (one of them she even thinks might be gold) and she she has a shiny nose stud in place. But... as she learns more and looks into these things more-

..Jesu.

She's gotten over being afraid of the sun (somewhat) in Luceti, mostly because of how dreary winter is, but that desert that... she flips open her journal]

Hey, Luceti. Talk to me 'bout the sun. Some of you got tales for it, right? Gotta.

[Feel free to answer her or see her in the library]

Comments

[voice]

[hisdarkmark]

Precisely that. Is it really that surprising? Think about the fact that the sun's used to warm the entire planet of Earth and support all of the human life on it. That's billions of people.

[voice]

[makeitquick]

Never thought much 'bout it. Know it melted some ice a few cen back, never fig'd you'd burn before you ra[i]d'd.

[voice]

[hisdarkmark]

...wait, wait, wait. What function does it have in your world?

[voice]

[makeitquick]

Prob about the same you got. Just... kills us too.

[voice]

[hisdarkmark]

How fast?

[voice]

[makeitquick]

Depends. Being born dead count?

[voice]

[hisdarkmark]

Possibly. Are you a zombie?

[voice]

[makeitquick]

No.

[voice]

[hisdarkmark]

Then explain how you could possibly be born dead.

[voice]

[makeitquick]

[Jesu what did they used to call it. She racks her brain and eventually comes up with-]

Still...born? Or, born without certain organs. Born with heart stopped, that sorta slack. Never said I was, said we were.

[voice]

[hisdarkmark]

Ah. [Okay, that made more sense, but.] Aren't you included in the I?

[voice]

[makeitquick]

I wasn't dead. Still breathing, aren't I? People in the warrens.

[voice]

[hisdarkmark]

Sounds disgusting to be living among such people.

[voice]

[makeitquick]

Disgusting.

Huh. Where're you from?

[voice]

[hisdarkmark]

Earth. England, specifically. Heard of it?

[voice]

[makeitquick]

Know Earth. Don't know England.... [Hm. Thinking...]

[voice]

[hisdarkmark]

How can you know of one but not the other?

[voice]

[makeitquick]

Could be I'm from Earth?

[voice]

[hisdarkmark]

But England's on Earth!

[voice]

[makeitquick]

Yeah? So's Noram, Sotham, Westam. Haddyn. Versi. Bet you never aud'd a single one of 'em.

[voice]

[hisdarkmark]

And now you're just speaking nonsense. I don't think you're from Earth at all.

[voice]

[makeitquick]

And I know I am. Two cen removed.