I Like Long Walks On The Beach

[iamnotpolaris]

The beach is a nice, convenient, out-of-earshot place to calibrate the coordinates for this universe.

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[not_only]

"Less surprising-weird and more awkward-weird, I mean."

[iamnotpolaris]

"It is that!"

[not_only]

Nod nod.

[iamnotpolaris]

"Like I said, this is not normal for us."

[not_only]

"I didn't think it was."

[iamnotpolaris]

"It was even more awkward on a telepathic level, there were feels all over the place."

[not_only]

"That makes sense."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Thank God she can turn the telepathic backchannel off, is all I have to say."

[not_only]

"Yes."

[iamnotpolaris]

"If she couldn't I'm pretty sure Liselen wouldn't have had a problem with either of us. It would be the only defense mechanism."

[not_only]

He takes a moment to work through this, and then smiles slightly.

[iamnotpolaris]

"There are some things you just don't want detail on when it comes to family."

[not_only]

Nod nod.

[iamnotpolaris]

"...Did you leave any family behind? I know you said you didn't much care if you went back...stop me if this is an intrusive question."

[not_only]

He shrugs slightly.

"I had a family but I guess I wasn't that close with them."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Mm."

"It's a little hard for me to imagine that, honestly."

[not_only]

"It seems like you and your sister are really close, so that makes sense."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yeah. And with our parents too."

[not_only]

Nod.

[iamnotpolaris]

"So what was your home like? Besides inside out."

[not_only]

...He giggles.

"'Inside out'. That's just... cute. Um, so Ceir, the outside of the planet where the Ceirene live, is very... nice, I think? They get a lot of sunlight, and they have days and nights like Terraria. In Aluvanna the only sunlight we get comes in through the chasms and from the edge of the planet when the sun passes it at dusk and dawn, so on the inside surface there's hardly any light at all, and in the middle in the floating jungles there's a little bit but not as much as there is outside. And there are a lot of huge dangerous animals that kill people sometimes."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Thanks? I think?"

"That sounds...really different. From anything else I've experienced. And kind of beautiful, but also really dangerous."

[not_only]

He nods. "Yeah. It's not so bad in the bigger towns, but where I grew up I knew two kids who were eaten by wild animals."

[iamnotpolaris]

"...Oh."

"I think we might want to find your universe anyway and make that. Not."

[not_only]

"That would be a good thing to do. Well, maybe. Children not getting eaten by wild animals is good, but you'd have to be careful about how you did it because if too many of the wild animals died it wouldn't be good for the Aluvai."